FYC: A TIMELINE FOR SCI-FI
By: spartacula
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: A TIMELINE FOR SCI-FI is a work in progress.
feel free to recommend any new titles that would fit this list, or correct any dates via the post… I’m sure there are ‘time-travel’ buffs that could make better sense than I… thanks!
THE ‘MUBI’ CATALOG IS NOT LISTED CRONOLOGICALLY; it’s just for reference.
YEAR – TITLE
1885 – BACK TO THE FUTURE PART 3
1945 – SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
1964 – ON THE BEACH
1985 – BACK TO THE FUTURE
1995 – A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
1995 – TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY
1997 – ESCAPE FROM NY
1999 – STRANGE DAYS
2000 – PLANET OF THE APES
2001 – 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
2005 – SOUTHLAND TALES
2009 – FREEJACK
2010 – DISTRICT 9
2012 – 2012
2012 – I AM LEGEND
2013 – THE POSTMAN
2013 – ESCAPE FROM L.A.
2015 – ROBOCOP
2015 – BACK TO THE FUTURE PART 2
2017 – THE RUNNING MAN
2018 – ROLLERBALL
2018 – TERMINATOR SALVATION
2019 – AKIRA
2019 – BLADE RUNNER
2022 – SOYLENT GREEN
2024 – METROPIA
2027 – CHILDREN OF MEN
2028 – 12 MONKEYS
2029 – GHOST IN THE SHELL
2029 – THE TERMINATOR
2032 – DEMOLITION MAN
2038 – V FOR VENDETTA
2032 – TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES
2046 – SOLARIS
2046 – 2046
2047 – EVENT HORIZON
2054 – MINORITY REPORT
2057 – SUNSHINE
2084 – TOTAL RECALL
2101 – ARTIFICIAL INTELLEGENCE: A.I.
2122 – ALIEN (‘79) – RIDLEY SCOTT
2130 – THE BLACK HOLE
2154 – AVATAR
2172 – ALIENS
2173 – SLEEPER
2182 – PANDORUM
2199 – THE MATRIX
2200 – STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN
2220 – FORBIDDEN PLANET
2263 – THE FIFTH ELEMENT
2293 – ZARDOZ
2387 – STAR TREK
2500 – LOGAN’S RUN
2505 – IDIOCRACY
2805 – WALL-E
3000 – BATTLEFIELD EARTH: A SAGA OF THE YEAR 3000
3000 – METROPOLIS (US release)
802,701 – THE TIME MACHINE
? – OUTLAND
? – FAHRENHEIT 451
? – BARBARELLA
? – DUNE
? – ALIEN NATION
? – COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE
? – BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES
? – ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES
? – CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
? – BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES
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01Paul Verhoeven
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02Robert Zemeckis
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03Robert Zemeckis
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04Robert Zemeckis
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05Paul Michael Glaser
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06John Carpenter
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07Norman Jewison
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08Ridley Scott
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09Richard Fleischer
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10Alfonso Cuarón
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11Terry Gilliam
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12James McTeigue
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13Paul W.S. Anderson
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14Steven Spielberg
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15Paul Verhoeven
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16Steven Spielberg
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17James Cameron
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18James Cameron
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19Gary Nelson
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20Woody Allen
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21Fred M. Wilcox
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22Luc Besson
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23John Boorman
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24J.J. Abrams
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25Nicholas Meyer
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26Michael Anderson
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27Mike Judge
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28Franklin J. Schaffner
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29James Cameron
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30McG
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31Ted Post
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32Neill Blomkamp
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33Kathryn Bigelow
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34Richard Kelly
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35Andrew Stanton
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36Danny Boyle
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37Andrei Tarkovsky
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38Steven Soderbergh
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39James Cameron
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40François Truffaut
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41Roger Vadim
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42David Lynch
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43Graham Baker
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44Fritz Lang
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45George Pál
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46Katsuhiro Ôtomo
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47Shinichiro Watanabe
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48Wong Kar-wai
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49Stanley Kramer
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50Stanley Kubrick
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51John Carpenter
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52Stanley Kubrick
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53George Roy Hill
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54Roland Emmerich
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55Christian Alvart
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56Francis Lawrence
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57Mamoru Oshii
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58Ridley Scott
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59Tarik Saleh
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60Geoff Murphy
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61Kevin Costner
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62Marco Brambilla
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63Jonathan Mostow
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64Roger Christian
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65Peter Hyams
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66Don Taylor
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67J. Lee Thompson
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