ALL THE FILMS

ABOUT SPACE AND SPACE TRAVEL

 

 

Where exactly do people go when they go into space on film?

 

 

Sun: 1

Venus: 1

Earth Orbit: 14

Moon: 16

Mars: 10

Jupiter: 2

Saturn: 1

Neptune: 1

Interstellar: 29

Extragalactic: 2

ALL THE MOVIES ABOUT THE FUTURE AND ALIENS

 

 

How many movies are there in which aliens come to visit versus when the future is portrayed in film?

 

 

Extinction: 13

Alien Visit: 45

Monsters: 13

Future: 42

General: 10

 

 

 

Where does the main action of outer space films take place?

 

 

 

 

The Sun

 

1904

THE IMPOSSIBLE VOYAGE

FR-Sun-24, Georges Melies

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

 

Venus

 

1959

FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS

PL-Venus-101, Stanislaw Lem, mst3k

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

 

Earth Orbital Space

 

1958

ROAD TO THE STARS

RU-Orbit-52, Pavel Kluschantev

Early days of the Russian and Soviet space program chronicled

1959

MEN INTO SPACE

US-Orbit-38, William Lundegin

38 episode show with basis in reality of what the future holds

1967

THE RELUCTANT ASTRONAUT

US-Orbit-101, Don Knotts

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

1969

MAROONED

US-Orbit-134, Gregory Peck      

A spaceship's engines fail in space, 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

1979

MOONRAKER

UK-Orbit-126, James Bond

Bond discovers a plot of global genocide using a space shuttle

1983

THE RIGHT STUFF

US-Orbit-193, Ed Harris

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

1988

MYSTRY SCIENCE THEATRE 3000

US-Orbit-19,109, Joel Hodgson

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

1995

OUT OF THE PRESENT

RU-Orbit-96, Sergei Krikalevi

Chronicle of everyday life aboard the Russian space station Mir

1999

OCTOBER SKY

US-Orbit-108, Joe Johnston

A coal miner's son goes on a mission to build a rocket

1999

THE ASTRONAUT'S WIFE

US-Orbit-110, Johnny Depp

An astronaut in a perfect marriage comes from a mission feeling weird

1999

NUKES IN SPACE

US-Orbit-53, William Shatner

The US Government testing of atomic weapons in space!

1999

THE RED STUFF

RU-Orbit-78, Leo de Boer

Chronicles the achievments of the Soviet space program

2000

SPACE COWBOYS

US-Orbit-130, Clint Eastwood

A retired engineer goes on a one last mission- to retrieve a satellite

2006

THE ASTRONAUT FARMER

US-Orbit- Bruce Willis

A retired NASA astronaut goes about building his own rocket

2013

ELYSIUM

US-Orbit-120, Matt Damon

A real Stanford-Torus space station is finally built, not for everyone

2013

GRAVITY

US-Orbit-120, Sandra Bullock, George Clooney

Two astronauts have an adventure in orbit at the space station

 

The Moon

 

1902

A TRIP TO THE MOON

FR-Moon-14, George Melies

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

1929

THE WOMAN IN THE MOON

GER-Moon-95, Fritz Lang      

A spaceship goes to the moon to get gold, unexpected problems occur

1936

THINGS TO COME

BR-Moon-100, HG Wells

Future wars turn humanity towards primitivism- a moonshot, maybe?

1950

DESTINATION MOON

US-Moon-92, Robert Heinlein

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

1953

PROJECT MOONBASE

US-Moon-63, Robert Heinlein, mst3k

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

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

1964

FIRST MEN IN THE MOON

BR-Moon-103, HG Wells

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

1967

COUNTDOWN

US-Moon-101, Robert DuVall

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

1968

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

US-Moon-156, Stanley Kubrick                   

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

1976

RETURN TO EARTH

US-Moon-95, Buzz Aldrin

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

1979

THINGS TO COME (2nd Prod)

BR-Moon-100, Jack Palance

Future war turns humanity to primitivism, maybe a moonshot?

1989

FOR ALL MANKIND

US-Moon-93, Pete Conrad       

30th Anniversary story of the moon landings of 1969-1972

1994

MOONSHOT

US-Moon-188, Alan Shepard

35th Anniversary showing the inside story of the Apollo program

1995

APOLLO 13

US-Moon-140, Tom Hanks

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

1999

FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON

US-Moon-540, Tom Hanks

12 episodes outlining the Apollo manned moon missions, 40th Ann.

2001

THE DISH

AUS-Moon-101, Bob Sitch         

An Australian radiotelescope is the key to communicating with Apollo

2009

MOON

US-Moon Visit-120, Kevin Spacey

It combines elements from great scifi movies of the past nicely

2012

IRON SKY

US-Moon Visit-120, Julia Dietze

Nazi escapees made it to the moon in 1945, and they're coming home

 

Mars

 

1924

AELITA, QUEEN OF MARS

RUS-Mars-111, Yuliya Solntseva

Russian scientists show Martians what revolutionary communism is

1950

ROCKETSHIP XM

US-Mars-101, Lloyd Bridges

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

1951

FLIGHT TO MARS

US-Mars-72, Cameron Mitchell

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

1955

CONQUEST OF SPACE

US-Mars-81, George Pal

First human mission sent from orbiting station to planet Mars

1964

ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS

US-Mars-110, Byron Haskin

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

1978

CAPRICORN ONE

US-Mars-123, James Brolin

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

1980

THE MARTAIN CHRONICLES

US-Mars-360, Ray Bradury

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

1990

TOTAL RECALL

US-Mars-113, Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

2000

MISSION TO MARS

US-Mars-114, Gary Sinise

Man's 1st mission to Mars turns out much different than planned

2000

RED PLANET

US-Mars-106, Val Kilmer

Mars can save a dying Earth, but the trip there goes haywire

2012

JOHN CARTER OF MARS

US-Mars Visit-120, Taylor Kitsch

The great scifi classic finally on the screen, under the moons of mars

 

Jupiter

 

1981

OUTLAND

US-Jupiter-109, Sean Connery

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

1984

2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT

US-Jupiter-116, Roy Schneider

US / Soviet joint mission to find out the fate of a ship called 'Discovery'

2013

EUROPA REPORT

US-Jupiter Visit-120, Karolina Wydra

A crack team of astronauts is selected to visit Europa

2015

JUPITER ASCENDING

US-Jupiter-120, Mila Kunis

A nice boy from Jupiter colony comes home to ancestral earth

 

Saturn

 

1938

BUCK ROGERS

US-Saturn-237, Buster Grabbe

12 Episodes of Buck in the fray with the evildoers who rule Saturn

1971

SILENT RUNNING

US-Saturn-89, Bruce Dern                         

A scientist on an orbiting space colony disobeys a direct order

2013

OBLIVION

US-ELE-120, Tom Cruise

Aliens ravaged earth decades ago, now two people move to Titan

 

Neptune

 

1997

EVENT HORIZON

US-Neptune-96, Sam Neill

A crew arrives at Neptune to investigate a ship thought lost

 

Interstellar

 

1938

FLASH GORDON

US-Interstellar- Buster Crabbe

3 Episodes of heroes protecting Earth from an alien dictator

1956

FORBIDDEN PLANET

US-Interstellar-98, Walter Pigeon

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

1966

STAR TREK

US-Interstellar-3,686, William Shatner

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

1972

SOLARIS

RUS-Interstellar-165, Stanislaw Lem       

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

1974

DARK STAR

US-Interstellar-83, John Carpenter

Astronauts' mission is to destroy planets endangering future colonies

1974

STAR TREK ANIMATED SERIES

US-Interstellar-22, Gene Roddenberry

22 episodes of the crew of the Enterprise exploring the galaxy

1977

STAR WARS

US-Extragalactic-803, George Lucas 

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

1978

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

US-Interstellar-148, Richard Hatch

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

1979

ALIEN

US-Interstellar-532, Sigorney Weaver

4 episodes of a woman's struggle against horrible, 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

1980

FLASH GORDON

US-Interstellar-110, Max Von Sydow

A skyjacked hero finds again a dictator messing with Earth

1982

HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

US-Interstellar-175, Douglas Adams

Human and alien escape Earth destruction and travel the galaxy

1984

THE TRANSFORMERS

US-Interstellar-2,254, Optimus Prime

98 episodes of the autobots and decepticons battling for Earth

1984

DUNE

US-Interstellar-190, Frank Herbert

Galactic colonization is complete, but war erupts over one planet

1985

ENEMY MINE

US-Interstellar-110, Dennis Quaid

An Earth soldier and an alien enemy become trapped together

1987

TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE

US-Interstellar-84, Optimus Prime

The autobots face their darkest hour against the decepticons

1987

SPACEBALLS

US-Extragalactic-96, John Candy

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

1987

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION

US-Interstellar-8,010, Patrick Stewart

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

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

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

1995

STAR TREK: VOYAGER

US-Interstellar-7,740, Kate Mulgrew

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

1997

THE FIFTH ELEMENT

US-Interstellar-126, Bruce Willis

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

1998

LOST IN SPACE

US-Interstellar-110, William Hurt

Earth's only hope lies in a family's ability to get to a far planet by ship

1999

GALAXYQUEST

US-Interstellar-102, Tim Allen

The crew of a TV show about space get caught in a real-life situation

2000

CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK (3 Episodes)

US-Interstellar-120, Vin Diesel

Pitch Black is the first antihero, then Chronicles, then Riddick

2001

STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE

US-Interstellar-4,116, Scott Bakula

98 Episodes of the first time that humans can travel faster than light

2002

SOLARIS

US-Interstellar-99, George Clooney

Astronauts go to planet Solaris, and something strange happens

2005

HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

US-Interstellar-109, Douglas Adams

Human and alien escape Earth destruction and travel the galaxy

2009

PANDORUM

US-Interstellar-120, Dennis Quaid

And when humans colonized another star, this happened? Crap!

2009

STAR TREK (2 Episodes)

US-Interstellar-120, Leonard Nimoy

The greatest of all has new life, I don't know how but they did it

2009

AVATAR

US-Interstellar-120, Sigourney Weaver

Pandora in the Alpha Centauri system is subject to human mining

2011

ANOTHER EARTH

US-Interstellar-120, Brit Marling

A brilliant girl is picked to be one of the first to colonize the new earth

2012

PROMETHEUS

US-Interstellar-120, Charlize Theron

Humanity's forerunners have been found, and we go looking for them

2014

INTERSTELLAR

US-Interstellar-120, Matt MaConaughey

Earth is unfit for habitation, and now we MUST look up once again

 

 

Extinction Level Event

 

1951

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE

US-ELE-83, George Pal                            

An planetoid enters the solar system and heads towards Earth

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

1971

THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN

US-ELE-131, Michael Crichton                

An orbiting satellite falls to Earth infected with captured space cargo

1979

METEOR

US-ELE-110, Sean Connery

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

1983

THE DAY AFTER

US-ELE-100, John Lithgow

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

1984

THE NEVERENDING STORY

US-ELE-102, Wolfgang Peterson

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

1997

ASTEROID

US-ELE-90, Bradford May

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

1997

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: ASTEROID

US-ELE-90, Michael Biehn

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

1998

DEEP IMPACT

US-ELE-120, Tea Leoni                

A large cometary impact is coming and humanity reacts and decides

1998

ARMAGEDDON

US-ELE-153, Bruce Willis

A team of selected crew try to save Earth from a cometary impact

2004

THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW

US-Extinction Event-120, Dennis Quaid

Global warming makes the ice melt faster than anyone though it would

2007

I AM LEGEND

US-Extinction Event- 120, Will Smith

After the world crumbles, one man alone in New York must survive

2009

2012

US-Extinction Event- 120, John Cusack

The calandars were right after all, the end of the world has come

2010

BOOK OF ELI

US-Extinction Event- 120, Gary Oldman

After the apololypse what's left of humanity must pick up the pieces

2011

CONTAIGON

US-Extinction Event-120, Matt Damon

Ebola squared hits and humanity is in the crosshairs

2012

SEEKING A FRIEND FOR END OF WORLD

US-ELE-120, Steve Carell, Kiera Knightley

NASA must save earth from an incoming asteroid or else

 

Alien Visitation

 

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 humanity's leaders

1952

ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN

US-Alien Visit, George Reeves

104 episodes of a boy from Krypton arriving on Earth as a journalist

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

WAR OF THE WORLDS

US-Alien Visit-85, HG Wells

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

1955

THIS ISLAND EARTH

US-Alien Visit-91, Jeff Morrow

An American scientist is kidnapped by aliens to save their race

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

EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS

US-Alien Visit-89, Hugh Marlowe

After some mysterious events, a Martian saucer enters Earth orbit

1962

DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS

US-Alien Visit, Howard Keel

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

1976

THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH

US-Alien Visit-103, David Bowie

Aliens come to scam us out of water using cool business acumen

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

SUPERMAN

US-Alien Visit-527, Christopher Reeves

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

1978

MORK AND MINDY

US-Alien Visit-95, Robin Williams

95 episodes where alien visitors chill out the earth society in an egg

1982

E.T.

US-Alien Visit-117, Stephen Spielberg

A creature 3 million light years from home gets lost on Earth

1983

V

US-Alien Visit-110, Marc Singerr

An invasion force arrives to Earth from deep space, oh, joy

1984

STARMAN

US-Alien Visit-120, Jeff Bridges

In 1977 Voyager II invited all forms of life to Earth- uh oh, they did!

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

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

1986

ALF

US-Alien Visit, Alf

102 episodes of an alien with fur living with an American family

1986

HIGHLANDER

US-Alien Visit-225, Christopher Lambert

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

1987

PREDATOR

US-Alien Visit-107, Arnold Schwarzenegger

An extraterrestrial warrior battles top US warriors in the jungle

1988

THEY LIVE

US-Alien Visit-93, Rowdy Roddy Piper

One man discovers that aliens have subjugated humanity in stealth

1989

THE ABYSS

US-Alien Visit-171, Ed Harris

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

1993

THE X FILES

US-Alien Visit-9,090, David Duchovny

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

1996

INDEPENDENCE DAY

US-Alien Visit-153, Bill Pullman

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

1996

THIRD ROCK FROM THE SUN

Alien Visit-20, John Lithgow

179 episodes of alien family coming to Earth to observe earthlings

1996

MARS ATTACKS

US-Alien Visit-106, Jack Nicholson

The Martians arrive to Earth with conquest on their minds

1997

CONTACT

US-Alien Visit-153, Jodie Foster

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

1997

MEN IN BLACK

US-Alien Visit-186, Will Smith

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

1997

STARSHIP TROOPERS (2 episodes)

US-Alien Visit-129, Paul Verhoeven

Humans fight aliens in an ultra- militaristic future of conflict

1998

SPHERE

US-Alien Visit-110, Dustin Hoffman

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

1998

THE X FILES: FIGHT THE FUTURE

US-Alien Visit-110, David Duchovny

The FBI agents from X files make one more incredible discovery!

2002

SIGNS

US-Alien Visit-106, Mel Gibson

A farm family's crop circles tell them aliens are on their way

2005

WAR OF THE WORLDS

US-Alien Visit-116, Tom Cruise

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

2007

TRANSFORMRS

US-Alien Visit-120, Optimus Prime

(4 episodes) of robots from another world helping and hurting earthlings

2008

CLOVERFIELD

US-Alien Visit-120, Rachel Weisz

Right in the middle of a party, something really nasty begins

2008

OUTLANDER

US-Alien Visit-120, James Caviezel

A flying saucer crashes into Norway and a funny man emerges

2009

DISTRICT 9

US-Alien Visit- 120, Niall Bloenkamp

Aliens land on Earth in South Africa and humanity interacts with them

2009

KNOWING

US-Alien Visit-120, Nicholas Cage

A girl somehow knows that life exists on other worlds and tells!

2009

WATCHMEN

US-Alien Visit-120, Malin Akerman

During the Cold War, some people were actually watching it all

2011

BATTLE: LOS ANGELES

US-Alien Visit-120, Aaron Eckhart

Dropping down into every coastal city, the military must protect earth

2011

COWBOYS AND ALIENS

US-Alien Visit-Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford

The aliens land and they get to get their butts whooped by cowboys

2012

BATTLESHIP

US-Alien Visit-120, Liam Neeson

Dropping into the sea, an alien ship takes on the US Navy

2013

ENDER'S GAME

US-Alien Visit-120, Harrison Ford

A special kid is utilized as Earth is attacked by alien forces

2014

EDGE OF TOMORROW

US-Alien Visit-120, Tom Cruise

Aliens are here again, and they are gonna want to get their butt kicked

 

Monster Event

 

1925

THE LOST WORLD

US-Monster Event-90, Bessie Love

A diary leads the Amazon, where they find an incredible truth

1954

GODZILLA

JAP-Monster Event-1,245, Raymond Burr

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

1954

THEM

US-Monster Event-James Whitmore

Some ants exposed to radiation think humans are pellets of food

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

1958

THE FLY

US-Monster Event-101,

a

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

1970

COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT

US-Monster Event-89, Joseph Sargent    

Supercomputers in the USA and Russia unite to bring the pain

1974

LAND OF THE LOST

US-Monster Event-110, Kevin Conner

43 Episodes of waking up in an alt. universe full of dinosaurs

1975

THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT

US-Monster Event-110, Kevin Conner

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

1984

GHOSTBUSTERS

US-Monster Event- Bill Murray

2 Episodes of a series of ghosts that haunt New York City, who you...

1985

GODZILLA 1985

JP-Monster Event-840, Tokyo Ichiban

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

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

1993

JURASSIC PARK

US-Monster Event-349, Sam Neill

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

1998

ZILLA

US-Monster Event-110, Matthew Broderick

A cousin of Godzilla attacks: this time its America's coastline!

2000

GODZILLA 2000

US-Monster Visit-525, Mothra

6 episodes of the final adventures of the greatest monsters on Earth

2009

LAND OF THE LOST

US-Time Travel- 120, Will Ferrell

Some dudes from our time go back to dinosaur times and rage

2014

GODZILLA

US-ELE-120, Bryan Cranston

Fifteen years since last time, too long? Well, he's back

 

The Future

 

1927

METROPOLIS

GER-Future-100, Fritz Lang

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

1930

JUST IMAGINE

US-Future-109, El Brendel

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

1954

1984

BR-Future-, No one important

Adaptation of the ultimate in dystopian novels by Orwell

1956

WORLD WITHOUT END

US-Future-100, Rod Taylor

An accident in space hurtles astronauts into the far future

1959

THE TWILIGHT ZONE

US-Future-1,056, Rod Serling

156 Episodes of the bizarre stuff that that happens on this ol' Earth

1960

THE TIME MACHINE

US-Future-103, HG Wells          

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

1962

THE JETSONS

US-Future, Hanna Barbara, Mel Blanc

24 Episodes of George Jetson and the family of the future

1966

FAHRENHEIT 451

BR-Future-111, Ray Bradbury

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

1968

PLANET OF THE APES

US-Future-112, Charlton Heston

Astronauts crashland on a planet where humans are slaves to apes

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

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 vision of a sick 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

ZARDOZ

US-Future-83, Sean Connery

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

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

LOGAN'S RUN

US-Future-125, Michael York

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

1979

MAD MAX

AU-Future-108, Mel Gibson

3 Episodes of a Post-apocolpyse Australia where one guy stands up!

1979

BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY

US-Future- Gil Gerard

37 Episodes take Buck, frozen for 500 years, into Earth's future

1981

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK

US-Future-116, Kurt Russell

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

1982

BLADE RUNNER

US-Future-117, Harrison Ford

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

1984

1984

BR-Future-110, George Orwell

The classic of dystopian future where misbehavior is verboten

1984

THE TERMINATOR

US-Future-373, Arnold Schwarzenegger

3 episodes of a shape shifting cyborg destroying and saving Earth

1985

BACK TO THE FUTURE

US-Future-337, Michael J. Fox

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

1987

ROBOCOP

US-Future-325, Paul Verhoeven

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

1987

THE FLINTSTONES MEET THE JETSONS

US-Future-94, George Jetson

A Stone Age family is transported into the future, meet the Jetsons

1989

QUANTUM LEAP

US-Future, Scott Bakula

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

1993

DEMOLITION MAN

US-Future-115, Sylvester Stallone

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

1996

TWELVE MONKEYS

US-Future-129, Bruce Willis

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

1997

GATTACA

US-Future-101, Uma Thurman

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

1999

THE MATRIX

US-Future-403, Keanu Reeves

3 episodes of a human fighting cyber beings' breeding of humans

1999

FUTURAMA

US-Future-88, Matt Groening

88 episodes of a pizza delivery dude who wakes up in the 31st century!

2000

THE 6TH DAY

US-Future-100, Arnold Swartzeneggar

A pilot crashes and a clone is made of him, then he comes to life!

2000

FREQUENCY

US-Future-115,

A guy actually communicates with his father through time! No Way!

2001

AVALON

PL-Future-120, Malgosia Foremniak

Its a dreary future where everyone plays virtual reality games to live

2003

TIMELINE

US-Time Travel-99, Michael Crichton

People from today go back to medieval France and rampage

2005

AEON FLUX

US-Future-116, Charlize Theron

The future (2400) is bleak- 99% dead, the rest try to live in 1 city

2005

THE ISLAND

US-Future-136, Scarlett Johansson

The future has yet an unpolluted spot, 'the island,' but who gets in?

2006

V FOR VENDETTA

BR-Future-133, Natalie Portman

2020: Britain is a fascist state, and one guy says, 'Enough!'

2006

IDIOCRACY

US-Future-98, Luke Wilson

An average Joe wakes up 500 years in the future as the smartest

2006

THE FOUNTAIN

US-Time Travel-120, Rachel Weisz

Can love really link two souls across the generations of time?

2006

ULTRAVIOLET

US-Future-120, Milla Jovovich

The future looks grim as one girl has to kick some real ass

2007

NEXT

US-Time Travel-120, Nicholas Cage

A man can see into the future and this gets him into a lot of trouble

2009

SURROGATES

US-Future- 120, Bruce Willis

No one goes outside in the future, too much crime-then one man does

2010

HOT TUB TIME MACHINE

US-Future- 120, Rob Corddry

They get into the spa. They go back in time. That's it.

2012

THE HUNGER GAMES

US-Future- 120, Jennifer Lawrence

After most die on earth, elites abuse teens by making them fight

2013

THE PURGE (2 Episodes)

US-Future-120, Ethan Hawke

The population of USA is allowed to run wild for one night in 2022

2014

DIVERGENT

US-Future-120, Shailene Woodley

People are placed into utopian groups based on their top virtue

2014

THE GIVER

US-Future-120, Jeff Bridges

People surrender their memories to the giver so the world knows peace

2014

ROBOCOP

US-ELE-120, Gary Oldman

The robotic cop is back after a quarter century to save Detroit

 

General

 

1980

COSMOS

US-General-780, Carl Sagan         

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

1986

VOYAGE TO THE PLANETS

BR-General- David Schuet  

What we know about the possibility to colonize the solar system

1987

VOYAGE TO THE OUTER PLANETS

US-General-53, Isaac Asimov

What we know about the solar system and potential colonization

1991

THE ASTRONOMERS

US-General-343, Richard Chamberlain

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

1996

UNDERSTANDING THE UNIVERSE

US-General-53, Candice Bergen

Explors current information about the nature of the universe

1997

UNIVERSE

US-General-360, Stephen Hawking

6 episodes of the nature of the universe as revealed by Hawking

1999

THE PLANETS

BR-General-390, Karen Stone

8 episodes of amazing stories of our solar system and its exploration

2000

STARGAZE

US-General-120, Ralph LaBarge

2 episodes of Hubble Space Telescope's finest imagery

2003

NOVA: ELEGANT UNIVERSE

US-General-180, Michael Duff

3 episodes of discovery of the interesting facts of the universe

2004

NOVA: ORIGINS

US-General-240, Neil Degrasse Tyson

4 episodes of discovery of the interesting facts of our origins

 

 

NOTES:

General contains only documentaries about space and the planets.

Interplanetary catagories, those ranging from the Sun to Neptune (including Earth orbit), mean that place is the main destination of the people.

Interstellar means the human beings attain the capability of light speed and use it to travel around the local area of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Extragalactic means the action takes place in a totally different part of the universe, somewhere outside our galaxy.

Extinction event means some catastrophe like a cosmic impact is threatening to destroy all of human life.

Alien visit means in a way the opposite of Interstellar- in that the aliens come to us on Earth, as opposed to us going to them.

Monster / Dinosaur event means that either monsters like Godzilla or dinosaurs like those in Jurassic Park are the main focus of the movie.

The Future is the most complex because a movie here had one of two criteria to fulfill. it could mean either that present day human beings travel into the future of Earth through time (Back to the Future II, Idiocracy) or simply that the events in the movie take place in the future, with no connection at all to the present day, but with the stipulation that the events take place on Earth and not elsewhere. So Star Trek, despite portraying the human future in space, is classed 'Interstellar' because the humans have that power to boldly go, whereas in the category 'Future,' they are confined to Earth, usually in a dystopian way.

 

 

 

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