List of time travel works of fiction
The lists below describes notable works of fiction involving time travel, where time travel is central to the plot or the premise of the work. For stories of time travel in antiquity, see the history of the time travel concept. For video games and interactive media featuring time travel, see list of games containing time travel.
Time travel in novels and short stories
This list describes notable 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.
Date | Title | Author | Description |
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1733 | Memoirs of the Twentieth Century | Samuel Madden | A guardian angel travels to the year 1728, with letters from 1997 and 1998. |
1781 | Anno 7603 | Johan Herman Wessel | A good fairy sends people to the year 7603 AD.[1] The people find themselves in a society where gender roles are reversed. Only women are soldiers. |
1819 | Rip Van Winkle | Washington Irving | 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] |
1843 | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | The heartless Scrooge is shown his past and future (in a dream) by three ghosts in order to teach him the consequences of his selfish ways.[3] |
1881 | The Clock that Went Backward | Edward Page Mitchell | A clock takes people back in time. The first story to use a machine for time travel.[4] |
1887 | Looking Backward: 2000-1887 | Edward Bellamy | In the late 19th century, Julian West falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes 113 years later. |
1888 | A Dream of John Ball | William Morris | John Ball travels between mediaeval and contemporary worlds. |
1888 | The Chronic Argonauts | H. G. Wells | An inventor takes a companion in his time machine. The companion narrates the story of their subsequent adventures. |
1889 | Sylvie and Bruno | Lewis Carroll | A watch both tells and determines time. |
1889 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Mark Twain | A man of the 19th century travels to 528 AD in King Arthur's time. |
1891 | Tourmalin's Time Cheques | Thomas A. Gutherie | Time travel and the paradoxes that can result from it. |
1892 | Golf in the Year 2000 | J. McCullough | A man falls asleep in 1892 and wakes up in the year 2000. Noted for its accurate predictions of the year 2000. |
1895 | The Time Machine | H. G. Wells | An inventor creates a time machine and travels to the year 802,701 AD. There, humans have evolved into two species, Morlocks and Eloi. |
1906 | The Story of the Amulet | E. Nesbit | Gore Vidal writes, "It is a time machine story, only the device is not a machine but an Egyptian amulet whose other half is lost in the past. By saying certain powerful words, the amulet becomes a gate through which the children are able to visit the past or future. ... a story of considerable beauty."[5] |
1919 | Enoch Soames | Max Beerbohm | Enoch is transported from 1897 to 1997 to find out whether he became a great writer. His tale involves a Faustian pact. |
1928/ 1929 |
Armageddon 2419 A.D. | Philip Francis Nowlan | A strange cave gas transports Anthony Rogers to 2419 AD. This story was the basis of the comic strip, Buck Rogers. |
1936 | Burnt Norton | T. S. Eliot | This work begins with the line, "Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future..." |
1939 | Lest Darkness Fall | L. Sprague de Camp | An archaeologist is transported from Rome, in the time of Mussolini, to the 6th century and tries to prevent the fall of the Roman Empire. |
1941 | By His Bootstraps | Robert A. Heinlein | A circular paradox-character is brought to the future where he later operates a time machine to bring himself to the future. |
1942 | All-Star Comics #10 | The Justice Society of America uses a time ray to travel 500 years into the future to secure an effective defence system to protect America against bomb attacks. | |
1944 | Future Times Three | René Barjavel | Two scientists invent a substance which allows time travel. They travel to the future, where humanity has branched into different species, each with their own particular tasks, and then to the past. The story was adapted to movie form in 1982. |
1946 | Vintage Season | "Lawrence O'Donnell" (joint pseudonym of C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner) | Time travellers from the future experience wonderful seasons and spectacular events in the past. |
1947 | All-Star Comics #35 | The villain, Per Degaton, murders a scientist who has invented a time machine. Degaton then attempts to use the time machine to alter history so that modern technology cannot defeat his bid to conquer America. | |
1950 | Pebble in the Sky | Isaac Asimov | In the mid-twentieth century, a man who is a retired tailor is accidentally sent to the future. |
1951 | The Gauntlet | Ronald Welch | After putting on a gauntlet, a boy is transported to 1326 in Wales. |
1952 | A Sound of Thunder | Ray Bradbury | The butterfly effect means changes made in the past will affect the future. |
1953 | Bring the Jubilee | Ward Moore | A time traveller from an alternate reality appears at the Battle of Gettysburg and changes his own future into ours. |
1954 | Experiment | Fredric Brown | An experiment involving the time travel of a small brass cube results in disaster.[6] |
1955 | The End of Eternity | Isaac Asimov | Time guardians carry out "Reality Changes" to minimize human suffering, as integrated over the whole of (future) human history. |
1955– 1995 |
Time Patrol, plus 10 others | Poul Anderson | A series of eleven novels about the Time Patrol, an organization which protects the past. |
1956 | Extempore | Damon Knight | Mankind learns how to travel through time. |
1956 | The Stars My Destination | Alfred Bester | Gully Foyle lives in a future where self-teleportation is common. He learns to teleport through time. |
1957 | Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd (A Week in the Wales of the Future) | Islwyn Ffowc Elis | The narrator travels twice to Wales in the year 2033. Each time he encounters a different future. (Welsh) |
1957 | The Door into Summer | Robert A. Heinlein | 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. |
1957 | The Last Word | Damon Knight | A tale of Armageddon and the Devil. |
1957 | Soldier from Tomorrow | Harlan Ellison | A soldier travels from back from the future to warn the world of its path towards global conflict. |
1958 | The Men Who Murdered Mohammed | Alfred Bester | A professor travels back in time and kills his wife's grandfather so that his wife will never have existed. However, the results confound him. |
1958 | Tom's Midnight Garden | Philippa Pearce | 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. |
1959 | All You Zombies | Robert A. Heinlein | A circular paradox in which a man discovers that he is his own mother and father. |
1960 | The Weirdstone of Brisingamen | Alan Garner | Through the caves of Alderley Edge in Cheshire, Colin and Susan go back in time in a story involving a crystal bracelet and a magical great wolf. |
1961 | Bring Back Yesterday | A Bertram Chandler | A space-navy regular who has missed his ship leaving Venus is recruited by a time-travelling scientist, eventually getting back to just before he missed the ship. |
1961 | Danny Dunn, Time Traveler | Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams | Two teenagers use their professor's time machine to study the history of the United States. |
1962 | Fantastic Four vol 1 No. 19 | Stan Lee and Jack Kirby | The Fantastic Four travel to Ancient Egypt where they meet Pharaoh Rama-Tut, who is a time traveller from the 31st century. This was the first appearance of the Marvel Comics time-travelling villain, Kang. |
1963–present | Doctor Who | various authors | Doctor Who gave rise to more than 530 original novels and novelisations based on the popular science fiction television show. |
1967 | The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | Yasutaka Tsutsui | A high-school girl who accidentally acquires the ability to travel through time. |
1967 | Jessamy | Barbara Sleigh | A children's mystery set in England where the main protagonist travels to the time of World War I. |
1967 | The Technicolor Time Machine | Harry Harrison | A bankrupt film studio and a mediocre film director make a movie of the founding of Vinland. Using a time travel machine, they cast real Vikings. |
1968 | Hawksbill Station | Robert Silverberg | An oppressive government uses a time machine to deport their political prisoners to the Pre-Cambrian, billions of year in the past. |
1969 | Charlotte Sometimes | Barbara Sleigh | A boarding-school story where the protagonist, Charlotte, travels back in time to be Claire in 1918. |
1969 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | A man is randomly traveling through time, jumping from one event to another in no particular order. |
1969 | Up the Line | Robert Silverberg | Tourists take guided tours to historical events. |
1969 | The House on the Strand | Daphne du Maurier | A drug-induced journey to a Cornish village in the 14th century. |
1969 | Behold the Man | Michael Moorcock | A man uses a time machine to travel to 28 AD, in the hope of meeting Jesus. |
1970 | Time and Again | Jack Finney | Hypnosis allows travel through time. |
1970 | The Year of the Quiet Sun | Wilson Tucker | A government uses a forward time traveling machine to survey the future and then adjust its policies based on what it sees. |
1973 | Time Enough for Love | Robert A. Heinlein | Lazarus Long travels back in time to 1916 and falls in love with his own mother. |
1973 | The Man Who Folded Himself | David Gerrold | A man receives a belt that allows him to travel through time. |
1973 | Crusade in Jeans | Thea Beckman | A 14-year-old boy is accidentally stranded in the 13th century. He saves the life of Leonardo Fibonacci, and together they join the German Children's Crusade, where saves most of them with the aid of his twentieth-century knowledge and a couple of items from the future (such as a box of matches). |
1975 | Bid Time Return | Richard Matheson | A young man sees an old photograph of a woman. Through hypnosis he travels back in time from 1980 to 1912 to meet her. The story was the basis of the 1980 film Somewhere in Time, winner of the 1976 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. |
1976 | An Infinite Summer | Christopher Priest | Time travelers from the future journey through the 20th century and use a device to "freeze" small groups of people into "tableaux" which they find interesting. The people in each tableau become invisible and permeable to others, until the effect wears off, sometimes after many years. |
1977 | Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation | Larry Niven | 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. |
1979 | Time After Time | Karl Alexander | H. G. Wells builds a time machine, which is stolen by Jack the Ripper so he can escape the authorities and continue his killing spree in the future. |
1979 | Morlock Night | K. W. Jeter | What happens when H. G. Wells' time machine returns from the future. The Morlocks from H. G. Wells' The Time Machine use the machine to travel back to Victorian London. |
1980 | Timescape | Gregory Benford | Ttachyons are used to warn scientists of the past about an upcoming disaster. Winner of the 1980 Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards and the 1981 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. |
1980 | Thrice Upon a Time | James P. Hogan | A scientist invents a machine that can send messages through time. |
1980 | A Rebel in Time | Harry Harrison | A racist US colonel plans to aid the Confederacy with submachine gun plans and is pursued through time by an African-American cop. |
1980 | Kindred | Octavia Butler | An African-American woman is inexplicably transported from 1976 Los Angeles to early 19th century Maryland. She meets her ancestors: a white slave holder and an African-American woman who was born free, but was forced into slavery later in life. |
1980 | The Restaurant at the End of the Universe | Douglas Adams | Milliways is frozen in the last moment before the universe succumbs to final entropy. Time travel is required to reach it. Menu prices are astronomical so patrons are advised to deposit a penny in a bank account. By the time a patron reaches the restaurant, compound interest will have transformed the penny into a fortune large enough to pay the bill. |
1981 | The Many-Colored Land, first book of the Saga of the Pliocene Exile series | Julian May | 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 period. There the world is controlled by humanoid extraterrestrials. |
1982 | Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | Time travel paradoxes form the basis of this broad comedy, as in the case of the ancient poet Lallafa. |
1983 | Millennium | John Varley | 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. |
1983 | The Anubis Gates | Tim Powers | 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. |
1984 | The Toynbee Convector | Ray Bradbury | 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. |
1985 | The Proteus Operation | James P. Hogan | In a world dominated by a victorious Third Reich, the besieged forces of freedom mount a covert military mission to 1939, in a desperate attempt to alter the outcome of World War II. |
1985 | Star Trek: Ishmael | Barbara Hambly | Spock is aboard a Klingon ship when it travels back in time to Seattle in 1867. He discovers a Klingon plot to destroy the United Federation of Planets by assassinating an ancestor of his mother who is a prominent local businessman who will later be instrumental in repelling an invasion by the alien Karsids. |
1987 | Sphere | Michael Crichton | A man made space ship from the far future passes through a wormhole. It crashes onto the Earth where it is thought to be an alien vessel. |
1987 | A Tale of Time City | Diana Wynne Jones | Vivian Smith is a girl who is kidnapped while being evacuated from London during World War II. She is caught up in a struggle to preserve history. |
1988 | Replay | Ken Grimwood | In 1988, a man suffers a heart attack and finds himself returned to his life in 1963. |
1988 | Lightning | Dean Koontz | A time traveler from Nazi Germany interferes with the life of a young woman. |
1988 | The Devil's Arithmetic | Jane Yolen | During a Passover Seder, a woman is transported back to 1942 in Poland and is sent to a death camp. |
1989 | Hyperion | Dan Simmons | The Shrike is a great warrior who is sent back from the future for reasons unknown. |
1990 | Four Past Midnight: "The Langoliers" | Stephen King | 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. |
1991-ongoing | Outlander series | Diana Gabaldon | A woman time travels from the 1940s to the 1740s by stepping through the standing stones in Scotland. |
1992 | The Guns of the South | Harry Turtledove | During the American Civil War, South African white supremacists give AK-47s to the Confederacy. |
1992 | Doomsday Book | Connie Willis | A history student is inadvertently sent to 1348 England, at the beginning of the Black Death pandemic. |
1993 | The Cross-Time Engineer | Leo Frankowski | A 20th-century Polish engineer is transported back to 13th century Poland, ten years before the Mongol invasion. |
1995 | The Hundred-Light-Year-Diary | Greg Egan | 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. |
1995 | From Time to Time | Jack Finney | In this sequel to Time and Again, Simon Morley travels back in time to the year 1911 to prevent World War I. He has adventures including voyaging on the RMS Titanic. |
1995 | The Time Ships | Stephen Baxter | The authorised sequel to H. G. Wells' The Time Machine. |
1996 | Timequake | Kurt Vonnegut | In 2001, people are transported to 1991 to relive their lives. |
1996 | Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus | Orson Scott Card | Researchers look back in time to see Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World, in order to save the world from ecological disaster. |
1996 | Animorphs | K. A. Applegate | In book 11, the 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. In the Andalite Chronicles, Elfangor discovers a technology known as the Time Matrix, seen again in Megamorph 3. |
1997 | In the Garden of Iden | Kage Baker | This is the first book of Baker's The Company series, all of which involve time travel. |
1997 | Making History | Stephen Fry | Two men in the present attempt to prevent the birth of Adolf Hitler. |
1997 | To Say Nothing of the Dog | Connie Willis | A comedy in which history travel back in time to find an artifact for a wealthy woman. Along the way they experience the Blitz at St. Paul's Cathedral and travel the Thames as in Three Men in a Boat. |
1997 | Corrupting Dr. Nice | John Kessel | Modeled on 1930s screwball comedies; set in Cretaceous, 40 AD Jerusalem, and 2060 AD. Features a scene with a dinosaur in a hotel room. |
1998 | The Transall Saga | Gary Paulsen | A boy gets transported to a weird world by a blue light, only to discover that it is the dark future of planet Earth. |
1998 | Island in the Sea of Time | S. M. Stirling | Nantucket is transported 3000 years back in time because of a space disturbance. |
1998 | The Sterkarm Handshake | Susan Price | A 21st-century corporation intends to use a Time Tube to exploit the natural resources of the past, but is outfoxed by a 16th-century Scottish clan. |
1999 | King of Shadows | Susan Cooper | 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. |
1999 | Timeline | Michael Crichton | Modern historians become stuck in the Middle Ages. |
1999 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | J. K. Rowling | Hogwarts student, Hermione Granger, acquires a Time-Turner, that allows her to take an unusually large courseload. The device is later used to manipulate the events of a single night to allow the escape of a wrongly-accused man and a condemned hippogriff. |
2000 | The Light of Other Days | Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter | A wormhole-based "time viewer" can observe people and events from any point throughout time and space. |
2000 | 1632 | Eric Flint | A West Virginia mining town is sent back to the Thirty Years' War in Germany. |
2001 | The Chronoliths | Robert Charles Wilson | Monuments from the future appear in the early 21st century, precipitating a global political collapse. |
2001 | Thief of Time | Terry Pratchett | Unfreezing and freezing of time using a small mechanism. |
2002 | Bones of the Earth | Michael Swanwick | Paleontologists studying dinosaurs are trapped in the Mesozoic period, but also travel into the very distant future. The novel was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2002, and the Hugo Award, John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and Locus Awards in 2003. |
2002 | Night Watch | Terry Pratchett | A man interacts with a younger version of himself. |
2002 | Counting Up, Counting Down | Harry Turtledove | A collection of short stories, including two that deal with a man's attempt to prevent the break-up of his marriage by traveling back to the time he first met his wife. |
2002 | Kaleidoscope Century | John Barnes | A man on Mars has a virus that puts him to sleep every 15 years, and he wakes 10 younger. He learns of a way to go back to the past. |
2002 | The Eyre Affair | Jasper Fforde | Sleuth, Thursday Next, gets caught up in overlapping vortices of time and alternate reality as a villain tries to eradicate a literary classic. |
2003-ongoing | Haruhi Suzumiya | Nagaru Tanigawa | Mikuru Asahina and Fujiwara have traveled from the future to observe a girl who is unaware that she possesses destructive reality warping powers. |
2003 | The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | A man with a rare genetic disorder unpredictably travels in time, living his life out of sequence. |
2004 | Axis of Time | John Birmingham | A naval task force from 2021 is accidentally sent back to just before the Battle of Midway. |
2004 | The Spark of God (orig. title: L'Éclat de Dieu) | Romain Sardou | Describes the First Crusade and the beginning of the Knights Templar in the future. |
2004 | All You Need Is Kill | Hiroshi Sakurazaka | When aliens invade, Keiji Kiriya is a new recruit sent to fight. He dies on the battlefield, only to reawaken the day before he was killed, to fight and die again and again. |
2004–2005 | Warcraft: War of the Ancients Trilogy | Richard A. Knaak | A human, a dragon and an orc travel back in time to help save Azeroth from the Burning Legion. |
2005 | Mammoth | John Varley | A multibillionaire clones a mammoth and sends it back in time. |
2006 | The Plot to Save Socrates | Paul Levinson | Time travelers from 2042 try to prevent Socrates from consuming hemlock. |
2006 | Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony | Eoin Colfer | The fifth book in the Artemis Fowl series. Artemis and Captain Holly Short search for a missing demon, to prevent a violent demon colony from returning to Earth. Artemis also ends up saving Holly by manipulating time. |
2007 | Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey | Chuck Palahniuk | Characters participate in "Party Crashing" which can, under certain conditions, cause time travel. |
2007 | Meet The Robinsons | Steve Anderson | A man meets his future son and then travels to the future to meet his family. |
2007 | The Accidental Time Machine | Joe Haldeman | 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. |
2008 | Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox | Eoin Colfer | 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 his mother. The plot twist in the end of the book creates a circular timeline that started the series. |
2008 | Found | Margaret Peterson Haddix | 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. |
2009 | Ruby Red (original title: Rubinrot) | Kerstin Gier | Gwendolyn Shepherd can travel in time with a machine called a chronograph. |
2009 | Sent | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Jonah, Katherine, Chip and Alex are sent back to 1483 to learn that Chip is actually King Edward V and Alex is his brother Richard, Duke of York. |
2010 | Sabotaged | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Jonah and Katherine go on a mission to return a missing child, named Andrea (really Virginia Dare), to her time in the Roanoke Colony. |
2010 | Blackout and All Clear | Connie Willis | Historians from 2048 go to the London Blitz during World War II to observe and end up being part of it. A novel published in two parts. |
2010 | How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe | Charles Yu | In search of his father, a time machine mechanic traves through time accompanied by TAMMY and his ontologically valid dog, Ed, all while documenting his travels in a manual for future travellers. |
2011 | 11/22/63 | Stephen King | A man travels through a time portal to 1960, intending to stop Lee Harvey Oswald from shooting John F. Kennedy. |
2011-2013 | Fairy Tail | Hiro Mashima | Two time travellers, Lucy Heartfilia and Rogue Cheney, use a device called the Eclipse Gate from the Book of Zeref to travel back in time. |
2012 | Amber House | Kelly Moore, Tucker Reed, Larkin Reed | A teen girl uses psychometry to alter events in the past, changing the present and future. |
2013 | Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers | Dav Pilkey | George Beard and Harold Hutchins, two fourth graders, use a homemade time machine to travel 65 million years into the past. |
2014 | Neverwas | Kelly Moore, Tucker Reed, Larkin Reed | An unforeseen change in the past necessitates the use of psychic abilities to reset the present and future. |
Time travel in films
Time travel is a common theme and plot device in science fiction films. The list below covers notable films for which time travel is central to the plot or premise of the work.
Year | Title | Director | Description |
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1921 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Emmett J. Flynn | 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. |
1923 | Rex – Hvad Diogenes søkte og fandt | Trygve Dalseg | A Norwegian movie, actually a commercial for Rex margarine, where Diogenes of Sinope travels in time, meeting Nero and Napoleon, amongst others, in search for the true Rex. |
1930 | Just Imagine | David Butler | 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. |
1933 | Turn Back the Clock | Edgar Selwyn | 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.[7][8] |
1933 | Berkeley Square | Frank Lloyd | A contemporary man is transported back to 18th-century London where he meets his ancestors and falls in love with a woman of the period. |
1944 | Time Flies | Walter Forde | A music hall performer travels back to Elizabethan times using a time machine. |
1947 | Repeat Performance | Alfred L. Werker | Film noir meets science fiction when a woman shoots her husband on New Year's Eve, 1946, then wishes that she could live the year all over again. Will she make the same choice a second time?[9][10] |
1949 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Tay Garnett | Very loosely based on Mark Twain's story in which a mechanic (Bing Crosby) is knocked out and wakes up in the land of King Arthur. |
1951 | I'll Never Forget You | Roy Ward Baker | An American atomic scientist is transported to the 18th century, where he falls in love. |
1957 | The Undead | Roger Corman | A woman is sent back in time, via hypnosis, to the Middle Ages where she may be executed by the people of that time on suspicion of being a witch. |
1960 | Beyond the Time Barrier | Edgar G. Ulmer | 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. |
1960 | The Time Machine | George Pal | 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. |
1962 | La Jetée | Chris Marker | A survivor of the Third World War is sent back in time to rescue the present.[11] La Jetée inspired the 1995 movie, 12 Monkeys.[12] |
1964 | The Time Travelers | Ib Melchior | 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.[13][14] |
1965 | Dr. Who and the Daleks | Gordon Flemyng | 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. |
1966 | Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. | Gordon Flemyng | Based on the BBC TV series. The Doctor and his companions travel in the TARDIS to a future London devastated by war with the Daleks. |
1967 | Journey to the Center of Time | David L. Hewitt | 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. |
1968 | Planet of the Apes | Franklin J. Schaffner | George Taylor (played by Charlton Heston) is an astronaut who travels to a future Earth inhabited by intelligent, talking apes. |
1970 | Beneath the Planet of the Apes | Ted Post | 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. |
1971 | Escape from the Planet of the Apes | Don Taylor | 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. |
1972 | Slaughterhouse-Five | George Roy Hill | A man becomes displaced from time and experiences the events in his life in random order, including time spent in an alien civilization. |
1973 | Idaho Transfer | Peter Fonda | 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. |
1973 | Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future | Leonid Gaidai | 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. |
1978 | Superman | Richard Donner | Superman circles the Earth at tremendous speeds allowing him to travel back in time to just before an earthquake created by Lex Luthor. |
1979 | Time After Time | Nicholas Meyer | Using a time machine, Jack the Ripper and H. G. Wells travel from 1893 London to 1979 San Francisco. |
1980 | The Final Countdown | Don Taylor | A storm at sea transports a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier back in time from the 1980s to the 1940s. |
1980 | Somewhere in Time | Jeannot Szwarc | Adapted from the novel, Bid Time Return, by Richard Matheson who also wrote the script. 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.[15] |
1981 | Time Bandits | Terry Gilliam | A young boy unwittingly joins a band of dwarves as they travel through time, hunting treasure. |
1982 | Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann | William Dear | 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. |
1983 | Twilight Zone: The Movie | John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante and George Miller | Big-screen adaptations of three classic episodes from the popular 1950s and 1960s Rod Serling television series, plus a new segment featuring a bigot who is transported into the lives of past victims of racism. |
1984 | The Terminator[16] | James Cameron | A cyborg (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to destroy humanity by killing the future mother of its future savior. |
1984 | The Philadelphia Experiment | Stewart Raffill | In 1943, an anti-radar experiment accidentally sends two sailors forward in time to 1984. Nancy Allen and Michael Paré star in this film. |
1984 | Non ci resta che piangere | Roberto Benigni and Massimo Troisi | The school janitor, Mario (Massimo Troisi), and the teacher, Saverio (Roberto Benigni), have an automobile breakdown and decide to spend the night in an inn. The next morning they awake in 15th-century Florence. |
1985 | Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis | Time travel is achieved by means of a flux capacitor installed in a DeLorean DMC12 sports car. Present-day 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. |
1985 | Trancers | Charles Band | Jack Deth is a kind of cop/bounty hunter in a future dystopic Los Angeles. |
1985 | Cavegirl | David Oliver | 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. |
1985 | My Science Project | Jonathan R. Betuel | 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. |
1985 | The Blue Yonder | Mark Rossman | 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. |
1986 | Peggy Sue Got Married | Francis Ford Coppola | Peggy Sue Bodell faints at her high school reunion. When she wakes up, she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished high school. |
1986 | Biggles: Adventures in Time | John Hough | Unassuming catering salesman, Jim Ferguson, falls through a time hole to 1917 where he saves the life of dashing Royal Flying Corps pilot, James "Biggles" Bigglesworth, after his photo recon mission is shot down. Before he can work out what has happened, Jim is zapped back to the 1980s. |
1986 | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | Leonard Nimoy | To save Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk and his crew travel back to 1986 to humpback whales, the only beings who can communicate with an alien probe that is threatening Earth. |
1986 | Outlaws | Nicholas Corea | Five cowboys of the 1880s are sent to 1986 by a lightning strike. With no way to get back home, they start a detective agency to make a living. |
1986 | Flight of the Navigator | Randal Kleiser | In 1978, a boy winds up 8 years in the future, and discovers that an alien spaceship transported him there. |
1986 | Kin-dza-dza | Georgiy Daneliya | A Russian dystopian comedy in which two Russians are accidentally transported to a desert planet where there is oppressive inequality, and struggle to find their way home. |
1987 | Mirror for a Hero / Zerkalo dlya geroya | Vladimir Khotinenko | Two men travel from the 1980s to 1930s Stalinist Russia, 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.[17] |
1987 | Masters of the Universe | David Odell | He-Man battles with Skeletor to prevent him from becoming master of the universe. Due to a cosmic key that opens a portal, the battle moves to Earth where several humans become involved in the struggle. |
1987 | Timestalkers | Michael Schulz | 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. |
1988 | The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey | Vincent Ward | Medieval travelers from 14th-century England tunnel through Earth and burst into 20th-century New Zealand. |
1989 | Field of Dreams | Phil Alden Robinson | In a story about second chances, a man builds a baseball field on his farm to call back the members of the Chicago White Sox (including Shoeless Joe Jackson) who were banned for throwing the 1919 World Series. Along the way, the man gets his own chance to resolve his guilt over his deceased father. |
1989 | Back to the Future Part II | Robert Zemeckis | Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to 2015 in a DeLorean to prevent Marty's kids from ruining the McFly family's reputation. Biff Tannen steals the DeLorean so he can give a sports almanac to his younger self in 1955, and win millions of dollars gambling. This creates an alternate timeline that Marty and Doc must correct. |
1989 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Stephen Herek | Two teenagers (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves) will not graduate from high school unless they get an "A" on their history project. A time traveler (George Carlin) helps them because it is vital that they stay together and create a Utopian future. As Bill & Ted travel through time, they encounter historical figures including Socrates, Joan of Arc, and Billy the Kid. |
1989 | Millennium | Michael Anderson | 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. |
1989 | Warlock | Steve Miner | 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. |
1990 | Frankenstein Unbound | Roger Corman | A scientist creates a weapon that causes one's enemy to disappear but has a side effect of causing shifts in time. The scientist is transported back to 1817 where he meets Doctor Frankenstein and his monster, as well as Mary Shelley who, in this film, based her novel on true events. |
1990 | Back to the Future Part III | Robert Zemeckis | Marty McFly goes back to 1885 to stop an outlaw from killing Doc Brown in a duel, and bring him back home to 1985. |
1991 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day[16] | James Cameron | In 2029, Skynet sends a shape-shifting terminator back to 1995 to kill 10-year-old John Connor, while future Connor sends a T-800 (Schwarzenegger) back to protect his past self and prevent a nuclear holocaust. |
1991 | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | Peter Hewitt | Two evil, robot versions of Bill and Ted are sent back in time to kill them. |
1991 | Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah | Kazuki Ōmori | Terrorists from the year 2204 travel back in time as part of a plot to destroy the nation of Japan and prevent it from becoming a global economic superpower. To do this, they travel to 1944 and remove the dinosaur that will become Godzilla from a Pacific island and replace him with three genetically-engineered creatures, which are exposed to a hydrogen bomb test ten years later and become the monster, King Ghidorah.[18] |
1992 | Army of Darkness | Sam Raimi | Ash (Bruce Campbell), a supermarket employee, is sent back in time by a specific book to the 14th century to fight an undead army. |
1992 | Freejack | Geoff Murphy | 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. |
1992 | Timescape | David Twohy | Ben Wilson and daughter, Hillary, are visited by a strange group of travelers looking for lodging. The travelers are from the future, intending 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. |
1992 | Split Infinity | Stan Ferguson | When 14-year-old A.J. falls from a hayloft and wakes up in 1929 as her grandfather's sister, she learns the true value of family. |
1993 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III | Stuart Gillard | The turtles go back in time to feudal Japan to retrieve their kidnapped friend, April. |
1993 | Les Visiteurs | Jean-Marie Poiré | A 12th-century knight and his servant are mistakenly transported to the 20th century and find themselves adrift in modern society. |
1993 | Philadelphia Experiment II | Stephen Cornwell | 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. |
1993 | 12:01 PM | Jack Sholder | 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. |
1993 | Groundhog Day | Harold Ramis | Weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is trapped re-living February 2 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, leading him to re-examine his life and priorities. |
1994 | Time Chasers | David Giancola | An amateur inventor goes through time with an airplane to stop a villain from changing history for profit. |
1994 | A.P.E.X. | Phillip J. Roth | A time travel experiment in which a robot probe is sent from the year 2073 to the year 1973 goes terribly wrong, thrusting one of the project scientists, a man named Nicholas Sinclair, into a plague-ravaged, alternate timeline whose war-weary inhabitants are locked in a constant battle with killer robots which are automatically being sent there from Sinclair's lab. To escape this situation, Sinclair must find a similar time machine in this alternate world and prevent the disaster from ever happening. |
1994 | Star Trek Generations | David Carson | USS Enterprise Captains, James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard, meet through the effects of an energy ribbon. |
1994 | Timecop | Peter Hyams | 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-travelers from altering time, but is tempted to do so himself, to prevent his wife's death. |
1995 | 12 Monkeys | Terry Gilliam | James Cole is sent back in time to acquire an unmutated form of a virus that has nearly wiped out humanity. |
1996 | Christmas Every Day | Larry Peerce | An American television 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.[19][20] |
1996 | Doctor Who | Geoffrey Sax | The Doctor, in his eighth incarnation, has a showdown with the Master at the turn of the millennium, December 31, 1999. |
1996 | Star Trek: First Contact | Jonathan Frakes | 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. |
1997 | Retroactive | Louis Morneau | An FBI agent repeatedly travels back in time to prevent a crime. The situation worsens each time around, until she decides to let things play out. |
1997 | Time Under Fire | Jeff Fahey | 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. |
1998 | Run Lola Run / Lola Rennt | Tom Tykwer | 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.[21] |
1998 | Lost in Space | Stephen Hopkins | 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 and must try to find their way home. |
1998 | Rebirth of Mothra III | Okihiro Yoneda | Mothra travels back to the Cretaceous period to defeat the evil space monster, King Ghidorah, while he is younger and weaker.[22] |
1999 | Time at the Top | Timothy Busfield, Elisha Cuthbert, Gabrielle Boni, Matthew Harbour | 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. |
1999 | Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | Jay Roach | Dr. Evil is back and invents a time machine that allows him to go back to 1969, so he can steal Austin Powers' mojo. |
1999 | Galaxy Quest | Dean Parisot | A jump back in time of 13 seconds is all the time lead actor, Jason Nesmith (Tim Allen), needs to save his crew from being killed. |
1999 | The Time Shifters | Mario Philip Azzopardi | A reporter notices that the same faces keep appearing in photographs of 20th century disasters. Deducing that they are time travelers, he tries to save the history he knows.[23][24] |
1999 | Teen Knight | Phil Comeau | 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. |
1999 | Back to the '50s | Andrew Margetson | The English pop group, S Club 7, finds a time portal while on their way to Los Angeles, 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. |
1999 | The Devil's Arithmetic (film) | Donna Deitch | TV movie about a young woman who, during her family's Passover Seder, finds herself transported back to Poland in 1942 and sent to a death camp. |
2000 | Frequency | Gregory Hoblit | 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. |
2000 | Happy Accidents | Brad Anderson | A New York woman with a string of failed relationships meets a time traveler from the year 2470. |
2000 | Ditto | Kim Jung-kwon | 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. |
2000 | The Kid | Jon Turteltaub | A 40-year-old image consultant (Bruce Willis) finds himself being visited by his 10-year-old self. |
2000 | For All Time | Steven Schachter | Charles Lattimer (Mark Harmon) is an everyday man facing middle age and the end of his marriage. He stumbles across a time slip that occurs on a train, and an antique watch that allows him to go through the time slip. He is transported to 1896, where he falls in love with Laura Brown, and decides to stay in that time. He breaks the watch, then sees the situation in a new light; complications occur when the portal starts to close, leading him to a decision that could leave him stranded out of his own time. |
2000 | Il Mare | Lee Hyun-seung | The 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. |
2001 | Black Knight | Gil Junger | After falling into a theme park's fetid moat, a custodian (Martin Lawrence) crawls out into fourteenth century England. |
2001 | Donnie Darko | Richard Kelly | A teenager unknowingly re-lives October 1988 and is forced by a man in a demonic bunny suit to commit crimes in order to re-set the timeline. |
2001 | Just Visiting | Jean-Marie Poiré | 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. |
2001 | Kate & Leopold | James Mangold | A duke time travels from 1876 to the present and falls in love with a career woman in New York. |
2001 | Pokémon 4Ever | Kunihiko Yuyama Jim Malone | The film focuses on Celebi who travels to the future with a boy named Sam while being chased by a hunter. |
2001 | Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge | Kimberly J. Brown | 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. |
2002 | Returner | Takashi Yamazaki | 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. |
2002 | The Time Machine | Simon Wells | 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. |
2002 | Time Changer | Rich Christiano | A Bible professor from 1890 comes forward in time to the present via a time machine and cannot believe the things that he sees. |
2002 | Timequest | Robert Dyke | A time traveler changes history by warning Jackie Kennedy about the future. |
2002 | Austin Powers in Goldmember | Jay Roach | Upon learning that his father has been kidnapped, Austin Powers must travel to 1975 and defeat the villain Goldmember – who is working with Dr. Evil. |
2002 | Cube 2: Hypercube | Andrzej Sekuła | A group of strangers mysteriously awakens in a giant cubic structure in which each room warps space-time in a different way. |
2002 | Das Jesus Video | Sebastian Niemann | In Israel, a student in archaeology is seeking a video camera hidden 2000 years ago by a mysterious time traveler. |
2002 | An Angel for May | Harley Cokeliss | Tom travels fifty years to the past after discovering a time machine. He meets May, a little orphan who needs help. Now that he knows his friends' fate and his own, he will try to reorder the events and change their history. |
2003 | Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour | Rick Mayall | Eddie Hitler builds a time traveling toilet which he calls the TURDIS. |
2003 | Timeline | Richard Donner | 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. |
2003 | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines[16] | Jonathan Mostow | 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. |
2004 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Alfonso Cuarón | Hermione Granger receives a Time-Turner from Professor McGonagall, so she can attend more classes than time would normally allow. She and Harry later use the Time-Turner to save Sirius Black and Buckbeak. |
2004 | Primer | Shane Carruth | 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 |
2004 | The Butterfly Effect | Eric Bress & J. Mackye Gruber | 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. |
2004 | 13 Going on 30 | Gary Winick | In 1987, a 13-year-old girl makes a birthday wish and wakes up as a 30-year-old woman. |
2005 | Fetching Cody | David Ray | 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. |
2005 | The Jacket | John Maybury | An amnesiac, Persian Gulf War veteran (Adrien Brody) is subjected to an experimental treatment which moves him forward 15 years. |
2005 | A Sound of Thunder | Peter Hyams | 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. |
2005 | Summer Time Machine Blues | Katsuyuki Motohiro | Five college boys in a sci-fi 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. |
2005 | Camp Slaughter | 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.[25] | |
2006 | The Lake House | Alejandro Agresti | 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. |
2006 | Click | Frank Coraci | Adam Sandler is given a remote that lets him fast forward, pause, and rewind his life. |
2006 | The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | Mamoru Hosoda | A teenage girl discovers that she can leap through time. |
2006 | Déjà Vu | Tony Scott | Denzel Washington is an ATF agent investigating a terrorist act, who is invited to assist in a government time-travel surveillance project. |
2006 | Idiocracy | Mike Judge | Corporal Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson) and a prostitute named Rita, are selected for a suspended-animation experiment which is supposed to last one year but is forgotten for five hundred years. |
2006 | Christmas Do-Over | 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.[26] | |
2006 | Salvage | After finishing the graveyard shift at a convenience store, Claire is murdered in her home only to wake up in the conveniece store, and start the cycle over again. An official selection of the 2006 Sundance Festival.[27] | |
2007 | 11 Minutes Ago | Bob Gebert | Traveling in 11-minute increments, a time-tumbler from 48 years in the future spends two years of his life weaving through a two-hour wedding reception. |
2007 | Bender's Big Score | Dwayne Carey-Hill | 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. |
2007 | Meet the Robinsons | Stephen J. Anderson | Young Lewis is taken to the year 2037 by his future son, Wilbur, to stop a "Bowler Hat Guy" who has stolen Lewis' memory-scanning machine. |
2007 | Premonition | Mennan Yapo | 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. |
2007 | Secret | Jay Chou | A high school music student discovers that she can travel forward in time with the help of a mysterious piano piece called "Secret". |
2007 | Timecrimes | Nacho Vigalondo | A man accidentally travels back to the past and meets himself there. |
2007 | The Last Day of Summer | 11-year-old Luke gets his wish that every day could be the last day of summer.[28][29] | |
2008 | Minutemen | Lev L. Spiro | 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. |
2008 | Stargate: Continuum | Martin Wood | 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. |
2009 | Star Trek | J. J. Abrams | 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. |
2009 | Mr. Nobody | Jaco Van Dormael | 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. |
2009 | The Time Traveler's Wife | Robert Schwentke | 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. |
2009 | Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel | Gareth Carrivick | 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. |
2009 | A Christmas Carol | Robert Zemeckis | 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. |
2009 | Land of the Lost | Brad Silberling | 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. |
2009 | Triangle | Christopher Smith | 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. |
2010 | Action Replayy | Vipul Amrutlal Shah | 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. |
2010 | The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya | Tatsuya Ishihara | 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. |
2010 | Hot Tub Time Machine | Steve Pink | 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. |
2010 | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Mike Newell | Disney's adaption 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. |
2010 | Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D: Bonds Beyond Time | Kenichi Takeshita | 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. |
2011 | Ticking Clock | Ernie Barbarash | 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. |
2011 | Source Code | Duncan Jones | Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) died in a helicopter crash and has been inserted in a computer program called 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, since Source Code is not a time machine, but he can alter events and change the future to avoid a terrorist attack. |
2011 | Midnight in Paris | Woody Allen | While visiting Paris with his fiancee, 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. |
2011 | The Man from the Future | Cláudio Torres | 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. |
2012 | Safety Not Guaranteed | Colin Trevorrow | A comedy film inspired by a 1997, classified ad in Backwoods Home Magazine from a person asking for someone to accompany him in time travel. |
2012 | Men in Black 3 | Barry Sonnenfeld | Agent J travels back in time to MIB's early years in the 1960s in order to stop an alien from assassinating his friend, Agent K, and changing history. |
2012 | Looper | Rian Johnson | Criminal organizations hire contract killers, called Loopers, to kill humans sent to them through time travel. |
2012 | Quantum of Vengeance | Ben Wydeven | As a young girl, Emily Freeman witnesses her father being brutally murdered. 14 years later, her professor reveals that he has successfully built a time machine, which inspires her to go back in time and seek vengeance. |
2012 | Dimensions | Sloane U’Ren | 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. |
2012 | Thermae Romae | Hideki Takeuchi | Roman architect, Lucius, repeatedly travels to present-day Japan, where he is inspired by modern baths and toilets. |
2012 | Mine Games | Richard Gray (director) | A group of friends vacationing in the woods discover their own corpses and realize they are trapped in a time loop.[30] |
2013 | Hyperfutura | James O'Brien | In a dystopian future where the year is no longer counted, 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. |
2013 | Ruby Red (German: Rubinrot) | Felix Fuchssteiner | 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. |
2013 | I'll Follow You Down | Richie Mehta | A present-day professor disappears, traveling back in time to visit Albert Einstein. Twelve year later, his college-age son follows him to find out why. |
2013 | Shree | Rajesh Bachchani | As part of an experiment, a man unknowingly travels into the future only to find out that he is going to be framed in a series of killings. |
2013 | The A.R.K. Report | Shmuel Hoffman | 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. |
2013 | Coherence | James Ward Byrkit | On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. |
2013 | About Time | Richard Curtis | 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 is past to change his circumstances and those of his friends.[31] |
2013 | Rewind | Jack Bender | 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. |
2013 | Pete's Christmas | Zachary Gordon | A Hallmark movie. Pete just had the worst Christmas ever: no presents from his parents, his brothers blaming him for their problems, neighbors bullying him, and his grandpa leaving the house. He then wakes up to find he is stuck in a time loop repeating that awful Christmas Day. |
2013 | 11 A.M. | Kim Hyun-seok (filmmaker) | 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.[32] Korean movie. |
2014 | Mr. Peabody & Sherman | Rob Minkoff | The time-travelling adventures of an anthropomorphic canine and his adopted human son, as they endeavor to fix a time rift that they created. |
2014 | X-Men: Days of Future Past[33] | Bryan Singer | The X-Men send Wolverine's consciousness to 1973 to prevent a war between the Sentinels and mankind from starting. |
2014 | Edge of Tomorrow | Doug Liman | 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. |
2014 | Saphirblau | Felix Fuchssteiner, Katharina Schöde | Gwen has just discovered that she's the final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve. Now she has to juggle trips to the past, her relationships with Gideon, and figuring out dark secrets surrounding the Circle. |
2014 | Predestination | Michael and Peter Spierig | 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. |
2014 | Time Lapse | Bradley D. King | A group of friends discover a machine that can take pictures of things 24 hours into the future and the troubles that this machine causes. |
2014 | Interstellar | Christopher Nolan | 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. |
2014 | Premature | Dan Beers | On one of the most important days of his life, Rob, a high school senior, finds himself in a time loop that is triggered every time he ejaculates.[34] |
2014 | The Infinite Man | Hugh Sullivan | A man's attempts to construct the ultimate romantic weekend backfires when his quest for perfection traps his lover in an infinite loop.[35] |
2015 | Project Almanac | Dean Israelite | A group of teenagers construct a time machine, based on blueprints that the main character's father was developing for the United States military. |
2015 | Synchronicity | Jacob Gentry | 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. [36] |
2015 | Indru Netru Naalai | R. Ravikumar | A scientist in 2065 invents a time machine and, to prove its capability, sends it back in time to 2015. However, the machine is discovered by three people who use the machine for reasons of their own. First Indian science fiction Tamil movie. |
2015 | Terminator Genisys[16] | Alan Taylor | In 2029, Kyle Reese is sent back in time by John Connor to protect his mother Sarah, as previously established in The Terminator. But when Reese arrives in 1984, he finds a whole new chronology, where Sarah was trained in combat from childhood by a Terminator. Sarah, Kyle and the Terminator try to figure out how to prevent the nuclear holocaust. |
2016 | ARQ | Tony Elliott | Trapped in a lab and stuck in a time loop, a disoriented couple fends off masked raiders while harboring a new energy source that could save humanity. |
2016 | 24[37] | Vikram Kumar | A scientist named Sethuraman 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. |
Time travel in science fiction television series
Time travel is a recurrent theme in science fiction television programs. The list below covers notable television series for which time travel is central to the premise and direction of the plot and setting. Television programs that incorporate time travel in only few of their episodes may be found in list of television series that include time travel.
Start date | End Date | Title | Author | Description |
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1951 | 1956 | Captain Z-Ro | Roy Steffens | Scientist Captain Z-Ro, working in his remote laboratory, safeguards mankind and history from impending harm. He has a time machine, the ZX-99, both to view history and to send someone back in time when the past has been altered. |
1959 | 1960 | The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show – "Peabody's Improbable History" segments | Mr. Peabody and Sherman travel to different places and events in history using the WABAC time machine. | |
1963 (Classic), 2005 revival | 1989 (Classic); - (Revival) | Doctor Who | A Time Lord known as "the Doctor" travels through time and space in a TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space). | |
1966 | 1967 | It's About Time | Sherwood Schwartz | Two astronauts who break the speed of light, accidentally travel back in time to prehistoric Earth. When they realise that they are unable to return, they make friends with the cave-people they encounter. Eventually, they are able to return, but inadvertently bring some of the cave-people with them who then have to learn how to get along in the 1960s. |
1966 | 1967 | The Time Tunnel | Irwin Allen | In 1968, Doug Phillips and Tony Newman have been working, for ten years, on a top secret project beneath the Arizona desert called "tic-toc". A visiting senator who questions the projects funding, wants to see the project in action, so Tony Newman turns on the time tunnel and goes back to the year 1912, where he finds himself on board the R.M.S. Titanic. Doug Phillips goes into the tunnel to help Tony, and both are stuck in time. Each week they are catapulted to a new adventure in history. |
1970 | 1971 | Catweazle | Richard Carpenter | An 11th century wizard accidentally travels to 1969 England. He makes many humorous mistakes while trying to find his way back home. |
1970 | 1971 | Timeslip | John Cooper | Two time-traveling children visit both the past and future. |
1974 | 1976 | Land of the Lost | Sid & Marty Krofft | Land of the Lost details the adventures of the Marshall family (father, Rick, and his children, Will and Holly) who are trapped in an alternate universe inhabited by dinosaurs, a primate-type people called Pakuni, and aggressive humanoid/lizard creatures called Sleestak}. |
1979 | 1982 | Sapphire & Steel | Peter J. Hammond
(dir.s Shaun O'Riordan & David Foster) |
Two time-traveling, inter-dimensional agents protect and guard the order of time in this British drama. |
1982 | 1983 | Voyagers! | James D. Parriott | A member of a league of time travelers, called Voyagers, and a boy travel through time repairing errors in world history. |
1988 | 1988 | Moondial (TV serial) | Helen Cresswell | A girl travels to the past with the help of a moondial, where she meets two children from earlier centuries and helps them with their unhappy lives. |
1988 | – | Red Dwarf | Rob Grant & Doug Naylor | Having been in suspended animation for 3 million years, Dave Lister leaves stasis as the last human being alive. The Red Dwarf (the ship he is on) is in deep space and travelling at nearly the speed of light. Time travel occurs in this incidence, as well as on many other occasions in the series – usually into the past. |
1989 | 1993 | Quantum Leap | Donald P. Bellisario | Dr. Sam Beckett becomes stuck in his past during a time-travel experiment and, in his attempts 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. |
1990 | 1991 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures | An animated spin-off of the movies, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | |
1991 | 1992 | Back to the Future: The Animated Series | Bob Gale | An animated spin-off that continues on from Back to the Future Part III. |
1992 | 1993 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures | Live action spin-off of the movies, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | |
1993 | 1999 | Goodnight Sweetheart | Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran | 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. |
1993 | 1994 | Time Trax | Creators: Harve Bennett, Jeffrey M. Hayes, Grant Rosenberg· | A police officer from the 22nd century (Dale Midkiff) makes his way back to our time to track down fugitives from the future. |
1996 | 1996 | Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers | Haim Saban, Jason David Frank, David Yost | In this live-action TV show, Master Vile has used the Orb of Doom, and the Power Rangers go back in time to become children again. The Power Rangers ask the Alien Rangers of Aquitar for assistance in finding the Zeo Crystals, which are the only thing that will restore time. |
1997 | 1997 | Crime Traveller | Anthony Horowitz | Jeff Slade (Michael French) uses a time machine to witness crimes in the past, then solve them in the present. |
1998 | 2001 | Seven Days | Christopher & Zachary Crowe | 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. |
1999 | 2001 | Twice in a Lifetime | Steve Sohmer | Individuals who have reached the end of their lives in one timeline are given three days, by a "heavenly judge", to travel into their past and convince their younger selves to make a different choice at a pivotal point in their lives. |
2000 | 2001 | Mirai Sentai Timeranger | Four policemen travel from the year 3000 to the year 2000 to arrest time fugitives. | |
2001 | 2005 | Star Trek: Enterprise | Creators: Rick Berman, Brannon Braga | 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). |
2001 | 2004 | Samurai Jack | Genndy Tartakovsky | An ancient demon throws the hero, Samurai Jack, into the future, to give himself enough time to conquer the world. |
2001 | 2003 | Time Squad | Dave Wasson | 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. |
2002 | 2004 | Odyssey 5 | Manny Coto, David Carson | 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. |
2002 | 2003 | Do Over | Rick Wiener and Kenny Schwarz | Joel Larsen (Penn Badgley), a 34-year-old man, gets a second chance to get his life right, thanks to a freakish accident that catapults him back to 1981, when he was 14. He wakes up in his teenage body, with all his adult memories intact. Blessed with adult wisdom, though hampered by adolescent urges, Joel sets out to right the wrongs that will befall his family. |
2002 | 2002 | That Was Then | Dan Cohn, Jeff Kline, Jeremy Miller | A 30-year-old who regrets his mistakes from the past, finds himself back in high school, getting a chance to do some things over. |
2003 | 2005 | Tru Calling | Jon Harmon Feldman | 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. |
2004 | 2004 | 5ive Days to Midnight | Robert Zappia, David Aaron Cohen, Anthony Peckham and Cindy Myers | 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. |
2004 | 2010 | Lost | Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse | Lost is a six-season American drama that follows the survivors of a plane crash on a mysterious island in the South Pacific Ocean. Desmond Hume becomes "unstuck in time" due to electromagnetic radiation, Benjamin Linus, former leader of the island natives, travels ten months into the future after moving the island, and other characters jump erratically forwards and backwards through time as they learn more about the origin or the island. |
2004 | 2006 | Phil of the Future | Tim Maile and Douglas Tuber | A family attempts to repair their spaceship after being stranded in the past, or modern day, while maintaining the appearance of being normal people. |
2005 | 2007 | Time Warp Trio | Executive producer: Jim Rapsas | A children's cartoon where, using books, three children travel through time and space. Based on the books by Jon Scieszka. |
2006 | 2011 | Torchwood | Russell T Davies Chris Chibnall Jane Espenson John Fay |
Humans and aliens from different periods in time start to come to Earth by means of a rift in the space/time continuum. (Spin-off from Doctor Who.) |
2006 | 2010 | Heroes | Tim Kring | Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka) and Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia) can travel in time and space. This is the foundation for the plot of both series one and series two, in which apocalyptic disasters happen and the characters travel back and forth in an attempt to prevent them. |
2006 | 2007 | Life on Mars | Matthew Graham Ashley Pharoah Tony Jordan Chris Chibnall |
Police officer, Sam Tyler (played by John Simm), 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. |
2006 | 2007 | Transformers: Cybertron | The Autobot Vector Prime is a defender of space-time. | |
2006 | 2007 | Day Break | Paul Zbyszewski | 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. |
2007 | 2011 | Primeval | 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. | |
2007 | 2008 | Kamen Rider Den-O | Creatures known as Imagin have come from a possible future to kill the key figure to the Junction Point; a human whose sole existence ensures that the Imagin's future cannot exist. The Imagin grant wishes to weak-willed humans which allows them to travel farther back in time along that person's memories to get closer to the Junction Point. | |
2007 | 2007 | Journeyman | Kevin Falls Matt McGuinness Tom Szentgyorgyi |
Dan Vasser is the main protagonist of the series, who finds himself jumping through time, unable to stop or control the jumps. Olivia "Livia" Beale is also a traveler from 1948 who jumps into the future. After not being able to jump home, she was stuck in Dan's present where she began a legal career and fell in love with Dan, only to finally jump back home while on the plane. For unknown reasons, she now jumps to the same times that Dan visits, and offers him advice and assistance in his missions. |
2008 | 2008 | New Amsterdam | Allan Loeb and Christian Taylor | 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, who was granted immortality after a heroic deed; he has since led several dozen lives, giving him knowledge that helps him solve modern-day crimes in New York City. |
2008 | 2010 | Ashes to Ashes | Matthew Graham Ashley Pharoah Julie Rutterford Mark Greig Jack Lothian |
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. |
2008 | 2009 | Kamen Rider Kiva | In parallel storylines in 1986 and 2008, a time traveler 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. | |
2008 | 2012 | Fringe | 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. | |
2008 | 2009 | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | A female Terminator from the year 2027 comes back in time to 1999 to protect a young John Connor, the future leader of the human resistance. They then use the time displacement equipment to move in time to hide him, but find enemies wherever they go. | |
2009 | – | Dinosaur Train | Craig Bartlett | A Tyrannosaurus named Buddy travels with his adopted Pteranodon family on the Dinosaur Train. The Dinosaur Train has the ability to visit the entire Mesozoic Era, the "Age of Dinosaurs", passing through magical Time Tunnels to meet the dinosaurs in the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous time periods. |
2009 | 2009 | Paradox (TV series) | Lizzie Mickery | Detective Inspector Rebecca Flint (Tamzin Outhwaite), Detective Sergeant Ben Holt (Mark Bonnar) and Detective Constable Callum Gada (Chiké Okonkwo) investigate images being broadcast to the laboratory of eminent astrophysicist, Dr. Christian King (Emun Elliott), which appear to show catastrophic events in the future. |
2009 | 2011 | Being Erica | Jana Sinyor | 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. |
2009 | 2010 | FlashForward | Brannon Braga and David S. Goyer | FBI agent, Mark Benford, and the rest of the world fall victim to an incident that renders the entire population of Earth unconscious for two minutes, seventeen seconds, on 6 October 2009. During the "Black Out" the consciousness of the entire planet shifts forward six months into the future to the date 29 April 2010, where they witness their potential futures that could occur that day. |
2010 | – | Mary Shelley's Frankenhole | Dino Stamotopolous | Dr. Victor Frankenstein has completely mastered immortality and has also created an infinite number of Einstein-Rosen Bridge portals or "Frankenholes" between his small Eastern European village (which is teeming with monsters and supernatural forces) and every time period from the past and the future. This allows historical figures and celebrities seeking the doctor's services to find him. Although many classic horror monsters are present, the series' focus is on Dr. Frankenstein and his family. |
2011 | 2011 | Hoops & Yoyo Ruin Christmas | In a TV special, Hoops and Yoyo accidentally travel through a wormhole and meet Santa Claus when he was still Kris Kringle. | |
2011 | 2011 | Puella Magi Madoka Magica | Gen Urobuchi | A mysterious girl, named Homura Akemi, has made a contract with a being known as Kyubei, to go back in time and save the titular character. |
2011 | 2011 | Terra Nova | 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. (This avoids questions of creating a paradox when time-travelling.) | |
2012 | 2012 | Primeval: New World | 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. | |
2012 | 2015 | Continuum (TV series) | A Canadian science fiction series which centres 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. | |
2014 | – | Outlander | Based on Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series | Travel through time from the 1940s to 1740s. A woman from the 1940s time travels through standing stones in Scotland to the 1740s. |
2014 | – | Flash | Based on the DC Comics character Flash | 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. |
2015 | – | 12 Monkeys | Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett | 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". |
2015 | – | El ministerio del tiempo | Pablo Olivares and Javier Olivares | The Ministry of Time is an autonomous Spanish government institution that reports directly to the Prime Minister. Its patrols have to watch the doors of time so that no intruder from other eras can change history for their own benefit. |
2016 | 2016 | Boku Dake ga Inai Machi | Kei Sanbei | Satoru Fujinuma can travel back in time to moments before a life-threatening incident, giving him the opportunity to change the past. He back in time 18 years, to when he was in elementary school, and has an opportunity to prevent a kidnapping. |
2016 | – | 11.22.63 | Stephen King | A man is presented with the chance to travel back in time to 1960 and attempts to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. |
2016 | – | Timeless | Shawn Ryan, Eric Kripke | 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. |
2016 | – | Legends of Tomorrow | Based on the DC Comics characters | 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. |
2016 | – | Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World- | Tappei Nagatsuki | Subaru Natsuki finds himself on another world, attacked, and saved by a silver-haired girl. Subaru attempts to help her hunt down something that was stolen from her, however, they are attacked and killed. He then reawakens to the place in which he was reborn and has gained an ability to rewind time to a certain point by dying. |
See also
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