Mars in Film and Books.....

Over the last century or so, Mars has been viewed many ways in film and books. Filmmakers and writers have made it home to antagonistic aliens and the next New World of pioneers. One film even credited it with seeding Earth with life as we know it.
The following list of Films and Books stems from a NASA compilation, another from the Ames Research Center planetary scientist David Catling and SPACE.COM...............

Books

• War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

• Martian Tales by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

• Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

• Lords of Atlantis by Wallace West

Films

• Red Planet (2000)

• Mission to Mars (2000)

• Mars Attacks! (1996)

• Total Recall (1990)

• Lobster Man from Mars (1989)

• Invaders from Mars (1986)

• Planet of Blood (1966)

• Mars Needs Women (1966)

• Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)

• Robsinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)

• The Angry Red Planet (1959)

• Devil Girls from Mars (1954)

• The War of the Worlds (1953)

• Invaders from Mars (1953)

• Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)

• Red Planet Mars (1952)

• Flight to Mars (1951)

• Rocketship X-M (1950)

• Flash Gordon: Mars Attacks the World (1938)

• Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924)