Hello folks,
As a great fan of movies, I thought it would be nice to list
some of the time travel movies that I have seen. I will try to
comment upon each one. If I say I've seen it but forgot it, you
may be assured that it is forgettable.
I also offer links to BigStar.com
where you could buy the video or Laserdisc. Some of the movies
are overpriced but I don't think this is BigStar's fault. Many
are reasonably priced between $10-$15. Many TV series are under
$10. I think this may be comparable or even cheaper than most
video stores on the net, although I have not explored that. It's
definitely better than buying through live video stores.
When I recommend a movie, this does not mean that I recommend
that you pay over $40 for it. My comments and recommendations
are in italics after BigStar's review.
12 Monkeys (1995)
Director: Terry Gilliam Star: Bruce Willis Brad Pitt Madeleine Stowe Christopher Plummer
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Post-Apocalypse Science-Fiction Time Travel
Illness
When a man enters a hospital claiming to havejourneyed back in time from
the year 2025 to stop a killer virus from exterminating mankind, a beautiful
psychologist decides he might be more than delusional.
Terry Gilliam populates this labyrinthine, apocalyptic film with twisted
characters and eerie revelations.
The Signature Laserdisc includes a feature ont he film's making.
Academy Award Nominations: 2, including Best Supporting Actor--Brad Pitt.
VHS (Letter Boxed) 130 Minutes | Universal Studios Home Video | HiFi Sound |
SurroundSound | Digital Sound | Stereo Sound Rating: R (MPAA)
(Great time travel. addresses paradoxes)
The Arrival(1990)
Director: David Schmoeller
Star: John Saxon Joseph Culp Robin Frates Robert Sampson Michael J.
Pollard
Related Categories: Horror/Suspense Horror Science-Fiction Time
Travel
An extraterrestrial event triggers a strange transformation in
73-year-old Max. His health problems disappear and his doctors are
amazed. An alien power starts making him younger and younger, and
hungrier and hungrier.
(Actually I have not seen this one but would like to)
Back to the Future (1985)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Star: Michael J. Fox Christopher Lloyd Lea Thompson Crispin Glover
Thomas F. Wilson
Related Categories: Comedies Action Adventure Comedy Classic
Family Interaction Science-Fiction Time Travel Recommended
Nostalgic
When a mad scientist's time machine sends a
teenager 30 years into the past he meets his
parents, still in high school. If he can't
influence them to fall in love, he might never
exist! A fast-moving and heart-warming
comedy. Academy Award Nominations: 4,
including Best Song ("Power of Love").
Academy Awards: Sound Effects Editing.
(Fun movie, addresses paradoxes)
Back to the Future 2 (1989)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Star: Michael J. Fox Christopher Lloyd Lea Thompson Thomas F. Wilson
Elisabeth Shue
Related Categories: Comedies Action Adventure Comedy
Science-Fiction Time Travel Recommended
Marty and Doc fix the McFly family in the year
2015 only to find new wrinkles back home in
Hill Valley, 1985, which forces them to go
back to 1955 to fix the future. Whew!
Academy Award Nominations: Best Visual
Effects.
Time-traveling Marty McFly propels himself
into the year 2015 in order to keep his future
son from going to prison. But while there, he
commits a careless error that threatens to
disrupt the precarious balance of the
space-time continuum. What follows is a
dizzying chase back and forth through nearly
seven decades in an attempt to set events
back into their proper order. And many of the
scenes from the first film are revisited, only
this time from a slightly different point of
view.
VHS
108 Minutes | Universal Studios Home Video | HiFi Sound | Surround
Sound | Digital Sound | Stereo Sound | CX Encoding | Digitally
Processed | Closed captioned
Rating: PG (MPAA)
(Not as good as first. If you see this one, you have to see #3 to be complete)
Back to the Future 3 (1990)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Star: Michael J. Fox Christopher Lloyd Mary Steenburgen Thomas F.
Wilson Elisabeth Shue
Related Categories: Comedies Action Adventure Comedy
Science-Fiction Time Travel Recommended
Stranded in 1955, Marty must now travel to
1855 to rescue Doc Brown. Surviving Indian
attacks and unfriendly townsfolk, its up to
Marty to grab the love-struck Doc, leave the
wild west and get back to the future.
In this third and final entry in the "Back to the
Future" series, loopy "Doc" Brown, the creator
of the time-traveling DeLorean, goes back to
1885 -- the heyday of the Old West, and his
favorite era -- where he falls in love with a
beautiful school teacher. Marty must rescue
the good doctor, however, when he learns that
the treacherous Mad Dog Tannen, leader of the
rascally Tannen gang, is gunning for Doc --
and the yellow-bellied coward won't hesitate
to shoot him in the back. Because of his
newfound romance, however, Brown doesn't
want to leave. Can Marty find a way to bring Doc's love back to the
future without destroying the pattern of time?
VHS
118 Minutes | Universal Studios Home Video | HiFi Sound | Surround
Sound | Digital Sound | Stereo Sound | Digitally Processed | Closed
captioned
Rating: PG (MPAA)
(#2 and #3 are not recommendable but anyone who likes
time travel probably has to see them)
Beyond the Time Barrier (1959)
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Star: Robert Clarke
Featured: Darlene Tompkins
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Futuristic Mutants
Post-Apocalypse Science-Fiction Time Travel Vintage War
A jet pilot in the '50s breaks through the time barrier and into World
War III America, crowded with mutants and plagued by a deadly virus.
(I forgot this one)
Biggles (1985)
Director: John Hough
Star: Neil Dickson Alex Hyde-White Peter Cushing
Featured: Fiona Hutchinson
Related Categories: Action/Adventure Adventure Time Travel World
War I When an ordinary "80's man" is inexplicably transported
back in time to World War I, he, along with a British pilot
and an elderly man, has a chance to alter the course of history.
AKA "Biggles: Adventures in Time."
(Fun adventure. Does not address paradoxes)
Crossworlds (1997)
Director: Krishna Rao
Star: Rutger Hauer Josh Charles Stuart Wilson Andrea Roth
Screenwriter: Krishna Rao Raman Rao
Producer: Rupert Harvey Lloyd Segan
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Adventure Aliens
Fantasy Science-Fiction Time Travel Self-Discovery Good Vs. Evil
A young man finds himself in the middle of a universal battle between
good and evil when he sets up residence in a transdimensional valley.
Only his father's mysterious crystal pendant and its lost matching
scepter can guarantee victory. Stunning visual effects.
VHS
91 Minutes | Trimark Home Video | HiFi Sound | Surround Sound |
Stereo Sound | Closed captioned
Rating: PG-13 (MPAA)
(Not time travel as much as transdimensional travel)
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure(1989)
Director: Stephen Herek
Star: Keanu Reeves Alex Winter George Carlin Robert V. Barron Terry
Camilleri Clifford David Al Leong Rod Loomis Dan Shor Tony Steedman
Jane Wiedlin John "Fee" Waybill
Related Categories: Comedies Adventure Buddies Comedy Teenage
Time Travel
The excitement and fun begin when a trio of
interplanetary rulers dispatch a cool hipster
from the 27th century to send two teenage
boys - who should have been studying history
instead of playing rock music - on a trip
through time and history.
Before meeting Socrates' Bill and Ted read up
on his philosophy, " 'The only true wisdom
consists of knowing that you know nothing.'
That's us dude." "Oh. Yeah." -- Bill to Ted (Alex
Winter and Keanu Reeves, respectively)
Two brain-dead California teenagers, with a
combined vocabulary of approximately 75
words, travel back in time to corral various
historical figures for a class presentation
that just might keep the pair from failing history "most heinously."
Napoleon, Socrates, Billy The Kid, Sigmund Freud and Mozart are among
those who journey forward in time with the duo in order to give the
youth of California eye-witness accounts of the "awesome" pageant
that is world history. Most excellent.
(Fun, and some original and imaginative time travel tricks near the end)
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
Director: Peter Hewitt
Star: Keanu Reeves Alex Winter George Carlin William Sadler Joss
Ackland
Related Categories: Comedies Afterlife Buddies Comedy Teenage
Time Travel Hell Recommended Devil/Demons
After miraculously graduating San Dimas high
school, Bill and Ted are preparing for a battle
of the bands. But somewhere in the future the
evil De Nomolos creates identical Bill and Ted
robots to kill the originals, take their place
and lose the contest. Bill and Ted must dodge
Death and fulfill their most resplendent
destiny.
"Excellent!" -- Bill (Alex Winter)
"Bogus!" -- Ted (Keanu Reeves)
"Excellent!" -- Ted (Keanu Reeves)
"Bogus!" -- Bill (Alex Winter)
One of the film's advertising tag-lines was:
"Once... they made history. Now... they are history!"
This time out, our two vacuous but loveable teenagers are thrown off a
cliff and sent to Hell, where they are tortured with a succession of
stylishly realized nightmares. The duo need to escape the fires of
Hades in enough time to make it to the "battle of the bands" their rock
group has entered. In order to free themselves they engage the "Grim
Reaper" in a gut-wrenching series of contests testing the limits of
human discipline and intelligence. Victorious, they return to Earth to
battle the pair of evil robotic doubles who originally killed them, and
have since taken their places -- wreaking havoc with the dudes'
personal lives.
(Not as inspired as first.)
Freejack (1992)
Director: Geoff Murphy
Star: Emilio Estevez Mick Jagger Rene Russo Anthony Hopkins David
Johansen Amanda Plummer Jerry Hall
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Futuristic Death
Science-Fiction Time Travel On-The-Run Murder
In 2009, the world is polluted, the hole in the
Ozone layer and the financial gulf between
society's "haves" and "have nots" is so large
that the rich must search the past to find
healthy young bodies to replace their own.
When Furlong, a race car driver, dies and
leaves his body intact, he becomes a candidate
for this psychic surgery. But he escapes and
runs for his life.
An action drama set in the year 2009. A race
car driver who is about to die in a crash in
1991, suddenly finds himself alive and
transported to the future. But his troubles
aren't over: a wealthy man on the verge of
death needs the driver's body to stay alive --
and he'll stop at nothing to get it.
VHS
110 Minutes | Warner Home Video | HiFi Sound | Surround Sound |
Digital Sound | Stereo Sound | Digitally Processed | Closed
captioned
Rating: R (MPAA)
(Fun. The paradoxes are not addressed . Mick is Great)
Grand Tour - Disaster in Time (1992)
Director: David Twohy
Star: Jeff Daniels Emilia Crow Ariana Richards Jim Haynie Nicholas
Guest Marilyn Lightstone George Murdock
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Action Adventure
Disaster Science-Fiction Time Travel
When a group of mysterious thrill-seekers
arrive in the 20th century to witness a full
scale disaster, an intrepid innkeeper makes an
attempt to stop the calamity.
(Good adventure. A few interesting paradoxes)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Director: Harold Ramis
Star: Chris Elliott Bill Murray Stephen Tobolowsky Andie MacDowell
Related Categories: Comedies Comedy Classic Romance Time Travel
Self-Discovery Recommended Surreal
Frank Capra meets Rod Serling in this high
concept comedy that thoroughly follows
through on its premise. As a cynical
weatherman, Murray finds himself trapped by
a blizzard he failed to predict and doomed to
repeat the worst day of his life until he
discovers the key to moving his life forward.
VHS
101 Minutes | Columbia TriStar Home Video | HiFi Sound | Surround
Sound | Digital Sound | Stereo Sound | Digitally Processed | Closed
captioned
(Great fun. I've seen this movie many times. Over and over again <wink>
My theory would hold that each time he is thrust back into the past, he
creates a new time line. The fate of those other alternative lines is never
discussed.)
Iceman (1984)
Director: Fred Schepisi
Star: Timothy Hutton Lindsay Crouse John Lone Josef Sommer
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Prehistoric
Science-Fiction Suspense Thriller
When a team of scientists find a perfectly
preserved prehistoric man frozen in a block of
ice and manage to bring him back to life, the
results are both surprising and emotionally
shattering. The superb special effects makeup
was created by Academy Award winner
Michelle Burke.
A group of explorers on a remote expedition
make a startling discovery: a frozen
Neanderthal. Apparently, the specimen in
question has been on ice for 40,000 years.
Back in the lab, scientists and anthropologists
try to thaw him out -- but he warms up a bit
more than they expected him to...
VHS
101 Minutes | Universal Studios Home Video | Surround Sound |
Stereo Sound
Rating: PG (MPAA)
(Well acted, Well done. No paradoxes since it is just future travel)
The Langoliers (1995)
Director: Tom Holland
Star: Patricia Wettig Dean Stockwell David Morse Mark Lindsay
Chapman Frankie Faison Baxter Harris Kimber Riddle Christopher
Collet
Producer: David Kappes
Story: Stephen King
Screenwriter: Tom Holland
Related Categories: Horror/Suspense High Flying Horror Time Travel
Ten passengers on a red-eye flight from L.A.
to Boston fall hopelessly out of sync with
their own time. Based on the novella from
"Four Past Midnight" by Stephen King.
The latest in Steven King's adaptations for the
screen is "The Langoliers," a spooky yarn
about ten people on a plane who awake to find
that all of the passengers and crew are
missing. One of the ten survivors is a pilot,
and he manages to land the plane in Bangor,
Maine. Once on the ground, the passengers
discover that they are the only people on
earth. And things have changed: the food is
tasteless, the air has no scent, the beer is
flat, and nothing makes a sound... except for
the noises of the Langoliers -- tearing away
at the fiber of time!
VHS
180 Minutes | Republic Pictures Home Video | HiFi Sound | Stereo
Sound | Closed captioned
Rating: PG-13 (MPAA)
(Not time travel really, but does deal with odd notion of time)
Late for Dinner (1991)
Director: W.D. Richter
Star: Brian Wimmer Peter Berg Marcia Gay Harden Peter Gallagher
Colleen Flynn
Related Categories: Comedies Afterlife Buddies Comedy
Science-Fiction Slapstick Love Story
Sante Fe, 1960. An unemployed milkman and
his brother-in-law, trying to make ends meet,
end up in a gunfight. After fleeing the scene,
they end up in Los Angeles, where they become
guinea pigs in a cryogenics experiment. After
29 years of being frozen, the two are awoken
accidentally and must now attempt to cope
with the realities of America in the 1990's
and their middle-aged loved ones.
VHS
93 Minutes | Columbia TriStar Home Video | HiFi Sound | Stereo
Sound | Closed captioned
Rating: PG (MPAA)
(Well done. Nice love story. No paradoxes since it is just future travel)
Millennium (1989)
Director: Michael Anderson
Star: Kris Kristofferson Cheryl Ladd Daniel J. Travanti
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Science-Fiction
Suspense Thriller Time Travel
While investigating an airplane crash, a
government official meets a strange woman
who shares his passion and then vanishes. Her
true identity is entwined with the strange
object he has recovered from the wreckage
which she confiscates before vanishing in a
blaze of light before his eyes.
"The people aboard Flight 35 are about to land
1000 years from where they planned to." --
marketing line for the film
When investigator Bill Smith examines the
site where two airplanes crashed, he uncovers
a plot involving a mysterious woman who
claims to be from the future.
VHS
108 Minutes | Artisan Entertainment | HiFi Sound | Stereo Sound |
Closed captioned
Rating: PG-13 (MPAA)
(Weak)
Outer Limits - "Demon With a Glass Hand" (1964)
Star: Robert Culp Arlene Martel Abraham Sofaer
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Aliens Enemies Series
Classic Horror Science-Fiction Thriller Time Travel Television
Vintage TV
A man from the future escapes back into our
present, pursued by the Kyben, an alien race
which has conquered the Earth some 200 years
earlier. Considered an inspiration for "The
Terminator."
VHS
54 Minutes | MGM Home Entertainment | HiFi Sound
Rating: Not Rated
(Very good, but paradoxes ignored)
Outer Limits - "The Man Who Was Never Born" (1963)
Star: Martin Landau Shirley Knight
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Series Horror
Science-Fiction Time Travel Television Vintage TV
An astronaut travels through time far into the
future, where the bacterium invention of a
crazed, twentieth century scientist has
turned humans into mutants.
VHS
53 Minutes | MGM Home Entertainment | HiFi Sound
Rating: Not Rated
(Good one, man tries to insure that he will never be born. Paradoxes ignored)
Past Perfect (1997)
Director: Jonathan Heap
Star: Eric Roberts Nick Mancuso Saul Rubinek Laurie Holden Marcie
Mellish Mark Hildreth Emily Perkins Yee Jee Tso Tygh Runyan Peter
Hanlon Adam Mills Sean Amsing Amanda O'Leary Jared Blancard
Story: John Penney
Producer: James Shavick
Director of Photography: John Houtman
Composer: Christophe Beck
Costume Designer: Vicky Mulholland
Editor: Neil Grieve
Related Categories: Action/Adventure Action Mercenaries
Science-Fiction Thriller Time Travel Cops Lowlife
When the teenage street scum on his beat begin mysteriously turning
up dead, a jaded cop pieces it together: the perps are bounty hunters
sent back in time to nip future felons in the bud. But now he must
decide whether to intervene in the slayings or let the mercenaries
clean up his mean streets.
VHS
92 Minutes | Artisan Entertainment | Stereo Sound | Closed
captioned
Rating: R (MPAA) For strong violence, drug use, and language
(Forgettable)
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Star: Kathleen Turner Nicolas Cage Barry Miller Catherine Hicks
Maureen McVerry Helen Hunt Maureen O'Sullivan Joan Allen Kevin J.
O'Connor Barbara Harris Don Murray Leon Ames Sofia Coppola Jim
Carrey Lisa Jane Persky Lucinda Jenney Wil Shriner
Producer: Paul R. Gurian
Screenwriter: Jerry Leichting Arlene Sarner
Director of Photography: Jordan Cronenweth
Editor: Barry Malkin
Production Designer: Dean Tavoularis
Costume Designer: Theadora Van Runkle
Related Categories: Comedies Comedy Drama Romance Time Travel
Self-Discovery Recommended Nostalgic
An unhappy mother of two, considering
divorce from her weasel of a husband,
suddenly finds herself sent back in time to
the days when she was a teenager. Now
realizing she has the ability to rearrange her
future, she must decide where her true
happiness lies. Academy Award Nominations:
3, including Best Actress--Kathleen Turner.
Peggy Sue's had it up to here: her marriage
stinks, she's fed up with her kids, and she's
having a serious mid-life crisis. It doesn't
seem like a great time to have to attend her
high-school reunion and contemplate all those
youthful dreams that didn't come true. But at
the party Peggy Sue faints... and wakes up to
find herself 18 again, and free to take a
different route.
The offer's tempting -- but the cost of change could be more than
Peggy Sue wants to pay.
VHS
103 Minutes | Columbia TriStar Home Video | HiFi Sound | Closed
captioned
Rating: PG-13 (MPAA)
(Should appeal more to the "regret" crowd than time travel crowd.
Still, nicely done)
Planet of the Apes (1967)
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Star: Charlton Heston Roddy McDowall Kim Hunter Maurice Evans
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Classic Futuristic
Prison/Prisoners Nuclear Destruction Post-Apocalypse
Science-Fiction Space Exploration Switching Roles Thriller Time
Travel Recommended
Astronauts on a deep space expedition land on
an Earth-like planet only to find it ruled by
apes who treat humans like animals. Heston
holds up the banner of humanity with
much-appreciated bravado. Based on the novel
by Pierre Boulle with a screenplay co-written
by Rod Serling. Warning: Re-make is imminent!
Sequel: "Beneath the Planet of the Apes."
Academy Award Nominations: 2, Best Score,
Best Costume Design.
Complex sociological themes run through this
science-fiction classic, about three
astronauts marooned on a futuristic planet
where apes rule and humans are slaves...
The stunned trio discovers that these highly
intellectual simians can both walk upright and
talk. They have even established a class system and a political
structure. The astronauts suddenly find themselves part of a devalued
species, trapped and imprisoned by the apes. But one, Taylor, manages
to break out and, aided by a pair of compassionate chimps, makes his
escape to an uninhabited section of land. However, during the trek
Taylor makes a startling, unsettling discovery about the planet -- and
realizes he's come full circle...
(A classic and an interesting mockery of prejudice
but it's only at the end that we find out it's really a time
travel movie)
All of Quantum Leaps involve time travel. Most Quantum Leaps
are very well done. The following are not exceptional in that way.
Personally I enjoyed "Catch a Falling Star". Unless you have
lots of easy money you would be better off catching "Quantum Leaps"
on the Sci Fi channel Monday thru Thursday from 6PM to 7PM eastern time.
Quantum Leap - Catch a Falling Star - May 21, 1979 (1989)
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
Star: Scott Bakula Dean Stockwell
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Science-Fiction
Switching Roles Time Travel
Smack in the middle of a stage production of "Man of La Mancha," Sam
and Albert must find a way to save the play's star from making a
drunken spectacle of himself and ruining his life.
VHS
48 Minutes | Universal Studios Home Video | HiFi Sound | Digital
Sound | Stereo Sound | Digitally Processed | Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
Quantum Leap - Catch a Falling Star/What Price Gloria? (Laserdisc)(1989)
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Science-Fiction Time
Travel
Includes two episodes - "Catch a Falling Star" and "What Price Gloria?"
On laserdisc.
97 Minutes | Universal Studios Home Video | Digital Sound | Stereo
Sound | CX Encoding | Digitally Processed | Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
Quantum Leap - Dreams (1991)
Director: Michael Zinberg Joe Napolitano
Star: Scott Bakula Dean Stockwell David Newson Olivia Burnette
Andrea Thompson
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Science-Fiction
Switching Roles Time Travel
Dr. Sam leaps into the body of a homicide detective whose
investigation of a grisly murder unlocks a terrifying memory from his
past.
VHS
47 Minutes | Universal Studios Home Video | HiFi Sound | Digital
Sound | Stereo Sound | Digitally Processed | Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
Quantum Leap - Jimmy (1989)
Star: Scott Bakula Dean Stockwell
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Science-Fiction
Switching Roles Time Travel
Dr. Sam Beckett is faced with the difficult task of easing a mentally
retarded man into everyday society at a time when the mainstreaming
concept is still unaccepted. Leaping into the body of a man with the
mind of a twelve year-old, Sam witnesses a darker side of human
nature as well as the nobility of the human spirit in this
thought-provoking episode.
VHS
87 Minutes | Universal Studios Home Video | HiFi Sound | Digital
Sound | Stereo Sound | Digitally Processed | Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
Quantum Leap - Kamikaze Kid - June 6, 1961 (1989)
Director: Alan Levi
Star: Scott Bakula Dean Stockwell
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Battered Women
Switching Roles Time Travel Social Issues
Sam leaps into the body of an acne-faced teenager. If he does not
confront his idealistic sister's brutal boyfriend she will marry him
and leave her dream to join the Peace Corps behind.
VHS
48 Minutes | Universal Studios Home Video | HiFi Sound | Digital
Sound | Stereo Sound | Digitally Processed | Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
Quantum Leap - Pilot episode - 1956(1989)
Director: David Hemmings
Star: Scott Bakula Dean Stockwell Jennifer Runyon
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Science-Fiction
Switching Roles Time Travel Self-Discovery
The series pilot finds "Sam" at the controls of a B-52 in 1956 after an
experiment goes terribly wrong and catapults him back in time. Sam
must figure out who he is, where he came from and how to get back
with the help of his new time-warp guide, a strange observer named
Albert.
VHS
93 Minutes | Universal Studios Home Video | HiFi Sound | Digital
Sound | Stereo Sound | Digitally Processed | Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
Quantum Leap - Shock Theater (1991)
Director: Joe Napolitano
Star: Scott Bakula Dean Stockwell David Proval Lee Garlington Bruce
A. Young
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Science-Fiction
Switching Roles Time Travel
When Dr. Beckett leaps into the body of Samuel Beederman, an
institutionalized manic depressive, he is subjected to unprescribed
shock therapy by a sadistic orderly.
VHS
48 Minutes | Universal Studios Home Video | HiFi Sound | Digital
Sound | Stereo Sound | Digitally Processed | Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
Quantum Leap - The Color of Truth - August 8, 1955 (1989)
Director: Mike Vejar
Star: Scott Bakula Dean Stockwell
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Race Relations
Science-Fiction Switching Roles Time Travel History
Sam finds himself a 70-year-old black man at a lunch counter in 1955
Alabama. Ouch! If he cannot overcome the racism he confronts he will
not be able to save his elderly white employer from a train accident.
VHS
48 Minutes | Universal Studios Home Video | HiFi Sound | Digital
Sound | Stereo Sound | Digitally Processed | Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
Quantum Leap - The Color of Truth/Kamikaze Kid (Laserdisc) (1989)
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Science-Fiction Time
Travel
Contains two episodes - "The Color of Truth" and "Kamikaze Kid." On
laserdisc.
96 Minutes | Universal Studios Home Video | Digital Sound | Stereo
Sound | CX Encoding | Digitally Processed | Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
Quantum Leap - The Leap Home (1990)
Director: Michael Zinberg Joe Napolitano
Star: Scott Bakula Dean Stockwell David Newson Olivia Burnette
Andrea Thompson
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Science-Fiction
Switching Roles Time Travel
Dr. Sam leaps into his own past and experiences a bittersweet reunion
with his family.
VHS
88 Minutes | Universal Studios Home Video | HiFi Sound | Digital
Sound | Stereo Sound | Digitally Processed | Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
Quantum Leap - What Price Gloria? - October 16, 1961 (1989)
Director: Alan Levi
Star: Scott Bakula Dean Stockwell
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Switching Roles Time
Travel Social Issues
Sam becomes Samantha, a sexy secretary suffering sexual sadism
from a sleazy superior.
VHS
49 Minutes | Universal Studios Home Video | HiFi Sound | Digital
Sound | Stereo Sound | Digitally Processed | Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
Slaughterhouse Five (1972)
Director: George Roy Hill
Star: Michael Sacks Ron Leibman Valerie Perrine Perry King Eugene
Roche Sharon Gans Roberts Blossom Sorrell Booke Kevin Conway Gary
Waynesmith John Dehner Stan Gottlieb Frederick Ledebur Nick Belle
Henry Bumstead Lucille Benson Gilmer McCormick Holly Near Richard
Schaal Karl Otto Alberty Tom Wood
Producer: Paul Monash
Screenwriter: Stephen Geller
Story: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Director of Photography: Miroslav Ondricek
Editor: Dede Allen
Composer: Glenn Gould
Production Designer: Henry Bumstead
Special Effects: John Chambers
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Drama Time Travel
World War II Recommended Satire
An acclaimed screen adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's famous novel.
Suburban Everyman Billy Pilgrim comes "unstuck in time" and is hurled
back and forth through his own past and future--from the horrors of
the Dresden fireboming to a human "zoo" on the planet Trafalmadore.
An aimless bumbler is pushed into service during World War II and
later winds up in a German prison camp known as Slaughterhouse 5 .
But his life takes a strange turn when the ties that bind him to normal
time and space loosen. Flipping from the war to an extraterrial zoo,
the hapless hero sees different phases of his life but he never quite
understands what is expected from him.
VHS
104 Minutes | Universal Studios Home Video
Rating: R (MPAA)
(Great movie. Deals with paradoxes head on. Don't walk away early.
It is a downer at first. But take my word: This movie is great)
Sleeper (1973)
Director: Woody Allen
Star: Woody Allen Diane Keaton
Featured: Mary Gregory
Star: John Beck
Related Categories: Comedies Comedy Futuristic Jazz Politics
Science-Fiction Slapstick Time Travel Love Story Robots/Cyborgs
Mistaken Identity Recommended
After being preserved in tightly wrapped aluminum foil for 200 years
a 20th century man wakes up to a future where science has proven
deep-fried foods and chocolate to be healthy, machines simulate
orgasms and a wheelchair-bound dictator with a white dog controls
everything. Futuristic hilarity ensues.
One of Woody Allen's "earlier, funnier" ones, the jokes and concepts
from this stellar film have become staples of the comic repertory.
In 1973, nerdy Miles Monroe goes in for minor surgery -- and ends up
cryogenically frozen after his untimely and unexpected death. But 200
years later, Miles is up and about again, in a brave new world of huge
vegetables, automaton servants and "orgasmatrons" -- the ultimate
way to get sexual pleasure without having to worry about another
human being. But the hapless milquetoast also becomes a victim of
fate, wanted for being an "alien" and captured by a band of guerrillas
who want to recruit him to their cause.
The 20th century sure was never like this.
(Fun, There are no paradoxes)
Somewhere in Time (1980)
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Star: Christopher Reeve Jane Seymour Christopher Plummer Teresa
Wright
Related Categories: Dramas Adventure Drama Ghosts Romance Time
Travel Love Story
Story about a man in love with the picture of
a long dead beauty. Academy Award
Nominations: Best Costume Design.
VHS
103 Minutes | Universal Studios Home Video
Rating: PG (MPAA)
(Good, Interesting, Different, not forgettable)
Star Trek - Ep. 28 (1967)
Producer: Gene Roddenberry
Star: William Shatner Leonard Nimoy DeForest Kelley Joan Collins
Producer: Gene L. Coon
Director: Joseph Pevney
Screenwriter: Harlan Ellison
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Adventure Series
Futuristic Science-Fiction Space Exploration Time Travel Television
Vintage TV
"The City on the Edge of Forever" Kirk must
set history right after it is changed by a
fluke, but in order to do so, he must allow the
woman he loves to be killed. This episode,
penned by Harlan Ellison, won a Hugo Award
for best writing. First aired April 6, 1967.
VHS
51 Minutes | Paramount Home Video | HiFi Sound | Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
(Nicely done. Good story. One of those where time has to be corrected)
Star Trek - Time Travel Collection
Star: William Shatner Leonard Nimoy Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes
Whoopi Goldberg Cirroc Lofton Avery Brooks Kate Mulgrew Robert
Picardo
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Adventure Series
Futuristic Science-Fiction Space Exploration Time Travel Television
A four volume collector's set featuring time travel-themed episodes
from each of the "Star Trek" television series. From "Star Trek" comes
"The City on the Edge of Forever" (episode 28); from "The Next
Generation" comes "Yesterday's Enterprise" (episode 63); from "Deep
Space Nine" comes "The Visitor" (episode 76); and from "Voyager"
comes "Time and Again" (episode 4).
VHS
184 Minutes | Paramount Home Video | HiFi Sound | Stereo Sound |
Collector's Edition | Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
(Have not seen all and don't remember "Time and Again")
Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home (1986)
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Star: William Shatner Leonard Nimoy DeForest Kelley Catherine Hicks
James Doohan George Takei Walter Koenig Nichelle Nichols
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Adventure
Science-Fiction Space Exploration Time Travel Recommended
A contemporary Marine biologist becomes
involved with Kirk and crew as they undertake
a vital mission into Earth's past to save a
species whose extinction poses a threat to
the very existence of the planet. The
Directors' Series version includes outtakes
and commentary by director Leonard Nimoy.
Academy Award Nominations: 4, including
Best Cinematography, Best Original Score.
VHS
119 Minutes | Paramount Home Video | HiFi Sound | Surround Sound |
Stereo Sound | Closed captioned
Rating: PG (MPAA)
(Great movie. Very satisfying. Don't have to be a Star Trek fan)
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Star: Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes Brent Spiner LeVar Burton
Michael Dorn Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Alice Krige Alfre Woodard
James Cromwell
Featured: Hillary Hayes
Screenwriter: Brannon Braga Ronald D. Moore Rick Berman
Director of Photography: Matthew F. Leonetti
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
Production Designer: Herman Zimmerman
Costume Designer: Robert Blackman Deborah Everton
Producer: Rick Berman Peter Lauritson
Editor: John Wheeler
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Action Aliens Enemies
Futuristic Science-Fiction Space Exploration Time Travel
Robots/Cyborgs
The Borg have once again targeted the Federation; this time, their
devious plot threatens not only the present, but Earth's past as well.
While Commander Riker, Deanna Troi, and Geordi La Forge work hard on
the surface of 21st-century Earth to keep history on schedule, the rest
of the crew plays a desperate game with the genetically-networked
attackers above the planet, matching former Locutus Jean-Luc and
cybernetically-naive Data against the erotic, mechanized cunning of
the Borg queen. Resistance is futile. Academy Awards nominations:
1--Best Makeup.
VHS
111 Minutes | Paramount Home Video | HiFi Sound | Surround Sound |
Stereo Sound | Closed captioned
Rating: PG-13 (MPAA)
(Very good, but you might have to know the characters previously
to appreciate it fully. Very satisfying)
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep. 109 (1991)
Director: Paul Lynch
Star: Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes LeVar Burton Michael Dorn
Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Matt Frewer Stefan
Gierasch Sheila Franklin Shay Garner
Screenwriter: Rick Berman
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Series Scams And Cons
Science-Fiction Space Exploration Time Travel Television
"A Matter of Time" A mysterious, mischievous time-traveler from the
future visits the Enterprise to collect artifacts, but refuses to assist
Picard and the Enterprise crew in their attempts to save Penthara IV
from destruction. Aired November 18, 1991.
VHS
46 Minutes | Paramount Home Video | HiFi Sound | Stereo Sound |
Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
(A nice idea. Not great time travel but worth seeing)
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep. 118(1992)
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Star: Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes LeVar Burton Michael Dorn
Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Kelsey Grammer Michelle
Forbes Patti Yasutake
Screenwriter: Brannon Braga
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Series Science-Fiction
Space Exploration Time Travel Television
"Cause and Effect" An unsettling feeling of deja vu proves to be the
crew's only warning before the Enterprise helplessly collides with
another starship. Aired March 23, 1992.
VHS
46 Minutes | Paramount Home Video | HiFi Sound | Stereo Sound |
Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
(Very interesting See it if you can)
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep. 125 (1992)
Director: Peter Lauritson
Star: Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes LeVar Burton Michael Dorn
Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Margot Rose Richard Riehle
Scott Jaeck Jennifer Nash Patti Yasutake Daniel Stewart
Screenwriter: Morgan Gendel Peter Allan Fields
Story: Morgan Gendel
Producer: David Livingston
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Series Family
Interaction Science-Fiction Space Exploration Time Travel Television
"The Inner Light" A probe released by a doomed planet propels Picard
into a new life on a distant planet, where he has a family, friends, and
a mission to preserve the memory of his people. Aired June 1, 1992.
VHS
46 Minutes | Paramount Home Video | HiFi Sound | Stereo Sound |
Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
(This one is beautiful. One of my favorite NG's. Time travel is not
central)
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep. 126 (1992)
Director: Les Landau
Star: Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes LeVar Burton Michael Dorn
Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Whoopi Goldberg Jerry
Hardin Michael Aron Barry Kivel Ken Thorley Sheldon Peters Wolfchild
John M. Murdock Mark Alaimo Marc Alaimo Milt Tarver Michael
Hungerford
Screenwriter: Joe Menosky Michael Piller
Story: Joe Menosky
Producer: David Livingston
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Series Science-Fiction
Space Exploration Time Travel Television Robots/Cyborgs
"Time's Arrow" Data is trapped in turn-of-the-century San Francisco
after being caught in an alien time vortex. Picard's only clues to
finding him are an enigmatic sentence from Guinan and a historic
artifact recently unearthed from the late nineteenth century: Data's
severed head. The series' fifth season cliffhanger, aired June 15, 1992.
VHS
46 Minutes | Paramount Home Video | HiFi Sound | Stereo Sound |
Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
(Don't buy this unless you also buy the conclusion. They shouldn't sell
these separately)
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep. 127
(1992)
Star: Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes LeVar Burton Michael Dorn
Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Jerry Hardin William Boyett
Michael Aron James Gleason Whoopi Goldberg
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Series Futuristic
Science-Fiction Space Exploration Time Travel Television
Robots/Cyborgs
"Time's Arrow, Part II" Season six opens with an away team on a
mission to stop an alien race from travelling back to the 19th-century
to transfer stolen neural energy to their planet, from the cavern where
Data's severed head was discovered. Picard, with an assist from Mark
Twain, struggles to foil their dastardly deeds but becomes trapped in a
cave-in.
VHS
46 Minutes | Paramount Home Video | HiFi Sound | Stereo Sound |
Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
(Some problems are interestingly resolved. A bit fatalistic. The Mark Twain
character is more irritating than charming. This was disappointing to me because
I like Twain. But entertaining)
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep. 128 (1992)
Star: Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes LeVar Burton Michael Dorn
Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Colm Meaney Patti Yasutake
Dwight Schultz
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Series Futuristic
Science-Fiction Space Exploration Time Travel Television
Robots/Cyborgs
"Realm of Fear" Upon discovering the U.S.S. Yosemite ensnared in a
plasma stream, the Enterprise crew rescues the foundering ship.
During the rescue, a creature infects Lt. Barclay with a mysterious
ailment which forces him to confront his greatest fears.
VHS
46 Minutes | Paramount Home Video | HiFi Sound | Stereo Sound |
Closed captioned
(I don't remember this one well)
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep. 13 (1988)
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan
Star: Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes LeVar Burton Denise Crosby
Michael Dorn Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Wil Wheaton
Lawrence Tierney Harvey Jason William Boyett David Selburg Gary
Armagnac Michael Genovese Mike Genovese Dick Miller Carolyn Allport
Rhonda Aldrich Erik Cord
Screenwriter: Tracy Torme Keith Mills Terry Devereaux
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Series Detectives
Scams And Cons Science-Fiction Space Exploration Time Travel
Television Film Noir
"The Big Goodbye" - A holodeck malfunction traps Captain Picard, Data
and Dr. Beverly Crusher in a 1941 San Francisco crime drama. Aired
January 11, 1988.
VHS
46 Minutes | Paramount Home Video | HiFi Sound | Stereo Sound |
Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
(Not really a time travel story. An earlier time is recreated on the holodeck)
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep. 177 & 178: The Final Episode (1994)
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Star: Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes LeVar Burton Michael Dorn
Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner John DeLancie Andreas
Katsulas Clyde Kusatsu Patti Yasutake Denise Crosby Colm Meaney
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Series Science-Fiction
Space Exploration Time Travel Television Supernatural
"All Good Things..." A test administered by Q puts Picard into a
paradoxical time journey in which he must encourage three different
Enterprise crews to solve the mystery of a strange temporal anomaly.
Aired May 23, 1994.
VHS
92 Minutes | Paramount Home Video | HiFi Sound | Stereo Sound |
Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
(This one is very satisfying. Paradoxes confronted head on.)
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep. 24 (1988)
Director: Robert Becker
Star: Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes LeVar Burton Michael Dorn
Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Wil Wheaton Michelle
Phillips Rod Loomis Isabel Lorca Dan Kern Jean-Paul Vignon Kelly
Ashmore Lance Spellerberg
Screenwriter: Deborah Dean Davis Hannah Louise Shearer
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Series Romance
Science-Fiction Space Exploration Time Travel Television
"We'll Always Have Paris" - Jean Luc Picard encounters his first love,
who turns out to be the wife of a scientist whose experiments have
torn the very fabric of time. Aired May 2, 1988.
VHS
50 Minutes | Paramount Home Video | HiFi Sound | Stereo Sound |
Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
(I don't remember the time element in this one that well)
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep. 39 (1989)
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan
Star: Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes LeVar Burton Michael Dorn
Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Wil Wheaton Diana Muldaur Colm Meaney
Screenwriter: Maurice Hurley C.J. Holland
Story: Kurt Michael Bensmiller
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Series Science-Fiction
Space Exploration Time Travel Television
"Time Squared" - Picard gets a taste of his future when the Enterprise
encounters his double from six hours hence. The only problem: the
Enterprise has been destroyed! Aired April 3, 1989.
VHS
46 Minutes | Paramount Home Video | HiFi Sound | Stereo Sound |
Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
(Weak attempt to reconcile knowledge of the future with free will. I don't
know if I can recommend it)
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep. 63 (1990)
Director: David Carson
Star: Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes LeVar Burton Michael Dorn
Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Wil Wheaton Whoopi
Goldberg Denise Crosby Tricia O'Neil Christopher McDonald
Screenwriter: Ira Steven Behr Richard Manning Hans Beimler Ronald
D. Moore
Story: Trent Christopher Ganino Eric A. Stillwell
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Aliens Series
Science-Fiction Space Exploration Time Travel Television
"Yesterday's Enterprise" - When a temporal rift pulls an earlier U.S.S.
Enterprise twenty years into the future, Picard and his crew suddenly
find themselves in the middle of a losing war against the Klingon
Empire. Aired February 19, 1990.
VHS
46 Minutes | Paramount Home Video | HiFi Sound | Stereo Sound |
Closed captioned
Rating: Not Rated
(I don't remember)
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep. 88 (1991)
Director: Les Landau
Star: Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes LeVar Burton Michael Dorn
Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Whoopi Goldberg Colm
Meaney Pamela Winslow Rhonda Aldrich Patti Yasutake Thomas
Knickerbocker
Screenwriter: Bruce D. Arthurs Joe Menosky
Story: Bruce D. Arthurs
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Series Science-Fiction
Space Exploration Time Travel Television Film Noir
"Clues" When the crew comes to after being
stunned by a space anomaly, Data, who was
immune to its effects, reports that only
thirty seconds have passed. The Enterprise's
instruments, however, say otherwise. Aired
February 11, 1991.
VHS
46 Minutes | Paramount Home Video | HiFi Sound | Stereo Sound |
Closed captioned
(Very interesting. Worth seeing.)
The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
Director: Stewart Raffill
Star: Michael Pare Nancy Allen Eric Christmas Bobby Di Cicco
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Science-Fiction
Thriller Time Travel
The time is 1943, and the Navy is
experimenting with methods for making ships
invisible to enemy radar. Suddenly, a strange
accident occurs. Several of the participants in
the experiment are hurled forty-one years
into the future.
In 1943, sailors David and Jim are conducting
a series of radar experiments, when
something goes awry, accidentally throwing
the duo 40 years into the future. There they
encounter Allison, who is working on a
similar project and willing to help them. But
soon Jim finds his way back to the past,
leaving David behind. And as he and Allison
continue their research side by side, David
begins to wonder if he wants to go back at
all...
VHS
98 Minutes | Trimark Home Video | HiFi Sound | Surround Sound |
Closed captioned
Rating: PG-13 (MPAA)
(O.K., but not great. Good adventure)
The Philadelphia Experiment 2 (1993)
Director: Stephen Cornwell
Star: Brad Johnson Marjean Holden
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Futuristic
Science-Fiction Time Travel
When a new vortex machine capable of shielding an invading Army from
detection is created a timewarp sucks an unsuspecting man into the
future. There he sees a Nazi-like dictatorship and must do anything he
can to reverse mankind's destiny.
Laserdisc
98 Minutes | Pioneer Entertainment | Surround Sound | Digital Sound
| Stereo Sound | CX Encoding | Digitally Processed | Closed captioned
Rating: PG-13 (MPAA)
(Nah)
The Terminator (1984)
Director: James Cameron
Star: Arnold Schwarzenegger Michael Biehn Linda Hamilton Paul
Winfield Lance Henriksen Rick Rossovich Earl Boen Dick Miller Franco
Columbu Bill Paxton
Screenwriter: Harlan Ellison James Cameron Gale Anne Hurd William
Wisher
Director of Photography: Adam Greenberg
Editor: Mark Goldblatt
Composer: Brad Fiedel
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Aliens Enemies
Classic Futuristic Post-Apocalypse Science-Fiction Thriller Time
Travel On-The-Run Good Vs. Evil Robots/Cyborgs Recommended
In this taut, apocalyptic actioner, a
cool-looking and ruthless robot travels back
from a future in which man's technological
creations rule the planet and hunt humans; his
mission: track down and kill the woman whose
as-yet-unconceived child will one day lead
the human revolt against the evil machines.
VHS (Letter Boxed)
108 Minutes | Artisan Entertainment | HiFi Sound | Stereo Sound |
Closed captioned
Rating: R (MPAA)
(Excellent. Resolves paradoxes early on by having person from the
future be from a possible future only. But then, why are they trying
so hard to 'change history?')
Terminator 2 - Judgment Day (1991)
Director: James Cameron
Star: Arnold Schwarzenegger Linda Hamilton Robert Patrick Edward
Furlong Earl Boen Joe Morton S. Epatha Merkerson Castulo Guerra
Jenette Goldstein Xander Berkeley
Screenwriter: James Cameron William Wisher
Director of Photography: Adam Greenberg
Composer: Brad Fiedel
Production Designer: Joseph Nemec III
Costume Designer: Marlene Stewart
Editor: Conrad Buff Mark Goldblatt Richard A. Harris
Producer: Stephanie Austin James Cameron Gale Anne Hurd Mario
Kassar B.J. Rack
Special Effects: Stan Winston Industrial Light and Magic
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Action Enemies
Classic Futuristic Nuclear Destruction Post-Apocalypse
Science-Fiction Thriller Time Travel On-The-Run Good Vs. Evil Classic
Fight Scenes Robots/Cyborgs Recommended
A deadly assassin is sent back in time to
succeed where his cyborg predecessor failed -
to eliminate Sarah Connor's son before he gets
a chance to make history, leading the humans
in a war against the machines. The original
cyborg also returns, but this time as the boy's
protector. A dazzling display of special
effects and make-up. Academy award
Nominations: 5. Academy Awards: 4, including
Best Visual Effects.
VHS Spanish Subtitled
139 Minutes | Artisan Entertainment | Surround Sound | Stereo
Sound | Closed captioned
Rating: R (MPAA)
(Another great one. If you liked Terminator, you will like this one
also.)
The Time Machine (1960)
Director: George Pal
Star: Rod Taylor Alan Young Yvette Mimieux Sebastian Cabot
Screenwriter: H.G. Wells
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Adventure Classic
Science-Fiction Time Travel Recommended
An exciting and faithful cinematic production
of H.G. Wells' 1895 classic. A scientist
journeys into the distant future and learns of
man's dismal destiny. Academy Awards: Best
Special Effects.
VHS
103 Minutes | MGM Home Entertainment
Rating: G (MPAA)
(A classic. Beautifully filmed. A few paradoxes go ignored.)
The Final Countdown (1980)
Director: Don Taylor
Star: Kirk Douglas Martin Sheen Katharine Ross James Farentino
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Science-Fiction
Thriller Time Travel
An inexplicable phenomena transports a
modern nuclear warship back in time to the
bombing of Pearl Harbor. A thrilling science
fiction adventure.
(I didn't find it that compelling. But if you need a time travel
story, its there)
The Time Travelers (1964)
Director: Ib Melchior
Star: Preston Foster Philip Carey Merry Anders John Hoyt
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Adventure Nuclear
Destruction Post-Apocalypse Science-Fiction Time Travel
A group of scientists working on equipment designed to help them
study the past instead find themselves hurled 107-years into the
future. There they are trapped in a world devastated by a nuclear
holocaust. AKA: "Time Trap."
(Leonard Maltin gives this 2.5 stars. I found the ending very unsatisfying)
Time After Time (1979)
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Star: David Warner Mary Steenburgen Malcolm McDowell Charles Cioffi
Corey Feldman
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Science-Fiction
Slasher Time Travel Love Story
H. G. Wells follows Jack the Ripper in a time
machine from 19th century England to San
Francisco. Good performance by Steenburgen
as the woman who befriends Wells.
VHS
112 Minutes | Warner Home Video | HiFi Sound | Surround Sound |
Digital Sound | Stereo Sound | Digitally Processed
Rating: PG (MPAA)
(Great fun. Nice future shock scenes. A few unresolved references to
paradox)
Time Bandits (1982)
Director: Terry Gilliam
Star: John Cleese Sean Connery Ian Holm Shelley Duvall Katherine
Helmond Michael Palin Ralph Richardson Peter Vaughan David Warner
David Rappaport Kenny Baker Malcolm Dixon Mike Edmonds Jack Purvis
Tiny Ross Craig Warnock David Baker Sheila Fearn Jim Broadbent John
Young Myrtle Devenish Brian Bowes Leon Lissek Terence Bayler Preston
Lockwood Charles McKeown David Leland John Hughman Derrick
O'Connor Neil McCarthy Declan Mulholland Peter Jonfield Derek
Deadman Jerold Wells Roger Frost Martin Carroll Marcus Powell
Winston Dennis Del Baker Juliette James Ian Muir Mark Holmes Andrew
MacLachlan Chris Grant Tony Jay Edwin Finn
Screenwriter: Terry Gilliam Michael Palin
Director of Photography: Peter Biziou
Composer: George Harrison Trevor Jones Mike Moran
Production Designer: Milly Burns
Costume Designer: James Acheson Hazel Cote
Editor: Julian Doyle
Producer: Terry Gilliam
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Adventure Campy Cult
Film Futuristic Kids Adventure Medieval Mythology Science-Fiction
Time Travel Recommended Surreal Family Film
A group of diminutive assistants to the
Almighty steal a much-coveted map of the
universe revealing gaping flaws through which
time travel is possible. A lucky youngster
accompanies the dwarves on their wonderfully
warped adventures through past, present and
future.
.
Laserdisc Remastered
116 Minutes | Pioneer Entertainment | Surround Sound | Digital
Sound | Stereo Sound | CX Encoding | Digitally Processed | Closed
captioned
Rating: PG (MPAA)
(I found this more fantasy than Science Fiction. As such I was not taken by
it. But it is a respected movie by others.)
Test Tube Teens From the Year 2000 (1993)
Director: Ellen Cabot
Star: Ian Abercrombie Brian Bremer Christopher Wolf Michelle
Matheson Sara Suzanne Brown Don Dowe Tamara Tohill Morgan
Fairchild
Related Categories: Comedies Comedy Coming Of Age Futuristic
Teenage Time Travel
A time-travelling erotic comedy in which teenagers from the Year
2000 must venture into the past to prevent Morgan Fairchild from
outlawing sex.
VHS
74 Minutes | Paramount Home Video | Stereo Sound | Closed
captioned
Rating: R (MPAA)
(Forget it.)
Time Runner (1992)
Star: Mark Hamill Rae Dawn Chong Brion James
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Action Aliens
Science-Fiction Time Travel
A heroic space captain must travel back in
time in a desperate attempt to save the world
from a brutal alien attack.
VHS
90 Minutes | New Line Home Video | Surround Sound | Stereo Sound
Rating: R (MPAA)
(Weak)
Timecop (1994)
Director: Peter Hyams
Star: Jean-Claude Van Damme Ron Silver Mia Sara Bruce McGill Gloria
Reuben
Director of Photography: Peter Hyams
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Action Martial Arts
Romance Science-Fiction Time Travel Murder Recommended
In the year 2004 a corrupt politician is secretly using a time travel
device to manipulate history and financial markets and eliminate any
who get in his way. When a cop catches on to his scheme he must go
back in time and catch him before he and his wife are murdered.
Produced by Sam Raimi and based on the comic books by Mike
Richardson and Mark Verheiden.
"Timecop" manages to contain the hopeless implausibilities of time
travel in an entertaining action movie that even survives the
non-performance of its thick-accented star. When a scientist invents a
time machine, a Washington agency is set up to chase time bandits
who are stealing from the past and causing unpredictable time-ripples.
Ron Silver is chilling as the politician who uses the time machine to
enrich himself and prime the pump for his presidential campaign.
VHS
99 Minutes | Universal Studios Home Video | HiFi Sound | Surround
Sound | Stereo Sound | Closed captioned
Rating: R (MPAA)
(I liked it. Serious changing of the past and creating alternate futures
and selves)
Timerider (1983)
Director: William Dear
Star: Belinda Bauer Peter Coyote Fred Ward Ed Lauter Tracey Walter
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Action Adventure Time
Travel Western
A modern day champion off-road racer
stumbles into the midst of a time reversal
experiment, and finds himself hurled into the
past to the year 1877.
(Interesting and fun time travel adventure. A few time loop paradoxes)
Timestalkers (1987)
Director: Michael Schultz
Star: William Devane Lauren Hutton John Ratzenberger Klaus Kinski
Forrest Tucker
Producer: Charles Fries
Story: Brian Clemens
Producer: John Newland Richard Maynard
Story: Ray Brown
Editor: Conrad M. Gonzalez
Composer: Craig Safan
Director of Photography: Harry Mathias
Screenwriter: Brian Clemens
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Science-Fiction
Suspense Time Travel
A modern-day college professor falls under the spell of a determined
woman from the 26th century and helps her track down her scientist
dad's villainous associate who has fled back to the 18th century.
VHS
96 Minutes | Starmaker Entertainment
Rating: Not Rated
(Entertaining. I've seen this movie several times. Very satisfying. Change the
past kind of thing.)
Twilight Zone, The - V. 20 (1961)
Star: Buster Keaton Pat O'Malley
Related Categories: Horror/Suspense Series Horror Short Stories
Time Travel Television Vintage TV
Two frightful episodes: Buster Keaton is a clumsy, time-traveling
janitor in "Once Upon a Time" and a man with a secret lies behind "The
Fugitive."
VHS
56 Minutes | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | HiFi Sound
Rating: Not Rated
(Not satisfying for those interested in time travel)
Twilight Zone, The - V. 3 (1963-61)
Director: Richard Donner
Star: William Shatner
Related Categories: Horror/Suspense Series High Flying Horror
Short Stories Time Travel Television Recommended Dinosaurs Vintage
TV
Two episodes. In "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"
William Shatner's vertigo isn't helped by air
travel (later re-made with John Lithgow in
"Twilight Zone: The Movie"). In "The Odyssey of
Flight 33" another routine plane trip enters
the Twilight Zone to find the Earth populated
by dinosaurs (directed by Richard Donner).
VHS
50 Minutes | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | HiFi Sound
Rating: Not Rated
(O.K., but not great.)
When Time Expires (1997)
Director: David Bourla
Star: Richard Grieco Cynthia Geary Mark Hamill Tim Thomerson Pat
Corley Chad Everett
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Aliens Science-Fiction
Suspense Thriller Time Travel
A time-travelling extraterrestrial scientist from the future journeys
to present-day Earth to foil a plan to disrupt the space-time
continuum.
VHS
93 Minutes | Evergreen Entertainment | Stereo Sound | Closed
captioned
Rating: PG-13 (MPAA)
(Downbeat mood. Interesting but not great)
Yesterday's Target(1996)
Director: Barry Samson
Star: Daniel Baldwin LeVar Burton Malcolm McDowell Stacy Haiduk T.K.
Carter
Related Categories: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Futuristic Psychic
Forces Science-Fiction Time Travel On-The-Run
Two men and a woman, all with special
powers, are rendered amnesiacs when a
time-travel mission goes awry. Unbeknownst
to them, they are hunted by a government
agent and his clairvoyant tracker. Without any
knowledge of their mission, the three
castaways in time must somehow secure the
future for children with special abilities.
Though they have special powers, these
strangers do not know that the fate of the
earth rests on their shoulders...
A little boy holds the key to humanity's
survival -- and he is in danger.
Meanwhile, in the future, a trio of
sensory-enhanced people realize the boy needs
help. They join forces and travel back in time to help him... and us all!
VHS
80 Minutes | Republic Pictures Home Video | HiFi Sound | Stereo
Sound | Closed captioned
Rating: R (MPAA)
(Forgettable)
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