63 minutes to understand why we still can't stop making alien movies.
Documentary on the History of Science Fiction Movies from The Day the Earth Stood Still onward.
Production
Rare archival footage of genre legends actually talking.
Writing
Smart through-line from 1951 paranoia to modern blockbusters.
Director
Danny Edwards
Frankie Avalon
Self - (archive footage)
Hoyt Axton
Self - (archive footage)
Gene Barry
Self - (archive footage)
Stephen Boyd
Self - (archive footage)
James Doohan
Self - (archive footage)
Danny Edwards
Self - Narrator
DeForest Kelley
Self - (archive footage)
Persis Khambatta
Self - (archive footage)
Walter Koenig
Self - (archive footage)
Peter Lorre
Self - (archive footage)
Kevin McCarthy
Self - (archive footage)
Nichelle Nichols
Self - (archive footage)
Maila Nurmi
Self - (archive footage)
Edmond O'Brien
Self - (archive footage)
Arthur O'Connell
Self - (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Danny Edwards also narrated several making-of docs for low-budget 90s sci-fi films, making this his accidental life's thesis.
The title deliberately echoes 1950s atomic-age documentary aesthetics, when 'educational films' promised progress while whispering doom.
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