H.G. Wells popularized many remarkable concepts and ideas that are now permanently ingrained and extremely commonplace in the current landscape of science fiction. Subsequent stories that deal with time travel, invisibility, eugenics and alien invasion all owe a great deal to Wells' wondrous novels, and due to his enormous resonance, many of those iconic stories have consequently never been out of print.
Between Georges Méliès' famous A Trip to the Moon, which combined the writings of Wells and Jules Verne, to Steven Spielberg's disaster film take on War of the Worlds a century later, the work of Wells has been quite constant on the silver screen. Here are but a selection of these efforts, which are notable for adapting the stories, yet are somehow unique and intriguing in their own right.
