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![baby at the end of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" [1968]](images/2001odyssey-baby.jpg "baby at the end of Stanley Kubrick's \"2001: A Space Odyssey\" [1968]")
“Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.”
— Susan Sontag [1933-2004]
list of science fiction films (by decade) at Wikipedia
list of 50 Best Sci-fi/Fantasy Movies at Gear Patrol website
Timeout London's Best 100 Science Fiction Movies" list (10/2015)
Science Fiction Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
Science Fiction Anthologies & Collections Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
Selected Science Fiction Films & Television
search DVDs on keywords 'science fiction' {returns over 7,700 items} at Amazon
search Blu-ray on keywords 'science fiction' {returns over 1,000 items} at Amazon
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'The Three Stooges' comedy team made two feature films about space travel
and at least three short films that featured flying saucers and-or Venusians.
 | "Have Rocket, Will Travel" feature film [Columbia Aug 1959] The first feature film to star the Three Stooges, a sci-fi comedy; three knucklehead janitors accidentally rocket themselves to Venus and encounter a talking unicorn, a futuristic car, a giant fire-breathing tarantula, and three evil Venusian Stooge look-a-likes who follow them back to Earth • Directed by David Lowell Rich; starring Larry & Moe & Curly-Joe, Anna-Lisa, Jerome Cowan & Robert Colbert Sony Choice Collxn b&w DVD-R [9/2013] for $17.94 Sony b&w VHS [5/95] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailer [6/2012 upload; 2:30] online at YouTube |
 | "The Three Stooges In Orbit" feature film [Normandy/Columbia July 1962]
The Stooges agree to help a goofy inventor in exchange for room & board; the new invention is an all-terrain, submersible space ship that is so good that the Martians want to steal it and take over Planet Earth Produced & co-written by Norman Maurer; directed by Edward Bernds; starring Larry & Moe & Curly-Joe, Carol Christensen, Edson Stroll, Emil Sitka, George N. Neise & Rayford Barnes Sony widescreen b&w DVD [11/2003] for $9.99 Sony b&w VHS [5/95] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
 | "The Three Stooges Collection, Volume Eight: 1955-59" [2010] 32! digitally-remastered shorts in order of release; flying saucer shorts here include "Space Ship Sappy" [#178 April 1957], "Outer Space Jitters" [#182 Dec 1957], and "Flying Saucer Daffy" [#187 Oct 1958] Starring Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard – and Joe Besser Sony b&w DVD [6/2010] 3 disks for $11.99 |
A Few Classic Science Fiction Films, A-Z
"Alien" [1979]
Directed by Ridley Scott, starring Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Ian Holm
"Aliens" sequel [1986]
Directed by James Cameron, starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton
"Blade Runner" [1982]
Directed by Ridley Scott, starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos
"Blade Runner" 1982 Movie Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick [1928-82]
"Brazil" [1985]
Directed by Terry Gilliam; starring Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Michael Palin
"Close Encounters of The Third Kind" [1977]
Directed by Steven Spielberg; starring Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon
"E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" [1982] /tt0083866/
Directed by Steven Spielberg; starring Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Drew Barrymore
"E.T.: A Holiday Reunion" ad/short [Xfinity Nov 2019]
watch full 11/2019 short [5:19] online at YouTube
"Foundation" TV series [streaming on Apple TV+ Sept 2021] 
The "Foundation" saga began as eight short stories printed in Astounding Magazine between May 1942 and January 1950; they were re-published as a trilogy from 1951 to 1953.
Years later, Asimov was persuaded to create two sequels - "Foundation's Edge" [1982] and "Foundation and Earth [1986] - and then two prequels - "Prelude To Foundation" [1988] and
"Forward The Foundation" [posthumous 1993]; the "Foundation" trilogy won the Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series" in 1966, beating J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of The Rings".
"Foundation" 7-book bundle in Kindle format at Amazon •
Wikipedia
 | The plan is for eight seasons covering the seven books, the first season is 10 episodes; location filming in Ireland, Iceland, Canary Islands, Malta, & Berlin, Germany; a complex saga set far in the future about humans scattered on planets throughout the galaxy all living under the rule of the Galactic Empire, which is about to face a reckoning unlike anything else that it has faced before: the galaxy's leading psycho-historian Hari Seldon predicts several millenia of chaos – Can the Empire offset the disaster before it begins? • Series co-produced by David S. Goyer, Robyn Asimov, Cameron Welsh, Josh Friedman, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross & others; written for television by Josh Friedman & David S. Goyer; story editors Sarah Nolen & Olivia Purnell; based on the novels by Isaac Asimov; starring Lou Llobell, Jared Harris, Lee Pace, Leah Harvey, Laura Birn, Terrence Mann, Daniel MacPherson, Pravessh Rana, Kubbra Sait, Clarke Peters, Cassian Bilton, Alfred Enoch, Elliot Cowan, Sasha Behar, Nikhil Parmar, Amy Tyger, Mido Hamada, T'Nia Miller, Jairaj Varsani, Buddy Skelton, Joni Morris, Vanessa Ifediora, Christian Contreras, Stuart McQuarrie, Chloe Lea, Nikol Kollars, Johanna O'Brien, Brian F. Mulvey, Teyarnie Galea, Cooper Carter, Matt Gavan, Catriona Loughlin, Alicia Gerrard, Julia Farino, Darragh O'Toole, Isaiah Joshua Chambers, Chipo Chung, Carolina Main, Reece Shearsmith, Antony Bunsee, Jade Harrison, Chris Jarman, Kim Adis, Brian Bovell, Mark Lavery, Joyce Grey-Carter, Martin McDougall, Shauna Black, Geoffrey Cantor, Ryan Ali, Rory Nolan, Samir Fuchs
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site • series entry at Wikipedia watch official trailers online at YouTube: 6/2020 teaser trailer [2:28] • 6/2021 trailer [2:20] • 8/2021 trailer [2:48] |
"Metropolis" silent feature [1927]
Directed by Fritz Lang [1890-1976]; starring Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich
"Metropolis" 1927 Silent Movie Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
"Star Wars IV: A New Hope" [Fox 1977]
Directed by George Lucas; starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
"Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back" [Fox 1980]
Directed by Irvin Kershner; starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
"Star Wars VI: Return of The Jedi" [Fox May 1983]
Directed by Richard Marquand; starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
'Star Wars' Movies Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
"The Terminator" [1984]
Directed by James Cameron; starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn
"2001: A Space Odyssey" [1968]
Directed by Stanley Kubrick [1928-99]; starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
"2010" sequel [M.G.M./U.A. Dec 1984]
Directed by Peter Hyams; starring Roy Scheider, Helen Mirren, John Lithgow
Stanley Kubrick's "2001" Movie Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
Science Fiction Movies of The Silent Era
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"The Mechanical Butcher (La Charcuterie Mécanique)" [Lumière 1895]
some say that this is the First Science Fiction Film, because the mechanism is a robot; directed by Louis Lumière •
bare credits at IMDb
watch short film [2/2012 upload; 0:43] online at YouTube
"A Trip To The Moon (Le Voyage dans La Lune)"
14-minute silent short [France Sept 1902]
![animated landing on the Moon [1902] by George Méliès of France](images/Melies-moon_cropped.jpg "animated landing on the Moon [1902] by George Méliès of France") | French scientists construct a gigantic gun and shoot a manned capsule to the moon . . .; a major box-office success in France, Thomas Edison stole prints and distributed the movie in the U.S.A, essentially stealing that revenue from Méliès • Produced & directed by cinema pioneer Georges Méliès [1861-1938]; adapted by Méliès from stories by Jules Verne & H.G. Wells
full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia view version 1 [11:18 at 20fps] for free at Internet Archive view version 2 [music & accented English narration; 11:48] for free at Internet Archive |
 | "Fantastic Voyages of The Cinematic Imagination: Georges Méliès's Trip To The Moon" [2011] Edited by Matthew Solomon hardcover edition includes DVD with several versions of the 1902 silent film Kindle Edition from SUNY Press [5/2011] for $17.25 SUNY Press 9x6 pb [5/2011] for $23.25 SUNY Press 9x6 hardcover + DVD [5/2011] for $56.01 |
 | "Le Voyage Extraordinaire (The Extraordinary Voyage)" documentary [FR3-TV/Lobster Films Dec 2011] Chronicles the innovative production of the iconic 1902 film "A Trip To The Moon" • Produced by Marianne Lère; co-written & directed by Serge Bromberg; co-written & co-directed by Eric Lange; co-written by Frédérique Moreau; featuring Costa-Gavras, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Michel Gondry, Michel Hazanavicius, Nicolas Ricordel, Eric Lange, Tom Burton, Serge Bromberg, with archive footage of Charles Chaplin, Tom Hanks & Georges Méliès Flicker Alley Blu-ray/DVD combo [6/2012] 2 disks for $99.95 {sic} Flicker Alley Blu-ray [4/2012] 2 disks - out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • |
"The (?) Motorist" silent short film [U.K. Oct 1906]
 | British trick film (stop-motion animation} in which a motorist drives around the rings of Saturn; IMDb says the film ran ten minutes, but the longest version on YouTube is just over 3 minutes
Produced & filmed by Robert W. Paul, directed by Walter R. Booth • bare credits at IMDb watch silent movie/clip [3/2013 upload; 3:18] online at YouTube watch edited movie with text comments & piano music [2/2013 upload; 3:30] at YouTube |
"A Trip To The Moon (Excursion dans La Lune)"
7-minute silent short [Pathé Frères Feb 1908]
 | Segundo de Chomón of Spain made movies in France which were often remakes of films by others, including Georges Méliès; this 7-minute tinted film is often confused with the 1902 Méliès film • Written & directed by Segundo de Chomón
bare credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch tinted version with piano music [9/2010 upload; 11:18 at 20fps] at Internet Archive |
Edison's "A Trip To Mars" [Feb 1910]
 | A chemist discovers anti-gravity and sends himself flying to Mars, where he meets giants, then sends himself back to Earth 5-minute silent short directed by Ashley Miller • full credits at IMDb watch complete short [3/2011 upload; 5:06] online at YouTube |
"The Automatic Motorist" silent comedy short
[Kineto Films March 1911]
 | Newlyweds hire a robot to drive them on their honeymoon and are taken on a wild ride; IMDb says the film ran ten minutes, but the longest version on YouTube is under 6½ minutes • Directed by Walter R. Booth {a remake of his 1906 film, with more impressive SFX) •
bare credits at IMDb •
movie entry at Wikipedia
watch silent short [B.F.I. 11/2014 upload; 6:23] online at YouTube |
"A Trip To The Moon" [General Film Co. March 1914]
 | Very complicated plot • {this film is considered lost} Produced by Siegmund Lubin; written, directed & animated by Vincent Whitman • bare credits at IMDb |
"Himmelskibet" [Nordisk/Fotorama Denmark Feb 1918]
aka "Das Himmelschiff" [U.F.A. Film Germany 1918] aka "A Trip To Mars" [Tower Film USA 1920]
 | A group of scientists travel on the spaceship Excelsior to Mars, where they discover a peaceful vegetarian society; film was restored & re-released on DVD in 2006 by the Danish Film Institute; original length 97 minutes, restoration 80 minutes. • Directed by Holger-Madsen; co-written by Sophus Michaëlis from his novel; produced & co-written by Ole Olsen; starring Gunnar Tolnæs, Zanny Petersen, Nicolai Neiiendam, Alf Blütecher, Svend Kornbeck, Philip Bech, Lilly Jacobson, Frederik Jacobsen, Birger von Cotta-Schønberg
Region 1 Blu-ray/DVD not available • credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch full movie online at YouTube, both with Danish/English intertitles, Russian subtitles: 12/2013 version with nice piano track [1:20:35] • 1/2015 silent version [1:20:35] |
"L'Uomo Meccanico (The Mechanical Man)" silent feature
[Milano Film Italy Nov 1921]
 | A scientist creates a device shaped like a man that can be remote-controlled by an operator. Only about a third of the film still exists, the DVD producer has cobbled together an outline of the plot (with new English intertitles) running maybe 30 minutes, half of which shows the quite scary robot in action • Written & directed by and starring André Deed; also starring Giulia Costa, Valentina Frascaroli, Mathilde Lambert, Gabriel Moreau, Ferdinando Vivas-May
Alpha Video Double Feature b&w DVD [9/2005] for $5.99 with "The Headless Horseman" [1922] credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch tinted video car-chase clip with electronic music [12/2007 upload; 1:18] online at YouTube watch low-res silent video clip [12/2011 upload; 7:01] online at YouTube includes same car-chase (untinted) plus banquet scenes and fight with second robot |
"L'Inhumaine (The Inhuman Woman)" [France 1924, USA 1926, restored 1989]
released in USA as "The New Enchantment"; silent French futuristic sci-fi melodrama, a groundbreaking landmark of artistic collaboration and avant-garde design.
full credits at IMDb •
movie entry at Wikipedia
"A Trip To The Moon" [Service Film Co. 1925]
Early animated/stop motion short film; the moonship is a globe with three legs
watch silent version [1/2014 upload; 9:10] for free at Internet Archive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fI2PbLbR8E
 | "Metropolis" [U.F.A./Paramount Jan 1927 silent] Directed by Fritz Lang [1890-1976] more details (synopsis, books, posters, DVDs & videos) on |
"Woman In The Moon (Frau im Mond)" silent feature [U.F.A. Germany Oct 1929]
USA title "By Rocket To The Moon" [U.F.A. Film USA Feb 1931]
 | Film runs almost 3 hours; thirty years after Prof. Manfeldt proposed a mission to the Moon to exploit its gold deposits, Herr Helius is ready to launch the rocket Friede, but the bankers financing the mission insist on having a representative on board, and after takeoff they discover a boy stowaway . . .; excellent science and excellent SFX for the time • Produced, adapted & directed by Fritz Lang, based on a novel by {his wife} Thea von Harbou; technical advisor Hermann Oberth; SFX by Oskar Fischinger & Konstantin Irmen-Tschet; starring Klaus Pohl, Willy Fritsch, Gustav von Wangenheim, Gerda Maurus, Gustl Gstettenbaur, Fritz Rasp, Tilla Durieux, Hermann Vallentin, Max Zilzer, Mahmud Terja Bey, Borwin Walth, Karl Platen, Margarete Kupfer, Alexa von Porembsky, Gerhard Dammann, Heinrich Gotho, Alfred Loretto, Max Maximilian, Edgar Pauly & Josephine the Mouse
Kino Lorber German w/English subtitles b&w Blu-ray [2/2016] for $19.99 Kino Lorber German w/English subtitles b&w DVD [2/2016] for $16.61 Kino Lorber German w/English subtitles b&w DVD [11/2004] for $19.99 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch original trailer, with modern music by IOCOI [2:20] online at YouTube watch full movie [11/2016 upload; 2:49:48] online at YouTube |
 | "The Rocket To The Moon" [1930 novel] by Thea von Harbou Literary Licensing 9x6 pb [10/2011] for $27.95 Literary Licensing 9x6 hardcover [7/2011] for $42.95 World Wide Publng Co. hardcover [1930] long out of print/scarce |
 | Scientists on Earth receive a communication from Deep Space that contains instructions for building an advanced computer; the computer reveals instructions for building an android, who is given the name Andromeda; about 15 minutes of Episode 7 survive; a 16mm print of Episode 6 was recovered by the BBC Film Library in 2006 • Co-produced by Norman James; co-produced & directed by Michael Hayes; written by John Elliot & Fred Hoyle; starring Esmond Knight, Patricia Kneale, Peter Halliday, Noel Johnson, Julie Christie {as Andromeda}, Donald Stewart, Geoffrey Lewis, Mary Morris, Peter Henchie, John Hollis, Frank Windsor, John Murray Scott, Brenda Peters, Ernest Hare, John Rowlands, Jack May, Anthony Valentine, Maurice Hedley, Peter Ducrow, John Nettleton, Peter King, David King, Barry Jackson, Felicity Mason, Kenneth Kendall
full credits at IMDb • series entry at Wikipedia Episode 6 is paired on DVD with the 12-minute "The Flying Saucer Mystery" 1950 documentary short film {IMDb credits} Sinister Cinema b&w DVD [10/2012] for $8.99 Episode 6 "Face of The Tiger" is also available in six parts [3/2007 uploads] on YouTube: Part 1 [6:44] • Part 2 [5:18] • Part 3 [6:53] • Part 4 [5:43] • Part 5 [7:50] • Part 6 [7:56] |
 | "A For Andromeda: A Novel of Tomorrow" [1962] by Fred Hoyle & John Elliot Fawcett Crest mass pb [1962] out of print/used Souvenir Press 7¾x5 pb [9/2012] for $7.47 Harper & Brothers BOMC 8¼x6 hardcover [6/62] out of print/used |
 | Fleming and Andromeda are recaptured by the British government but then kidnapped along with Professor Dawnay by the forces of Intel and taken to the new Middle East country of Azaran . . . • Series produced, co-written & co-directed by John Elliot; co-directed by John Knight; co-written by Fred Hoyle; starring Peter Halliday, Susan Hampshire {as Andromeda}, Noel Johnson, Mary Morris, Claude Farell, John Hollis, David Saire, Heather Emmanuel, Barry Linehan, David King, Walter Gotell, Assad Obeid, Arnold Yarrow, Jean Robinson, Maurice Hedley, Geoffrey Lewis, Philip Latham, Norman Scace, Earl Cameron, Jeffrey Gardiner, Tony Cyrus, Miki Iveria, Frank Henderson, Silent Era star Bessie Love & archive footage of Julie Christie {as Andromeda}
Sinister Cinema color DVD-R [9/2011] for $8.99 full credits at IMDb • series entry at Wikipedia "Andromeda Breakthrough: A Prophetic Novel of Tomorrow's Universe" [1964] by Fred Hoyle & John Elliot Fawcett Crest mass pb [1967] out of print/40+ used Corgi Books mass pb [1966] out of print/used Harper & Row 8¼x5½ hardcover [1/64] out of print/used |
 | "The Andromeda Anthology" [BBC Home Video 2006] The 7-episode "A For Andromeda" first season is a composite of still photos & surviving video & audio clips, the complete Episode 6, and about 15 minutes of Episode 7; the 6-episode "Andromeda Breakthrough" sequel season has survived intact BBC Home Video Region 2 color DVD set [2006] 3 disks - imported/scarce in PAL format only BBC Home Video Region 2 color DVD set [2006] 3 disks - imported/scarce in PAL format only |
"A For Andromeda" TV movie [BBC-TV March 2006]
 | 90-minute TV movie with the same basic plot as the TV series: Scientists decode a message from Deep Space that tells them how to build an advanced computer which provides intructions for building an android . . . • Co-produced & adapted by Richard Fell from the 1960s TV series; directed by John Strickland; starring Tom Hardy, Charlie Cox, Kelly Reilly {dual role as Christine Jones & Andromeda}, Jane Asher, David Haig, Colin Stinton, Robert Gill, Thushani Weerasekera, Janet Spencer-Turner, David Maybrick
BBC Home Video Region 2 color DVD [11/2006] for $18.86 in PAL format only full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia • watch official trailer [3/2019 upload; 1:16] online at YouTube |
"The Adventures of Sam Space" in 3-D [Volcano/Dimension/Fox Sept 1960]
 | 9-minute widescreen 3-D puppet cartoon; aka "Space Attack"; produced in 1953, not released until 1960, accompanying the late 3-D feature film "September Storm" • Co-written & directed by Paul Sprunck; co-produced & co-written by Arthur C. Pierce; voices by Paul Frees
available on Blu-ray on Flicker Alley's "3-D Rarities" [3-D Film Archive 2015] 147-minute Flicker Alley mostly-b&w compilation on Blu-ray [6/2015] for $39.95 full credits at IMDb • watch 8/2016 promo video in 3-D [1:09] online at YouTube watch full short in 3-D [1/2011 upload 9:19] online at YouTube |
"Alien" movies franchise
'Alien' franchise entry at Wikipedia
"Alien" [#1 = 1979] = see above
"Aliens" sequel [#2 = 1986] = see above
"Alien 3" sequel [#3 = 1992]
"Alien: Resurrection" sequel [#4 = 1997]
"Alien vs. Predator" [2004]
"Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem" [2007]
fifth "Alien" film [#5 = in development for 2018?]
"Prometheus" prequel [Fox 2012] /tt1446714/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(2012_film)
"Alien: Covenant" second prequel [Fox opening May 2017?]
directed by Ridley Scott; starring Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, Billy Crudup, Amy Seimetz,
Jussie Smollett, Carmen Ejogo, Callie Hernandez • watch 12/2016 official red-band trailer [2:13] online at YouTube
"Alphaville" [May 1965]
Set in a distant, dystopian future controlled by a sentient cloud-like dictatorial computer named Alpha 60
Jean-Luc Godard's science fiction and film noir thriller stars veteran tough guy Eddie Constantin, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
http://www.rialtopictures.com/alphaville.html
Gene Roddenberry's "Andromeda" [Sci-Fi Channel 2000-2005]
 
| 110 episodes over 5 seasons, filmed in Vancouver, BC, Canada; the show's premise was pieced together by Majel Barrett from various notes that Gene Roddenberry [1921-91] had written in 1976; Captain Dylan Hunt and the crew of Andromeda Ascendant set out on a mission to rebuild the Systems Commonwealth 300 years after its fall • Series developed & co-produced by Robert Hewitt Wolfe; produced by Majel Barrett, Kevin Sorbo, Robert Simmonds, many others; also starring Kevin Sorbo {as Captain Dylan Hunt}, Lexa Doig {as Andromeda Ascendant}, Lisa Ryder, Laura Bertram, Gordon Michael Woolvett, Keith Hamilton Cobb, Steve Bacic, Brent Stait, Brandy Ledford, Jim Byrnes, Janyse Jaud, Carmen Moore, Rik Kiviaho, Nicholas Lea, Robert Saunders, Alex Diakun, Gerard Plunkett, Dena Ashbaugh, John Tench, Elizabeth Thai, Darrin Klimek, Michael Ironside, Hiro Kanagawa, Krista Rae, Sam Sorbo, Chi Lam, Maury Chaykin, William Katt, Costas Mandylor, Venus Terzo, Nia Peeples, Enuka Okuma, Peter DeLuise, Blu Mankuma
series credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia Complete Series: Reeltime Pictures all-regions color Blu-ray set [2/2018] 25 disks for $59.94 Complete Collection: LionsGate Home Ent. color DVD set [2/2019] 24 disks for $49.96 Slipstream Collection: A.D.V. Films widescreen color DVD set [10/2006] 50 disks - out of prodn/used "Andromeda: The High Guard Handbook - Seasons 1 & 2" [2003] by Gareth Wigmore Contender Ent. Group 9½x7¼ pb [4/2003] out of print/used there are six novelizations by several authors, 2003-2005 search for 'Andromeda' books at Amazon |
"The Angry Red Planet" [1959] /tt0052564/
 | "The Arrival" [Orion/Live Ent. May 1996] Filmed in Mexico and California; radio astronomer Zane discovers evidence that aliens have already arrived on Earth; his efforts to alert officials are blocked by aliens-as-humans . . . • Written & directed by David Twohy; starring Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Crouse, Richard Schiff, Ron Silver, Teri Polo, Phyllis Applegate LionsGate widescreen color Blu-ray [4/2009] for $7.10 Live/Artisan widescreen color DVD [1997] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailer [10/2012 upload; 1:55] online at YouTube |
 | "Arrival II" aka "The Second Arrival" [Taurus 7/Live Ent. Nov 1998] "The battle for Earth has begun" • Astronomer Zane is found dead and five people, including Zane's brother, receive envelopes containing details about the alien invasion • Directed by Kevin Tenney; written by Mark David Perry; starring Patrick Muldoon, Jane Sibbett, Michael Sarrazin, Catherine Blythe, Michael Scherer, Larry Day, Steve Adams, Emidio Michetti, Stéphane Blanchette separate DVD/Blu-ray not available • Amazon Instant Video [4/2016] rental $3.99, purchase $9.99 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailer [4/2013 upload; 1:11] online at YouTube |
 | "The Arrival / The Arrival II" double feature on DVD [1999] LionsGate widescreen color DVD [5/99] for $6.55 Live / Artisan widescreen color DVD [5/99] for $17.00 |
"Arrival" [Paramount Pictures Nov 2016]
 | Several giant art objects appear and hover in the air above ground; the government gathers an elite team to investigate, including a female linguist • Directed by Denis Villeneuve; co-produced & adapted by Eric Heisserer, from a short story by Ted Chiang; starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mark O'Brien, Tzi Ma
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 8/2016 TV ad [1:00] at YouTube |
"Bad Channels" [video June 1992] with music by Blue Öyster Cult
"Bad Girls From Mars"
[American Independent Prodns video release Jan 1990]
 | Somebody is killing off the lead actresses of the B-movie 'Bad Girls From Mars' so casting agents refuse to send new girls; the producers are making lots of money from the insurance, so they hire actress Emanuelle from France, who likes to party . . . • Co-produced, co-written & directed by Fred Olen Ray; co-produced by Grant Austin Waldman; co-written by Mark Thomas McGee; starring Edy Williams, Oliver Darrow, Brinke Stevens, Jay Richardson, Jeffrey Culver, Bob Ruth, Dana Bentley, Jasae, Al Bordighi, Jerry Miller
LionsGate color DVD [3/2005] for $9.99 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailer [3/2010 upload; 1:21] online at YouTube |
"Beyond The Time Barrier" [1960] directed by Edgar G. Ulmer /tt0053651/
"Blame !" {pron. 'blam'} animé webcast [Anime Works 2003]
 | 6-episode original net animation, with a seventh episode included on the {Region 2?} DVD release; countless armies of machines build and build, swallowing up the Earth within the intricate steel and concrete levels of the Megastructure, while the goal of the Silicon Creatures is to invade the Netsphere and eradicate all organics; humans have found a disc salvaged by the engineer Cibo that contains information that might allow restoration of order and peace to the world. Produced by John Sirabella; directed by Shintaro Inokawa; based on the anime comics of Tsutomu Nihei; featuring Asuka Aizawa {all female voices}, Tatsunori Arakawa {all male voices}, Kirsten Potter 37-minute Anime Works widescreen color DVD [5/2005] for $14.22 37-minute Anime Works widescreen color DVD [5/2005] out of prodn/used bare credits at IMDb • |
"Blame !" {pron. 'blam'} animé feature film [Kôdansha/Netflix May 2017]
 | In the distant future, The City declares humans 'illegal residents' and murderous robots hunt them to near-extinction. One day, a group of human scavengers come across a strange man named Killy, who may be the key to humanity's survival. NEWS June 2017: the Netflix original movie will have a sequel, which is 'already in the works' • Directed by Hiroyuki Seshita; screenplay by Sadayuki Murai; Japanese voices by Takahiro Sakurai, Kana Hanazawa, Sora Amamiya, Mamoru Miyano, Aya Suzaki, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Yuki Kaji, Koutarou Nishiyama, Nanako Mori, Kazuhiro Yamaji, Ayane Sakura, Tasuku Hatanaka, Daiki Yamashita, Shôta Chônan, Daisuke Takahashi, Saori Hayami; English voices by Kyle McCarley, Cristina Valenzuela, Christine Marie Cabanos, Keith Silverstein, Bryce Papenbrook, Johnny Yong Bosch, Brian Beacock, Reba Buhr, Cass-andra Lee Morris, Douglas Cavum, Darrel Guilbeau, Kira Buckland, Michael McConnohie
Warner Bros. widescreen color Blu-ray [3/2018] for $23.74 Warner Bros. widescreen color DVD [3/2018] for $18.96 full credits at IMDb • Japanese official movie website • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 3/2017 Japanese official trailer [1:44] online at YouTube • watch full movie [12/2017 upload; 1:46:00] online at YouTube |
"Blame !" manga comics by Tsutomo Nihei
The original manga comics version was published in ten volumes from 6/1998 to 9/2003 (English 8/2005 to 11/2007) and then re-published
as 6-volume Master Editions in April-June 2015 (English 9/2016 to 12/2017) • manga series entry at Wikipedia
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ME book 1: Kindle Edition from Kodansha [9/2016] for $9.99
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"Brain From Planet Arous" [Oct 1957]
"Brave New World"
"Brave New World" novel [1932] by Aldous Huxley [1894-1963]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World
"Brave New World Revisited" [1958] by Aldous Huxley [1894-1963]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#Brave_New_World_Revisited
"Brave New World" TV movie [1980] /tt0080468/ starring Keir Dullea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World_(1980_film)
"Brave New World" TV movie [1998] /tt0145600/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World_(1998_film)
"Brave New World" TV movie [2011] /tt1830515/
"Brave New World" short [2014] /tt4183310/
"Brave New World" 9 episode TV series [Amblin/NBCUniversal July 2020] /tt9814116/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World_(2020_TV_series)
"Brick Bradford: Amazing Soldier of Fortune" 15-chapter serial
[Columbia Pictures Dec 1947]
 | The Brick Bradford character began as a daily & Sunday comic strip [1933-87] by William Ritt & Clarence Gray, later taken over by Paul Norris; stories were also published among the Big Little Book series (circa 1934) and as comic books (circa 1938-1948); this is the only Brick Bradford movie made, and it has Brick and girlfriend June travel to the backside of the Moon to prevent the villain from activating a death ray that could obliterate life on Earth. Chapter Titles: 1. Atomic Defense, 2. Flight To The Moon, 3. Prisoners of The Moon, 4. Into The Volcano, 5. Bradford At Bay, 6. Back To Earth, 7. Into Another Century, 8. Buried Treasure, 9. Trapped In The Time Top, 10. The Unseen Hand, 11. Poison Gas, 12. Door of Disaster, 13. Sinister Rendezvous, 14. River of Revenge, and 15. For The Peace of The World • Produced by Sam Katzman; directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet & Thomas Carr; screenplay George H. Plympton, Arthur Hoerl & Lewis Clay; starring Kane Richmond, Rick Vallin, Linda Leighton/Linda Johnson, Pierre Watkin, Charles Quigley, Jack Ingram, Fred Graham, John Merton, Leonard Penn, Wheeler Oakman, Carol Forman, Charles King, John Hart, Helene Stanley, Robert Barron, Stanley Blystone, George DeNormand, Frank Ellis, Nelson Leigh, Al Ferguson, Noel Neill, Stanley Price, Marshall Reed, Gene Roth
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • serial entry at Wikipedia watch all 15 chapters [5/2015 uploads] online at YouTube |
"Captain Video, Master of The Stratosphere" 15-chapter serial
[Columbia Pictures Dec 1951]
 | Theatrical serial spun off from the 1949-55 TV series with a different cast; space hero Captain Video and his Rangers battle the evil interplanetary menace Vultura from the planet Atoma, who is helped by the traitorous Earth scientist Dr. Tobor • Chapter Titles: 1. Journey Into Space; 2. Menace To Atoma; 3. Captain Video's Peril; 4. Entombed In Ice; 5. Flames of Atoma; 6. Astray In The Atmosphere; 7. Blasted By The Atomic Eye; 8. Invisible Menace; 9. Video Springs A Trap; 10. Menace of The Mystery Metal; 11. Weapons of Destruction; 12. Robot Rocket; 13. Mystery of Station X; 14. Vengeance of Vultara; and 15. Video vs. Vultara • Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet & Wallace Grissell; starring Judd Holdren, Larry Stewart, George Eldredge, Don C. Harvey & Gene Roth
V.C.I. Ent. Cliffhanger Collection 'digitally mastered & restored' b&w DVD [8/2005] 2 disks for $10.99 full credits from IMDb • serial entry at Wikipedia |
"Cat-Women of The Moon" [Sept 1953] /tt0045609/
'Love-starved moon maidens on the prowl!'
"The Circle" [S.T.X./EuropaCorp April 2017]
 | "Knowing is good. Knowing everything is better." • Filmed around San Francisco, California and around Los Angeles, California; a young girl lands a dream job at a powerful tech company, only to uncover a nefarious agenda that will affect the lives of her friends, family, and that of humanity • Co-produced, co-written & directed by James Ponsoldt; co‑written by Dave Eggers, based on his novel; music by Danny Elfman; technical consultant Jaron Lanier; starring Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega, Karen Gillan, Glenne Headly, Bill Paxton, Ellar Coltrane, Patton Oswalt, musician Beck, Nate Corddry, Mamoudou Athie
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailers online at YouTube: 12/2016 trailer #1 [1:50] • 2/2017 trailer #2 [2:40] |
 | "The Circle" novel [2013 bestseller] by Dave Eggers All that we'll say here is that the book and movie have quite different endings . . . Kindle Edition from Vintage/Random House [10/2013] for $9.99 Vintage Books 8x5¼ pb [4/2014] for $9.52 Hamish Hamilton Ltd. pb [10/2013] import/used Knopf 8¾x6½ hardcover [10/2013] for $18.30 book entry at Wikipedia |
"Colossal" [2016?] /tt4680182/
Announced 9/2016: This sci-fi feature film directed by Nacho Vigalondo and starring Anne Hathaway & Jason Sudeikis was shown at the Toronto Film Festival;
C.A.A. and producer Voltage Pictures sold the U.S. distribution rights to 'an unspecified Chinese-based media company'.
"Coneheads" segments on NBC-TV's "Saturday Night Live"
Began as comedy sketches on "SNL" that ran from January 1977 to February 1979; starred Dan Aykroyd as father Beldar, Jane Curtin as mother Prymaat, and Laraine Newman as daughter Connie; the premise was that the strange-looking and strange-behaving family from another planet was accepted in America by saying that they were from France • entry at Wikipedia
"Coneheads" animated TV show [Rankin/Bass/NBC-TV 1983]
 | 23-minute pilot for proposed animated TV series which did not sell • Directed by Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin Jr.; written by Al Franken & Tom Davis; featuring voices of Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, Bob McFadden, Cynthia Adler, Tom Davis
Warner Home Video color VHS [7/93] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb |
"Coneheads" feature film [Paramount Pictures July 1993]
 | Beldar and Prymaat Conehead are accidentally ditched on Earth and try to live a quiet life in suburban America; they produce a daughter who grows to a teenager while the family tries to avoid immigration agents • Co-produced by Lorne Michaels; directed by Steve Barron; written by Tom Davis, Dan Aykroyd, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner; starring Dan Aykroyd as father Beldar, Jane Curtin as mother Prymaat, Michelle Burke as daughter Connie, Laraine Newman as Aunt Laarta; also starring Whip Hubley, Michael Richards, Eddie Griffin, Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Adam Sandler, David Spade, Rosa Maria Briz, Michael McKean, Cooper Layne, Sarah Anne Levy, Drew Carey, Shishir Kurup, Terry Turner, McNally Sagal, Richard Comar, Jason Alexander, Lisa Jane Persky, Joey Lauren Adams, Parker Posey, Chris Farley, Julia Sweeney, Ellen DeGeneres, Walter Robles, Sam Freed, Garrett Morris, Dave Thomas, Peter Aykroyd, Laurence Bilzerian, Tom Arnold, with archive footage of Leonard Nimoy & William Shatner
Warner Bros. Home Video color DVD [4/2017] for $5.99 Warner Bros. Home Video color DVD [4/2001] for $16.45 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Contact" [1997]
Directed by Robert Zemeckis; based on the New York Times bestseller by Carl Sagan; starring Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, John Hurt
"Cosmic Voyage" [Mosfilm Jan 1936]
also known as "Kosmicheskii Reis", "Space Voyage", and "Cosmic Journey"
 | Silent film with Russian/Cyrillic text & intertitles, English subtitles; a scientist becomes impatient with the bureaucrats at the Russian Space Institute, so he builds his own rocket spacecraft and takes a woman scientist and a boy with him to the Moon . . . • Directed by Vasily Zhuravlyov; written by Aleksandr Filimonov, based on a novel by scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (who is credited as 'technical advisor/consultant'); starring Sergey Komarov, K. Moskalenko, Vassili Gaponenko, Nikolay Feoktistov, Vasili Kovrigin, Andrey Karasyov, Sergei Stolyarov
Video Dimensions b&w DVD [9/2011] for $15.95 full credits at IMDb • watch full movie [1/2016 upload; 1:05:14] online at YouTube |
"The Day It Came To Earth" " [Nov 1977]
Mafia goons dump a dead body in a lake, a meteor from outer space lands in the lake, and local teens decide to go for a swim . . .
"Der Herr Der Welt (Master of The World)" [Germany 1934]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_the_World_(1934_film)
"Devil Girl From Mars" [British Lion UK May 1954, USA April 1955]
 | A female commander (dressed in shiny vinyl) is sent from Mars to London to capture males to prevent the dying of her race; her spacecraft collides with an airplane over Scotland and crash lands, so she and her robot Chandi try to recruit males at a local pub . . . • Directed by David MacDonald; screenplay by James Eastwood, based on the stageplay by himself & John C. Mather; starring Patricia Laffan {as alien Nyah}, Hugh McDermott, Hazel Court, Peter Reynolds, Adrienne Corri, Joseph Tomelty, John Laurie, Sophie Stewart, Anthony Richmond, James Edmond, Stewart Hibberd & Larry Aten {as robot Chandi}
Osiris Ent. b&w DVD-R [3/2010] for $6.98 DigiComTV b&w DVD [10/2016] for $12.99 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailer [2/2010 upload; 1:46] online at YouTube watch full movie [9/2016 upload; 1:16:17] online at YouTube |
"Doomsday Machine" aka "Escape From Planet Earth" [1972] /tt0061592/
"Dune" [1984]
Directed by David Lynch; starring Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis, Kenneth McMillan
"Dune" Novels & Movies Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
"The Encounter" [indep festival circuit 2018]
 | 13-minute animated short about a rookie federal agent who wants to chase down a U.F.O. and get proof of the encounter • Written & directed by Thomas DeCarlo; starring Zachary Spicer (voice)
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • credits at IMDb • official movie site watch 3/2018 official trailer [1:10] at Vimeo |
"The Encounter" aka "Transcience" [2019]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt8269120/fullcredits/
http://www.gspstudios.co.uk/gspfilms/transience/
"Ender’s Game" by Orson Scott Card
"Equals" [DirecTV/A24 July 2016]
 | Filmed in Singapore & Japan; science fiction romance in a dystopian/utopian future where feelings are forbidden. • Exec producer Ridley Scott; co-written & directed by Drake Doremus; co-written by Nathan Parker; starring Nicholas Hoult, Kristen Stewart, Guy Pearce, and Jacki Weaver DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailers at YouTube: 2/2016 trailer #1 [2:22] • 4/2016 trailer #2 [4:41] |
"Escape From Planet Earth" animated movie [2013] /tt0765446/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkJXlIPPYe0 [2:29]
"Fahrenheit 451" feature film
[Universal France Sept 1966, USA Nov 1966]
"Fahrenheit 451" feature [H.B.O. Films for 2018?]
Announced for 2007 release, then for 2012 as a planned Castle Rock / Frank Darabont project; UPDATE 4/2017: HBO Films will adapt Ray Bradbury’s classic novel
"Fahrenheit 451" starring Michael B. Jordan & Michael Shannon, while Ramin Bahrani is attached to co-write and direct the film •
latest info at IMDb
"Fantastic Planet (La Planète Sauvage)" [Dec 1973] /tt0070544/
Co-written & directed by René Laloux, co-written by Roland Topor; based on the novel by Stefan Wul
watch official trailer [6/2007 upload; 2:17] online at YouTube
"Flash Gordon" [est. 1934]
The "Flash Gordon" daily comic strip was filmed as very successful movie serials in 1936 and 1938 and 1940; each serial was also edited down to feature length
for release in foreign markets. A feature film attempted to re-boot the franchise in 1980, an animated TV series was broadcast in 2007-2008, and most recently,
there is a "Flash Gordon" feature film in development.
 | "The Complete Adventures of Flash Gordon" on DVD [2013] contains 13-chapter "Flash Gordon" serial [1936]; 15-chapter "Flash Gordon’s Trip To Mars" serial [1938]; 12-chapter "Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe" serial [1940]; and a gorgeously-illustrated booklet covering Flash’s multimedia odyssey with original Alex Raymond cartoons Madacy Records b&w DVD set [4/2013] 4 disks - out of prodn/used |
more details (synopses, sequels, radio, stageplay, books & ebooks, links, merchandise) on
"Flash Gordon" Comics & Movies & TV Page at Magic Lantern
"Flight To Mars" [Monogram Pictures Nov 1951]
 | 'Fifty years into the future!" • Filmed in CineColor; a five-man expedition by rocket to the planet Mars discovers a seem-ingly-human underground civilization; the Martians are dying out, so the government plots to imprison the Earthians and use their rocketship to conquer Earth; but sympathetic Martians rescue the Earthians and join them on the trip back to Earth • Directed by Lesley Selander; screenplay by Arthur Strawn; starring Cameron Mitchell, Marguerite Chapman, Arthur Franz, Virginia Huston, John Litel, Morris Ankrum, Richard Gaines, Lucille Barkley, Robert Barrat, Wilbur Back, Trevor Bardette, David Bond, Raymond Bond, Tristram Coffin, Russ Conway, Edward Earle, William Forrest, Everett Glass
Image Ent. color DVD [5/2002] for $34.93 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia • watch official trailer [10/2013 upload; 2:12] online at YouTube |
"Forbidden Planet" [M.G.M. March 1956]
 | Filmed in CinemaScope; a distant space colony goes silent and a starship crew is sent to investigate; they find only two survivors and a deadly secret . . . Directed by Fred M. Wilcox; screenplay by Cyril Hume, based on adaptation by Irving Block & Allen Adler of Wm. Shakespeare's 1611 stageplay "The Tempest"; narrated by Les Tremayne; with Frankie Darro uncredited as Robby the Robot & Marvin Miller uncredited as Robby's voice; starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly, Richard Anderson, Earl Holliman, James Drury & James Best; Oscar nom for Best Special Effects (won by "Ten Commandments"}
Warner Home Video digitally-restored widescreen color Blu-ray [9/2010] for $12.30 Warner Home Video digitally-restored widescreen color DVD [12/2010] for $8.76 Warner Home Video color DVD [4/2000] for $14.99 Warner Home Video color VHS [8/94] for $7.00 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"The Invisible Boy" sequel [M.G.M. Oct 1957] /tt0050546/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisible_Boy
 |
"Forbidden Planet" Two-Disc 50th Anniversary Edition on DVD & Blu-ray contains both digitally-restored "Forbidden Planet" and sequel "The Invisible Boy"; extras include theatrical trailers, outtakes, TV excerpts, 3 documentary featurettes, plus Richard Schickel's 2005 TV movie "Watch The Skies" Warner Home Video 50th Anniv Edition widescreen color Blu-ray [9/2010] for $9.19 Warner Home Video 50th Anniv Edition widescreen color DVD [11/2006] 2 disks for $22.19 |
"Future World" [indep 2017?]
Announced 5/2016: Story by, co-produced & co-directed by & starring James Franco; co-written & co-directed by Bruce Thierry Cheung;
co-written by Jeremy Cheung & Jay Davis; also starring Milla Jovovich • latest info at IMDb
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