The Chrons guide to the greatest sci-fi films of all time apart from 1970 onwards because WIRED doesn't know what "all time" means

[Harpo]

Let's list them all. Up to the end of 1969 of course.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Logan’s Run

 

[Daysman]

Logan’s Run

Very 70s...

1960s
Planet of the apes

1950s
The day the earth stood still

1940s
???

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Very 70s...

1960s
Planet of the apes

1950s
The day the earth stood still

1940s
???

Yes, read it all wrong

 

[Anthoney]

For the 1940s I would go with, Casablanca or Citizen Kane. or maybe The Maltese Falcon.

 

[Daysman]

Yes, read it all wrong

Yeah, well it's a Thursday...

 

[Daysman]

For the 1940s I would go with, Casablanca or Citizen Kane. or maybe The Maltese Falcon.

Perhaps: a matter of life and death?

1930s
things to come (not sure about this one)

1920s
metropolis

 

[Anthoney]

1930s has to be Gone with the Wind.

(edit: Gone with the Wind is credited as 1939 but released Jan 1940 so I'm not sure)

 

[Dave]

Gone with the Wind is some really serious science fiction, but that's okay I read it wrong too at first (and I would have said The Wages of Fear, Casablanca and Ice Cold in Alex.)

However, for science fiction that's easier, The Time Machine, War of the Worlds and Forbidden Planet.

 

[Anthoney]

Yeah sorry I fumbled the sci-fi part.

 

[BAYLOR]

1940's Mighty Joe Young
1950's. Forbidden Planet
1960's 2001 A Space Odyssey

 

[Harpo]

1902 - A Trip To The Moon

 

[Robert Zwilling]

1916 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Along with 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange, making Stanley Kubrick the greatest director of science fiction films of all time.

 

[-K2-]

Robinson Crusoe on Mars
1984
Fahrenheit 451
Failsafe (more a thriller really)
Barbarella (Hokey and raunchy, but it fit the era)
When Worlds Collide
Flash Gordon (1930's)
This Island Earth
Fantastic Voyage
And though I didn't like it, being a Hammer it's a classic... Quartermass and the Pit (in the U.S. Five Million Years to Earth)

K2

 

[Rodders]

Having rewatched 2001: A Space Odyssey last week gave me a new appreciation of the movie and I totally get it's status as a sci fi classic.

My personal favourites SF movies prior to 1970 include The Day The Earth Caught Fire, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, The Time Machine and King Kong.

Of course, you can't discuss pre 1970 SF without mentioning Ray Harryhausen. Jason and the Argonauts being a particular favourite of mine.

 

[Vladd67]

1956 Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
X the Unknown
1958 Fiend without a face.

 

[-K2-]

Let's also not forget 'Crack in the World.'

K2

 

[Daysman]

The Power (1968)

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

My greatest science-fiction films of all time, if time stopped in 1969, would be:

Year	Film
1969	The Illustrated Man
1968	A Space Odyssey
1968	Barbarella
1968	Planet of the Apes
1967	Quatermass and the Pit
1966	Fahrenheit 451
1962	The Day of the Triffids
1961	The Day the Earth Caught Fire
1961	Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1960	The Time Machine
1959	Journey to the Center of the Earth
1958	The Fly
1956	Forbidden Planet
1956	Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1953	The War of the Worlds
1951	The Day the Earth Stood Still

Before the 1950s my knowledge is pretty limited, apart from maybe
1931 Frankenstein
1931 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1927 Metropolis


* Note this has given me a chance to play with the new Insert Table feature I've only just noticed