Movies About Time Travel
CTRL Z
Ed, inventor of a machine that can undo time, is dining in a greasy Manchester cafe with his friend Carrie. He is infatuated with a woman sitting in another booth. How many thousands of times does he need to rewind the past few minutes before he finally succeeds in connecting with this woman? (23 minutes)
Emit
“Emit” (“Time” spelled backwards) is a bizarre short film that takes place in a world where time flows backwards. An old man looks forward to greeting his wife as she comes alive from being a corpse, while his 7-year old granddaughter contemplates her upcoming mortality. (11 minutes)
Frankie
A watch repair man repairs an antique pocket watch, and accidentally discovers that it has a secret feature—it is also a time machine. He decides to use it to win a contest, but things turn sinister when he discovers that a suspicious man is in pursuit of the pocket watch. (22 minutes)
Gateway
A man tries to go back in time to before his sister’s death to get her to complete the formula for more effective time travel. (15 minutes)
Green Grass
Bishop, a time traveler employed by Future Perfect, is sent forward in time four and a half years to a bar to retrieve documents that are creating a temporal anomaly. The mysterious bartender reveals to a surprised Bishop that Future Perfect is creating more problems with its program than it is solving. (13 minutes)
M-Theory
Two scientists successfully invent a teleportation device. A time traveler from the future arrives to inform them that this device will lead to the development of time travel technology, and the result will be disastrous. The device must be destroyed, but additional time travelers arrive, and mayhem ensues. (15 minutes)
Meddler
Based on a Philip K Dick short story, some scientists send a probe into the future and inadvertently create a disaster. Sending a top scientist into the future to fix it has unexpected consequences. (6 minutes)
Ouroboros
There is a reason that time travel is illegal in 2028 and punishable by death. A man goes back in time to prevent an accident, with tragic and unexpected results. (16 minutes)
Super Science Friends – Episode 1: “The Phantom Premise”
If you are looking for historical accuracy, then this animated short film is not for you. Winston Churchill uses a time machine to team up with Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Marie Curie, Nikola Tesla, Tapputi, and a young clone of Albert Einstein, all of whom have super powers, to fight time-traveling Soviet zombies. (16 minutes)
The Peddler
A young girl invents a time machine. In many other time travel movies, the characters have many kinds of foolish, pathetic, or tragic motivations for why they time travel. In this short film, the time traveler just wants to make some money. Hey, who else will finance the weird science experiments? (6 minutes)
Time Served
Roy Dawkins is a poor drunk slob. He is unaware that his memory of his past has been temporarily erased. A time traveler from the future meets up with him to restore his memory. When assassins try to kill them, Roy gets caught up in temporal intrigue. (15 minutes)