H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells, known primarily as H. G. Wells, was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games.
Herbert George Wells, known primarily as H. G. Wells, was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games.
Release Date2016-08-17
Charactersd Self (archive footage)
Episode Count1
The story of the insane scandals related to the remake of “Island of Dr. Moreau” —originally a novel by H. G. Wells—, which was brought to the big screen in 1996. How director Richard Stanley spent four years developing the project just to find an abrupt end to his work while leading actor Marlon Brando pulled the strings in the shadows. Now for the first time, the living key players recount what really happened and why it all went so spectacularly wrong.
Release Date2014-08-24
Charactersd Self (archive footage)
Vote Count122
A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and transmitters, weaving speeches, music, and outside broadcasts—featuring voices like H. G. Wells and Ramsay MacDonald—into a kinetic portrait of how the BBC’s national “voice” is made.
Release Date1935-07-28
Charactersd Self
Will Radford is a top analyst for Homeland Security who tracks potential threats through a mass surveillance program, until one day an attack by an unknown entity leads him to question whether the government is hiding something from him... and from the rest of the world.
Release Date2025-07-29
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count1030
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
Release Date1962-09-20
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count1
Vote Count82
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.
Release Date1965-10-19
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Episode Count1
Vote Count8
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Release Date2005-06-28
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count9282
When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
Release Date2020-02-26
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count6331
When astronomers detect a transmission from another galaxy, it is definitive proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The world’s population waits for further contact with bated breath. They do not have to wait long. Within days, mankind is all but wiped out by a devastating attack; pockets of humanity are left in an eerily deserted world. As aliens hunt and kill those left alive, the survivors ask a burning question – who are these attackers and why are they hell-bent on our destruction?
Release Date2019-10-28
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count9
Vote Count916
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
Release Date2002-03-04
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count2579
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
Release Date1953-04-03
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count710
A deranged scientist discovers a formula by which to make himself invisible, but is driven mad by his inability to reverse the formula and is evoked to use his invisibility to terrorise those around him.
Release Date1984-09-02
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count6
Vote Count4
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
Release Date1960-05-25
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count926
"Genius" accidentally invents "goo" which causes living things to rapidly grow to an enormous size. Seeing an opportunity to get rich, some delinquent teenagers steal the "goo" and, as a result of a sophomoric dare, consume it themselves and become thirty feet tall. They then take over control of the town by kidnapping the sheriff's daughter and dancing suggestively.
Release Date1965-10-20
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count39
After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.
Release Date1933-10-31
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count959
British scientist Peter Brady, while working on an invisibility formula, suffers a tragic accident which turns himself invisible. Unfortunately, there is no antidote, so, while working on a method to regain his visibility, he undertakes missions for his government stopping bad guys.
Release Date1958-09-14
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Episode Count13
Vote Count10
A Florida real estate developer and her captain lure investors to a property in the Everglades called Dreamland Shores, under false pretenses that the swampland will soon be developed. After the group arrives on a small island, they find it has been overrun by giant mutated ants, brought on by the dumping of toxic waste in the area.
Release Date1977-06-29
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count126
A plane crash surviving attorney stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA—with horrific results.
Release Date1996-08-23
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count567
An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
Release Date1932-12-23
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count267
Three young astronomers fight to survive a deadly Martian invasion.
Release Date2023-04-21
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count204
Marjorie Pope, who is engaged to Magnet, a wealthy suitor whom she does not love, elopes with Trafford, an inventor, after his airplane crashes on the grounds of her parents' rural home. Soon, however, Marjorie, irked by his dedication and idealism, persuades Trafford to market his wonderful invention, but her extravagance leads her into an affair with Sir Roderick. Trafford turns her out of their African home, but she returns to nurse him back to health when he is injured by a lion.
Release Date1927-02-13
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count1
A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings.
Release Date1977-07-13
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count172
Ann Veronica is a 1964 British television drama series which first aired on BBC 2. It is an adaptation of the 1909 novel of the same title by H. G. Wells. The title role of the Edwardian suffragette was played by Rosemary Nicols.
Release Date1964-05-23
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count4
Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by an enormous killer chicken. After doing some exploring, they discover the entire island is crawling with animals that have somehow grown to giant size. The most dangerous of all of these, however, are the rats, who are mobilizing to do battle with the human intruders.
Release Date1976-06-18
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count127
The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon.
Release Date1964-08-06
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count147
A man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells! Fascinated by the subject, he buys the book and goes home with the intention to test the invisibility formula described by the author…
Release Date1909-04-04
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count16
An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.
Release Date1945-09-09
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count306
When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect his successor. Everyone is there including Dracula, The Werewolf, The Creature, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and many more. But Frankenstein's title is not all that is at stake. The famous doctor has also discovered the secret of total destruction that must not fall into the wrong hands!
Release Date1967-03-08
DepartmentWriting
JobCharacters
Vote Count76
Each episode adapts — and sometimes quite radically alters — a short story written by Wells: The New Accelerator, The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper, The Crystal Egg, The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes, The Truth About Pyecraft and The Stolen Bacillus. Each is presented as if it were a 'real' incident that Wells had investigated with his girlfriend, Jane Robbins, and as if it had served as an inspiration for a short story. The flashbacks are to 1893 within the 1946 frame story, near the end of Wells's life, when he is interviewed by a secret military research institute interested in his past exploits.
Release Date2001-08-05
DepartmentWriting
JobShort Story
Episode Count6
Vote Count9
A young British widow shelters an old medical school colleague, a man who has somehow turned himself invisible. As his isolation grows and his sanity frays, he schemes to create a reign of wanton murder and terror across the city.
Release Date2023-06-16
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count45
A mountaineer discovers an isolated community of blind people and attempts to fit in after falling in love with a beautiful villager.
Release Date1995-03-01
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
The DuPont Show of the Week is an American anthology drama series which aired for three seasons on NBC from September 17, 1961 to August 30, 1964.
Release Date1961-09-17
DepartmentWriting
JobShort Story
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
A young tradesman learns that money doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Drama.
Release Date1941-06-28
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count9
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.
Release Date1942-07-31
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count63
A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.
Release Date1978-11-05
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count8
A woman is torn between the love of her life, who's married to someone else, and her older husband.
Release Date1949-01-26
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count62
An adaptation of H.G Well's Time Machine for Nickleodon. Tom's scientist father, overwhelmed with grief over the loss of his wife, invents a time machine. He attempts to go in to the future to find a cure that he can take back in time to his wife, so that she might live. He never comes back, only his time machine. So Tom goes into the future to rescue his dad.
Release Date2003-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count9
A story about the devil's influence on five people's lives in 20th-century Venice.
Release Date1981-05-20
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.
Release Date1956-07-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count6
The family of the very wealthy but infirm Great Aunt Louisa await her untimely demise in the hopes of inheriting her great fortune.
Release Date1928-05-01
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count2
Made for Russian television version of the Invisible Man, based on the novel by H. G. Wells.
Release Date1977-02-09
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count2
31st century scientist Miss Manners has developed a method of traveling through time, but it increases lust in the time traveler. So, she views erotic scenes from each period of time.
Release Date2002-08-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count6
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Release Date1940-01-12
DepartmentWriting
JobCharacters
Vote Count140
Police investigate a series of mysterious murders where the only clue is a strange buzzing noise at the scene of the crime.
Release Date1957-08-25
DepartmentWriting
JobCharacters
Vote Count13
As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.
Release Date1951-03-14
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count119
What if the Earth/Mars battle from H.G. Wells' classic novel The War of the Worlds wasn't fiction but actually fact? Like the famous 1938 Orson Welles radio broadcast that caused Americans to believe an actual invasion was in progress, the movie assumes an Earth/Mars War in 1900 actually occurred and is presented as the first hand memoir of journalist Bertie Wells, the last living survivor as he struggles to find his wife amidst the destruction of humankind at the hands of terrifying alien invaders.
Release Date2012-06-14
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count11
H.G. Well’s popular creation gets a Turkish reworking in this fascinating account about a scientist who becomes the invisible man to track down his wife’s killer. Written by Vasillis ‘Bill’ Barounis
Release Date1955-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count2
A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partner is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.
Release Date1944-06-09
DepartmentWriting
JobCharacters
Vote Count67
A video journalist and his film crew embark on a journey into an isolated forest, only to find their excursion turned into a fight for survival for not just themselves, but the entire human race.
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
Release Date1936-03-31
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count221
Fifteen years have passed since the Martians’ first failed invasion of Earth. The year is 1914, and at the eve of World War I, Mars launches a sudden and more devastating second attack. A small defense force, A.R.E.S., is Earth’s only hope. The giant A.R.E.S. battle tripod GOLIATH is called up to war, and its young multinational crew must face their fears in their struggle to save Humanity from the alien invaders.
Release Date2012-07-14
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count26
Dr. Moreau is an abstract horror short, adapted from H.G.Wells' classic novel, that will invite the viewer to board on a tangible journey to the borders of science, where the differences between nature and humanity are blurred.
Release Date2022-11-12
DepartmentWriting
JobAuthor
Vote Count1
Planet Earth is a devastated wasteland, and what's left of humanity has colonized the Moon in domed cities. Humanity's continued survival depends on an anti-radiation drug only available on planet Delta Three, which has been taken over by Omus, a brilliant but mad mechanic who places no value on human life. Omus wants to come to the Moon to rule and intends to attack it by ramming robot-controlled spaceships into the domes. Dr. John Caball, his son Jason, Jason's friend, Kim, and a robot named Sparks embark on Caball's space battlecruiser on an unauthorized mission to Delta Three to stop Omus.
Release Date1979-05-04
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count37
Based on the story "The Truth About Pycraft" by H.G. Wells.
Release Date1986-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobAuthor
Vote Count1
A father takes his son to a truly magical toy store.
Release Date1970-12-17
DepartmentWriting
JobShort Story
In this modern retelling of H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi horror, civilization is laid to ruin when a super race of aliens invades Earth. In a blink of an eye, massive "walkers" cover the planet, annihilating all in their path. As cities crumble and human flesh is ripped from the bone, one man struggles to find the one weapon that will turn the tide for mankind.
Release Date2005-06-28
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count72
The Nightmare Worlds of H. G. Wells is a 2016 horror-fantasy television miniseries, based on short stories by H. G. Wells. The four-part series of 30-minute episodes was commissioned for broadcast by Sky Arts. The series is hosted by Ray Winstone as Wells.
Release Date2016-01-28
DepartmentWriting
JobShort Story
Episode Count4
Vote Count11
A four-part adaptation of H.G. Wells' 1900 novel, dramatised by Alun Richards. Starring Brian Deacon as the titular Lewisham, a young man with intellectual ambitions whose life is changed after a meeting with one Ethel Henderson.
Release Date1972-08-31
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count4
The hero of the film, Wallace, is trying to reconcile the dream of a world of beautiful souls and human relationships with the reality of a prosperous bourgeois.
Release Date1990-11-01
DepartmentWriting
JobAuthor
Release Date1949-01-24
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count2
Mountaineer Álvar Toledano falls into an isolated valley inhabited by a community that has been blind for generations. Initially convinced of his superiority, Toledano soon discovers that his ability to see is considered a disturbance rather than advantage among the people of the valley. As he struggles to adapt, Toledano falls in love with Medina, the woman caring for him, leaving him to decide whether to renounce who he is in order to belong, or whether the price of seeing is to flee the valley of shadows.
DepartmentWriting
JobShort Story
When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.
Release Date1954-12-29
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count9
An aspiring journalist faces the unimaginable when news of a nearby crash site comes over the radio. Based on “The War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells and the Orson Welles / Mercury Theatre on the Air radio play of the same name.
Release Date2024-06-08
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Abhimanyu, an expert mountain climber falls into a strange and isolated society of "non-seeing" people - claimed to have been in existence for fifteen generations and cut off from the rest of the world. Abhimanyu decides quickly that "in country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king". He fails in his efforts and gets trapped instead. - Adapted from the 1904 story of H. G. Wells of the same name.
Release Date2023-10-06
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Mark Gatiss's adaptation of HG Wells's science fiction classic. July 1969, and as the world waits with bated breath for the Apollo astronauts to land on the Moon, a young boy meets 90-year-old Julius Bedford. He's a man with an extraordinary story of how, way back in 1909, he got to the Moon first, and, together with the eccentric Professor Cavor, discovered a terrifying secret deep beneath its seemingly-barren surface.
Release Date2010-10-19
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count28
An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.
Release Date1936-07-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count30
Inspired by the original 1897 novel by H.G. Wells, the pilot film depicts Daniel Westin working for a company called the Klae Corporation, which is doing experiments in teleportation. He discovers the side effect of his work is the ability to turn objects invisible.
Release Date1975-05-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count6
Release Date1969-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count1
A father and son enter a magic shop that may contain real magic.
Release Date1982-02-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is in neither of these enterprises and he eventually resorts to desperate measures to break free. His random wanderings in the countryside lead him to a new opportunity that just might be what he's been looking for all along.
Release Date1949-02-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count10
When strange beings called Mingebags invade the servers of the popular game Garry's Mod, one player must try to survive while searching for his friends amid the chaos and war.
Release Date2007-11-09
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count4
In a small French village, an angel appears disguised as a beautiful young blond.
Release Date1974-11-27
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count11
A scientist successfully creates an invisibility serum, only to be kidnapped by a gang of thugs who wish to use the formula to rob a priceless jewel.
Release Date1949-09-26
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count18
A brilliant young college student named Griffin goes to his psychologist, Dr. Kemp, with a strange and frightening tale. A few days earlier, at the local university, he made an incredible breakthrough with his experiments involving invisibility. Not content to experiment on inanimate objects, he injected his invisibility serum into himself. At first, he reveled in achieving his life-long dream of becoming invisible ... but once he realized that the effects were permanent, his harmless excursions into eavesdropping and voyeurism turned murderous. Now, his enemies will suffer and even his friends are no longer safe as he hunts them down, one by one, within the confines of the deserted university campus.
Release Date2009-09-10
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count9
This movie is a faithful adaptation of H. G. Well's book, set in the 19th century.
Release Date2005-06-14
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count27
A leader from organized crime is targeted by an invisible man.
Release Date2015-05-06
DepartmentWriting
JobCharacters
Vote Count1
Based upon the famous novel by H.G.Wells. A poor scientist named Griffin discovers a way to make things invisible. Since he has no money to continue his research, he decides to perform his only experiment on himself. After becoming invisible, Griffin has a lot of trouble trying to conceal this from other people.
Release Date1985-07-14
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count13
Release Date1992-06-01
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count2
The inventor of a space sphere flies to the moon and is marooned by a crooked financier.
Release Date1919-05-29
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count2
A clerk on a bicycle tour saves a girl from eloping with a bully.
Release Date1922-04-04
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count2
A young student is visited by a mysterious and wealthy philosopher with an offer to make the student his heir .
Release Date1981-06-24
DepartmentWriting
JobShort Story
Vote Count3
A young cleaning woman in a boarding-house relieves the drudgery of her job by daydreaming that a foreign student at the house, who she believes is interested in her, is actually a wealthy nobleman who sweeps her off on a romantic journey.
Release Date1928-05-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
A boy and his father enter a magic shop where the magic may be all too real
Release Date1980-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Sacked clerk inherits £3000 a year and struggles when thrust into high society.
Release Date1921-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count1
An armament king's wife kills herself to save her MP lover from a divorce scandal.
Release Date1922-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count1
A modern retelling of H.G. Wells classic novel, The Invisible Man. Motivated by the death of his son, Griffin, a brilliant but eccentric scientist discovers a method to invisibility.
Release Date2017-12-12
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count6
A scientist renowned for creating a potion that makes him invisible is framed for the murder of his prospective father-in-law.
Release Date1965-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count2
As he wanders a mysterious island, Edward Prendick crosses a terrifying Thing that soon wreaks upon him a flood of endless torment. With one treacherous turn after another, Prendick must make his way through this world or suffer the end of his own.
Release Date2019-10-11
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer