Space Exploration
themeVoyages beyond Earth's atmosphere and into the unknown.
Forbidden Planet
A starship crew is sent to the planet Altair IV to check on a colony expedition that vanished twenty years earlier — and finds only two survivors: reclusive scientist Dr. Morbius, his daughter Altaira, and Robby, a robot of his own design. Morbius has uncovered the remains of a vanished super-civilization and its incomprehensible technology, but something invisible and murderous is still guarding its secrets — something that may be coming from inside Morbius himself.
2001: A Space Odyssey
From the discovery of a mysterious black monolith among prehistoric apes to a lunar excavation that uncovers another, buried and broadcasting toward Jupiter, humanity follows a trail it doesn't understand toward a destination it can't imagine. Aboard the spacecraft Discovery One, astronauts Dave Bowman and Frank Poole share their mission with HAL 9000, an artificial intelligence of perfect, calm confidence — until HAL begins making decisions of its own.
Planet of the Apes
Astronaut George Taylor crash-lands on a distant planet where intelligent, talking apes rule as masters and mute, primitive humans are hunted as livestock and lab animals. Captured, caged, and stripped of his voice, Taylor must prove he's more than an animal to a ruling class of apes who have built their entire civilization on a founding lie about how the world came to be this way.
GemSilent Running
In a future where all plant life on Earth has gone extinct, botanist Freeman Lowell tends the last surviving forests aboard a fleet of orbiting greenhouse domes, cared for alongside three drone robots he's named Huey, Dewey and Louie. When corporate orders arrive to jettison and destroy the domes so the ships can return to commercial service, Lowell makes a desperate choice to save the only forest left in the universe — whatever the cost.
Star Wars
A farm boy on a desert planet intercepts a distress call hidden in a droid, and is swept into a galactic rebellion alongside a cynical smuggler, a fugitive princess and the last of an ancient order of knights — with a moon-sized battle station waiting at the end of the run.
Alien
The commercial towing vessel Nostromo, hauling ore between stars, is diverted by company order to investigate a signal from a dead world. What the crew brings back aboard has a life cycle perfectly designed to use them — and their employer knew.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
A massive, unidentified energy cloud is on a direct collision course with Earth, destroying every ship that tries to stop it. Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of a newly refitted USS Enterprise and reassembles his original crew for one more mission — one that will force them to confront what's actually inside the cloud, and what it wants.
Total Recall
Construction worker Doug Quaid can't stop dreaming of Mars, so he buys the memory of a trip from Rekall Inc. — and the implant chair wakes something already buried in his head. Soon he's killing trained agents by reflex, and the only certainty is a message from his own face: get your ass to Mars.
Starship Troopers
In a militarized future where citizenship must be earned through federal service, high school graduate Johnny Rico enlists in the Mobile Infantry alongside his friends, expecting glory. Instead, he finds himself on the front lines of an all-out interstellar war against the Arachnids, a species of massive, ravenous alien insects — while the propaganda broadcasts back home keep insisting humanity is winning.
Contact
Radio astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway has spent her career searching for proof of extraterrestrial intelligence against the skepticism of the scientific establishment and her own government funders. When she finally detects an unmistakable signal from the star Vega — instructions for building a machine of unknown purpose — Ellie is thrust into a collision between science, faith, politics and her own deepest need to believe that the universe holds more than empty static.