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War of the Worlds

War of the Worlds

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2013 · 60 min · ★ 6.8 · Documentary

An account of Orson Welles' 1938 radio drama broadcast that inadvertently started a mass panic.

Directed by Cathleen O'Connell · Written by A. Brad Schwartz

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