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1990s
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: This time, the Terminator isn’t here to kill Sarah Connor — he’s here to babysit her son, John. Meanwhile,…
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2010s
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Katniss and Peeta return home after winning the Hunger Games, but their victory has made them a symbol of…
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2010s
Allegiant
Byte-Sized Overview After the faction system collapses, Tris Prior and Tobias “Four” Eaton discover that freedom has not brought peace to Chicago.…
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2010s
Insurgent
Byte-Sized Overview Following the collapse of the attack against Abnegation, Tris Prior and Four are fugitives hiding among the peaceful members of…
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1970s
Logan’s Run
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In a gleaming domed city of the future, humanity lives in luxury… with one catch: nobody lives past the…
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1970s
Westworld
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: At Delos, a high-tech adult theme park, guests pay top dollar to live out their wildest fantasies in one…
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2000s
The Island
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Lincoln Six Echo lives in a sterile utopia where survivors of Earth’s contamination await transfer to “The Island” —…
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2020s
Alien: Romulus
Byte-Sized Overview Set between Alien and Aliens, Alien: Romulus follows a group of young workers desperate to escape a corporate mining colony…
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2000s
Minority Report
Byte-Sized Overview In Washington, D.C. in 2054, murder has almost been eliminated. The PreCrime division uses the visions of three psychic “Precogs”…
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2020s
Elevation
Byte-Sized Overview Three years after creatures known as Reapers emerged from beneath the Earth and wiped out most of humanity, the remaining…
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1990s
Starship Troopers
Byte-Sized Overview Johnny Rico joins the Mobile Infantry to remain close to his ambitious girlfriend, Carmen Ibanez, despite having little understanding of…
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2010s
Divergent
Byte-Sized Overview In a future Chicago sealed away from the outside world, every citizen belongs to one of five factions based upon…
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2010s
The Hunger Games
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In a future where the government entertains the masses with televised teen death matches, a girl from a poor…
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2000s
I, Robot
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In a near-future Chicago where humanoid robots are everyday helpers, a detective with serious trust issues investigates the death…
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2010s
Cowboys & Aliens
Byte-Sized Overview In 1873, a wounded stranger wakes in the New Mexico desert with no memory of his identity and a strange…
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1980s
The Abyss
Byte-Sized Overview When the nuclear submarine USS Montana sinks after encountering an unidentified object deep in the Caribbean, the crew of an…
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2010s
Interstellar
Byte-Sized Overview A crop blight is slowly making Earth uninhabitable, forcing humanity to concentrate upon food production while abandoning much of its…
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1960s
2001: A Space Odyssey
Byte-Sized Overview From humanity’s prehistoric beginnings to a voyage towards Jupiter, 2001: A Space Odyssey follows the mysterious influence of an extraterrestrial…
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1950s
War of the Worlds
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Martians land on Earth with terrifying war machines and start incinerating cities like it’s a sport. Humanity’s weapons are…
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1990s
12 Monkeys
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In a plague-ravaged future, a convict is sent back in time to stop the virus that wiped out humanity…
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1990s
Deep Impact
Byte-Sized Overview A newly discovered comet is on a collision course with Earth, leaving humanity with less than a year to prevent…
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2000s
Primer
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Two engineers stumble upon time travel while tinkering in their garage. What begins as a clever side hustle soon…
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2020s
The Electric State
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A runaway teen travels across a decaying retro-futuristic America in search of her brother, accompanied by a friendly robot…
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1970s
Star Wars: Episode IV (A New Hope)
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A farm boy, a space princess, a smuggler, and two snarky droids take on a planet-destroying space station run…
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