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
Ep. 101
The Man Who Fell to Earth
"Hallo, Spaceboy"
2022 · Series
Ep. 101
Project Blue Book
"The Fuller Dogfight"
2019 · Series
Ep. 101
Raised by Wolves
"Raised by Wolves"
2020 · Series
Ep. 101
Roswell, New Mexico
"Pilot"
2019 · Series
Ep. 101
Star Trek
The Next Generation
"Rascals"
1992 · Series
Ep. 607
The X-Files
"Pilot"
1993 · Series
Ep. 101
The X-Files
"Little Green Men"
1994 · Series
Ep. 201
The X-Files
"Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose"
1995 · Series
Ep. 304
The X-Files
"Tunguska"
1996 · Series
Ep. 408
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