As stories of extraterrestrial encounters echo in the corridors of scientific and political discourse, it's time to revisit the screenplays that have shaped our views and excited our imaginations.
Film

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 · Film

Cocoon
1985 · Film

Aliens
1985 · Film

Arrival
2016 · Film

Attack the Block
2011 · Film

AVP
Alien vs. Predator
2004 · Film

Battlefield Earth
2000 · Film

Coneheads
1993 · Film

Edge of Tomorrow
2014 · Film

E.T. the Extra Terrestrial
1982 · Film

Evolution
2001 · Film

The Fourth Kind
2009 · Film

Killer Klowns from Outer Space
1988 · Film

Men in Black
1997 · Film

Predator
1987 · Film

Prometheus
2012 · Film

The Thing
1982 · Film

The Tomorrow War
2021 · Film

They Live
1988 · Film

The X-Files
1998 · Film
TV

Battlestar Galactica
"33"
2005 · Series

The Man Who Fell to Earth
"Hallo, Spaceboy"
2022 · Series

Project Blue Book
"The Fuller Dogfight"
2019 · Series

Raised by Wolves
"Raised by Wolves"
2020 · Series

Roswell, New Mexico
"Pilot"
2019 · Series

Star Trek
The Next Generation
"Rascals"
1992 · Series

The X-Files
"Pilot"
1993 · Series

The X-Files
"Little Green Men"
1994 · Series

The X-Files
"Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose"
1995 · Series

The X-Files
"Tunguska"
1996 · Series
Feature art by Mo Houston : Studio Mo