One of the very first narrative films, Georges Méliès's "A Trip to the Moon," is about aliens. Sure, everyone remembers that shot of a rocket ship crashing into the eye of the man in the moon, but as ...

Movies about disasters—natural or human-made—have been produced since the earliest days of film. As early as 1916, a disaster with an extraterrestrial cause was touted in The End of the World, a ...

Aliens are a tried and true staple of sci-fi, an element that invites fear and horror, but which can open itself to wonder, discovery, and statements on the human condition just as readily. Alien ...