Many of the best sci-fi movies of the 1950s were inspired by books. Some classic novels were reinterpreted to address the Cold War and the Space Race.

Irving Gertz, a film and television composer who contributed music to 1950s science-fiction films such as "It Came From Outer Space" and "The Incredible Shrinking Man" and to 1960s TV series such ...

What prompted the idea for the course? A colleague in the sociology department used to teach a course using a film genre from the 1940s and 1950s that presented a bleak view of modern societies. I ...

‘Alien’ was a response to horror films from the 1950s Science fiction and horror have been soulmates since Mary Shelley published Frankenstein in 1818. While science fiction can help us ...

Ed Bloomer, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, examines how well science fiction films have predicted futures ...

Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now In this month’s selections, extraterrestrials roam and the Earth wanders. Share full article Kaitlyn Dever in “No One Will Save You.” 20th Century ...

Science fiction covers a lot of ground, and so, any list of the best sci-fi movies ever made is going to cover a variety of fantastical stories.

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Features The Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movies of the 1960s The 1960s was when science fiction cinema began to venture in new directions.

Comment Best science fiction films about space, according to an astrophysicist From 2001: A Space Odyssey to WALL-E, Erika Nesvold picks her favourite sci-fi films set in space (and explains why E ...

Directors Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas, Ridley Scott and James Cameron discuss the science fiction movies of the 1950s that influenced them.