There were often special radio shows broadcast across the country, and one that perhaps caused the most confusion and mass ...

On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles gave the nation a Halloween scare with his radio broadcast of an adaptation of H.G. Wells' 1898 novel, The War of the Worlds.

The film explores the effects of war with intimate action sequences, depicting the cycle of violence and oppression. Orson ...

On the evening of October 30, 1938, thousands of Americans received the scare of their lives when CBS Radio News announced ...

In 1941, Orson Welles co-wrote, directed ... including his famous War of the Worlds prank. That radio program inspired F for Fake, which may, in the end, be another colossal prank.

Up and coming actor/director/producer Orson Welles took advantage of the hype on October 30, 1938, when he broadcast H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds on his weekly radio drama program.

A. Brad Schwartz is the author of Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he cowrote a 2013 episode of the PBS ...

In 1949 two programming executives at Radio Quito, in search of cutting-edge entertainment, decided to air an Ecuadorian version of "War of the Worlds." Never mind that when Orson Welles aired the ...

First transmitted in 1955. Writer, film and theatre director, Orson Welles takes the hot seat in this in-depth and revealing interview. Show more First transmitted in 1955. Writer, film and ...

At a time of deep racial prejudice, Welles’ Voodoo Macbeth granted Black Americans some semblance of equality—and on the stage, it allowed them to bewitch the world. This article is a ...