Want To Learn About The Great Martian War Of 1913 to 1917?
October 8, 2014 by brennon
The History Channel have been spewing out a lot of tosh recently and most of it is decidedly not historical. The recent success with Vikings has been a massive boon but they still have quite a lot of random twaddle to wade through. However, The Great Martian War might be something to tune into if you're a Weird World War fan...
The above video by PLAZMA is a trailer for the show and explores what would have happened in an impossible history where Martians land on Earth and waged war against human kind. As you can see in the video and some of the images here they've taken historical footage and doctored it as well as creating some of their own faux footage for you to enjoy.
From a wargamers point of view, and with All Quiet on the Martian Front being a hit on Kickstarter not so long ago it does provide you with plenty of cool ideas for the tabletop. The sight of the walkers, the Weird World War tech and the background for developing the period into wargames, board games, and role-playing provides you with a wealth of content.
With this year marking the Great War with such amazing shows as Our World War from the BBC (a must see drama series that really highlighted the war from a soldiers-eye view. Not on iPlayer currently but being re-shown soon) and many others it may seem to some rather unnerving and against the grain for the History Channel to make something like this.
On the other side of the coin you could view this as a perfect opportunity for a viewer to watch this impossible history and therefore become more enthused by the idea of learning a bit more about the Great War. Most people nowadays tend to read around a subject they've seen on TV or viewed online and the way we learn is very different from a few years ago. Maybe this is quite a positive.
Do you think you'll give this one a watch?
Biplanes with heat rays… That is all!
Certainly ticks all my boxes!
Great video
This seems like a new take on “War of the Worlds: Goliath” movie that came out in 2012 – basically a blend of *gasp* World War I and War of the Worlds. At least that was *supposed* to be a cartoon. 🙂
Despite its unoriginality, some of the more authentic-looking “blended” film footage does look genuinely creepy. The shots through the window are particularly effective. However, some of the stuff that’s obviously modern footage with the saturation removed and with a generic “old film” plug-in effect added looks too clean, too crisp, and too “Phantom Menace.”
is this a repeat as i’m sure i saw this about 6 months ago on the history channel
Could well be – just heard about it recently and looked like it was on the way. If it’s a repeat then oops, but something to look out for!
BoW Ben
Yes it most certainly is a repeat.
But History kuch “Storagepawnwar” channel is doing that alot nowadays.
I think it was last year that this was on but it is a repeat. It’s a contempory account of the Martian wars told by surviving veterans and using footage of the war. This was a fantastic piece of television and we’ll worth a watch even if you are not into the weird wars.
Saw this last year…Its not bad, maybe 5/10
Hmm. .. Is it just me, or does it actually say when it’s on anywhere in those articles?
I recently reread the original War of the Worlds by Wells and was reminded of why this book continues to remain in circulation. The cozy catastrophe that Wells creates is suspenseful and, for its time, a techno-thriller. I’ll be looking for this mockumentary when it hits the US.
That was brilliant are they going to make a series based on that video???
great idea!
That is frikkin’ awesome.
Maybe…? Most other TV sucks worse so….
I too watched this about 6 months or so ago. It was fun, a brain in off position kind of entertainment.
saw this earlier this year it was quite interesting to watch also look out for the animated film war of the worlds goliath set at start of WW1 a few years after the book.It has quite a few of the highlander the series a voices as well
It’s a pity they didn’t have a battleship playing the role of HMS Thunderchild…
that looks amazing, great soundtrack. Ah man! another way to make me poor.
It’s a great trailer with one exception – that music. I know that Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds is hardly authentic period music but I had to switch that off part way through.
Wow! Looks great in a creepy sort of way.
interesting very interesting i will deffo watch this 🙂
Already seen it, but its a fantastic mockumentary. They even go into detail about how the alien invaders war machine keeps on going. Pretty good watch.
Why is there no mention of Alien Dungeons game Across the Martian Front in these comments?