Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone-tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness of space. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.

向来，过去才是历史，昨天才是历史。阿西莫夫却与众不同，他的《基地》系列写的是“未来的历史”，是“遥远未来的历史”，是“明天的历史”！
阿西莫夫这位“未来历史学家”，这位美国的“太史公”，用“史诗”般的笔触，用“基地”系列宏大的篇章，向读者娓娓动听地讲述了来自“银河帝国”、来自第一基地（通常称为“基地”）和第二基地以及来自那个“骡”的跌宕曲折的故事，把“未来的历史”淋漓尽致地奉献给读者。
《基地》是“基地”系列三部曲中扣第一部。统治银河系达一万两千年之久的银河帝国，已经逐渐走向衰亡。这时间，只有心事史学的一代宗师哈里·谢顿预见未来银河人人将会经历一段长达三万年、充满无知、野蛮和战争的黑暗时期。谢顿于是设立集合帝国中最优秀的科学家，来到银河边缘的一个荒凉行星建立“基地”，期望它能成为未来世代人类的希望灯塔。
然而，随着帝国的逐渐衰微，基地被好战的强邻包围。人类也面临痛苦抉择：向野蛮的势力投降、甘心受控制？还是不顾被摧毁的危险起而奋战？

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.

Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by Ronan the Accuser.

In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.

Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure goes wrong, Quaid becomes a wanted man by the police and joins forces with a rebel fighter to stop the evil Chancellor Cohaagen.

Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.

When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!

Batman and Robin deal with relationship issues while preventing Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from attacking Gotham City.

Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader who overwhelms Gotham's finest. The Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.

A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.

2009 film by Gareth Carrivick

2001 anime film directed by Rintarō