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Taken
2002
Created by Leslie Bohem
Starring: Matt Frewer, Dakota Fanning, Joel Gretch, Heather Donahue
Won an Emmy for Outstanding Mini-series
Preview: The lives of three families haunted by alien abduction intertwine in the last half of the 20th century.
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Official Web Site
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The Terminal Man
1974
Based on the novel by Michael Crichton
Directed by Mike Hodges
Starring: George Segal, Joan Hackett, Richard A. Dysart
Preview: To control violent seizures a man agrees to have a microcomputer embedded in his brain.
Internet Movie Database entry
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The Terminator
See Viewing Guide to the Terminator Films.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
See Viewing Guide to the Terminator Films.
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
See Viewing Guide to the Terminator Films.
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Them!
1954
Written by
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Starring: James Whitmore
Preview: Nuclear tests spawn giant mutant ants.
Internet Movie Database entry
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The Thing
1982
Based on the short story "Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell
Directed by John Carpenter
Starring: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley
Preview: Remake of The Thing From Another World that is more faithful to the original story.
Internet Movie Database entry
Official John Carpenter web site entry
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The Thing from Another World
1951
Based on the short story "Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell
Directed by Christian Nyby
Starring: Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey. With James Arness as The Thing
Preview: An alien is killing off personnel at a remote arctic outpost.
Internet Movie Database entry
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Things to Come
1936
Based on the novel by H. G. Wells
Directed by William Cameron Menzies
Starring: Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson
Preview: Society rebuilds itself after a devastating world war.
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Third Rock From the Sun

1996-2001
Created by Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner
Starring: John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, French Stewart, and Kristen Johnson

Lithgow won several Emmys for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
Johnson won two Emmys for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

Preview: A group of aliens take human form and come to Earth to learn about human civilization.
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THX 1138
1971
Written and directed by George Lucas
Starring: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasance

Preview: In a futuristic society the human race lives underground and is controlled by drugs. One man stops taking his drugs and falls in love.

This is George Lucas's first film; it is adapted from a short film he made while a student.

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Official Web Site
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Time After Time
1979
Directed by Nicholas Meyer
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen
Preview: H.G. Wells follows Jack the Ripper back in time
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Time Bandits
1981
Directed by Terry Gilliam
Starring: John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duval
Preview: A child travels through time with a band of treasure-hunting dwarves.
Internet Movie Database entry
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The Time Machine

1960
Based on the novel by H. G. Wells
Directed by George Pal
Starring: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux

Remake: 2002
Directed by Simon Wells
Starring: Guy Pearce

Preview: A man invents a time machine and uses it to travel to the far future where humans are now divided between the gentle Eloi and the cannibalistic Morlocks
Internet Movie Database entry (original)
Internet Movie Database entry (remake)
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The Time Tunnel
1966-67
Created by Irwin Allen
Starring: James Darren, Robert Colbert
Preview: Scientists working on a Time Tunnel get trapped in time and find themselve arriving at pivitol points in history.
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Torchwood
2006--
Created by Russell T. Davies
Starring John Barrowman and Eve Myles
Preview: In this Doctor Who spinoff 51st century con man Capt. Jack Harkness heads a special operations group in Cardiff, Wales, that hunts down aliens and alien technology.
Internet Movie Database entry
Official BBC site
Official Torchwood site
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Total Recall
1990
Based on the short story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone
Preview: A man believe that his memory has been erased.
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Toy Story
1995
Directed by John Lasseter
Starring: The voices of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen
Preview: An animated film in which a toy cowboy gets jealous of the new toy spaceman.
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Toy Story 2
1999
Directed by John Lasseter and Ash Brannon
Starring: the voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, and Joan Cusak
Preview: The toys rally to save Woody from a toy collector.
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Transformers
2007
Directed by Michael Bay
Starring Shia LaBoeuf, Megan Fox and Josh Duhamel
Preview: Earth becomes the battleground between two warring sets of powerful robots
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Tron
1982
Directed by Steven Lisberger
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner
Preview: A hacker is literally drawn into a gladatorial contest within a computer video game.
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12 Monkeys
1995
Directed by Terry Gilliam
Starring: Bruce Willis
Preview: A convict is sent back in time to learn the origin of a deadly virus.
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The Twilight Zone
1959-64, 1985-89, 2002-03
Created by Rod Serling
Preview: Anthology series of science fiction, horror, and fantasy stories.
Internet Movie Database entry (original television series)
Internet Movie Database entry (1985-89 remake)
Internet Movie Database entry (2002-03 remake)
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Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983
Directed by: John Landis, Joe Dante, Steven Spielberg and George Miller
Starring: Vic Morrow, John Lithgow, Kathleen Quinlan
Preview: Remakes of 4 episodes of the original television series, each directed by a different director.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
Based on the short story "The Sentinel" by Arthur C. Clarke
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood
Preview: Astronauts are sent to investigate the origins of a mysterious monolith that appears on the dark side of the Moon.
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2010: Odyssey Two
1984
Based on the novel by Arthur C. Clarke
Directed by Peter Hyams
Starring: Roy Shcheider, John Lithgow, Keir Dullea, Bob Balaban, Helen Mirren
Preview: An expedition is sent to Jupiter to determine what happened to the astronauts sent to investigate the origins of the monolith.
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