Time Travel
themeParadoxes, alternate timelines, and journeys through the fourth dimension.
The Terminator
In 2029, the machines that exterminated most of humanity lose the war — so they send an unstoppable cyborg assassin back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, the mother of the resistance leader who beat them. The resistance sends one soldier to protect her. He has a photograph, a sawed-off shotgun, and no way home.
Back to the Future
Teenager Marty McFly is accidentally blasted from 1985 to 1955 in a time machine his friend Doc Brown built out of a DeLorean. Stranded with no plutonium, he derails his own parents' first meeting — and has one week to make his father fall in love with his mother, or he'll never be born.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Two terminators arrive in Los Angeles: a reprogrammed T-800 sent to protect ten-year-old John Connor, and the T-1000 — a liquid-metal prototype that can look like anyone — sent to kill him. With Sarah Connor institutionalized for telling the truth, the future's only hope is a boy, his mother, and the machine that once hunted her.
Twelve Monkeys
In 2035, decades after a virus killed five billion people and drove the survivors underground, prisoner James Cole is sent back in time — not to prevent the outbreak, which is impossible, but to trace its source. Battered between decades and diagnosed insane in 1990, Cole begins to wonder if the doctors are right, while a childhood memory of an airport shooting keeps circling closer.
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
John Connor, now 25 and off the grid, has spent a decade waiting for a Judgment Day that never seems to come. When a new, shape-shifting Terminatrix — the T-X — is sent back to finish what the T-1000 couldn't, an aging T-850 arrives to protect him and Kate Brewster, the woman fate has chosen to stand beside him when the missiles finally fly.
Terminator Genisys
Kyle Reese is sent back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor exactly as he always has — except this time she's waiting for him, already trained by an aging Terminator guardian, and the timeline he remembers has been rewritten out from under him. As a new digital threat called Genisys prepares to launch as humanity's most trusted piece of software, Reese, Connor and the machine that raised her race to stop an apocalypse that no longer looks anything like the one he was warned about.
Terminator: Dark Fate
Decades after stopping Judgment Day, Sarah Connor is still hunting Terminators alone — and still grieving the future she thought she'd saved. When a new machine, the shape-splitting Rev-9, is sent back to kill a young factory worker in Mexico City, Sarah crosses paths with Grace, an augmented super-soldier from a future that was never supposed to exist, and with an old, unexpected face who has spent years quietly living with what he did.