The Best

 

MOVIES ABOUT SPACE AND TIME TRAVEL

 

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1900-1950

 

 

1902

A TRIP TO THE MOON

FR-Moon-14, George Melies            Tsiolkovsky

First scifi film ever, astronomers go to the moon and find moonmen

1904

THE IMPOSSIBLE VOYAGE

FR-Sun-24, Georges Melies

Crazy array of vehicles used to go around the world and to the sun

1924

AELITA, QUEEN OF MARS

RUS-Mars-111, Yuliya Solntseva

Russian scientists show Martians what revolutionary communism is

1925

THE LOST WORLD

US-Monster Event-90, Bessie Love

A diary leads a team to the Amazon where find an incredible truth

1927

METROPOLIS

GER-Future-100, Fritz Lang

The future of the west from the sight of the Weimar Republic

1929

THE WOMAN IN THE MOON

GER-Moon-95, Fritz Lang                      Goddard

A spaceship goes to the moon to get gold, problems happen

1930

JUST IMAGINE

US-Future-109, El Brendel

A man put in suspended animation awakens to face the future!

1936

THINGS TO COME

BR-Moon-100, HG Wells

Future war turns humanity to primitivism, maybe a moonshot?

1938

FLASH GORDON

US-Interstellar- Buster Crabbe

3 Serials with heroes who escape a disaster on Earth, & find bad aliens

The 1950s

1950

DESTINATION MOON

US-Moon-92, Robert Heinlein                 Rockets

US builds a moonship to beat the Russians, but can they get back?

1950

ROCKETSHIP XM

US-Mars-101, Lloyd Bridges

A trip to the Moon head off-course, & the Martians have gone atomic

1951

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE

US-ELE-83, George Pal                            

An planetoid enters the solar system and heads towards Earth

1951

THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD

US-Alien Visit-87, Margaret Sheridan             

First movie to examine possibility of aliens coming to Earth, uh oh

1951

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL

US-Alien Visit-92, Robert Wise             

A visiting flying saucer wants to meet with human leaders

1951

FLIGHT TO MARS

US-Mars-72, Cameron Mitchell

Earthlings head to Mars to pay a visit, and find a civilization there

1953

IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE

US-Alien Visit-99, Rob Carlson

A 'meteor' falls to the ground and bizarre mutations form on people

1953

PROJECT MOONBASE

US-Moon-63, Robert Heinlein, mst3k

US sends three people to start a moonbase but one has other plans

1953

WAR OF THE WORLDS

US-Alien Visit-85, HG Wells

Aliens from Mars arrive to Earth and begin an attempt at conquest

1954

GODZILLA

JAP-Monster Visit-1,245, Raymond Burr

14 episodes of the effects on Japan of a mutated Tyrannosaurus Rex

The 1950s, Part II

1954

20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA

US-Monster Event-127, Kirk Douglas

Jules Verne's novel is brought to life, the Nautilus goes undersea

1955

THIS ISLAND EARTH

US-Alien Visit-91, Jeff Morrow

An American scientist is kidnapped by aliens to save their race

1955

CONQUEST OF SPACE

US-Mars-81, George Pal

First human mission sent from orbiting station to planet Mars

1956

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS

US-Alien Visit-103, Kevin McCarthy

People in a small 1950s California town find not all of them are real

1956

WORLD WITHOUT END

US-Future-100, Rod Taylor

An accident in space hurtles astronauts into the far future

1956

EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS

US-Alien Visit-89, Hugh Marlowe

After some mysterious events, a Martian saucer enters Earth orbit

1956

FORBIDDEN PLANET

US-Interstellar-98, Walter Pigeon             Sputnik

A starship from Earth investigates a problem on the Altair IV colony

1958

ROAD TO THE STARS

RU-Documentary-52, Pavel Kluschantev

Early days of the Russian and Soviet space program chronicled

1958

FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON

US-Moon-101, Jules Verne

After inventing Power-X, a scientist takes the first trip to the moon

1959

FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS

PL-Venus-101, Stanislaw Lem, mst3k

Earthlings try to go to Venus after Tunguska Event found to be ship

1959

THE TWILIGHT ZONE

US-Future-1,056, Rod Serling

156 Episodes of the bizarre things that happen on this old Earth

The 1960s

1960

THE TIME MACHINE

US-Future-103, HG Wells                        Gagarin

A Victorian inventor creates a time machine and goes into the future

1960

THE LOST WORLD

US-Monster Event-90, Claude Rains

Stranded in an Amazon rain forest, a team finds an incredible truth

1961

MYSTERIOUS ISLAND

US-Monster Event-90, Jules Verne

Confederates from the Civil War escape to an island, find creatures

1961

VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA

US-ELE-90, Walter Pidgeon

The Van Allen Belt is on fire, UN is powerless, a sub has one last shot

1962

DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS

US-Alien Visit, Howard Keel

A 'meteor shower' blinds people, and some friends come out to play

1962

THE JETSONS

US-Future, Hanna Barbara, Mel Blanc

24 Episodes of George Jetson and the family of the future

1964

FIRST MEN IN THE MOON

BR-Moon-103, HG Wells

World's people witness the first human moon landing, one for all

1964

ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS

US-Mars-110, Byron Haskin

A lone astronaut is stranded for a time on Mars and must survive

The 1960s, Part II

1966

FAHRENHEIT 451

BR-Future-111, Ray Bradbury

The future has come, and firemen burn book instead of fight fires

1966

STAR TREK

US-Interstellar-3,686, William Shatner

79 Episodes of the missions of the first crew to explore deep space

1967

COUNTDOWN

US-Moon-101, Robert DuVall

Wanting to beat USSR to the moon, NASA sends a guy prematurely

1967

THE RELUCTANT ASTRONAUT

US-Orbit-101, Don Knotts

A regular guy, a bungler, is sent up by accident in a spaceship

1968

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

US-Moon-156, Stanley Kubrick                   

After finding something artificial on the moon, a quest begins anew

1968

PLANET OF THE APES

US-Future-112, Charlton Heston

Astronauts crashland on a planet where humans are slaves to apes

1969

MAROONED

US-Orbit-134, Gregory Peck                       Moon

A spaceship's engines fail, will they be rescued in time?

1969

DOPPELGANGER

BR-Orbit-Robert Parrish                        

A crew discover a planet on the far side of the sun, and investigate

The 1970s

1970

COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT

US-Monster Visit-89, Joseph Sargent    

Supercomputers in the USA and USSR unite to bring the pain

1971

SILENT RUNNING

US-Orbit-89, Bruce Dern                         

A scientist on an orbiting space colony disobeys a direct order

1971

THX 1138

US-Future-88, Robert Duvall                   

The future sees people living underground, where love is banned

1971

THE OMEGA MAN

US-Future-97, Charlton Heston

The future is not bright as bioterrorism is unleased on us

1971

THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN

US-ELE-131, Michael Crichton                

An orbiting satellite falls to Earth with captured space cargo

1972

SOLARIS

RUS-Interstellar-165, Stanislaw Lem       

Cosmonauts go to planet Solaris, and strange, strange things happen

1973

WESTWORLD

US-Future-100, Yul Brenner

Michael Crichton's vision of the future's supercool amusement park

1973

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

US-Future-140, Malcolm McDowell       

Stanley Kubrick's sick vision of a future in which ultraviolence is fun

1973

SOYLENT GREEN

US-Future-110, Charlton Heston

In overpopulated future NYC, one man discovers a shocking secret

1974

DARK STAR

US-Interstellar-83, John Carpenter

Astronauts' mission is to destroy unstable planets in future colonys

1974

ZARDOZ

US-Future-83, Sean Connery

A outlander figures out that his life is not exactly what it seems to be

1975

THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT

US-Monster Event-110, Kevin Conner

A team is lost on on island, and come upon something incredible

1975

A BOY AND HIS DOG

US-Future-92, Don Johnson

After the nukes, its survival of the fittest, and boy and dog are a team

1975

ROLLERBALL

US-Future-99, James Caan

In the ultimate sport of the future, one player defies the corporations

1976

RETURN TO EARTH

US-Moon-95, Buzz Aldrin

The story of how Buzz Aldrin's emotions were affected after 1969

The 1970s, Part II

1976

LOGAN'S RUN

US-Future-125, Michael York

The world of the future is well-neigh great, except for one thing...

1976

THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH

US-Alien Visit-103, David Bowie

An alien comes to Earth to scam us out of water with business acumen

1977

STAR WARS

US-Extragalactic-803, George Lucas      Voyager

6 episodes of an epic story from a long time ago, a galaxy far away

1977

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE 3RD KIND

US-Alien Visit-132, Richard Dreyfuss

A line worker has a vision and goes to a place... to see the incredible

1978

CAPRICORN ONE

US-Mars-123, James Brolin

NASA plans a Mars mission but funding is gone, a scam, anyone?

1978

SUPERMAN

US-Alien Visit-527, Christopher Reeves         Me

5 episodes of a baby from Krypton sent to Earth with special powers

1978

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

US-Interstellar-148, Richard Hatch

The desperate struggle of a colony ship to find the legendary Earth

1979

MAD MAX

AU-Future-108, Mel Gibson

3 Episodes of a Post-apocolpyse Australia where one guy gets mad!

1979

METEOR

US-ELE-110, Sean Connery

US and Soviet scientists have to join forces to stop an impact event!

1979

THINGS TO COME

BR-Moon-100, Jack Palance, II

Future war turns humanity to primitivism, maybe a moonshot?

1979

MOONRAKER

UK-Orbit-126, James Bond

Bond discovers a plot of global genocide using a space shuttle

1979

ALIEN

US-Interstellar-532, Sigorney Weaver

4 episodes of a woman's struggle against terrible, horrible aliens

1979

STAR TREK: THE MOVIES

US-Interstellar-700, William Shatner

6 episodes of the epic series of Earth's future in the Federation

The 1980s

1980

COSMOS

US-Documentary-780, Carl Sagan            Shuttle

13 episodes of the story of the universe and our place within it

1980

FLASH GORDON

US-Interstellar-110, Max Von Sydow

A skyjacked hero finds that an alien dictator is experimenting with Earth

1980

THE MARTAIN CHRONICLES

US-Mars-360, Ray Bradury

The first manned Mars mission seems to be ok, then bloodlust...

1981

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK

US-Future-116, Kurt Russell

New York is a supermax prison, 'Snake' has to break the heck out!

1981

OUTLAND

US-Jupiter-109, Sean Connery

A marshall goes to investigate a murder on a Jovian mining colony

1982

BLADE RUNNER

US-Future-117, Harrison Ford

Man-made androids from a colony come back home to Earth

1982

HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

US-Interstellar-175, Douglas Adams

A human and friend escape Earth destruction and travel the galaxy

1982

E.T.

US-Alien Visit-117, Stephen Spielberg

A creature that is 3 million light years from home is lost on Earth

1983

V

US-Alien Visit-110, Marc Singerr

An invasion force arrives to Earth from deep space

1983

THE DAY AFTER

US-ELE-100, John Lithgow

What happens to middle America when they unleash the A-Bomb?

1983

THE RIGHT STUFF

US-Orbit-193, Ed Harris

The epic of America's early space program: the Mercury boys

1984

1984

BR-Future-110, George Orwell

The classic of dystopian future where misbehavior is verboten

1984

2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT

US-Jupiter-116, Roy Schneider

US / Soviet mission to find out the fate of another ship, 'Discovery'

1984

THE TRANSFORMERS

US-Interstellar-2,254, Optimus Prime

98 episodes of the autobots and decepticons battling for Earth

The 1980's II

1984

STARMAN

US-Alien Visit-120, Jeff Bridges

In 1977 Voyager II invited all forms of life to Earth- so, they listen!

1984

THE TERMINATOR

US-Future-373, Arnold Schwarzenegger

3 episodes of a shape shifting cyborg destroying and saving Earth

1984

THE LAST STARFIGHTER

US-Alien Visit-110, Kay Kuter

The best player at a video game is wisked to do the same in real life

1984

DUNE

US-Interstellar-190, Frank Herbert

Galactic colonization complete, now war over a single special planet

1984

THE NEVERENDING STORY

US-Fantasy-102, Wolfgang Peterson

Die Unendliche Geschicht, Story of the end of civilization and its hope

1985

GODZILLA 1985

JP-Monster Event-840, Tokyo Ichiban

8 episodes of a new wave of incidents involving Godzilla & Co.

1985

ENEMY MINE

US-Interstellar-110, Dennis Quaid

An Earth soldier and an alien enemy become trapped together

1985

BABY: SECRET OF THE LOST LEGEND

US-Monster Event-100, Sean Young

In a tropical jungle, a find occurs that shocks a team of scientists

1985

COCOON

US-Alien Visit-117, Wilford Brimley

aliens lay eggs in a swimming pool and humans go swimming...

1985

EXPLORERS

US-Alien Visit-109, Ethan Hawke

A kid dreams about a circuit and when his friends make it, it works

1985

BACK TO THE FUTURE

US-Future-337, Michael J. Fox

3 episodes of what happens when a scientist invents a time machine

1986

VOYAGE TO THE PLANETS

BR-Documentary- David Schuet                     Mir

What we know about potential colonization of the solar system

The 1980's III

1986

HIGHLANDER

US-Alien Visit-225, Christopher Lambert

2 episodes of a group of immortals who must battle to the last

1987

ROBOCOP

US-Future-325, Paul Verhoeven

3 episodes about a robotic cop in Detroit, a city that is out of control

1987

PREDATOR

US-Alien Visit-107, Arnold Schwarzenegger

An extraterrestrial warrior battles top US warriors in the jungle

1987

VOYAGE TO THE OUTER PLANETS

US-Documentary-53, Isaac Asimov

What we know about the solar system and potential colonization

1987

SPACEBALLS

US-Extragalactic-96, John Candy

Adventure about the fate of a world long ago and far, far, far away

1987

TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE

US-Interstellar-84, Optimus Prime

The autobots face their darkest hour against the decepticons

1987

THE FLINTSTONES MEET THE JETSONS

US-Future-94, George Jetson

A Stone Age family is transported into the future, and meet another

1987

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION

US-Interstellar-8,010, Patrick Stewart

178 episodes of the epic voyages of a Federation Starship, Enterprise

1988

THEY LIVE

US-Alien Visit-93, Rowdy Roddy Piper

One man discovers that aliens have subjugated humanity in stealth

1988

MYSTRY SCIENCE THEATRE 3000

US-Orbit-19,109, Joel Hodgson

197 episodes aboard a satellite in Earth orbit, where bad movies play

1989

THE ABYSS

US-Alien Visit-171, Ed Harris

At the very bottom of the ocean lies a great secret from the stars

1989

QUANTUM LEAP

US-Future-Series, Scott Bakula

97 episodes where a scientist from the future helps people in the past

1989

FOR ALL MANKIND

US-Moon-93, Pete Conrad                   Berlin Wall

The 30 year anniversary story of the moon landings of 1969-1972

 

 

The 1990s

1990

TOTAL RECALL

US-Mars-113, Arnold Schwarzenegger

A guy on a virtual Mars vacation goes there for real on a whim

1991

THE ASTRONOMERS

US-Documentary-343, Richard Chamberlain

6 episodes of the men who shaped how we look at the cosmos today

1993

DEMOLITION MAN

US-Future-115, Sylvester Stallone

LA 2032: the world's worst criminal and best cop collide, at Taco Bell

1993

JURASSIC PARK

US-Monster Event-349, Sam Neill

3 episodes of an island off of Costa Rica where dinosaurs are reborn

1993

THE X FILES

US-Alien Visit-9,090, David Duchovny

202 episodes of the exploits of FBI agents solving the toughest cases

1993

BABYLON 5

US-Interstellar-4,950, Michael O'Hare

110 episodes of adventures on a space station in neutral territory

1993

STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE 9

US-Interstellar-7,920, Avery Brooks

176 episodes of a Federation space station guarding a strategic locale

1994

MOONSHOT

US-Moon-188, Alan Shepard

25th Anniversary showing the inside story of the Apollo program

1994

STAR TREK TNG: THE MOVIES

US-Interstellar-443, Patrick Stewart

4 episodes of the adventures of the great crew of the Enterprise-D

1994

STARGATE

US-Interstellar-130, Kurt Russell

An stargate beams humans to a planet like Ancient Egypt

The 1990's II

1995

APOLLO 13

US-Moon-140, Tom Hanks

True to life epic of the great self rescue of the Apollo XIII mission

1995

STAR TREK: VOYAGER

US-Interstellar-7,740, Kate Mulgrew

172 episodes of the Voyager, a ship lost 75 light-years from Earth

1995

OUT OF THE PRESENT

RU-Orbit-96, Sergei Krikalevi

Chronicle of everyday life aboard the Russian space station Mir

1996

INDEPENDENCE DAY

US-Alien Visit-153, Bill Pullman

Aliens come to Earth in giant ships in order to plunder its resources

1996

MARS ATTACKS

US-Alien Visit-106, Jack Nicholson

The Martians arrive to Earth with conquest on their minds

1996

TWELVE MONKEYS

US-Future-129, Bruce Willis

A guy in stasis is sent back in time to save civilization

1996

UNDERSTANDING THE UNIVERSE

US-Documentary-53, Candice Bergen

Explors current information about the nature of the universe

1997

ASTEROID

US-ELE-90, Bradford May

A doomsday asteroid is coming to impact Earth, will humans survive?

1997

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: ASTEROID

US-Documentary-90, Michael Biehn

Wait, asteroid actually can still hit Earth? How likely is it?!? Aaaah!

1997

EVENT HORIZON

US-Neptune-96, Sam Neill

A crew arrives at Neptune to investigate a ship thought lost

The 1990's III

1997

STARSHIP TROOPERS

US-Solar-129, Paul Verhoeven

Humans fight aliens in an ultra militaristic future of conflict

1997

CONTACT

US-Alien Visit-153, Jodie Foster

Finally after all these years, there is a message from the stars

1997

GATTACA

US-Future-101, Uma Thurman

A guy with bad genes tricks his way into being an astronaut

1997

MEN IN BLACK

US-Alien Visit-186, Will Smith

2 episodes of the secret men-in- black, whose job is handling aliens

1997

THE FIFTH ELEMENT

US-Interstellar-126, Bruce Willis

Epic of a regular guy who helps find the secret to saving Earth

1997

UNIVERSE

US-Documentary-360, Stephen Hawking

6 episodes of the nature of the universe revealed by Hawking

1998

SPHERE

US-Alien Visit-110, Dustin Hoffman

An old alien ship is discovered 300 feet under algae in the ocean...