This could be the beginning of the end for the human race...

...for what men first thought were meteors or the often ridiculed "flying saucers"...

...are in reality the flaming vanguard of the invasion from Mars.

"Looks like they're gonna come out of that gully pretty soon. We'll have to rush our defenses to be ready when they do."

"You're going to need plenty of reinforcements."

"We'll get them. Lieutenant!"

"Look!"

"They slash across country like scythes, wiping out everything that's trying to get away from them."

"That explains why communication is cut the moment their machines begin moving."

"Montreal's blacked out. Nothing more's come through."

"Same thing that happened on the Pacific coast.
Anything from them yet?"

"No, Mr. Secretary, we've had nothing from San Francisco for over five hours."

The nations of the world mobilize their armed might...

...rushing to defend the Earth against the unknown weapons of the super-race from the red planet.

Is there nothing that can stop the Martian death machines?

"Guns! Tanks! Bombs! They're like toys against them!"

"We know now that we can't beat their machines. We've got to beat them."

From all over the world human beings cower before the onslaught of these unearthly enemies...

...whom no one has ever seen.

"Look out!"

Panic that sweeps around the globe as the great masses of mankind flee blindly in a headlong stampede of hysteria.