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  2. Fighting machine (The War of the Worlds) - Wikipedia

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    In Pendragon Pictures' direct-to-DVD H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds the tripods have a large, free-moving head atop the smaller main body, giving its sole Martian occupant a panoramic view. It has three thick, metallic tentacles, which are held on high, made up of boxy-looking segments, making them appear like large bicycle chains rather ...

  3. War of the Worlds (2005 film) - Wikipedia

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    War of the Worlds is a 2005 American science fiction action-thriller film [b] directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp, based on H. G. Wells' 1898 novel, The War of the Worlds. Tom Cruise stars in the main role alongside Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, and Tim Robbins, with narration by Morgan Freeman.

  4. HMS Thunder Child - Wikipedia

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    The album features the song, "Thunder Child". The album's cover art depicts a Canopus-class battleship fighting a Martian tripod.The War of the Worlds was written as an account of fictional events early in the 20th century (possibly the summer of 1901) and the lead ship of the class, HMS Canopus, entered service in 1899 and thus fits the timeline.

  5. List of science fiction television programs by genre - Wikipedia

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    Pet Alien a.k.a. Alién Bazaar (2005, US/France, animated) Project UFO (1978–1979) Sgt. Frog (2004–2011, Japan, animated) Terrahawks (1983–1986, UK, puppetry) Threshold (2005–2006) Tripods, The (1984–1985, UK/Australia) UFO (1970–1971, UK) V (franchise): V: The Original Miniseries (1983, miniseries) V: The Final Battle a.k.a. V:TFB ...

  6. H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (Pendragon Pictures film)

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    In 2012 a re-imagined, re-edited, and re-thought version, with new material added, was released under the title War of the Worlds – The True Story; this version, again directed by Timothy Hines, is presented as a faux-documentary. It revisits Wells' novel, portraying its events as historical by way of the documented recollections of a ...

  7. Tripod (War of the Worlds) - Wikipedia

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  8. Martian (The War of the Worlds) - Wikipedia

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    In Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds, in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and Professor Challenger battle the aliens, it is hinted that the Martians may have accelerated their evolution using selective breeding and eugenics, and that their original body type may have resembled the form of the tripods. It is also ...

  9. List of fictional robots and androids - Wikipedia

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    The Martian tripodal Killing Machines with heat rays in Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds (1978). Marvin, the Paranoid Android, released two singles in 1981, voiced by Stephen Moore from the BBC radio and TV productions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. "Automatic Man", titular character of the 1983 song by Michael ...