This list describes novels and short stories in which time travel is central to the plot or the premise of the work. Works created prior to the 18th century are listed in Time travel § History of the time travel concept.
Play – A good fairy sends people forward to the year 7603 AD.[1] The people find themselves in a society where gender roles are reversed. Only women are soldiers.
A man falls asleep on a mountain side and wakes twenty years in the future. He finds he has been forgotten, his wife has died and his daughter is no longer a child.[2]
One of the characters in this short story unwittingly comes in possession of magic galoshes that grant any wish expressed by the person wearing them. The galoshes take him to 15th-century Copenhagen, then back to his own time.
The book's female narrator wakes up in the year 2472 to find that a highly evolved society of "Amazonian" women have turned Ireland into a utopian society where women dominate over men.
The protagonist is able to 'bank time' during periods of boredom, and recover it again on presentation of a cheque to a clock. The first story to address the logical paradoxes inherent in the concept of time travel.
A man falls asleep in 1892 and wakes up in the year 2000. Trains are supersonic, and golf and politics are the only activities not yet dominated by masculinized women.
A military tactics manual, framed as a series of six dreams by "Lieutenant Backsight Forethought" about the defence of a river crossing in the Boer War. BF learns something from each successive disaster, until in the final defence he is successful.
A feminist utopia (called Ladyland) in which women run everything and men are secluded, in a mirror-image of traditional purdah. Women scientists have discovered how to control weather and tap solar power for "electrical" technology which enables flying cars and laborless farming.
An opera based on satirical novels by Svatopluk Čech from 1888, in one of which a heavy-drinking bourgeois 19th-century Prague landlord finds himself transported to 1420 in the middle of the Hussite Wars.
Satirical play – Frozen for fifty years, a worker is revived in 1979 and finds himself in a Communist utopia in which he doesn't fit and so becomes a specimen in a zoo showing the vices of the past.
The Great Race of Yith is an extraterrestrial species whose members move vast distances through space and time for historical studies by imposing involuntary body swaps on other beings, a process tantamount to spiritual possession.
An archaeologist is transported from Rome, in the time of Mussolini, back to the 6th century and tries to prevent the fall of the Ostrogothic Kingdom amid the Gothic War.
A scientist millions of years in the future, in two experiments with time machines, uses boxes of educational toys as test objects. One lands in the 19th century and influences Lewis Carroll's writing of the poem "Jabberwocky". The other arrives in 1942 and causes two children to develop parahuman abilities incomprehensible to their parents. The film The Last Mimzy was loosely based on the story.
An archeologist returns from the future with a knife, which is deposited in a museum; at the end of the story it is revealed that he had discovered the knife in the ruins of the same museum.
Scientists invent a substance which allows time travel. Future humanity has branched into species for different tasks. They also visit the past. The story was adapted into a film in 1982.
A villain murders a scientist who invented a time machine, and tries to use it to alter history so modern technology cannot defeat his bid to conquer America.
The city of Middletown is the target of a super-atomic bomb that blows the city to the far-distant future instead of destroying it. The inhabitants have to explore and adapt to their new reality.
An historian, a physicist, and a science writer break a bureaucratic monopoly on the chronoscope (a time viewer) by developing one independently, after which they soon learn why the device had been kept secret.
A man has been trapped in suspended animation for thirty years. After his release, he uses a time machine to travel back in time and exact revenge on his friend and his fiancée who stole his business.
In this children's novel, a boy is living in medical quarantine in a 1950s apartment building. He finds himself in the building's garden of the 1880s and there is a girl there with whom he can play.
A team travels to 2,000 BC where they find a Soviet base that transfers them further back in time. There they have to avoid both the Soviets and malevolent aliens.
Three teenagers (Lightning Boy, Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy) members of a 30th-century "super-hero club", the Legion of Super-Heroes, travel back to the 20th century to invite Superboy to become a member of their "Legion of Super-Heroes". Multiple later Superboy stories, especially in Adventure Comics, showed Superboy breaking through the time barrier to visit the Legion. Since the fifties, the Legion has gone through several reincarnations.
Using the information learned in The Time Traders, a team travels 10,000 years into the past to retrieve a crashed alien spacecraft, accidentally triggering its autopilot when they return it to the present.
Faced with the impending end of the Universe, physicists develop a grain of sodium chloride which travels backwards in time, create it some moments after the Universe's end and then trap it as it returns to study conditions in the future.
Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her younger brother Charles Wallace Murry, and her friend Calvin O'Keefe set out on a journey through time and space to rescue her missing father. This is the first book in L'Engle's Time Quintet and the basis for the Ava DuVernay film.
A time traveler from an alternative world fails to prevent an alteration in the time-line, which leaves him in the present in a world (ours or at least like it) where time travel is unknown. He decides to keep the knowledge of time travel secret and accept his exile.
Heroes travel to Ancient Egypt and meet Pharaoh Rama-Tut, who is a time traveller from the 31st century. The first appearance of Marvel Comics time-travelling villain, Kang the Conqueror.
A direct hit by a nuclear missile sends a bomb shelter with Hugh Farnham (middle-aged, white) and others into a post-apocalyptic future where a black culture enslaves and cannibalizes white people. Farnham and another survivor are sent back to their own time in a time-travel experiment. They arrive in a world subtly different from the one they left and spend the rest of their lives trying to head off the series of events that led to the future they had seen.
In an alternate world, Jesus founded a theocratic government that conquered Rome and still rules the world to this day. A mathematician is sent to the past under the name of "Judas Iscariot" in order to kill Jesus.
The crew of a space colonization vessel aiming to reach a nearby star accidentally travels billions of years into the future due to runaway time dilation. The crew members realize that the universe is approaching a Big Crunch, and the universe collapses and then explodes in a new Big Bang. The voyagers then decelerate and finally disembark on a planet with a habitat suitably similar to Earth.
14-year-old boy, stranded in the 13th century, saves the life of Leonardo Fibonacci. They join the Children's Crusade, and save most of them with 20th-century knowledge and high technology (such as a box of matches).
Myron Castleman, an executive in New York City, finds that he is reliving the same hour of the same day, over and over. His time loop starts at 12:01 PM and lasts until 1:00 PM, when he is somehow returned to the same place where he began the hour.
A young man sees an old photograph of a woman. Through hypnosis he travels back from 1980 to 1912 to meet her. The story was the basis of the 1980 film Somewhere in Time.
A woman of the 1970s who has been involuntarily committed to a mental institution is visited from the future by a time-traveling woman of the year 2137. The patient benefits from increasingly prolonged visits to this future society where people have enormous individual freedom and are trained in self-control and other social-emotional skills.
Travelers from the future "freeze" small groups of people into "tableaux". The people in each tableau vivant become invisible and permeable to others, until the effect wears off, sometimes after many years.
A half-finished Tipler cylinder is discovered by a future human explorer. When the leader decides to complete it, his civilization is destroyed by a nova.
Two couples (after getting married) travel in a space-time machine that can travel in the three normal spatial dimensions and in three distinct temporal dimensions. They encounter malevolent aliens, visit fictitious worlds such as Oz, and meet characters from Heinlein's other works.
Time travellers from the late twenty-first to the early twenty-second century go through a one-way time portal to the Earth's Pliocene. The world is controlled by humanoid extraterrestrials.
In the far distant future, a team of time travellers snatch the passengers of a crashed aeroplane, leaving behind prefabricated bodies for rescue teams to find. The novel is the basis of the 1989 film.
In 1983, a millionaire discovers time-travel gates and organizes a trip to 1810 to attend a lecture given by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A professor hired by the millionaire is trapped in 19th-century London.
A stagnating civilization of the 1980s is revitalized when a man produces evidence of a future utopia, obtained through time travel. Mankind is inspired by the evidence to achieve this utopia.
The plot of the book unveils the last period in the life of Jesus Christ as revealed through the first-hand experience of two pilots (or rather "timenauts"), members of a US Air Force top-secret military experimental project on time travel codenamed "Operation Trojan Horse", who in 1973 supposedly succeeded in travelling back in time to the land of Palestine in the year 30 A.d. A saga of, so far, 11 volumes. Last one published in 2019.
12 books from 1984 to 1991 about a secret organization protecting history from change by time travelers. Many people and events we consider fictional are historical, and vice versa; the action of each book concerns the events of a famous work of literature. In the first, time travelers contesting the fate of Richard I of England become caught up in Walter Scott's Ivanhoe.
Events in Eon take place in 2005, when the U.S. and Soviet Union are on the verge of nuclear war. In that tense political climate, a 290 km asteroid is detected. The humans who built the Stone seem to come from approximately 1,200 years in the future.
William Proxmire enlists the help of a physicist to go back in time to cure Robert A. Heinlein's tuberculosis, expecting that Heinlein will not become a science-fiction writer, so not inspiring proponents of (in Proxmire's view money-wasting) space travel. The result is diametrically opposite to the expected.
An airplane accidentally flies through a rip in the space-time continuum. It appears in the "used time" of yesterday, where dreadful "Langoliers" eat the past.
After the invention of a method for sending messages back in time, the history of the future becomes common knowledge, and every person knows their own fate.
Animorphs and Visser 3 are sent back a few hours to the Amazon by a Saurio Rip, with the plot used again in Altermorph 1. In Megamorph 2, the same concept is used to send the animorphs back to 65 million BC.
Research chronologist Sam Magruder working in the year 2162 is accidentally transported 80 million years back in time to the late Cretaceous era and must learn to survive in a world of dinosaurs.[10]
A modern-day boy switches places with a Shakespearean actor who needs to be cured by modern medicine so he can return to his own time and help Shakespeare to greater success on the stage.
Hogwarts student, Hermione Granger, acquires a Time-Turner, which allows her to take a large courseload. The device is later used to manipulate the events of a single night to free two prisoners.
Palaeontologists studying dinosaurs are trapped in the Mesozoic period, but also travel into the very distant future. The novel was nominated for several science fiction awards.
Engineer and pilot Perry Nelson is killed in a car accident in 1939 and wakes up in another body in 2086. Heinlein could not find a publisher for this, his first book, written in 1938–39, during his lifetime. Many themes of his later writings are here in embryonic form.
The fifth in the Artemis Fowl series. Artemis and Captain Holly Short search for a missing demon, to stop a demon colony. Artemis also ends up saving Holly by manipulating time.
A research assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology accidentally creates a forward-traveling time machine. Each leap forward in time (to get out of trouble) lands him in deeper trouble.
The sixth book in the Artemis Fowl series. After his mother contracts spelltropy, Artemis travels back in time to find a lemur that can help cure her. The trick ending creates a circular timeline that started the series.
Black fifteen-year-old Genna is transported from modern-day Brooklyn to 1863, when Civil War split the country and draft riots rocked New York City. Somehow she must survive and return. The story of Genna and her boyfriend Judah is continued in 2016's The Door at the Crossroads.
Thirteen-year-olds, Jonah and Chip, find out that they are missing children from time and go on a journey, along with Jonah's sister, Katherine, to uncover many secrets.
Time travellers can go back, but going to the future is impossible. They also can't change the past lest this cause a paradox of retrocausality. The chief villain takes advantage of retrocausality by sending two characters into the past to enable him to escape from prison.
Adrian "Shel" Shelborne receives a package from his mysteriously disappeared father, with four devices and a note instructing him to destroy them. Soon, Shel discovers that the devices can take you anywhere at any point in time.
Two avid science fiction fans and their friend attempt to navigate a time travel conundrum in the middle of a British pub, where they meet a girl from the future who sets the adventure in motion.
In search of his father, a time machine mechanic travels through time accompanied by TAMMY and his ontologically valid dog, Ed, all while documenting his travels in a manual for future travellers.
Jonah and Katherine are sent to Henry Hudson's ship in 1611, where they discover that events are playing out differently than they really did in history.
George Beard and Harold Hutchins, two fourth graders, use a homemade time machine to travel 65 million years into the past. They also travel to 206,784 years in the past and 30 years in the future.
Jonah, Katherine, and Chip are suddenly transported to 1918 and must try to save Anastasia and Alexei Romanov, even though their remains have been identified by modern-day scientists.
Taylor's flagship series follows the staff of St Mary's Institute of Historical Research, especially historian Dr Madeleine "Max" Maxwell, as they time-travel to "investigate major historical events in contemporary time".
Former soldier Hugh Stanton is sent back to 1914 to prevent the events that started WW1 in order to avoid the deaths of millions in that conflict and subsequently WW2. However, the changes he makes also result in the Butterfly effect and the revelation that his attempt was not the first.
When Charles Lindbergh kidnaps Katherine, the other children from the plane disappear, and the adults in his town de-age into children, Jonah must find a way to fix everything.
Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 p.m. There are eight days, and eight witnesses. We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the killer.
After its invention by four women in 1967, time travel is governed by an organization called the Conclave. The granddaughter of one of those women is knowledgeable about the complex effects such trips have on the mind, and her life intertwines with numerous time travelers and a mysterious murder.
Sequel to The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (co-written with Neal Stephenson), in which Tristan Lyons, Mel Stokes, and their fellow outcasts from the Department of Diachronic Operations (D.O.D.O.) fight to stop the powerful Irish witch Gráinne from using time travel to reverse the evolution of all modern technology.
Time travel is a common theme and plot device in science fiction films. The list below covers films for which time travel is central to the plot or premise of the work.
The first adaptation of Mark Twain's classic; modern-day Martin Cavendish dreams that he is transported back to King Arthur's court where he has to use modern knowledge to outwit the king's enemies.
A man struck by lightning in 1930, wakes up to a 1980 with personal aircraft, vending machines replacing sexual activity, spacecraft to Mars, people with letter- and digit-based names, pill meals, and government-determined marriages.
Only a single time loop is needed for Joe to wish that he could relive his life and marry the wealthy woman. When he has the chance to go through his life again, he has interesting discoveries and decisions.[11][12]
A pilot flies faster than the speed of light, from 1960 to 2024, into a dystopian future divided by two populations: the submissive humans who have retreated underground and the savage mutants who have taken over the surface.
Loose adaptation of H. G. Wells's classic in which a time traveler enters a future where the world is broken up into two classes: the peaceful Eloi and the malevolent masters of the world, the Morlocks.
Scientists find that their time-viewing screen allows them to travel through time and they become stranded in a post-apocalypse future. This movie inspired the 1966 TV series, The Time Tunnel, as well as the 1967 remake, Journey to the Center of Time.[15][16]
Based on the BBC TV series. The Doctor and his companions travel in the TARDIS to the future of a post-apocalyptic world where two races, the Daleks and the Thals, follow two different paths to survive following a nuclear war.
Scientists develop a time machine and travel to the far future where the earth is in peril and the distant past, to the age of the dinosaurs. A remake of The Time Travelers.
George Taylor (played by Charlton Heston) is an astronaut who travels to Earth in the distant future, due to the effects of time dilation, and finds that it is inhabited by intelligent, talking apes.
Brent, an astronaut, travels to a future Earth ruled by apes. His search for fellow astronaut George Taylor, leads him to an underground city of nuclear mutants.
Three apes escape Earth's destruction by salvaging and repairing the spaceship of astronaut George Taylor, and piloting it through a time warp back to 1973.
Due to an impending disaster that threatens to destroy mankind, a time machine is built by a group of young scientists to transport themselves into the future to rebuild civilization.
Engineer Shurik has invented a time machine in his apartment. By accident, he sends two people back into the time of Ivan IV while the real Ivan IV is sent by the same machine into Shurik's apartment.
A made-for-television adaptation of the Wells novel, updating the initial setting to the contemporary 1970s, with the main character working for an American defense contractor. After various trips in time, he meets the Eloi and Morlocks of the far future.
A man is captivated by an old picture of a beautiful actress who he feels is connected to him somehow. Through self-hypnosis he returns to the past and the love of his life.[17] Adapted from the novel, Bid Time Return, by Richard Matheson who also wrote the script.
A triple supernova opens a rift in time space, propelling a family far into the future where they are attacked by monstrous aliens before finding refuge in a domed city.
A motorcyclist competing in a desert race unknowingly gets caught in the middle of a time travel experiment and is transported by means of "time cannons" to the Old West of 1875–1877.
Big-screen adaptations of three classic episodes from the popular 1950s and 1960s Rod Serlingtelevision series, plus a new segment featuring a bigot who is transported into the lives of past victims of racism.
In the finale, characters go through time fields, which causes their ages to change and also causes a couple to meet their future child in a result of a stranger version of time dilation.
The school janitor, Mario (Troisi), and a teacher, Saverio (Benigni), have an automobile breakdown and decide to spend the night in an inn. The next morning they awake in 15th-century Florence.
Using a time machine installed in a DeLorean sports car, teenager Marty McFly intervenes in his parents' first meeting back in 1955, preventing them from falling in love and placing his own existence in danger.
A cop in the dystopian Angel City of 2247, Jack Deth's mind is sent backwards in time into one of his ancestor's bodies in 1985 Los Angeles to hunt a criminal who has done the same.
On a class excursion to a cave with Stone Age paintings, Rex, a clumsy teenager, gets lost. A mysterious crystal opens a gateway in time and sends him back to the Stone Ages, where he meets the beautiful girl, Eba.
Michael and Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a science project. They find an orb that dangerously bends time and have to stop it to save the world.
An 11-year-old goes back in time to prevent his grandfather from making a fatal plane flight across the Atlantic. Aired on The Disney Sunday Movie under the name Time Flyer.
Catering salesman falls through a time hole to 1917 where he saves the life of a dashing Royal Flying Corps pilot, after his photo recon mission is shot down. Before he can work out what happened, he is returned to the 1980s.
To save Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk and his crew travel back to 1986 to retrieve and take back humpback whales, the only beings who can communicate with an alien probe that is threatening Earth.
This Polish film presents three different storylines, told in succession, about a man running after a train; slight variations lead to huge differences in the man's life. The film was an inspiration for Run Lola Run.
Two men travel from the 1980s to 1940s Stalinist USSR, and find themselves repeatedly reliving a day in a coal mine town. The older man hopes he can atone for his past while the younger begins to understand his father's earlier life.[19]
A professor discovers evidence of a time traveller in Old West memorabilia, and becomes involved in trying to prevent the assassination of Grover Cleveland by a 26th-century villain.
A cop from the year 2088 (Abbott) is transported back to 1988 while pursuing a criminal attempting to flee in a time machine, and enlists the aid of his legendary great-grandfather (Maher) in pursuing the crook.
A man builds a baseball field on his farm to call back Chicago players banned due to the Black Sox Scandal. He gets his own chance to resolve his guilt over his deceased father.
Three time travelers from the future and a cop from the past must travel to Medieval England to capture a rogue scientist who wants to use time travel for his own needs.
Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to 2015 to prevent Marty's kids from ruining the family reputation. Biff Tannen plots to give a sports almanac to his younger self in 1955, and win millions of dollars gambling. Marty and Doc must repair the timeline.
Two teenagers (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves) need an "A" in history. A time traveller (George Carlin) helps them because they are destined to create a Utopian future. They travel through time, encountering historical figures including Socrates, Joan of Arc, and Billy the Kid.
Time travelers from the far future steal people already destined to die, such as in plane crashes, to restock humankind in their own desolate future. Based on the 1983 John Varley novel.
A warlock in the 17th century who has been sentenced to death for witchcraft, is transported to the 20th century, followed by a witch hunter who must stop the warlock from finding the Grand Grimoire.
A scientist creates superweapon that also causes shifts in time. He is transported to 1817 where he meets Doctor Frankenstein and his monster, as well as Mary Shelley who bases her novel on true events.
Kurtwood Smith plays Myron Castleman, an everyman-type who keeps repeating the same hour of his life, from 12:01pm to 1:00pm. The character is fully aware that the time loop is occurring, and nobody else appears to be aware of it. Each time the hour resets, Myron retains his memory (or as the film puts it, his consciousness), and despite his best attempts to understand what is happening, he ultimately realizes that he is entirely helpless to prevent the time bounce. Myron cannot even break the loop by killing himself, as he reappears, alive, at the next iteration; he is trapped in the loop for eternity. An adaptation of the short story by Richard A. Lupoff.
Aditya 369 is a time machine, invented by an absent-minded professor Ram Das. Krishna, a young post-graduate, Hema and a smuggler, Raja, want to procure the machine for their own reasons.
Terrorists from the year 2204 seek to destroy Japan and prevent it from becoming an economic superpower. They travel to 1944 and replace Godzilla with three genetically engineered creatures, which become the monster, King Ghidorah.[20]
In a future where time travel has been invented, the rich snatch people from history a moment before their death in order to use the bodies as hosts for their own minds after death.
A father and daughter meet travelers from the future, who intend to witness an impending catastrophe. The movie is based on the novel, Vintage Season, by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore, and was released on video as Grand Tour: Disaster in Time.
A disastrous experiment in 1993 sends a stealth aircraft through a time portal into 1943 Germany. A sailor is pulled into the portal at the same time, and finds himself in a version of 1993 where the Nazis won World War II.
Barry Thomas is an average office worker who witnesses the murder of a woman that he is attracted to. That night, during a storm, Barry gets a shock from a lamp's faulty power wire at exactly 12:01 a.m. In the next few days, he realizes that the world is trapped in a time loop, with himself the only one aware of it. Barry must prevent the murder and stop the time loop, or be caught in time forever.
A time travel project probe from the year 2073 is sent to the year 1973 and goes wrong, creating a plague-ravaged, alternate timeline whose inhabitants are locked in a constant battle with killer robots. The hero must find a similar time machine in this alternate world and prevent the disaster from ever happening.
The Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) is created to prevent alterations to the past. This causes a dilemma for the hero, Max Walker, who has to prevent time-travellers from altering time, but is tempted to do so himself, to prevent his wife's death.
Loosely based on Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Calvin Fuller, a baseball-loving boy, falls into King Arthur's time. Dubbed a saviour, he dazzles Camelot with futuristic "magic," aids Arthur against a usurper, and wins the heart of Princess Katey. With Merlin's help, he returns home, hitting a home run and leaving a lasting impression on Arthur.
After being trapped within the world of the Jumanji board game for 26 years after getting sucked into it in 1969, Alan Parish is released by siblings Judy and Peter Shepard. Reuniting with his childhood friend Sarah Whittle, the four work together to finish the game. Alan and Sarah are transported back to 1969 and back into their child bodies.
An Americantelevision movie based on William Dean Howells's 1892 short story, "Christmas Every Day". A selfish teenager is forced to relive the same Christmas every day until he comes to understand the true meaning of the holiday season.[21][22]
The USS Enterprise follows the Borg back in time to stop them from altering history and preventing Earth's first warp flight and first contact with the Vulcans.
A US submarine runs into a time rift and a special unit goes on a mission to see what's on the other side. They find themselves in an alternate dystopian America, now a one-man dictatorship and decide to help the rebels.
Lola has to acquire 100,000 Deutsche Mark to save her boyfriend from the mob. The film follows one attempt after another to raise the money, each failure resetting time and restarting her run through the streets of Berlin.[23]
In 2058, a family undertakes a voyage to a nearby star system to begin large-scale emigration from a soon-to-be uninhabitable Earth, but are thrown off course by a saboteur from the future and must try to find their way home.
14-year-old Susan Shawson travels in time in her building's elevator, as altered by a retired physicist living in her building. It transports her from 1998 back to the same place in other years, depending on the order of buttons pushed. In 1881, she meets Victoria Walker, a girl her own age in need of assistance with her own family problems. Together, Susan, Victoria, and her young brother, Robert, succeed in changing both the past and the future.
A reporter notices that the same faces keep appearing in photographs of 20th-century disasters. Deducing that they are time travellers, he tries to save the history he knows.[25][26]
Peter (Kris Lemche) wins a trip to a Medieval park. As Peter and his friends tour the castle, Lord Drakin casts a spell and sends the Peter and his friends back to 1383 where they have to stop Lord Drakin from taking the castle. Released on DVD as Medieval Park.
The English pop group, S Club 7 and are transported to a desert town in the year 1959 that is under the control of a gang with a corrupted sheriff as an ally. The group learns about the fate of a local chef at a diner and tries to prevent bad things despite threats against them from both the sheriff and the gang.
An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his father's life, but then must fix the consequences.
Two people separated in time are somehow able to talk to each other using an amateur radio. The people in question are two students in the same school, one in 1979, the other in 2000.
A middle-aged man stumbles across an antique watch that transports him to 1896. He falls in love, and decides to stay. He breaks the watch, then sees the situation in a new light as complications occur.
Two protagonists live in a lake house two years apart in time, but are able to communicate through a mysterious post box. This movie inspired the 2006 American film, The Lake House.
A medieval knight and his serf travel to 21st-century Chicago, meeting the knight's descendant. But they must travel back to their time to ensure her birth. Remake of the 1993 French movie Les Visiteurs.
TV film: In this Disney Channel movie, Marnie Piper travels through time in Halloweentown to find a spell book that will help her counteract the evil spell placed on Halloweentown. To return to present time, both Marnie and Luke travel through a time tunnel on a broomstick.
The human race is on the edge of annihilation after decades of war with an alien force. In an outpost in Tibet, mankind's last hope of survival is a time travel device.
In this remake of the 1960s version of the film, directed by H. G. Wells' great-grandson, Dr. Alexander Hartdegen travels to the future hoping to find a time where they have learned how to change the past. In the year 802,701, he becomes involved in a struggle between surface-dwelling Eloi and the underground-dwelling Morlocks.
A Bible professor from 1890 is sent forward in time to the present via a time machine, and he is astonished to see how commonplace sin has become due to the separation of religion from morality.
In this film adaptation of the book by Michael Crichton, archaeologists travel to medieval France to rescue their professor, and find themselves in the middle of a battle.
In 2032, Skynet sends another Terminator back in time, this time to 2004, in a final attempt to kill John Connor before the inevitable nuclear holocaust on mankind.
Punished to a week without anymore television, Timmy wishes himself into the world of television to escape the harsh reality of his life. Alas, however, his carelessness with magic leads to his tyrannical babysitter taking over the world of the future, and now Timmy must stop her.
Two friends build a time machine that allows them to create multiple, co-existing timelines. The effects and consequences of these interacting timelines, change the personalities of the characters and ruin their friendship.
A college psychology student (Ashton Kutcher) learns that, by reading his childhood journals, he can temporarily travel to the past and inhabit his younger body. By changing his past behaviours, he changes his current life, with unforeseen consequences.
Distraught over his girlfriend's drug addiction, small-time dope peddler Art (Jay Baruchel), uses a time machine to journey into the past in a desperate gamble to change her future.
A socially inept scientist (Sean Astin) and a female FBI agent (Ivana Miličević) try to recover a time travel device (called "Slipstream") that was stolen by a group of bank robbers.
For an extraordinary price, Time Safaris, Inc. will take clients through a wormhole to hunt dinosaur game. The plot is based loosely on the 1952 short story by Ray Bradbury, with the butterfly effect portrayed as much more pronounced.
Five college boys in a science fiction club break their air-conditioner's remote control. In the sweltering clubhouse, a time machine appears and they go back in time to retrieve a functioning controller, but this causes complications.
A slasher film in which a group of present-day teenagers are sent back to 1981, and discover a summer camp which is stuck reliving the day a demented killer went on a rampage.[27]
A time-travel romance where two people living in the same house at a lake, at different times, are able to exchange letters through its mailbox and fall in love.
In 2005, a completely average private named Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson) is selected for a hibernation program and is placed in suspended animation for is supposed to be one year, but ends up accidentally being five hundred years, and finds that the human race of the future have devolved with lower intelligence, making him easily the smartest man alive.
In a remake of Christmas Every Day, a father has to repeat Christmas Day over and over until he realizes how selfish he has become and changes his ways.[28]
After finishing the graveyard shift at a convenience store, Claire is murdered in her home only to wake up in the convenience store, and start the cycle over again. An official selection of the 2006 Sundance Festival.[29]
A Las Vegas magician, Nicolas Cage, able to see and live out scenarios 2 minutes before they actually happen, finds himself the target of an FBI agent trying to prevent a bombing.
Alien scammers discover the code for time travel tattooed on Philip J. Fry's buttocks, and use it to send Bender back in time to steal priceless artifacts.
A housewife (Sandra Bullock) discovers that she is living the days around her husband's death in a non-chronological sequence, and attempts to prevent his death.
Three high-school outcasts use a time machine to save their classmates from embarrassing moments. Their time travel creates a black hole, which could destroy the world. A Disney Channel Original Movie.
In a direct-to-video film in the Stargate franchise, Ba'al (Cliff Simon) changes the timeline so that SG-1 never existed. Three people were unaffected by the change but are unable to do anything until Ba'al and the system lords arrive.
Spock's attempt to prevent a supernova fails, resulting in the destruction of the Romulan homeworld. The captain of a Romulan mining ship blames Spock, and both the Romulans and Spock fall through a black hole to the past, creating an alternate reality.
A romantic drama about Nemo Nobody (Jared Leto), a 118-year-old man and the last mortal on Earth, who remembers alternate versions of his life and three ages when his life was changed by a decision.
A romantic drama about a Chicago librarian (Eric Bana) with a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, and the complications it creates for his marriage. Based on the Audrey Niffenegger novel.
Three friends attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum in the middle of a British pub. Anna Faris plays a girl from the future who sets the adventure in motion.
On Christmas Eve, miserly moneylender Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey) is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, who convince him to change his ways.
A disgraced paleontologist, his research assistant, and a macho tour guide find themselves in a strange, alternate world inhabited by dinosaurs, monkey people, and reptilian Sleestaks after they are sucked into a space-time vortex.
A woman who went on a yacht trip with her friends jumps to another ship after a mysterious weather condition, and gets caught up in a terrifying time loop.
Indian film. A young man named Bunty uses a time machine created by his girlfriend's grandfather to meet his own parents before they were married, and help them develop a more loving relationship.
Kyon is the only one who knows that two of his classmates are missing and reality has changed. To restore his life, he gathers several keys to power an alien device and travel back three years.
Four friends spend a crazy, drunken night in a hot tub at a ski resort only to travel back in time to 1986. They are each presented with an opportunity to alter their futures. The film stars John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, and Clark Duke.
Disney's adaptation of the video game of the same name. Prince Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal) has to prevent someone from changing history using a special dagger which when fueled with a special "Sand of Time", allows its wielder to experience time differently.
Series protagonists Yusei Fudo, Jaden Yuki and Yugi Muto encounter Turbo Duelist Paradox, who is from the future, and who believes the only way to prevent his future from happening is to stop Duel Monsters from existing.
When Shrek begins missing his old life, he makes a deal with Rumpelstiltskin and is sent to an alternate timeline where he never existed and where Rumpelstiltskin rules.
James is a guy from the year 2032 who comes back in time with a custom-made watch that is a time machine. He travels back in time to fix his life but fails.
Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) died in a helicopter crash and has been inserted in a computer program (Source Code) which transfers him to the body of a deceased person for the last eight minutes of his life. He cannot change the past, but he must use information from there to alter the future and prevent a bombing
While visiting Paris with his fiancée, an American writer (Owen Wilson) discovers a way to travel back to the 1920s, allowing him to mingle with and draw inspiration from historical greats such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein.
Kate finds herself reliving Christmas Eve (including a blind date with a man named Miles) over and over again. She must discover how to break the cycle – should she attempt to win back her ex-boyfriend Jack, or should she pursue Miles, or something else?[33]
When a brilliant physicist inadvertently creates a time machine, he goes back 20 years to the party where his girlfriend left him. Changing the events of that evening have effects that he didn't anticipate.
Time travel, love and betrayal in 1920s England. A brilliant scientist becomes obsessed with revisiting his past – no matter what the cost. Jealousy, desire and greed surround him, clouding his judgement and sending him spiralling towards madness.
Three college friends hit the biggest party of the year, where a mysterious phenomenon disrupts the night, quickly descending into a chaos that challenges their friendships.
In a dystopian future, citizens without jobs are sent to work camps and never heard from again. Adam Leben is a laid-off factory worker. To save his life, he answers an ad for a medical test experiment, plunging down a rabbit hole of genetic engineering, mind control, and time travel. Based on the epic poem by Eric Kopatz.
A 16-year-old girl discovers that she has inherited her family's time-travel gene. To time-travel safely, she has to cooperate with a secret order of time travelers who have a special task for her in the 17th century.
The ghost of a teenager, Lisa Johnson (Abigail Breslin) who, along with her family, keeps reliving the same day (although she is the only one aware of it) tries to protect a young girl, Olivia (Eleanor Zichy) and her family from a dead serial killer, the Pale Man (Stephen McHattie), who can possess the living.[35]
A present-day professor disappears, traveling back in time to visit Albert Einstein. Twelve years later, his college-age son follows him to find out why.
In this short film, a young girl travels into the future to find the ancient Ark of the Covenant and prevent it from falling into the hands of an evil army.
Tim's father tells his son that the men in their family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim makes numerous trips to the past to change his circumstances and those of his friends.[36]
A team of scientists and military personnel travel back in time to the 1920s to change the past and prevent a major terrorist attack on present day New York.
A group of time-travel researchers at a deep-sea facility make their first test run 24 hours into the future, only to discover the facility close to destruction. They escape back to the present but have less than 24 hours to avert the coming tragedy.[37] Korean movie.
A lowly stable elf finds that he is the only one who can stop an invasion of the North Pole by using the secret of Santa's Sleigh, a TimeGlobe, to travel back in time to save Santa, twice.
An officer (Tom Cruise) finds himself caught in a time loop in a war with an alien race. Based on 2004 novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka.
A temporal agent goes back in time to catch an infamous terrorist known as the "Fizzle Bomber", and meets different versions of himself. Based on the short story, "All You Zombies", by Robert A. Heinlein.
Set in the near future, a crew of astronauts travels through a wormhole to find a suitable new planet for humanity, experiencing time dilation on multiple occasions.
A physicist who invents a time machine must travel back to the past to uncover the truth about his creation and the woman who is trying to steal it.[41]
A scientist in 2065 invents a time machine and, to prove its capability, sends it back to 2015. However, the machine is discovered by three people who use the machine for reasons of their own. The first Indian Tamil-language science fiction film.
In 2029, Kyle Reese goes back in time to protect Sarah Connor, as previously established in The Terminator. When Reese arrives in 1984, he finds a whole new chronology, where Sarah was trained in combat from childhood. They try to figure out how to prevent Judgment Day.
Indian film about a scientist named Sethuraman who invents a time machine in the form of a watch but his evil twin brother, Athreya, will go to any lengths to get the device for himself.
Doctor Strange enters the Dark Dimension and uses the Eye of Agamotto to create a time loop around himself and Dormammu. After repeatedly killing Strange to no avail, Dormammu finally gives in to Strange's demand that he leave Earth.
A group of students in a remote area of Texas, searching for their missing professor, discover a mysterious cave by accident. While exploring the cave, the group experience a series of bizarre and dangerous events related to spacetime distortion caused by time dilation
In 1996, teenager Alex becomes trapped in the video game Jumanji, he only feels he has been in maybe a few months to discover from people newly sucked into the game that 21 years have passed, and after beating the game, he finds himself brought back to 1996 in his teenage body.
Thirteen-year-old middle school student Meg Murry struggles to adjust to both her school and home life ever since her father Alex, a well-renowned scientist, mysteriously disappeared.
When a physics student is dumped by his girlfriend, he invents a time machine and uses it to go back in time in order to fix every mistake he made during the relationship.
In order to save the world from the titular "sharknadoes", Fin Shepard, his wife April and their friends Nova, Bryan and Skye travel through time to destroy the storms in different historical eras.
Rex Dangervest (a version of Emmet from the future), travels through time to save his past self from the Stairgate and makes him tough so he can crash Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi's wedding and start Armamageddon, so he can revenge his friends who abandoned him.
An ambitious science prodigy creates time machines, in order to save her brother from a fatal incident. As she tries to alter the events of the past, she will eventually face the perilous consequences of time travel.
In the third act, the main character, Stella Nicholls, is temporarily taken back in time and experiences the main antagonist's, Sarah Bellow's moment in her life, where she was tormented by her family.
Bill & Ted go to the future to get the music they were destined to write and save reality before it collapses, while their daughters go to the past to retrieve musicians in order to help their fathers.
A young woman finds herself transported back in time from her mother's deathbed in 2001 to 1981, the year before her birth. She befriends her mother and tries to set her up for a better life.
The world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: thirty years in the future, mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species.
Indian film. A man and a police officer get trapped in a time loop on the day of the chief minister's public conference. Despite attempting to escape, they must live the same day over and over again.
In 1995, a young mechanic named Mark finds a telephone which can contact the past, created by Chiranjeevi. He uses it to learn the truth about his father Antony, a gangster who died in 1975.
Time travel is a recurrent theme in science fiction television programs. The list below covers television series for which time travel is central to the premise and direction of the plot and setting.
Scientist Captain Z-Ro, working in his remote laboratory, safeguards mankind and history from harm. With his time machine, he both views history and sends someone back in time when the past has been altered.
Two astronauts accidentally travel to prehistoric Earth. Unable to return, they make friends with cave-people. When they do return, they inadvertently bring some with them, who must learn to get along in the 1960s.
In a demonstration, a scientist turns on the experimental time tunnel, where he finds himself on board the R.M.S. Titanic. Another joins him and both are stuck in time. Each week they have a new adventure in history.
Based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1965 novel The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. A high-school girl accidentally acquires the ability to travel through time, which leads to her reliving multiple time loops.
A family are trapped in an alternate universe inhabited by dinosaurs, a primate-type people called Pakuni, and aggressive humanoid/lizard creatures called Sleestak.
After 3 million years, Dave Lister leaves stasis as the last human being alive. He is aboard the ship Red Dwarf, in deep space and travelling at nearly the speed of light. Time travel is frequent in the series – usually into the past.
In the later seasons, Mike Nelson and his robot co-stars find themselves traveling through time, ending up in places including ancient Rome. Additionally, throughout the series, movies with time travel as a major theme are shown.
Dr. Sam Beckett becomes stuck in his past during a time-travel experiment and, in trying to return to the present time, temporarily takes the place of other people and corrects historical mistakes, thus triggering the next time jump. In his travels, he is aided by a hologram of his friend, Al.
An accidental time traveller, Gary Sparrow, leads a double life after discovering a time portal allowing him to travel between 1990s London and wartime London of 1939–1945.
Based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1965 novel The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. A high-school girl accidentally acquires the ability to travel through time, which leads to her reliving multiple time loops.
A secret branch of the NSA uses a time machine to travel back in time to avert disasters. The machine, which was found at Roswell, New Mexico, can only jump back seven days.
Individuals who have reached the end of their lives in one timeline are given three days to travel into their past and convince their younger selves to make a different choice at a pivotal point in their lives.
Follows Captain Dylan Hunt after he travels 300 years into the future as the result of time dilation and finds the galactic system he has lived under has been overturned for 300 years, leaving the universe in chaos, and he must use his knowledge of the past, as well as a new crew, to once again bring balance to the galaxy. Time dilation frequently appears within the series, but normal time travel is used once.
Various species from the 30th century are having a "Temporal Cold War" that is interfering with life in the 22nd century, which affects the lives of the crew of the Enterprise (NX-01).
Time cops from the year 1,000,000,000 AD travel back in time to keep famous historical figures from diverting the course of history. A Cartoon Network series.
After witnessing the destruction of Earth from space, five astronauts are sent back in time to determine how the earth was destroyed and prevent it from happening.
Joel Larsen (Penn Badgley), age 34, has an accident that sends him back to 1981, when he was 14. He awakes in his teenage body, with his adult memories intact. With adult wisdom, though hampered by adolescent urges, Joel sets out to right the wrongs that will befall his family.
A young woman (Eliza Dushku) who works in the city morgue receives requests from corpses to stop their untimely deaths and then wakes up the day before, in order to attempt to save them.
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When college professor J.T. Neumeyer (Timothy Hutton) discovers a police file that outlines the details of his murder – which is to take place five days in the future – he wastes no time trying to save his own life.
Survivors of a plane crash on a mysterious island in the South Pacific Ocean. Desmond Hume becomes "unstuck in time" due to electromagnetic radiation. Other characters jump erratically forwards and backwards through time.
A police officer must learn to adapt to the way things were done in the 1970s after being thrown back in time by an accident. The U.S. version of the series, Life on Mars, starring Jason O'Mara, aired in 2008–2009.
A policeman must relive the day when his girlfriend gets murdered so that he can prevent it from happening. A suspenseful variation on the Groundhog Day concept.
Portals to different time periods start opening up and creatures from the past and future come through. There are indications that the portals are man-made, but their exact origin is shrouded in mystery.
Evil creatures come from a possible future to kill a human whose existence dooms them. They grant wishes to weak-willed humans which allows them to travel farther back in time.
A man finds himself jumping through time, unable to stop or control the jumps. A woman from 1948 also jumps into the future. Unable to jump home, she begins a legal career. They fall in love, but she jumps back home. For unknown reasons, they now jump to the same times, and she offers him advice and assistance.
John Amsterdam, a detective with the New York Police Department, is actually a 400-year-old Dutch settler of the city, then known as New Amsterdam. Granted immortality after a heroic deed; he has led several dozen lives, giving him knowledge that helps him solve crimes in modern New York City.
A spin-off series from Life on Mars in which Alex Drake, a police officer with the London Metropolitan Police, who is shot in 2008, awakes in 1981 where she meets characters from the original Life on Mars series.
In parallel storylines in 1986 and 2008, a time traveler has to prevent his own birth so that his love may live, but instead he ensures his own existence by saving his father from being killed by the series' antagonist.
In season 4 and 5 of Fringe, time travel is used by the Observers as a means to take over human civilization in 2015. Olivia and her team are sent from the year 2015 to the year 2036 to fight off the Observers.
A female Terminator from the year 2027 comes back to 1999 to protect a young John Connor, the future leader of the human resistance. They move in time to hide him, but find enemies wherever they go.
A Tyrannosaurus named Buddy travels with his adopted Pteranodon family on the Dinosaur Train, which can visit the entire Mesozoic Era, the "Age of Dinosaurs", passing through magical Time Tunnels to meet dinosaurs in Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous times.
Detectives investigate images being broadcast to the laboratory of eminent astrophysicist, Dr. Christian King (Emun Elliott), which appear to show catastrophic events in the future.
Erica Strange begins seeing a counselor to deal with regrets in her life, only to discover the counselor (Michael Riley) has the ability to send her back in time to actually change these events.
An incident renders the entire population of Earth unconscious for two minutes in 2009. During the "Black Out" the consciousness of the entire planet shifts forward six months into the future, where they see what could occur that day.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein has created "Frankenholes" to every time period of the past and the future. This allows historical figures and celebrities to seek the doctor's services. Although many classic horror monsters are present, the series' focus is on the mad scientist and his family.
When Earth is threatened with extinction in 2149, specially-selected humans travel back 85 million years in hopes of preventing the later disaster. However, they arrive on a parallel version of Earth, thus avoiding a temporal paradox.
A self-proclaimed "mad scientist" discovers that a new cell phone-operated microwave oven can send text messages back in time. A friend adapts it to send memories, effectively allowing time travel.
Storybook characters from the New Enchanted Forest fall into a magical portal created by a time-traveling spell to the Land Without Magic (our world) and a causal loop.
A Canadian spin-off series to Primeval in which a team of specialists deal with animals and people from other times who have travelled to present day through anomalies.
A series on the conflict between a police officer representing future corporations, and a group of anti-corporate rebels, each from the year 2077, who time-travel to Vancouver, BC around the year 2012.
The main character of the series, Eren Jaeger, and his brother Zeke, travel back in time through their father's memories through the power of the Founding Titan. Zeke attempts to convince his brother of their father's priority of the Eldian Restorationist movement above all else but is shocked to learn of his role in persuading Grisha into slaughtering the Reiss family, the Attack Titan's ability to see the memories of its future inheritors, and of the future memories Eren showed their father.
A crime scene investigator who has gained the power to move at superhuman speeds becomes a superhero crime-fighter. It is a spin-off from Arrow, existing in the same DC universe.
Time traveler James Cole travels from the year 2043 to the present day to stop the release of a deadly virus by the enigmatic organization known as "The Army of the Twelve Monkeys".
The Ministry of Time is a Spanish government institution. Its patrols watch the doors of time so intruders from other eras cannot change history for their own benefit.
Satoru Fujinuma can travel back to a time moments before a life-threatening incident. Going back 18 years, to when he was in elementary school, he has an opportunity to prevent a kidnapping.
Time Master, Rip Hunter, travels back in time to the present day where he brings together a team of heroes and villains to prevent those who would disrupt time for their benefit.
Subaru Natsuki finds himself on another world, attacked, and saved by a girl. Soon, they are attacked again and killed. He reawakens to the place in which he was reborn and has gained an ability to rewind time to a certain point by dying.
History professor, scientist, and soldier team up to stop a time-traveling criminal who seeks to change the course of American history in order to prevent the rise of a shadowy organization.
Hundreds of years from now, surviving humans discover how to send consciousness back through time, into people of the 21st century, while attempting to change the path of humanity.
Based on the 2000 film of the same name. In 2016, a detective discovers that she can speak to her deceased father via his old ham radio. Her attempts to save his life trigger the "butterfly effect", changing the present. To fix the damage, she must work with her father across decades to solve an old murder case.
A police detective trying to find a serial killer chases a suspect through a tunnel, only to wind up 30 years in the future. The series had a Thai remake in 2019.
A Netflix series; the disappearance of several locals, and other mysterious incidents around a power plant in the fictional town of Winden, Germany, spurs a mystery that occurs in 33 year cycles, starting originally in 1953, 1986, and 2019.
Arte/Netflix miniseries. Vincent Dauda (Gaspard Ulliel), dreams of winning back his ex, Louise (Freya Mavor). One day he is delivered a package he never ordered. A strange wooden box, without any bottom, through which he can travel through time. It just so happens to bring him back to Louise before they split up.[49]
In 2020 two Swedish scientists, Vilgot and Anna-Karin, develop an artificial wormhole (also known as an artificial black hole) in an attempt to control the electricity market. It malfunctions and instead causes two girls, Mira in 2020 and Rakel in 1920, to travel through time and swap bodies with each other.[50]
Using superpowers to enter their clientele's photos one by one, Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang take their work seriously at "Time Photo Studio," a small photography shop set in the backdrop of a modern metropolis. Each job can be full of danger, but nothing is more important than fulfilling every order, no matter the scale...or peril involved!
A young prosecutor who gets killed while trying to take down a powerful corrupted politician had his consciousness sent back to 15 years ago by a female Grim Reaper, in order to pursue justice.
Modern-day journalist Esra finds herself thrust back into 1919 via a portal in the historic Pera Palace Hotel and must attempt to foil a plot there which could change the course of Turkish history.
In his attempts to overcome the mysterious phenomena afflicting his hometown of Hitogashima, Shinpei Ajiro must often restart from "save points" after being killed. The mechanics of time travel and its interactions with said phenomena present Shinpei with both peril and opportunity.
A romantic drama about a man with a genetic disorder which causes him to sporadically travel through time for short periods, and the complications it creates for his marriage. Based on the Audrey Niffenegger novel.
The titular character, Scott Pilgrim, is taken to the future by his older self during his fight with Matthew Patel in order to prevent his relationship with Ramona Flowers and his subsequent battles with her Seven Evil Exes from happening. Present Scott was able to return home thanks to a future version of Ramona, but the lives of his friends as well as the Exes changed after initially believing him dead with the former now reformed after getting full closure from the previous relationships with Ramona.
The story starts with the appearance of a dead body in Longharvest Lane in the Whitechapel area of London. This event happens in the same location in four years – 1890, 1941, 2023 and 2053 – and leads to four investigations by Metropolitan Police detectives that eventually become interlinked, with far-reaching consequences.
A group of contestants travel back in time led by Professor McNulty on a Time Bus to investigate and restore original timelines from the evil Dr Paradox and his time vandals.
The player explores the ruins of the Nomai in a solar system stuck in a 22-minute time loop, attempting to discover the history of the Nomai, and the cause of the time loop.
The player must repeat the events of a titular 12-minute cycle to solve the mystery of his pregnant wife and the accusation that she murdered a man's father.
The player, stuck in a timeloop with his boss during the so-called "Night of Smiles", must solve the mystery unfolding within the newsroom related to that day's special guest.[51]
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^Hassen, Kristie (2014). "The Time Travelers (1964)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 17 May 2014. Retrieved 16 May 2014. After a nuclear holocaust, a group of scientists travel to the future and find a world in tatters, where the human survivors must constantly defend themselves against mutated beasts. Upon seeing the future of the earth, the men would like to return to 1964, but find it may not be possible.
^Wynn, Ron (3 February 2022). "New Film Has Time Travel Twist". Tennessee Tribune. p. B3. ProQuest2626040311. 'Alice,' which is due out in theaters March 18 via Roadside Attractions, is inspired by true events of Black Americans who remained enslaved after the Emancipation Proclamation. A blend of time travel, historical drama and revenge thriller, the movie is an ode to (and spin-on) Blaxploitation films.
