List of time travel works of fiction
Time travel is a common element of fiction, depicted in a variety of media. The lists below covers notable works of fiction for which time travel is central to the plot or premise of the work. For stories of time travel in antiquity, see the history of the time travel concept. For video games featuring time travel, see list of games containing time travel.
Time travel in novels and short stories
The list below covers notable novels and short stories for which time travel is central to the plot or 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 1728 with letters from 1997 and '98. |
1781 | Anno 7603 | Johan Herman Wessel | The people are moved into the future (AD 7603) by a good fairy.[1] They discover a future society in which gender roles have been switched and only women are allowed to fight in the military. |
1819 | Rip Van Winkle | Washington Irving | A man goes to sleep on a mountain for a night and wakes up 20 years in the future: he has been completely forgotten, his wife is dead and his daughter is grown up.[2] |
1838 | Missing One's Coach: An Anachronism | Anonymous Dublin University Magazine | Traveler picked up by a stagecoach but is suddenly transported back over a thousand years. |
1843 | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | Ghosts accompany Scrooge into the past to show him his life, then to the future to show the consequences of his heartlessness if he does not change his ways. |
1861 | Paris Before Men | Pierre Boitard | Magic of a "lame demon" allows main character to interact with prehistoric life. |
1881 | The Clock that Went Backward | Edward Page Mitchell | A clock that has the power to take people back in time. |
1887 | El Anacronopete | Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau | First to introduce a time machine, originally written as a zarzuela in 1881, released as a novel in 1887. |
1887 | Looking Backward: 2000-1887 | Edward Bellamy | Julian West, towards the end of the 19th century, falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes up 113 years later. |
1888 | A Dream of John Ball | William Morris | Describes a time travel encounter between the medieval and modern worlds. |
1888 | The Chronic Argonauts | H. G. Wells | An inventor takes another with him in a time machine, before deciding to leave for a time where he will fit in more. |
1889 | Sylvie and Bruno | Lewis Carroll | The story features a watch that not only indicated the time, but actually determined it: "instead of its going with the time, time goes with it". |
1889 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Mark Twain | 19th century citizen goes to King Arthur's time (528 AD). |
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 | Inventor creates a time machine and travels to the year 802,701 A.D., where he finds humanity have evolved into two races, Morlocks and Eloi. |
1919 | Enoch Soames | Max Beerbohm | Enoch is transported 100 years into the future (1997) to see if he became a great writer or not – a Faustian-like pact with the Devil is involved. |
1928/ 1929 |
Armageddon 2419 A.D. | Philip Francis Nowlan | Anthony Rogers is transported to the year 2419 by a strange cave gas. Later became the comic strip Buck Rogers. |
1936 | Burnt Norton | T. S. Eliot | Begins with "Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future..." |
1939 | A Traveller in Time | Alison Uttley | A child goes back into Derbyshire of the Babington Plot and Mary, Queen of Scots. |
1939 | Lest Darkness Fall | L. Sprague de Camp | An archaeologist is transported from Mussolini's Rome to 6th century Italy and attempts to prevent the fall of the Roman Empire. |
1941 | By His Bootstraps | Robert A. Heinlein | 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 | Justice Society of America use a time ray to travel 500 years into the future and get an effective bombing defence to protect America. | |
1944 | Future Times Three | René Barjavel | Two scientists invent a substance which allows a man to time travel. They travel to the future, where humanity has branched into different species with their own particular tasks, and then to the past. It was adapted as a movie 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 | Villain Per Degaton murders a scientist who has invented a time machine and tries to use it to change history, causing modern technology from the Present, meaning he can then conquer America with technology protected from the effects. | |
1950 | Pebble in the Sky | Isaac Asimov | A retired tailor from the mid-20th century is accidentally pitched forward into the future. |
1951 | The Gauntlet | Ronald Welch | After putting on a gauntlet, a boy finds himself transported back to Wales in 1326. |
1952 | A Sound of Thunder | Ray Bradbury | Changes in the past affect the future; part of the genealogy of the term Butterfly effect. |
1953 | Bring the Jubilee | Ward Moore | A time traveller from an alternate reality appears at the Battle of Gettysburg and alters his own future into ours. |
1954 | Experiment | Fredric Brown | An experiment involving the time travel of a small brass cube results in disaster.[3] |
1955 | The End of Eternity | Isaac Asimov | Time guardians carry out strategic actions, called Reality Changes, in order to minimize human suffering as integrated over the whole of (future) human history. |
1955 | The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway | William Tenn | An historian returns to the mid-20th century to study an artist whose works he finds himself having to create, so the past is a product of the future's interest in the past. |
1955– 1995 |
Time Patrol, plus 10 others | Poul Anderson | Series of 11 novels related to the Time Patrol, an organization which protects the past. |
1956 | Extempore | Damon Knight | Man learns how to travel through time. |
1956 | Pawley's Peepholes | John Wyndham | Time travellers from the future disrupt life in a small town by treating it as a quaint place for sightseeing. |
1956 | The Stars My Destination | Alfred Bester | In a future in which self-teleportation is common, Gully Foyle discovers how to teleport himself through time as well. |
1957 | Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd (A Week in the Wales of the Future) | Islwyn Ffowc Elis | A novel in the Welsh language, in which the narrator travels to Wales on two occasions in the year 2033 and encounters contrasting future scenarios each time. |
1957 | The Door into Summer | Robert A. Heinlein | After thirty years trapped in suspended animation, a man uses a time machine to go back and exact revenge on his friend and fiancée for stealing his business. |
1957 | The Last Word | Damon Knight | Tale of Armageddon and the Devil. |
1957 | Soldier from Tomorrow | Harlan Ellison | A soldier comes back from the future to warn against the path toward global conflict. |
1957 | The Seventh Voyage | Stanislaw Lem | Space Traveler Ijon Tichy travels through a time vortex in an attempt to help himself fix a defect in his spaceship. This sets off a chain of time loops in which many versions of himself interact with each other (From The Star Diaries). |
1957 | Double Indemnity | Robert Sheckley | Everett Barthold travels through time to find an ancestor lookalike who can be used to defraud an insurance company. |
1958 | The Men Who Murdered Mohammed | Alfred Bester | Comedy in which a professor travels back in time to kill someone by killing their grandparent, but the results confound him. Explores many time travel scenarios in a short story format. |
1958 | Tom's Midnight Garden | Philippa Pearce | A children's novel: a boy living in medical quarantine in a 1950s apartment building finds himself in the garden that was on the site in the 1880s with a girl to play with. |
1959 | All You Zombies | Robert A. Heinlein | Circular paradox – a time traveler who has undergone gender transition manipulates his younger selves to become his own mother and father. |
1959 | The Day We Explored the Future | Donald Keith | Boy Scouts find an abandoned time machine and visit the year 4000 AD. (First of a 23-story Time Machine series appearing 1959–1989 in Boys' Life.) |
1960 | The Weirdstone of Brisingamen | Alan Garner | Colin and Susan go back in time in the caves of Alderley Edge in Cheshire – crystal bracelet, magic great wolf included. |
1961 | Danny Dunn, Time Traveler | Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams | A couple of teenagers use their professor's time machine to study the history of the US. |
1962 | Fantastic Four vol 1 No. 19 | Stan Lee and Jack Kirby | The Fantastic Four travel to Ancient Egypt, and meet Pharaoh Rama-Tut, who is really another time traveller, from the 31st century. First appearance of Marvel Comics time-travelling villain Kang. |
1963 | The Other End of the Line | Walter Tevis | George Bletzo mistakenly calls his own phone number and talks to himself a few months into the future. Predestination in play. |
1964 | Time Tunnel | Murray Leinster | Large immobile masses of iron in the earth's crust enable two-way travel between two points in the planet's history. |
1963–present | Doctor Who | various authors | More than 530 original novels and novelisations based on the popular television show. |
1965 | The Ship that Sailed the Time Stream | G. C. Edmondson | Ensign Joe Rate, "captain of a wooden ship in a predominantly atomic navy", is transported, with his ship and crew, first back to the time of the Vikings, then to the time of the Romans. |
1966 | The Green Bronze Mirror | Lynne Ellison | Teenage girl finds ancient mirror buried in sand, looks into it, is transported back in time to the Roman Empire – where she is mistaken for a runaway slave. |
1966 | The Man From When | Dannie Plachta | A man inadvertently destroys the world in order to travel back eighteen minutes in time. |
1967 | The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | Yasutaka Tsutsui | A high-school girl who accidentally acquires the ability to time travel. |
1967 | Jessamy | Barbara Sleigh | A children's mystery set in England, whose main character slips back to the time of the First World War. |
1967 | The Technicolor Time Machine | Harry Harrison | A bankrupt film studio, and mediocre film director, use a time machine to make a movie of the founding of Vinland, with real Vikings. |
1968 | Hawksbill Station | Robert Silverberg | A time machine is used by an oppressive government for deporting political prisoners a billion years in the past, to the Pre-Cambrian era. |
1969 | Charlotte Sometimes | Barbara Sleigh | A boarding-school story where the protagonist Charlotte slips back to be Claire in 1918. |
1969 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | A man is randomly traveling through time in his life jumping from one event to another in no particular order. |
1969 | Up the Line | Robert Silverberg | Time travel as guided tours to past historical events. |
1969 | The House on the Strand | Daphne du Maurier | Drug-induced trip back to a 14th-century Cornish village. |
1969 | Behold the Man | Michael Moorcock | A man travels in a time machine to 28 AD, hoping to meet the historical Jesus. |
1970 | Chronocules | D. G. Compton | A millionaire establishes a research village to experiment with time travel. |
1970 | Time and Again | Jack Finney | Uses hypnosis to travel through time. |
1970 | The Year of the Quiet Sun | Wilson Tucker | The government uses a forward-traveling time machine to survey the future and adjust its policies accordingly. |
1972 | Time's Last Gift | Philip José Farmer | Four scientists/anthropologists travel from 2070 A.D. to 12,000 B.C. |
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 | Main character receives a belt that allows him to travel through time. Complications ensue. |
1973 | Crusade in Jeans | Thea Beckman | Rudolf Hefting is a fourteen-year-old who volunteers for an experiment with a time machine. The experiment goes well, but he ends up accidentally stranded in the 13th century. He saves the life of Leonardo Fibonacci without realizing who he is, and together they join the German Children's Crusade, where he aids the children and manages to save most of them from horrible fates 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, and through hypnosis travels back in time from 1980 to 1912 to meet her. 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 then become invisible and permeable to others, until the effect wears off, sometimes after many years. |
1977 | Time Storm | Gordon R. Dickson | A cosmic anomaly sweeps the Earth, subdividing the surface into irregular zones whose "present" is a randomly determined historical period of the past or future, which changes at irregular intervals. One man attempting to rescue his ex-wife accumulates a group of refugees from throughout history. |
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. |
1978 | The Very Slow Time Machine | Ian Watson | An enigmatic traveler from the future, in a time vessel which cannot be breached, baffles scientists in his past. (His messages include: "you must travel through time by an equal amount of accumulate hindward potential...") |
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. |
1979 | Closing the Timelid | Orson Scott Card | A man uses time travel to experience the sensation of death. |
1980 | Timescape | Gregory Benford | Use of tachyons 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 | Messages are sent back through time which delete the timeline in which it exists. |
1980 | A Rebel in Time | Harry Harrison | Time machine misuse. A rogue US colonel plans to aid the Confederacy with submachine gun plans - and is pursued by a black cop. |
1980 | Kindred | Octavia Butler | Dana, an African-American woman, is inexplicably transported from 1976 Los Angeles to early 19th century Maryland. She meets her ancestors: Rufus, a white slave holder, and Alice, an African-American woman who was born free, but forced into slavery later in life. |
1980 | The Restaurant at the End of the Universe | Douglas Adams | Milliways is frozen in the last moment of the universe before it succumbs to final entropy, requiring time travel to reach it. Menu prices are astronomical, but patrons are advised to deposit a penny in a bank account now. By the time a patron reaches the final moment of history, compound interest will have transformed the penny into a fortune large enough to pay the bill. |
1980 | The Man Who Loved Morlocks | David J. Lake | H. G. Wells' time traveller confronts the Morlocks again, this time equipped with a camera and revolver. |
1981 | The Many-Colored Land, first book of the Saga of the Pliocene Exile series | Julian May | Time travellers from the late 21st/early 22nd century go through a one-way time portal to the Earth's Pliocene period, already controlled by humanoid extraterrestrials. |
1982 | Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | Time travel paradoxes form the basis of broad comedy, as in the case of the ancient poet Lallafa. |
1983 | Millennium | John Varley | In the far distant future, a time-travel team snatches the passengers of a plane collision, leaving prefabricated bodies behind for the rescue teams to find. Basis of the 1989 film. |
1983 | The Anubis Gates | Tim Powers | In 1983, a millionaire discovers time-travel gates and organizes a trip to the past to attend a lecture by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1810. 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, apparently obtained through time travel. Mankind is inspired by the evidence to actually achieve this utopia. |
1985 | Professor Rondi's Time Machine | Satyajit Ray | Professor Shonku is invited by Professor Rondi to a demonstration of a time machine that Rondi has reportedly discovered. Shonku is disturbed by the news of murder of another scientist, Professor Klaiber, who, Shonku knew, was also working on a time machine. Shonku comes to suspect that Rondi is Klaiber's murderer. He uses the time machine to find incriminating evidence. |
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 back 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, a prominent local businessman who will later be instrumental in repelling an invasion by the alien Karsids. |
1986 | Highway of Eternity | Clifford D. Simak | People from the future run to the past to avoid the fate of being forced into a non-corporeal form. |
1986 | Running Against Time | Stanley Shapiro | In an effort to prevent the Vietnam War, a man travels back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. |
1987 | Sphere | Michael Crichton | A manmade space ship from the far future passes through a wormhole and crashes on Earth centuries earlier, where it is eventually found and misidentified as an alien vessel. |
1987 | A Tale of Time City | Diana Wynne Jones | A girl, Vivian Smith, is kidnapped while being evacuated from London during World War II, and is caught up in a struggle to preserve history. |
1988 | Replay | Ken Grimwood | A man in 1988 suffers a heart attack and finds himself back in his life in 1963. |
1988 | Ripples in the Dirac Sea | Geoffrey A. Landis | A man inventing a time machine using Dirac's theories of negative energy travels to the 1960s and discovers he can participate in the past, but not change it (Nebula Award 1989). |
1988 | Lightning | Dean Koontz | A time traveler from Nazi Germany interferes with the life of a young woman in his future. |
1988 | The Devil's Arithmetic | Jane Yolen | During a Passover Seder, a woman is transported back to Poland in 1942 and is sent to a death camp. |
1989 | Hyperion | Dan Simmons | A great warrior, the Shrike, is sent from the future for an unknown reason. Main characters travel through time in a very complex timeline. |
1990 | Four Past Midnight: "The Langoliers" | Stephen King | An airplane accidentally flies through a rip in space/time and appears in the "used time" of yesterday, in which dreadful "Langoliers" eat the past. |
1991-ongoing | Outlander series | Diana Gabaldon | Time-travel romance. The series begins with the novel Outlander, in which a woman time travels through standing stones in Scotland from the 1940s to the 1740s. |
1992 | The Guns of the South | Harry Turtledove | During the American Civil War, South African white supremacists give the Confederacy AK-47s. |
1992 | Doomsday Book | Connie Willis | Travel through time from 2048 to 14th century, constrained by automatic avoidance of paradoxes. |
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 try to prevent World War I, and, among other adventures, voyages on the RMS Titanic. |
1995 | The Time Ships | Stephen Baxter | Authorised sequel to H. G. Wells' The Time Machine. |
1996 | Timequake | Kurt Vonnegut | People in 2001 are transported back to 1991 to relive their lives. |
1996 | The Dechronization of Sam Magruder | George Gaylord Simpson | A scientist working in the year 2162 is thrown back in time 80 million years to the Jurassic period. |
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. The same concept is used to send the animorphs back to time to 65 million B.C. in Megamorph 2. In the Andalite Chronicles, Elfangor discovers a technology known as the Time Matrix, seen again in Megamorph 3. |
1996 | The Devil on the Road | Robert Westall | A young motorbiker takes shelter in a barn in Suffolk during a storm and is transported back to the 17th century at the time of the English Civil War. |
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 time travelers from 2048 travel back to the 19th century in order to find an artifact for a dictatorial wealthy woman; adventures occur in The Blitz and other occasions. |
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 as to return to his own age and help Shakespeare to greater success on the stage. |
1999 | All of an Instant | Richard Garfinkle | People from three atemporal time tribes must unite to save the crystallization and fracturing of all of history. |
1999 | Timeline | Michael Crichton | Historians travel to and 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, a magical necklace that allows her to travel back in time on a daily basis in order to take an unusually large courseload. The device is later used to manipulate the events of a single night to aid a wrongly accused convict's escape. |
2000 | The Light of Other Days | Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter | 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 | Meridian | John Schettler | ForeWord Magazine Silver Medal Winner for Sci-fi Book of The Year, 2002. The first ever experiment in time travel sets off a "Time War" where opposing sides struggle to alter key events on the Meridians of Time. Five book series: Meridian, Nexus Point, Touchstone, Anvil of Fate, Golem 7. |
2002 | Night Watch | Terry Pratchett | Character interacts with a younger version of himself. |
2002 | Counting Up, Counting Down | Harry Turtledove | Time travel with the twin perspectives of a man who travels back in time for relationship stability. |
2002 | Guardian | Joe Haldeman | Born in 1858, Rosa journeys from the Civil War South to the Northeast, marries a villainous husband, and flees with their 14-year-old boy Daniel for the Klondike Gold Rush, all before learning that the talking, shapeshifting raven she sometimes encounters is a Guardian. Raven allows her to journey through space and time, then restores her to her "present" in 1898, now an adjacent universe, with comic and romantic results. |
2002 | Thief! | Malorie Blackman | A huge storm traps a girl who is accused of being a thief and takes her into the future. |
2002 | Kaleidoscope Century | John Barnes | Takes place on Mars. A man 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 in overlapping vortices of time and alternate reality as a villain tries to eradicate a literary classic. |
2003-ongoing | Haruhi Suzumiya | Nagaru Tanigawa | Two characters, Mikuru Asahina and Fujiwara, are time travelers from the future, and many parts of the story line involve time traveling. |
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 | Pen Pal | Lou Antonelli | Loops in a man's life are told through a narrative that goes from future to present. |
2004 | All You Need Is Kill | Hiroshi Sakurazaka | When the aliens invade, Keiji Kiriya is a new recruit sent to fight. He dies on the battlefield, only to be 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 | Multibillionaire clones a mammoth and sends it back in time. |
2006 | Sojourn | Jana G. Oliver | A Time Rover from 2057 returns to 1888 London in search of a missing time tourist, only to be caught in the Jack the Ripper murders and the history-changing plots of a mysterious group of shape-shifters called Transitives. |
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 | Fifth book in the Artemis Fowl series. Artemis must pair up with his old comrade Captain Holly Short to track down the missing demon, before the spell that holds a demon island, Hybras, in limbo dissolves completely and the lost demon colony returns violently 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 | Principal character 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. |
2007 | The Lifehouse Trilogy | Spider Robinson | Three books (Mindkiller (1982), Time Pressure (1988), LifeHouse (1997)) chronicle the story of visitors from Earth's future visiting the past to essentially harvest souls. |
2007 | Virtual Evil | Jana G. Oliver | A Time Rover from 2057 is sent to 1888 London to find Harter Defoe, the first time traveler who is slowly going insane. |
2008 | Madman's Dance | Jana G. Oliver | Abandoned in a Victorian insane asylum, memories erased, a Time Rover from 2057 must find a way to thwart a plot from the future that will remake British history. |
2008 | The Region of Unlikeness | Rivka Galchen | An engineering graduate student finds herself entangled with a man who may or may not be her own son traveled back in time. |
2008 | The Little Book | Selden Edwards | The last heir of a Boston banking family wakes up in Vienna in the time leading up to the Second World War. He meets his father, grandfather, Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, Gustav Mahler and others. |
2008 | Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox | Eoin Colfer | Sixth book in the Artemis Fowl series. After Angeline Fowl contracts spelltropy, Artemis travels back in time eight years to when he was ten years old 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 | Expiration Date | Duane Swierczynski | Hardboiled pulp tale of an ex-journalist who discovers pills in his grandfather's medicine cabinet that transport him back in time to the 1970s. |
2010 | Sabotaged | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Jonah and Katherine go on yet another mission to return a missing kid named Andrea (really Virginia Dare) to her time in the Roanoke Colony. |
2010 | Blackout and All Clear | Connie Willis | Time travelers from 2048 go to the London Blitz during World War II to observe and end up being part of it. 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 adventures through time accompanied by TAMMY and his ontologically valid dog, Ed, all while documenting his travels in a manual for future travellers. |
2011 | World of Warcraft: Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects | Christie Golden | Thrall, an orc shaman, travels through time and alternative reality in order to find his inner strength. |
2011 | 11/22/63 | Stephen King | A man travels through a time portal to 1958, 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, both use a device called the Eclipse Gate from the Book of Zeref to travel back in time for different purposes. |
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. |
2012 | Tempest | Julie Cross | First book in the Tempest Trilogy, Jackson Meyer discovers he has the ability to time travel, but he soon finds things are more complicated than they seem. He has to figure out the answers to how his power works and who is after him before it is too late to save the ones he loves. |
2013 | Vortex | Julie Cross | Second book in the Tempest Trilogy, Jackson Meyer tries to accept his role as an agent of Tempest and to adjust to the changes he has made to the timeline. |
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 | Timestorm | Julie Cross | In the final book of the Tempest Trilogy, the fight between Tempest and Eyewall comes to a startling conclusion. Can Jackson Meyer save those he loves, or will he end up destroying the world? |
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. |
2014 | The Here and Now | Ann Brashares | A girl and her community immigrated to New York when she was twelve, not from a different country, but from a different time—a future where a mosquito-borne illness has mutated into a pandemic, killing millions and leaving the world in ruins. |
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 of several film adaptations of Mark Twain's classic. |
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 | Starts in 1880, then cuts to 1930, then cuts to a futuristic New York in 1980. A man was struck by lightning in 1930 and wakes up to a 1980 with personal aircraft, vending machines replacing sexual activity, spacecraft to Mars, people with letters-dash-digits based names, pill meals, and government-biased 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.[4][5] |
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?[6][7] |
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 who 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've retreated underground, and the savage mutants who've 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.[8] 12 Monkeys was inspired by La Jetée.[9] |
1964 | The Time Travelers | Ib Melchior | Scientists find their time-viewing screen allows them to travel through time; they become stranded in a post-apocalypse future. An adventure film directed by B-movie director Ib Melchior that inspired the 1966 TV series The Time Tunnel as well as the 1967 remake Journey to the Center of Time.[10][11] |
1965 | Dr. Who and the Daleks | Gordon Flemyng | Based on the BBC TV series. In this, the Doctor is an inventor not an alien. His TARDIS device takes the Doctor and companions to the future of an alien world. |
1966 | Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. | Gordon Flemyng | Based on the BBC TV series. In this the Doctor is an inventor not an alien. His TARDIS device takes the Doctor and companions to a future London devastated by war. |
1967 | Journey to the Center of Time | David L. Hewitt | Scientists develop a time machine and travel to the far future and the distant past. A remake of The Time Travelers. |
1968 | Planet of the Apes | Franklin J. Schaffner | George Taylor (played by Charlton Heston) travels to a future Earth inhabited by intelligent talking apes. |
1970 | Beneath the Planet of the Apes | Ted Post | Another astronaut, Brent, travels to the future Earth ruled by apes. His search for Taylor leads 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 astronaut Taylor's spaceship and piloting it through a time warp back to 1973. |
1972 | Slaughterhouse-Five | George Roy Hill | A man travels to various times and places from his life in addition to another planet. |
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 warship back in time from the 1980s to the 1940s. |
1980 | Somewhere in Time | Jeannot Szwarc | Adapted from the novel Bid Time Return from writer Richard Matheson, who also wrote the script. Playwright Richard Collier has his whole life changed by a mysterious woman, that's connected to him somehow. When he sees the picture of beautiful stage actress Elise McKenna, he goes inside a journey to return to the past and live the love of his lifetime.[12] |
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 1875-77. |
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[13] | 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, decide to spend the night in an inn, and the next morning they awake in the Florence of the 15th century. |
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 the clumsy Rex gets lost. A mysterious crystal opens a gateway in time and sets him back to the stone ages, where he meets a group of prehistoric fellows and the gorgeous 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 and retrieve the beings who can communicate with an alien probe (humpback whales). |
1986 | Outlaws | Nicholas Corea | Five cowboys of the 1880s are sent forward through time 100 years and fight crime. |
1986 | Flight of the Navigator | Randal Kleiser | In 1978, a boy winds up 8 years into the future, and discovers an alien spaceship brought him there. |
1986 | Kin-dza-dza | Georgiy Daneliya | A Russian dystopian comedy. Uncle Vova asks a person from the planet Alpha to move him and Fiddler back in time to save two aliens who got imprisoned because of the main hero's actions. |
1987 | Mirror for a Hero / Zerkalo dlya geroya | Vladimir Khotinenko | Two heroes circle multiple times in 1949, adapting to the harsh post-war life, meeting the parents of one of them, finally returning to the present time, having reassesed their attitude towards elders.[14][15] |
1987 | Masters of the Universe | David Odell | The villain uses a camcorder-like gadget that shows the past, and an inventor opens up wormholes to other timestreams allowing the heroine (a young Courteney Cox) to save her parents from dying. |
1987 | Timestalkers | Michael Schulz | A professor who's lost his family finds evidence of a time traveller in Old West memorabilia. |
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 | Major league baseball players from the early 20th century time travel to the present year of 1989. When Ray Kinsella is in Minnesota searching for former major-leaguer "Moonlight" Graham, he is mysteriously transported from 1989 to 1972 where he encounters Graham as an elderly doctor. |
1989 | Back to the Future Part II | Robert Zemeckis | Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to 2015 to prevent Marty's kids from ruining the McFly family's reputation. Along the way, an old Biff Tannen steals the DeLorean so he can give a sports almanac to himself in 1955, and win millions of dollars gambling. This creates a hellish alternate timeline that it's up to Marty and the Doc to correct. |
1989 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Stephen Herek | Two teenagers (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves) will not graduate from high school unless they pull an "A" on their history project. A time traveler (George Carlin) visits them to help because their success on this report is vital as it ensures they will stay together to 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, in order 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 witch craft is transported to the 20th century, followed by a witch hunter who must stop the warlock finding the Grand Grimoire. |
1990 | Frankenstein Unbound | Roger Corman | A scientist creates a weapon that causes your enemy to disappear but has a side effect of causing shifts in time. The scientist is transported back in time to 1817 and he meets Doctor Frankenstein and his monster as well as Mary Shelley, who in this film wrote her novel based 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[13] | 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 as well to protect his past self and prevent a nuclear holocaust. |
1991 | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | Peter Hewitt | Two evil robot versions of Bill & 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.[16] |
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 | The rich, in a future where time travel has been invented, 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. Based on the novel Vintage Season by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore. Released on video as Grand Tour: Disaster in Time. |
1992 | Split Infinity | Stan Ferguson | To 14y/o A.J., her family is an embarrassment and she blames her grandfather for losing the family farm. One night A.J. falls from the hayloft and wakes up back in 1929 as her grandfather's sister. While there 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 a kidnapped April. |
1993 | Les Visiteurs | Jean-Marie Poiré | A 12th-century knight and his servant travel in time to the end of 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, and finds himself in the terrifying 1993 that resulted from a Nazi victory in World War II. |
1993 | 12:01 PM | Jack Sholder | Barry Thomas is an average office worker. He becomes attracted to Lisa, a scientist in the same company. After work, Barry witnesses the murder of Lisa and goes to a bar to get drunk. That night, there is a storm and Barry gets a shock from a lamp's faulty power wire at exactly 12:01 a.m. The next few days, he realizes the world is trapped in a time loop, with himself the only one aware of it. Barry must prevent Lisa's 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. |
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 | Includes a prohibition against changing the past. 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 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.[17][18] |
1996 | Doctor Who | Geoffrey Sax | This film involves the Doctor in his eighth incarnation and has a showdown with the Master. |
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. 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. They decide to help the rebels. |
1998 | Run Lola Run / Lola Rennt | Tom Tykwer | Lola has to acquire DEM 100,000 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.[19] |
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.[20] |
1999 | Time at the Top | Timothy Busfield, Elisha Cuthbert, Gabrielle Boni, Matthew Harbour | 14-year old Susan Shawson travels back in time in her building's elevator, as altered by a retired physicist living in her building. It transports her from Philadelphia of 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. Gradually discovering the power of her time machine, Susan, Victoria, and her young brother Robert travel back and forth in time and 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 television film in which a reporter notices that the same faces keep appearing in photographs of 20th century disasters, deduces that they are time travelers, and tries to save the history he knows.[21][22] |
1999 | Teen Knight | Phil Comeau | Peter (Kris Lemche) wins the soda contest to a trip to the Medieval Park. As Peter and his friends go on a castle tour, Lord Drakin casts a spell and sends the Peter and his friends back in time to 1383. Released on DVD as Medieval Park. |
1999 | Back to the '50s | Andrew Margetson | TV special about the English pop group S Club 7 finding a time portal while on their way to Los Angeles. They find themselves in a desert town in the year 1959 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 a marriage to Kristen (Catherine Hicks) coming to an end. He stumbles across a time slip that occurs on one of his regular train rides, as the train goes through a tunnel. Coming across an antique watch, he learns it allows him to get off the train during the time slip, whereupon he finds himself back in 1896. Before long he finds a newfound love, Laura Brown (Mary McDonnell), and realises he belongs there. In a fit, he breaks the watch then sees the situation in a new light and complications occur when the portal back to the past 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 both 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 and returns with a boy named Sam when 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 clue to break the evil spell placed on Halloweentown. Later on 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 | Remake of 1960s version of the film, directed by H. G. Wells' great-grandson, has little in common with H. G. Wells's original novel. |
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 awaken 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 | Film adaptation of the book by Michael Crichton. |
2003 | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines[13] | 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 | Time travelers can only use the time machine to travel to when the machine was first turned on. But you can bring a second running time machine back with you and after leaving the first machine, climb in the second. Aaron obsessively returns to a party one night to prevent a murder and become a hero. |
2004 | The Butterfly Effect | Eric Bress & J. Mackye Gruber | A college psychology student (Ashton Kutcher) learns he can temporarily travel to his past and change it. The time traveling in this film involves a process initiated by reading childhood journals. |
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 drug-addicted girlfriend, Cody (Sarah Lind), who's overdosed and fallen into a coma, 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 | A 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 a time in pre-history to hunt dinosaur game. 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.[23] | |
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 | Luke Wilson as Corporal Joe Bauers (later "Not Sure") a U.S. Army librarian, along with a prostitute named Rita, are selected for a suspended animation experiment which is supposed to last one year but which is forgotten for five hundred years. |
2006 | Christmas Do-Over | 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.[24] | |
2006 | Salvage | Claire encounters horror and murder after finishing a day working at a convenience store, not once but many times. An official selection of the 2006 Sundance Festival.[25] | |
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 | House wife (Sandra Bullock) learns that her husband died in a car crash the previous day, but wakes up next morning to find him well and alive, and awakens the next day to a time when it has been a few weeks since he had died. |
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.[26][27] | |
2008 | Minutemen | Lev L. Spiro | Three high-school outcasts use a time machine that one invented 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 | Direct-to-video film in the Stargate franchise. Ba'al (Cliff Simon) changes the timeline so that SG-1 or the Stargate program 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 can predict the future and tells of alternate life paths, often changing course with the flick of 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 | Two geeks and a cynic 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, in order to change his ways. |
2009 | Land of the Lost | Brad Silberling | A disgraced paleontologist named Dr. Rick Marshall, 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 to a yacht trip with her friends, jumps to another ship after a mysterious weather condition, and gets caught up in a terrifying loop of events. |
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 two of his classmates are missing and everything is different. 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 | A brilliant physicist spends 20 years developing a time machine, then he comes back in time and tries to do everything different. |
2012 | Safety Not Guaranteed | Colin Trevorrow | Comedy film inspired by a 1997 Backwoods Home Magazine classified ad by 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 abuse time travel to kill humans and avoid tracking of their bodies. |
2012 | Quantum of Vengeance | Ben Wydeven | In 1998, 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, desires 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 which they attempt to break.[28] |
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 | Rubinrot | Felix Fuchssteiner | Gwendolyn Shepherd is actually a very normal 16-year-old teen. What's annoying is that her family definitely has a tad too many secrets. They all have to do with the time-travel gene that is passed down in the family. Everyone is certain that Gwen's cousin Charlotte has the gene, and so everything is all Charlotte, all the time. Until the day Gwen, out of the clear blue sky, suddenly finds herself in London at the end of the 19th century. She knows right away that she, and not Charlotte, was born to be a time traveler - even if she could certainly do without it. Just as she could do without Charlotte's arrogant boyfriend Gideon de Villiers, with whom she now has to forge an alliance in order to clear up the biggest secret of her family history. One thing is clear: she will do everything possible to solve the ancient mysteries. What isn't clear is that one should not fall in love between the times. For that really makes things complicated! |
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 | Due to an experiment, a man unknowingly travels into the future, only to find out that he is going to be framed in series of killings. He has to come back and save his future. |
2013 | The A.R.K. Report | Shmuel Hoffman | A short film. A young girl travels into the future in order 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 his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life.[29] |
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.[30] Korean movie. |
2014 | Mr. Peabody & Sherman | Rob Minkoff | The time-travelling adventures of an advanced canine and his adopted son, as they endeavor to fix a time rift they created. |
2014 | X-Men: Days of Future Past[31] | Bryan Singer | The X-Men send the character Wolverine's consciousness to 1973 to prevent a war between Sentinels and mankind from starting in the first place. |
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 with constant trips to the past, her relationships with Gideon and figuring out dark secrets surrounding the Circle. |
2014 | Predestination | Michael and Peter Spierig | A person goes back in time in order to catch an infamous terrorist known as the "Fizzle Bomber". 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 poses. |
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 | Rob, a high school senior, keeps waking up in the morning of one of the most important days of his life every time he ejaculates during this day.[32] |
2014 | The Infinite Man | Hugh Sullivan | A man's attempts to construct the ultimate romantic weekend backfire when his quest for perfection traps his lover in an infinite loop.[33] |
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 | Indru Netru Naalai | Ravi Kumar | An Indian scientist in the year of 2065 invents a time machine and, to prove its capability, sends it back in time to 2015. However, the machine is seen by three people in the past. First Indian science fiction Tamil movie. |
2015 | Terminator Genisys[13] | Alan Taylor | In 2029, Kyle Reese is sent back in time by John Connor to protect his mother Sarah, as previously established by 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. |
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. |
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 | The year is 1968, and Doug Phillips and Tony Newman are working on a top secret project beneath the Arizona desert called "tic-toc". The project has been 10 years in the making, and a visiting senator wants to see if this project really works, or he will cut the funding for it. To prove that it can work, Tony Newman turns on the time tunnel and goes back to the year 1912, and is on board the R.M.S. Titanic, which would sink hours later. Doug Phillips goes into the tunnel to help Tony, and both are stuck hapless in time. They are catapulted each week to a new adventure in history. |
1970 | 1971 | Catweazle | Richard Carpenter | 11th century wizard accidentally ensorcels his way into the 20th. Humorous mistakes are made. |
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 and a boy travel through time repairing errors in world history. |
1988 | 1988 | Moondial (TV serial) | Helen Cresswell | After a family tragedy, a girl is transported into the past. |
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 incident, as well as on many other occasions in the series – usually into the past. |
1989 | 1993 | Quantum Leap | Donald P. Bellisario | Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) helped to develop Quantum Leap, a project that would allow a person to time travel back to any point since that person was born. Beckett ended up being the test subject, and while he could remember only certain details, he traded places with a person in the past. Others in the past saw the other person instead of Beckett. In the present, an observer named Al (Dean Stockwell), whom Beckett could see as a hologram, gave Beckett advice. This usually involved having Beckett correct some problem in the other person's life. |
1990 | 1991 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures | 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 | 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 and become children. The power rangers seek help and the Aliens from Aquitar assist the power rangers as they find a way to restore time and themselves to their young adult age and the Earth to its present time by seeking out the Zeo Crystals. |
1997 | 1997 | Crime Traveller | Anthony Horowitz | Jeff Slade (Michael French) uses a time machine created by colleague Holly Turner's father to solve crimes. The machine operates seemingly-randomly, sending the user(s) back in time a time that can be a matter of minutes, or several days. |
1998 | 2001 | Seven Days | Christopher & Zachary Crowe | NSA Agent Frank B. Parker can travel back 7 days in a time machine powered by alien technology. |
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 to effect a different outcome |
2000 | 2001 | Mirai Sentai Timeranger | Four policemen travel from the year 3000 to the year 2000 to arrest 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, in order to allow himself enough time to conquer the world. |
2001 | 2003 | Time Squad | Dave Wasson | Time cops from the year 1,000,000,000 A.D. 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 | Astronauts (including Peter Weller and Sebastian Roché) are sent back in time after witnessing the end of the Earth from space. |
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, as a 14-year old. He is electrocuted, then wakes up in his teenage body, but 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 a lot of 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 | Desmond Hume, former Royal Scots Regimen, is caused by electromagnetic radiation to become "unstuck in time." His consciousness switches between 2004 (the present) and 1996. Benjamin Linus, former leader of the island natives, travels ten months into the future after moving the island. In Season 5, the characters on the island skip through time to different periods of the island's past and future. |
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. Ricky Ullman starred. |
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 alike from different periods in time start to come through to our world 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 |
A 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 cop 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 start to 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 | The protagonists must work with and fight creatures known as Imagin who come from a possible future and have come back in time 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 to travel farther back in time along that person's memories in order to find the Junction Point by destroying anyone and anything in their way to change the future. | |
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 and adapted to life there, 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 granted immortality after a heroic deed; he has since led several dozen various lives down through the centuries, 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 |
Spin-off series from Life on Mars set in the 1980s. |
2008 | 2009 | Kamen Rider Kiva | Parallel storylines taking in 1986 and 2008 are told, with two of the protagonists from the 2008 timeline going back in time to 1986. The latter time traveler goes back in time to attempt to prevent his birth such that his love may live, but instead ensures that his existence remains 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 in 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. They then use the time displacement equipment to move forward in time by 8 years to hide John. Various other Terminators are sent back in time on varying missions. | |
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 an eminent astrophysicist Dr Christian King's (Emun Elliott) laboratory, 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", as it is called, the consciousness of everyone on 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 since completely mastered immortality and now has also created an infinite number of Einstein-Rosen Bridge "wormholes" 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 mainly 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 is revealed to have 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 disaster later. 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. | |
2012 | 2015 | Continuum (TV series) | This Canadian science fiction series 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 in and around year 2012. | |
2014 | – | Outlander | Based on Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series | Travel through time from the 1940s to 1740s. Woman time travels through standing stones in Scotland. |
2014 | – | Flash | Based on the DC Comics character Flash | A costumed superhero crime-fighter with the power to move at superhuman speeds. 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 | – | 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 JFK. |
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 in an attempt to prevent Vandal Savage from destroying the world and time itself |
See also
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