War of the Worlds – The True Story War of the Worlds – The True Story War of the Worlds – The True Story is a 2012 remake of "H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds" based on English writer H. G. Wells's Epic Science fiction novel "The War of the Worlds". A documentary-style drama directed by Timothy Hines, which revisits Wells' novel, portraying the events of the book as historical, through the documented recollections of a survivor of the Martian war. The film bases its documentary approach on the 1938 Orson Welles CBS radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds", by presenting itself as a true
Orson Welles last campaign rally, speaking at an event November 4 at Boston's Fenway Park before 40,000 people, and took part in a historic election-eve campaign broadcast November 6 on all four radio networks. On November 21, 1944, Welles began his association with "This Is My Best", a CBS radio series he would briefly produce, direct, write and host (March 13 – April 24, 1945). He wrote a political column called "Orson Welles' Almanac" (later titled "Orson Welles Today") for "The New York Post" January–November 1945, and advocated the continuation of FDR's New Deal policies and his international vision, particularly the establishment