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, 1h21Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Films about music and musicians, Christmas films, Mars in film, Comedy science fiction films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Musical films, Martiens, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Santa Claus in film, Robot films
Actors Bill McCutcheon, Pia Zadora, Vincent Beck, Ned Wertimer
The story involves the people of Mars, including Momar ("Mom Martian") and Kimar ("King Martian"). They're worried that their children Girmar ("Girl Martian") and Bomar ("Boy Martian") are watching too much Earth television, most notably station KID-TV's interview with Santa Claus in his workshop at the North Pole. Consulting the ancient 800-year-old Martian sage Chochem (a Yiddish word meaning "genius"), they are advised that the children of Mars are growing distracted due to the society's overly rigid structure; from infancy, all their education is fed into their brains through machines and they are not allowed individuality or freedom of thought.
, 1h25Directed by C. Thomas Howell
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Mars in film, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Political films, Dystopian films, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors C. Thomas Howell, Christopher "Kid" Reid, Fred Griffith, Dashiell "Dash" Howell, Sanaa Lathan, Darren Dalton
George Herbert explains that despite years of searching for extraterrestrial life, mankind never expected the invasion which devastated human civilization into anarchy, and that the aliens were killed by a lack of immunity to the bacteria in the human blood they consumed. Two years later, a town is seen, populated with silent refugees including characters Shackleford and Sissy. Suddenly, three Tripods land in the city. People are struck by a Heat-Ray. Shackleford takes a sample of Sissy's blood, with which he injects himself.
Themes Space adventure films, Sur la Lune, Mars in film, Alternate history films, Space opera
The dawn of the Space Age is amidst the crucible of World War II. Prompted by gaining pre-eminence in the high-ground of space, the world's triumphant superpowers race to dominate orbit, the Moon and beyond. To this end, the United States government under President Truman commits to founding the National Council of Astronautics (NCA) and the United States Space Force (USSF) in 1949. After a period of technological development and installation of infrastructure, Eagle One lands the first men on the Moon in July 1963. With continued lunar operations, the eyes of the NCA turn to Mars, landing there in 1968. The 1970s and beyond are devoted to technological expansion and the privatisation of space, leading to a very different modern day. The film is told through the eyes of those who witnessed and lived through these historical events.
Genres Science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Space opera
Lost on Mars was based on what it might have been like if Mars was populated with a civilization and had an atmosphere billions of years ago. Space Command sends a rocket ship to Mars to investigate a signal that Earth received from Mars. Once the crew arrives on the planet they encounter strange things beneath the surface of the planet. Alex Quin an astronaut enters a monument on Mars where he finds a room full of gold and silver, he also finds a strange box; within this box there is a device which he takes back to the ship. A violent storm erupts on his way back and the rocket ship needs to take off immediately before it strikes. The crew tries to launch but it's too late and the storm hits the ship hard making the ship go out of control directing the ship back towards the planet. One of the astronauts notices something very strange on her monitor which shows in the cargo bay there is a very strong energy field being created. The energy is coming from the box that Alex brought aboard. This energy force is what creates a door way back into time, a door way back into Mar's past. Once they travel back into time the three astronauts find a strange new world, a world of barbaric proportions. While on the surface of Mars they are imprisoned tortured and brought forth to the Siperion Empire for their judgment. Their only hope is to figure out how to get back to their ship in hope they can return home.
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Space opera
Empire of Danger is about a rescue mission sent to Mars to find out what happened to the astronauts from the first mission to Mars. A rocket is launched towards Mars with an experimental spacecraft capable of traveling through time. The astronauts attempt to travel back through time over 300 billion years ago into Mars past in hope of finding out why Space command lost contact with the first mission. As the spacecraft attempts to travel back in time, Earth urgently tries to send a radio transmission to abort their mission. The crew receives the information but it's to late and they travel back into Mars past anyway throwing them ten years off their projected time curve from the first crew. Once on the planet surface they encounter a world with a thriving atmosphere, a world similar to Earth but controlled by the Siperion Empire a ruthless barbarian culture who are at war with an alliance of planets in their home solar system. Mars was taken from the alliance by the Siperion army during the war. The planet is used for mining raw minerals and used as a Top secret base to construct weapons of mass destruction to destroy their enemy's with.