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Movies, books & magazines
Copyright notice: Full commercial films, modern magazine scans, and most book covers after ~1929 cannot be hosted as free downloads. Below: (1) public-domain book art you can download in the Gallery, (2) legal places to watch or buy films, (3) classic PD texts.
Public-domain book art (download in Gallery)
Public-domain books (free to read)
H.G. Wells — The War of the Worlds (1898)
Locks Mars to hostile intelligence in mass culture. Text is public domain.
Percival Lowell — Mars (1895) · Mars and Its Canals (1906) · Mars as the Abode of Life (1908)
Canal civilization thesis. Books are public domain in the US.
Edgar Rice Burroughs — A Princess of Mars (1912) and Barsoom series (early volumes PD)
Sword-and-planet romance; early volumes often PD depending on jurisdiction.
Films & TV (legal viewing — not hosted here)
The War of the Worlds (1953 film) · (2005 film)
Adaptation lineage of Wells. Copyrighted — rent/buy via major stores.
Mission to Mars (2000) · Red Planet (2000) · The Martian (2015)
Modern exploration cinema. Copyrighted.
John Carter (2012) · Doom (2005) · Mars Attacks! (1996)
Adventure / horror / satire layers of Mars myth.
Radio — War of the Worlds (Orson Welles, 1938)
Historic broadcast; recordings often available via archives under various terms.
Magazines & leaflets
Victorian / Edwardian popular science & canal fever press
Period magazines and newspaper articles about Martian canals (c. 1890–1910) are often PD in the US when published before 1929. Search Archive.org for “Martian canals”, “Percival Lowell Mars”, “Schiaparelli Mars”.
NASA public leaflets & mission press kits
US government works are generally public domain — free to download from NASA sites.
Games (reference only)
Doom (Mars base myth), Red Faction, Surviving Mars, etc. are commercial — not redistributed here. They belong to the modern “Mars as stage” dream layer documented in After Jesus.