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At the Dawn of Man, a group of hominids encounters a mysterious black monolith that is alien to their surroundings. A hominid discovers the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey. The bone is tossed in the air and it's a 21st century spacecraft hovering over the Earth, skipping ahead millions of years in technological development only to imply that man hasn't advanced very far at all psychologically. U.S. scientist Dr. Heywood Floyd travels to the...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Event Horizon is the high-tech, pioneering research spacecraft that has mysteriously vanished, without a trace, on its maiden voyage seven years earlier. But a weak, persistent signal from the long-missing craft prompts a rescue team to wing its way throught the galaxy on a bold rescue mission.
Publisher
ADV Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Still searching the galaxies for passage to their prespective homes, the crew of the Leviathan spacecraft Moya faces their most difficult challenges yet. Scorpius still seeks the wormhole information locked in Crichton's brain. Crais commands the Leviathan warship Tatyn and Crichton has been mysteriously split into two seperate entities.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1037
Language
English
Description
Byron Haskin's genre-defining sci-fi classic, an Oscar-winning adaptation of the novel by H. G. Wells, is both an influential triumph of visual imagination and a still-disquieting document of the wonder and terror of the atomic age.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Allegiance: Picard is kidnapped and replaced with an exact replica. Captain's holiday: Picard travels to the tropical resort of Risa for a vacation. Darmok: The crew responds to a signal from an alien race who can only communicate via metaphors. The inner light: An alien probe approaches the Enterprise and fires a particle stream which renders Picard unconscious. Starship mine: At the Remmler Array, the Enterprise is evacuated. Lessons: Picard meets...
10) Starman
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An alien, from a distant planet, lands in Wisconsin and arrives at the remote cabin of Jenny Hayden, a distraught young widow. The alien (Starman) convinces her to drive him to Arizona, explaining that if he is not picked up by his mothership in three days he will die. En route, Starman demonstrates the power of universal love, while Jenny rediscovers her human feelings for passion.
11) Rogue One
Publisher
[Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In a period of great conflict, a group of unlikely heroes led by Jyn Erso, a daring fugitive, and Cassian Andor, a rebel spy, band together on a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.
12) Event horizon
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Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The year is 2047. Years earlier, the pioneering research vessel Event Horizon vanished without a trace. Now a signal from it has been detected, and the United States Aerospace Command responds. Hurtling toward the signal's source are a fearless captain (Laurence Fishburne), his elite crew and the lost ship's designer (Sam Neill). Their mission: find and salvage the state-of-the-are spacecraft.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
New York cab driver Korben Dallas didn't mean to be a hero, but he just picked up the kind of fare that only comes along every five thousand years: a perfect beauty, a perfect being, a perfect weapon. Now together, they must save the world.
14) Meet Dave
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Josh lives in New York City. Through his telescope, he watches a baseball-sized metal ball approaching Earth from the sky. It lands in his room. Months later, a massive fireball crash lands in Liberty City. The human looking craft is controlled by 100 one-inch tall aliens. Officer Dooley is a superstitious cop searching for the space ship. The aliens are seeking a way to save their planet and to do that they need salt. Now they need to recover the...
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
On the eve of Earth's destruction, a crew of explorers depart on the most advanced ship in the galaxy, the Nightflyer, to intercept an alien spacecraft that might hold the key to their survival. As the crew nears their destination, they discover the ship's artificial intelligence and never-seen captain may be steering them into deadly and unspeakable horrors deep in the outer reaches of space.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The Doctor, Romana and K-9 find themselves on the planet Alzarius, whose colonists are besieged by reptilian creatures rising from the marshes. Trapped in E-Space, the Doctor, Romana and K-9 are unaware that Adric has stowed away aboard the TARDIS. Their next stop brings them face to face with a hideous creature from Time Lord legends. Still lost in E-Space, the TARDIS is hijacked by the time-sensitive creature and brought to a crumbling ruin in a...
17) They were eleven
Publisher
U.S. Manga Corps
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Ten space cadets are adrift in a derelict spacecraft. They must find their way home to pass their survival test, but where did the eleventh person come from?
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Byron Haskin's genre-defining sci-fi classic, an Oscar-winning adaptation of the novel by H. G. Wells, is both an influential triumph of visual imagination and a still-disquieting document of the wonder and terror of the atomic age.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
War of the worlds: The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills. That is until they realize that the Martians have landed a direct assault to our planet, with hundreds of invulnerable ships. The invasion takes place all over the world, and all the major cities are destroyed one after one, even the atomic bomb can't stop them. But, if the human intervention can't beat them, who can?
When worlds collide: When scientists...
20) Beyond skyline
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When the population of Los Angeles is vacuumed off the face of the Earth, Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien ship to rescue his estranged son. But after crashing the ship in Southeast Asia, he must forge an alliance with a band of survivors to discover the key to saving his son and taking back the planet once and for all.
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