Edwardian London becomes the front line of an alien invasion in The War of the Worlds, a British sci-fi drama series directed by Dylan Holmes Williams.
What is The War of the Worlds about?
George and Amy are just beginning to build a life together in early twentieth-century London when the sky turns against them: Martian machines descend on the city, and an ordinary domestic story is swept into a fight for survival. The series follows how quickly routine plans, a shared home, a future imagined in small steps, can collapse once the invasion begins, and how the people around George and Amy react as the city they know is transformed within days. Rather than staying fixed on spectacle alone, the show keeps its focus on the human relationships strained and tested by catastrophe, using the period setting to sharpen the sense of a world that had no way to prepare for what arrives.
About the cast
Russell Tovey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw lead as George and Amy, carrying the emotional center of the story as their plans for the future collide with events beyond anyone's control. Jemma Redgrave and Alexander Devrient round out key roles around them, while Ruth Madeley, Colin McFarlane, Waseem Mirza and Manpreet Bachu fill out the ensemble of Londoners caught up in the same upheaval, giving the series a wider view of how the invasion reaches beyond its central couple.
Context & significance
The series draws on H. G. Wells's Martian-invasion premise but transplants it into a fresh period drama, pairing early twentieth-century London with an alien threat rather than treating the invasion as pure disaster spectacle. Each episode runs roughly 48 minutes, giving the drama and sci-fi genres room to sit together: character-driven scenes of George and Amy's relationship alternate with the widening crisis across the city. The British production leans on its historical setting, from costume to social detail, to make the arrival of something entirely outside that world land harder.
Watching The War of the Worlds on Ktime
The War of the Worlds streams on K-Time with a free account login, and every episode carries a Persian dub, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow George and Amy's story without needing subtitles. The series page itself is free to read even before signing in, on a platform built for the Iranian diaspora's viewing habits.