Movies and Television Shows List

A.I. (2001). Runtime: 146 min – Cai Ewing Director: Steven Spielberg; Actors: Haley Joel Osment, Frances O'Connor In the not-so-far future the polar ice caps have melted and the resulting raise of the ocean waters has drowned all the coastal cities of the world. Withdrawn to the interior of the continents, the human race keeps advancing, reaching to the point of creating realistic robots (called mechas) to serve him. One of the mecha-producing companies builds David, an artificial kid which is the first to have real feelings, especially a never-ending love for his "mother", Monica. Monica is the woman who adopted him as a substitute for her real son, who remains in cryo-stasis, stricken by an incurable disease. David is living happily with Monica and her husband, but when their real son returns home after a cure is discovered, his life changes dramatically. A futuristic adaptation of the tale of Pinocchio, with David being the "fake" boy who desperately wants to become "real." OR . On : 1993-1999; 115 episodes, roughly 60 minutes long Actors: Michael O'Hare, Claudia Christian, et al. In the year 2258, it is ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. Commander Sinclair takes command of a giant five-mile- long cylindrical space station, orbiting a planet in neutral space. At a crossroads of interstellar commerce and diplomacy, Cmdr Sinclair (2d season Captain Sheridan) must try to establish peace and prosperity between various interstellar empires, all the while fighting forces from within the Earth Alliance. It is a precarious command, particularly given that sabotage led to the destruction of Babylon stations 1, 2, and 3 and 4 vanished without trace.

Bicentennial Man (1999). Runtime: 132 min – JoJo Bailey Director: Chris Columbus; Actors: Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz This film follows the “life” and times of the lead character, an android (Robin Williams) who is purchased as a household robot programmed to perform menial tasks. Within a few days the Martin family realizes that they don't have an ordinary droid as Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought. In a story that spans two centuries, Andrew learns the intricacies of humanity while trying to stop those who created him from destroying him. OR SeaQuest DSV. On Air: 1993-1995; 53 episodes, 60 minutes long Actors: Roy Scheider, Don Franklin By the mid-21st Century, humankind has colonized the oceans and formed the UEO--the United Earth Oceans--as a military organization to police it. Formerly a high-ranking member of the UEO, Nathan Bridger retired after the death of his wife, and retreated to an isolated island to study dolphins. An attempt is made to hijack the Seaquest DSV, the UEO's most powerful undersea vessel, and Nathan--its original designer--is convinced to return to active service, to assume command of it. His second in command is Cmdr. Jonathan Ford. In second season, the DSV added Dagwood, a prototype GELF (Genetically Engineered Life Form), Tony Piccolo, a man with surgically implanted gills, and Dr. Wendy Smith, a telepath/empath, to its crew of specialists. The series has New Age leanings, often presenting stories that deal with environmental issues or mix myth and mysticism--from ghosts to "gods"--into its .

Blade Runner (1982). Runtime: 117 min – Conor Gilliland Director: ; Actors: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer Deckard is a , a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 4 "skin jobs," a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious. OR Eureka. On Air: 2006-X, 12+ episodes, 60 minutes long Actors: Colin Ferguson, Jordan Hinson When U.S. Marshal Jack Carter transports his rebellious, runaway daughter Zoey home in his custody, an auto accident lands him and his charge in Eureka, a top-secret, rustic town populated by eccentrics and genius scientists. Carter immediately becomes aware of Eureka's uniqueness as embodied in its odd residents who are more than they seem: an auto mechanic who's also a space shuttle engineer, a beautiful innkeeper who doubles as a psychotherapist, children who give intricate directions and who write mathematical formulas on the sidewalk. Fifth Element (1997). Runtime: 126 min – Stacy Taylor Director: Luc Besson; Actors: Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman Two hundred and fifty years in the future, life as we know it is threatened by the arrival of Evil. Only the fifth element can stop the Evil from extinguishing life, as it tries to do every five thousand years. She is helped by ex-soldier, current- cab-driver, Korben Dallas, who is, in turn, helped by Prince/Arsenio clone, Ruby Rhod. Unfortunately, Evil is being assisted by Mr. Zorg, who seeks to profit from the chaos that Evil will bring, and his alien mercenaries. OR : Original Series. On Air: 1966-1969; 79 episodes 60 minutes long Actors: , Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk. The First Officer is Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. The Chief Medical Officer is Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy. With a determined crew, the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes, tribbles and genetic supermen lead by Khan Noonian Singh. Their mission is to explore strange new worlds, to new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

Gattaca (1997). Runtime: 101 min – Ivy Levin Director: Andrew Niccol; Actors: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman Gattaca Corp. is an aerospace firm in the future. At this time society analyzes DNA and determines where you belong in life. Ethan Hawke's character was born with a congenital heart condition which would cast him out of a chance to travel in space. So he assumes the identity of an athlete who has genes that allow him to achieve his dream of space travel. OR Star Trek: Voyager. On Air: 1995-2001; 171 episodes roughly 60 minutes long; Actors: The premise was of two opposing crews, Starfleet and the outlaw Maquis, both lost in a distant part of the galaxy, only to merge together to find a way home. Also one of the greatest factors was that Voyager was the first Trek series to feature a female captain, Kathryn Janeway. Other character include first officer Chakotay, Chief engineer B'ellana Torres, The holographic Doctor, and convict turned pilot Tom Paris.

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005). Runtime: 109 min – Meredith Barr Director: Garth Jennings; Actors: Mos Def, Martin Freeman Everyman Arthur Dent is whisked off the Earth seconds before it is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Sadly, his day has only just begun. Before it's over, he will have been blown up, attended a poetry reading, been thrown out of an airlock, rescued, reunited with the love of his life, shot at, had a fish stuck in his ear, insulted, whacked, sickened, deprived of tea, learned the answer to the ultimate question, and almost had his brain sawed out by mice. He then goes to have lunch. OR Earth 2. On Air: 1994-1995; 22 episodes 60 minutes long Actors: Jim Charleston, Janet Davidson In the future, the human race is living in space stations orbiting a dead Earth. Faced with a debilitating disease attacking her young son, Devon Adair and a band of non-conformists leave their artificial environment and travel to a distant planet, where they begin a new life for themselves.

I, Robot (2004). Runtime: 115 min – Wendy Haase Director: Alex Proyas; Actors: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan It's 2035 A.D., where robots are everyday objects and are programmed to live alongside humans. Detective Del Spooner is called out to investigate the apparent suicide of the scientist behind these robots, Dr. Alfred Lanning. Spooner suspects that the death might not be a suicide, but the result of one of the robots. All robots are programmed by three laws, but Spooner starts to wonder if a robot can in fact feel emotions, and possibly murder. But if Spooner's suspicions are true, he is going to have a hard time convincing everyone. OR Star Trek: The Next Generation. On Air: 1987-1994; 176 episodes roughly 60 minutes long Actors: Patrick Stewart, LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden Settled in the 24th century and 78 years after the adventures of the original crew of the starship Enterprise this new series is the long awaited successor to the original Star Trek series from the 1960's. Under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard the all new Enterprise NCC 1701-D travels out to distant planets to seek out new life and to boldly go where no one has gone before. Logan’s Run (1976). Runtime: 120 min – Nita Kelly Director: Michael Anderson; Actors: Michael York, Richard Jordan It is 2274. Some type of holocaust has decimated the earth, and the survivors sealed themselves into a domed city near Washington, D.C. To maintain the population balance, computers that run the city have decreed that all people must die at 30. This system is enforced by "sandmen": black-clad police operatives who terminate "runners" (those who attempt to live beyond 30). Logan, a sandman, is sent on a mission to find "," which is a code-word used by the master computer to describe what it believes is a place to which runners have been escaping. Logan begins to question the system he serves and after seeing for himself there is life beyond the dome, he returns to destroy the computer. OR Firefly. On Air: 2002; 15 episodes, 60 minutes long Actors: Ron Glass, Nathan Fillion Five hundred years in the future there's a whole new frontier, and the crew of the Firefly-class spaceship Serenity is eager to stake a claim on the action. They'll take any job, legal or illegal, to keep fuel in the tanks and food on the table. But things get a bit more complicated after they take on a passenger wanted by the new totalitarian Alliance regime. Now they find themselves on the run, desperate to steer clear of Alliance ships and the flesh-eating Reavers who live on the fringes of space.

The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). Runtime: 138 min – Paige Kinucan Director: Nicolas Roeg; Actors: David Bowie, Rip Torn Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft, and meets Mary-Lou, a girl who falls in love with him. He does not count on the greed and ruthlessness of business here on Earth, however. OR . On Air: 1997-X; 214+ episodes 60 minutes each Actors: , , and With a seemingly endless network of Stargates found to exist on planets all across the known universe, their mission is to make first contact with as many friendly races as possible. Chasing their heels at almost every turn are the "overlord" pharaonic Goa'uld--the ancient Egyptian gods from the original film. The welcome notion of a continued plot thread sees offshoots that follow the reincarnation of Daniel's wife, Sam's father literally joining a renegade faction of the Goa'uld, and Jack in an quest to out-sarcasm everyone.

Minority Report (2002). Runtime: 145 min – Jenny Ding Director: Steven Spielberg; Actors: Tom Cruise, Max von Sydow Based on a Philip K. Dick short story, Minority Report is about a cop in the future working in a division of the police department that arrests killers before they commit the crimes courtesy of some future viewing technology. John Anderton has the tables turned on him when he is accused of a future crime and must find out what brought it about and stop it before it can happen. OR Battlestar Galactica (old series). On Air: 1978-1980; 34 episodes, 60 minutes long Actors: Dirk Benedict, Lorne B. Green In the deepest reaches of space, the fight to save all human life from extinction has begun in this science fiction adventure that launched the Battlestar Galactica phenomenon! Hopeful for lasting peace following centuries of intense warfare, the Twelve Colonies gather to sign a treaty with their dreaded enemies, The Cylons. But after an act of treachery on the eve of the ceremony, the Cylons launch a devastating surprise attack, destroying the Colonies' home planets and most of their military strength. A lone flagship battlestar, the Galactica, remains to aid the surviving colonists on their epic journey for a new home to a far-off legendary planet--Earth. They must survive the pursuing Cylons in a series of epic battles that will determine the fate of the human race. RoboCop (1987). Runtime: 102 min Director: ; Actors: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen In the aftermath of economic and moral collapse, the city of Detroit has become a cesspool of crime and anarchy, forcing the underfunded police to fall under the stewardship of corporate juggernaut OCP. In his first day patrolling Old Detroit, Officer Alex Murphy is killed by feared gang leader Clarence Boddicker. OCP scientists are able to use Murphy's remains to build a cybernetic soldier codenamed Robocop. Dubbed the future of law enforcement, Robocop begins a one-man war on crime. When memories of his former life begin to surface, Robocop becomes obsessed with tracking down Boddicker and claiming revenge, even as his handlers try to rein him in. OR Battlestar Galactica (current series). On Air: 2003-X; 58+ episodes 60 minutes long Actors: Michael Hogan, Aaron Douglas, Michael Trucco With the 12 colonies of man virtually destroyed in the climax of a hundred-year war with the Cylon Empire, President Roslin and Commander Adama gather up the few humans left and embark on a journey to find the mythical planet Earth, not realizing that the Cylon robot is no longer a recognizable enemy. Battlestar Galactica is a complete re- imagining of the series – upping the ante on the action, adventure, and drama that made the original so popular.

Serenity (2005). Runtime: 119 min – Amanda Becker Director: Joss Whedon; Actors: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres River Tam and her brother Simon are hiding out from the totalitarian government that experimented with River's brain aboard the space-freighter Serenity. Captained by a down on his luck, no faith soldier, the crew of Serenity must take jobs (legal or not) while avoiding the Alliance, and keeping the Tams safe. But when things get out of hand with the true extent of River's powers, the Alliance sends a new Operative to make sure what River knows doesn't get out. OR . On Air: 1989-1990; 21 episodes, roughly 60 minutes long Actors: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint A flying saucer crashed in the Mojave Desert and its inhabitants turned out to be alien slaves, bred to be super intelligent and strong, and controllable by their Overseers. These Tenctonese, or "Newcomers", have been assimilated (sort of) into the population of . One of them, George Francisco, is a police detective with a human partner, Matthew Sikes. George and Matt fight crime together, while learning to respect the other's culture, and question his own. They also fight prejudice, as personified by the Purists, and fear, in the form of the unseen Overseers, who seek to regain control over their slaves.

Silent Running (1972). Runtime: 89 min – Rudy Montoya Director: Douglas Trumbull; Actors: Bruce Dern, Chris Potts Freeman Lowell looks after plants in giant space greenhouses. Back on earth, all trees have long vanished, so Lowell puts a lot of heart into his work. When orders from earth are received to destroy the greenhouses, Lowell can't go through with it, and cannot persuade his three colleagues to help him save the plants, so he makes other "arrangements." OR (current series). On Air: 2005-X; 29+ episodes, 45 minutes long Actors: Billie Piper, Christopher Eccleston, Camille Coduri, Noel Clarke, John Barrowman Rose Tyler, a young shop assistant in a London department store, lives a humdrum and profoundly average life - until the night the shop dummies where she works wake up and try to kill her. Her life is saved by a strange man who only calls himself The Doctor, and intrigued by him, she finds herself thrown headlong into a hectic battle to stop an alien presence from invading Earth and annihilating the human race. She comes to learn that her new friend is even stranger than she thought - in fact, the Doctor's an alien adventurer called a 'Time Lord', seemingly the last of his race, who travels through time and space in his TARDIS battling evil where he finds it. And if she travels with him, she'll find herself witnessing the heat-death of the Earth five billion years in the future, meeting Charles Dickens in the past, and encountering life forms and invaders stranger than she'd ever thought possible. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). Runtime: 132 min – Martha Gutierrez Director: Robert Wise; Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy An alien phenomenon of unprecedented size and power is approaching Earth, destroying everything in its path. The only starship in range is the U.S.S. Enterprise--still in drydock after a major overhaul. As Captain Decker readies his ship and his crew to face this menace, the legendary Admiral James T. Kirk arrives with orders to take command of the Enterprise and intercept the intruder. But it has been three years since Kirk last commanded the Enterprise on its historic five year mission...is he up to the task of saving the Earth? OR Andromeda. On Air: 2000-2005; 110 episodes, 60 minutes long Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Lisa Ryder Based on an idea by Gene Roddenberry, Andromeda confidently wears its debt to Star Trek on its sleeve, recalling the best sci-fi of Roddenberry's heyday. Captain Dylan Hunt, played by Kevin (ex-Hercules) Sorbo is a sympathetically flawed idealist in command of the Andromeda Ascendant, a massive starship of the now-disbanded Systems Commonwealth. The fall of civilization has meant that although she ought to be a relic she remains the zenith of technological advancement.

Star Wars IV (1977). Runtime: 121 min / 125 min (special edition) Director: George Lucas; Actors: , Harrison Ford Part IV in a George Lucas epic, Star Wars: A New Hope opens with a rebel ship being boarded by the tyrannical Darth Vader. The plot then follows the life of a simple farmboy, Luke Skywalker, as he and his newly met allies (Han Solo, Chewbacca, Ben Kenobi, C-3PO, R2-D2) attempt to rescue a rebel leader, Princess Leia, from the clutches of the Empire. The conclusion is culminated as the Rebels, including Skywalker and flying ace Wedge Antilles make an attack on the Empires most powerful and ominous weapon, the Death Star. OR . On Air: 1999-2003; 88 episodes, 60 minutes long Actors: , , , , Among the first season's 22 episodes, "Premiere" introduces the characters and the basic premise: American astronaut John Crichton is flung through a wormhole and comes out in the midst of an interstellar prison escape on the other side of the universe. When the galactic cops (called "Peacekeepers") mark him as the new public enemy number one, Crichton is forced to ally himself with the convicts: hulking warrior D'Argo, blue-skinned priest Zhaan, fugitive peacekeeper Aeryn, exiled king Rygel, and Pilot, the giant insect-like nerve center of their living ship, Moya.

Total Recall (1990). Runtime: 113 min – Kristen Erickson Director: Paul Verhoeven; Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, What is reality when you can't trust your memory? An Earthbound construction worker keeps having dreams about Mars. A trip to a false memory transplant service for an imaginary trip to Mars goes terribly wrong and another personality surfaces. When his old self returns, he finds groups of his friends and several strangers seem to have orders to kill him. He finds records his other self left him that tell him to get to Mars to join the underground. The reality of the situation is constantly in question. Who is he? Which personality is correct? Which version of reality is true? OR Dark Angel. On Air: 2000-2002; 43 episodes, 60 minutes long Actors: , Michael Weatherly Jessica Alba is impressive as Max, bred and trained as a super-soldier but reclaiming her individual humanity; Michael Weatherly is scruffily attractive as Eyes Only, who sits semi-paralyzed in his eyrie above Seattle uncovering crime, corruption, and other skullduggeries and assigning deadly errands to the woman he hopelessly loves. Jon Savage has real authority as Lydeker, a man who has stretched his to the breaking point, but is not personally corrupt.