List of time travel works of fiction
The lists below describes works of fiction involving time travel, where time travel is central to the plot or the premise of the work. For stories of time travel in antiquity, see the history of the time travel concept. For video games and interactive media featuring time travel, see list of games containing time travel.
Time travel in novels, short stories and on the stage
This list describes notable novels and short stories in which time travel is central to the plot or the premise of the work. Works created prior to the 18th century are listed in Time travel § History of the time travel concept.Year | Title | Author | Description |
1733 | Memoirs of the Twentieth Century | Samuel Madden | A guardian angel travels back to the year 1728, with letters from 1997 and 1998. |
1781 | Anno 7603 | Johan Herman Wessel | A good fairy sends people forward to the year 7603 AD. The people find themselves in a society where gender roles are reversed. Only women are soldiers. |
1819 | Rip Van Winkle | Washington Irving | A man falls asleep on a mountain side and wakes twenty years in the future. He finds he has been forgotten, his wife has died and his daughter is no longer a child. |
1836 | Predki Kalimerosa: Aleksandr Filippovich Makedonskii | Alexander Veltman | The narrator rides to ancient Greece on a hippogriff, meets Aristotle, and goes on a voyage with Alexander the Great before returning to the 19th century. |
1843 | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | The heartless Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser, is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, in order to teach him the consequences of his selfish ways. |
1881 | The Clock that Went Backward | Edward Page Mitchell | A clock takes people back in time. The first story to use a machine for time travel. |
1887 | El Anacronópete | Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau | An electrically-powered machine takes Don Sindulfo García and his companions back to several places in history. |
1887 | Looking Backward: 2000–1887 | Edward Bellamy | In the late 19th century, Julian West falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes 113 years later. |
1888 | A Dream of John Ball | William Morris | John Ball travels between mediaeval and contemporary worlds. |
1888 | The Chronic Argonauts | H. G. Wells | An inventor takes a companion in his time machine. The companion narrates the story of their subsequent adventures. |
1889 | Sylvie and Bruno | Lewis Carroll | A watch both tells and determines time. |
1889 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Mark Twain | A man of the 19th century travels back to 528 AD in King Arthur's time. |
1892 | Golf in the Year 2000 | J. McCullough | A man falls asleep in 1892 and wakes up in the year 2000. Trains are supersonic, and golf and politics are the only activities not yet dominated by masculinized women. |
1895 | The Time Machine | H. G. Wells | An inventor creates a time machine and travels to the year 802,701 AD. There, humans have evolved into two species, Morlocks and Eloi. |
1904 | The Defence of Duffer's Drift | Ernest Swinton | A military tactics manual, framed as a series of six dreams by "Lieutenant Backsight Forethought" about the defence of a river crossing in the Boer War. BF learns something from each successive disaster, until in the final defence he is successful. |
1905 | Sultana's Dream | Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain | A feminist utopia in which women run everything and men are secluded, in a mirror-image of traditional purdah. Women scientists have discovered how to control weather and tap solar power for "electrical" technology which enables flying cars and laborless farming. |
1906 | The Story of the Amulet | E. Nesbit | A mysterious artifact brings British children to Babylon, Roman Gaul and other ancient civilizations, and to a future British utopia. |
1909 | Beatrice the Sixteenth | Irene Clyde | A time traveller discovers a lost world, which is an egalitarian utopian postgender society. |
1919 | Enoch Soames | Max Beerbohm | Enoch is transported forward from 1897 to 1997 to find out whether he became a great writer. His tale involves a Faustian pact. |
1920 | The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon and to the 15th Century | Leoš Janáček | An opera based on satirical novels by Svatopluk Čech from 1888, in one of which a heavy-drinking bourgeois 19th century Prague landlord finds himself transported to 1420 in the middle of the Hussite Wars. |
1928 / 1929 | Armageddon 2419 A.D. | Philip Francis Nowlan | A strange cave gas transports Anthony Rogers to 2419 AD. This story was the basis of the comic strip Buck Rogers. |
1933 | The Man Who Awoke | Laurence Manning | Norman Winters puts himself into suspended animation for 5,000 years at a time. |
1939 | Lest Darkness Fall | L. Sprague de Camp | An archaeologist is transported from Rome, in the time of Mussolini, back to the 6th century and tries to prevent the fall of the Roman Empire. |
1941 | By His Bootstraps | Robert A. Heinlein | A circular paradox-character is brought to the future where he later operates a time machine to bring himself to the future. |
1941 | The Seesaw | A. E. van Vogt | A shop selling futuristic weapons appears in June 1947. A reporter enters and finds himself 7,000 years in the future. |
1942 | All-Star Comics #10 | The Justice Society of America uses a time ray to travel 500 years into the future to secure an effective defense against bomb attacks. | |
1944 | As Never Was | P. Schuyler Miller | A desperate attempt is made to find the origin point of a knife whose metal has extreme properties brought to the world by a time traveler. |
1944 | Future Times Three | René Barjavel | Scientists invent a substance which allows time travel. Future humanity has branched into species for different tasks. They also visit the past. The story was adapted into a film in 1982. |
1946 | Vintage Season | "Lawrence O'Donnell" | Time travellers from the future experience wonderful seasons and spectacular events in the past. |
1947 | All-Star Comics #35 | A villain murders a scientist who invented a time machine, and tries to use it to alter history so modern technology cannot defeat his bid to conquer America. | |
1950 | Flight to Forever | Poul Anderson | A physicist is stuck in a time machine that only can travel forwards in time. |
1950 | Pebble in the Sky | Isaac Asimov | In the mid-twentieth century, a man who is a retired tailor is accidentally sent to the future. |
1951 | The Gauntlet | Ronald Welch | After putting on a gauntlet, a boy is transported back to 1326 in Wales. |
1952 | A Sound of Thunder | Ray Bradbury | The butterfly effect means changes made in the past will affect the future. |
1953 | Bring the Jubilee | Ward Moore | A time traveller from an alternate reality travels back to the Battle of Gettysburg and changes his own future into ours. |
1954 | Experiment | Fredric Brown | An experiment involving the time travel of a small brass cube results in disaster. |
1955 | The End of Eternity | Isaac Asimov | Time guardians carry out "Reality Changes" to minimize human suffering, as integrated over the whole of human history. |
1955– 1995 | Time Patrol, plus 10 others | Poul Anderson | A series of eleven stories about the Time Patrol, an organization which protects the past. |
1956 | Extempore | Damon Knight | Mankind learns how to travel through time. |
1956 | The Stars My Destination | Alfred Bester | Gully Foyle lives in a future where self-teleportation is common. He learns to teleport through time. |
1957 | Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd | Islwyn Ffowc Elis | The narrator travels twice to Wales in the year 2033. Each time he encounters a different future. |
1957 | The Door into Summer | Robert A. Heinlein | A man has been trapped in suspended animation for thirty years. After his release, he uses a time machine to travel back in time and exact revenge on his friend and his fiancée who stole his business. |
1957 | The Last Word | Damon Knight | A tale of Armageddon and the Devil. |
1957 | Soldier from Tomorrow | Harlan Ellison | A soldier travels from back from the future to warn the world of its path towards global conflict. |
1958 | The Men Who Murdered Mohammed | Alfred Bester | A professor travels back in time and kills his wife's grandfather so that his wife will never have existed. However, the results confound him. |
1958 | Tom's Midnight Garden | Philippa Pearce | In this children's novel, a boy is living in medical quarantine in a 1950s apartment building. He finds himself in the building's garden of the 1880s and there is a girl there with whom he can play. |
1958 | The Time Traders | Andre Norton | A team travels to 2,000 BC where they find a Soviet base that transfers them further back in time. There they have to avoid both the Soviets and malevolent aliens. |
1959 | Galactic Derelict | Andre Norton | Using the information learned in The Time Traders, a team travels 10,000 years into the past to retrieve a crashed alien spacecraft, accidentally triggering its autopilot when they return it to the present. |
1959 | All You Zombies | Robert A. Heinlein | A circular paradox in which a man discovers that he is his own mother and father. |
1961 | Danny Dunn, Time Traveler | Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams | Two teenagers use their professor's time machine to study the history of the United States. |
1963 | Fantastic Four vol 1 No. 19 | Stan Lee and Jack Kirby | Heroes travel to Ancient Egypt and meet Pharaoh Rama-Tut, who is a time traveller from the 31st century. The first appearance of Marvel Comics time-travelling villain, Kang the Conqueror. |
1963–present | Doctor Who | various authors | Doctor Who gave rise to more than 530 original novels and novelisations based on the popular science fiction television show. |
1964 | The Great Time Machine Hoax | Keith Laumer | A man inherits his uncle's mansion that has a computer that can function as a time machine, although they are slow to realize it. |
1965 | The Ship that Sailed the Time Stream | G.C. Edmondson | A US Navy research ship accidentally travels back in time. The book was nominated for the Nebula Award, but lost to Dune. |
1965 / 1967 | The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | Yasutaka Tsutsui | A high-school girl accidentally acquires the ability to travel through time, which leads to her reliving multiple time loops. |
1967 | Jessamy | Barbara Sleigh | A children's mystery set in England where the main protagonist travels to the time of World War I. |
1967 | The Technicolor Time Machine | Harry Harrison | A bankrupt film studio and a mediocre film director make a movie of the founding of Vinland. Using a time travel machine, they cast real Vikings. |
1968 | Hawksbill Station | Robert Silverberg | An oppressive government uses a time machine to deport their political prisoners to the Cambrian, a half-billion years in the past. |
1968– 1978 | Mampato | Eduardo Armstrong, Óscar Vega and Themo Lobos | After saving an alien stranded on Earth, a boy is given a belt that allows him to travel through space and time. |
1969 | Charlotte Sometimes | Penelope Farmer | A boarding-school story where the protagonist, Charlotte, travels back in time to be Claire in 1918. |
1969 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | A man is randomly travelling through time, jumping from one event to another in no particular order. |
1969 | Up the Line | Robert Silverberg | A guide takes tourists to view historical events in Constantinople. |
1969 | The House on the Strand | Daphne du Maurier | A drug-induced journey to a Cornish village in the 14th century. |
1969 | Behold the Man | Michael Moorcock | A man uses a time machine to travel to 28 AD, in the hope of meeting Jesus. |
1970 | Quest for the Future | A.E. van Vogt | A man once exposed to films from the future is drawn into an adventure to become part of a group of time travellers linked by a special building. |
1970 | Time and Again | Jack Finney | Hypnosis allows travel through time. |
1970 | The Year of the Quiet Sun | Wilson Tucker | - |
1972 | Time’s Last Gift | Phillip Jose Farmer | A pastiche wherein a future Tarzan orchestrates time-travel research allowing him to travel to 12,000 BC. |
1972 | There Will Be Time | Poul Anderson | A man is born with the innate ability to travel in time. |
1973 | Time Enough for Love | Robert A. Heinlein | Lazarus Long travels back in time to 1916 and falls in love with his own mother. |
1973 | The Man Who Folded Himself | David Gerrold | A man receives a belt that allows him to travel through time. |
1973 | Crusade in Jeans | Thea Beckman | 14-year-old boy, stranded in the 13th century, saves the life of Leonardo Fibonacci. They join the Children's Crusade, and save most of them with 20th-century knowledge and high technology. |
1974 | Our Children's Children | Clifford Simak | Refugees from 500 years in the future arrive through time tunnels - and hard behind them come ravening monsters. |
1975 | Bid Time Return | Richard Matheson | A young man sees an old photograph of a woman. Through hypnosis he travels back from 1980 to 1912 to meet her. The story was the basis of the 1980 film Somewhere in Time. |
1976 | An Infinite Summer | Christopher Priest | Travellers from the future "freeze" small groups of people into "tableaux". The people in each tableau vivant become invisible and permeable to others, until the effect wears off, sometimes after many years. |
1977 | Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation | Larry Niven | A half-finished Tipler cylinder is discovered by a future human explorer. When the leader decides to complete it, his civilization is destroyed by a nova. |
1979 | Time After Time | Karl Alexander | H. G. Wells builds a time machine, which is stolen by Jack the Ripper so he can escape the authorities and continue his killing spree in the future. |
1979 | Morlock Night | K. W. Jeter | The Morlocks from H. G. Wells' The Time Machine use the machine to travel back to Victorian London. |
1980 | Timescape | Gregory Benford | Tachyons are used to warn scientists of the past about an upcoming disaster. Winner of several prestigious science fiction awards. |
1980 | Thrice Upon a Time | James P. Hogan | A scientist invents a machine that can send messages through time. |
1980 | A Rebel in Time | Harry Harrison | A racist US colonel plans to aid the Confederacy with submachine gun plans and is pursued through time by a black cop. |
1980 | Kindred | Octavia Butler | An African-American woman, inexplicably transported from 1976 Los Angeles to early 19th century Maryland, meets her ancestors. |
1980 | The Restaurant at the End of the Universe | Douglas Adams | The Milliways restaurant is frozen in the last moment before the universe succumbs to final entropy. Time travel is required to reach it. |
1981 | The Many-Colored Land, first book of the Saga of the Pliocene Exile series | Julian May | Time travellers from the late twenty-first to the early twenty-second century go through a one-way time portal to the Earth's Pliocene. The world is controlled by humanoid extraterrestrials. |
1982 | Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | Time travel paradoxes form the basis of this broad comedy, as in the case of the ancient poet Lallafa. |
1983 | Millennium | John Varley | In the far distant future, a team of time travellers snatch the passengers of a crashed aeroplane, leaving behind prefabricated bodies for rescue teams to find. The novel is the basis of the 1989 film. |
1983 | The Anubis Gates | Tim Powers | In 1983, a millionaire discovers time-travel gates and organizes a trip to 1810 to attend a lecture given by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A professor hired by the millionaire is trapped in 19th-century London. |
1984 | The Toynbee Convector | Ray Bradbury | A stagnating civilization of the 1980s is revitalized when a man produces evidence of a future utopia, obtained through time travel. Mankind is inspired by the evidence to achieve this utopia. |
1984 | TimeWars series | Simon Hawke | 12 books from 1984 to 1991 about a secret organization protecting history from change by time travelers. Many people and events we consider fictional are historical, and vice versa; the action of each book concerns the events of a famous work of literature. In the first, time travelers contesting the fate of Richard I of England become caught up in Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. |
1985 | Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | In the book, students of a battle school aboard a super fast spaceship experience time dilation, causing them to experience less time than everyone else on Earth. |
1985 | The Proteus Operation | James P. Hogan | Decades after Axis victory in World War II, the besieged forces of freedom mount a covert military mission to 1939, to alter the outcome of the war. |
1985 | Eons | Greg Bear | Events in Eon take place in 2005, when the U.S. and Soviet Union are on the verge of nuclear war. In that tense political climate, a 290 km asteroid is detected. The humans who built the Stone seem to come from approximately 1,200 years in the future. |
1986-2014 | The Cross-Time Engineer series | Leo Frankowski | A 20th-century Polish engineer is transported back to 13th century Poland, ten years before the Mongol invasion. |
1987 | Sphere | Michael Crichton | A man made space ship from the far future passes through a wormhole. It crashes onto the Earth where it is thought to be an alien vessel. |
1987 | A Tale of Time City | Diana Wynne Jones | Vivian Smith is a girl who is kidnapped while being evacuated from London during World War II. She is caught up in a struggle to preserve history. |
1988 | Replay | Ken Grimwood | In 1988, a man suffers a heart attack and finds himself returned to his life in 1963. |
1988 | Lightning | Dean Koontz | A time traveller from Nazi Germany interferes with the life of a young woman. |
1988 | The Devil's Arithmetic | Jane Yolen | During a Passover Seder, a woman is transported back to 1942 in Poland and is sent to a death camp. |
1989 | Hyperion | Dan Simmons | The Shrike is a great warrior who is sent back from the future for unknown reasons. |
1990 | Four Past Midnight: "The Langoliers" | Stephen King | An airplane accidentally flies through a rip in the space-time continuum. It appears in the "used time" of yesterday, where dreadful "Langoliers" eat the past. |
1991–ongoing | Outlander series | Diana Gabaldon | A woman time travels from the 1940s to the 1740s by stepping through the standing stones in Scotland. |
1992 | The Guns of the South | Harry Turtledove | During the American Civil War, South African white supremacists give AK-47s to the Confederacy. |
1992 | Doomsday Book | Connie Willis | A history student is inadvertently sent to 1348 England, at the beginning of the Black Death pandemic. |
1995 | The Hundred-Light-Year-Diary | Greg Egan | After the invention of a method for sending messages back in time, the history of the future becomes common knowledge, and every person knows their own fate. |
1995 | From Time to Time | Jack Finney | In this sequel to Time and Again, Simon Morley travels to the year 1911, to prevent World War I. Adventures include voyaging on the RMS Titanic. |
1995 | The Time Ships | Stephen Baxter | The authorised sequel to H. G. Wells' The Time Machine. |
1996 | Timequake | Kurt Vonnegut | In 2001, people are transported to 1991 to relive their lives. |
1996 | ' | Orson Scott Card | Researchers look back in time to see Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World, in order to save the world from ecological disaster. |
1996 | Animorphs | K. A. Applegate | Animorphs and Visser 3 are sent back a few hours to the Amazon by a Saurio Rip, with the plot used again in Altermorph 1. In Megamorph 2, the same concept is used to send the animorphs back to 65 million BC. |
1997 | In the Garden of Iden | Kage Baker | This is the first book of Baker's The Company series, all of which involve time travel. |
1997 | Making History | Stephen Fry | Two men in the present attempt to prevent the birth of Adolf Hitler. |
1997 | To Say Nothing of the Dog | Connie Willis | A comedy in which historians travel back in time to find an artifact for a wealthy woman. They experience the Blitz at St. Paul's Cathedral and travel the Thames as in Three Men in a Boat. |
1997 | Corrupting Dr. Nice | John Kessel | Modelled on 1930s screwball comedies; set in Cretaceous, 40 AD Jerusalem, and 2060 AD. Features a scene with a dinosaur in a hotel room. |
1998 | The Transall Saga | Gary Paulsen | A boy gets transported to a weird world by a blue light, only to discover that it is the dark future of planet Earth. |
1998 | Island in the Sea of Time | S. M. Stirling | Nantucket is transported 3000 years back in time because of a space disturbance. |
1998 | The Sterkarm Handshake | Susan Price | A 21st-century corporation intends to use a Time Tube to exploit the natural resources of the past, but is outfoxed by a 16th-century Scottish clan. |
1999 | King of Shadows | Susan Cooper | A modern-day boy switches places with a Shakespearean actor who needs to be cured by modern medicine so he can return to his own time and help Shakespeare to greater success on the stage. |
1999 | Timeline | Michael Crichton | Modern historians become stuck in the Middle Ages. |
1999 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | J. K. Rowling | Hogwarts student, Hermione Granger, acquires a Time-Turner, that allows her to take a large courseload. The device is later used to manipulate the events of a single night to free two prisoners. |
2000 | The Light of Other Days | Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter | A wormhole-based "time viewer" can observe people and events from any point throughout time and space. |
2000 | 1632 | Eric Flint | A West Virginia mining town is sent back to the Thirty Years' War in Germany. First in the 1632 series. |
2001 | The Chronoliths | Robert Charles Wilson | Monuments from the future appear in the early 21st century, precipitating a global political collapse. |
2001 | Thief of Time | Terry Pratchett | Unfreezing and freezing of time using a small mechanism. |
2002 | Bones of the Earth | Michael Swanwick | Palaeontologists studying dinosaurs are trapped in the Mesozoic period, but also travel into the very distant future. The novel was nominated for several science fiction awards. |
2002 | Night Watch | Terry Pratchett | A man interacts with a younger version of himself. |
2002 | Counting Up, Counting Down | Harry Turtledove | Collection of short stories, including two about a man's attempt to save his failing marriage by travelling back to the time he first met his wife. |
2002 | Kaleidoscope Century | John Barnes | A man on Mars has a virus that puts him to sleep every 15 years, and he wakes 10 younger. He learns of a way to go back to the past. |
2002 | The Eyre Affair | Jasper Fforde | Sleuth, Thursday Next, gets caught up in overlapping vortices of time and alternate reality as a villain tries to eradicate a literary classic. |
2003–2011 | Haruhi Suzumiya | Nagaru Tanigawa | Mikuru Asahina and Fujiwara have travelled from the future to observe a girl who is unaware that she possesses destructive reality warping powers. |
2003 | The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | A man with a rare genetic disorder unpredictably travels in time, living his life out of sequence. |
2004 | Axis of Time | John Birmingham | A naval task force from 2021 is accidentally sent back to just before the Battle of Midway. |
2004 | The Spark of God | Romain Sardou | Describes the First Crusade and the beginning of the Knights Templar in the future. |
2004 | All You Need Is Kill | Hiroshi Sakurazaka | When aliens invade, a new recruit dies on the battlefield, only to reawaken the day before he was killed, to fight and die again and again. |
2004–2005 | ' | Richard A. Knaak | A human, a dragon and an orc travel back in time to help save Azeroth from the Burning Legion. |
2005 | Mammoth | John Varley | A multi-billionaire clones a mammoth and sends it back in time. |
2006 | The Plot to Save Socrates | Paul Levinson | Time travellers from 2042 try to prevent Socrates from consuming hemlock. |
2006 | ' | Eoin Colfer | The fifth in the Artemis Fowl series. Artemis and Captain Holly Short search for a missing demon, to stop a demon colony. Artemis also ends up saving Holly by manipulating time. |
2007 | Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey | Chuck Palahniuk | Characters participate in "Party Crashing" which can, under certain conditions, cause time travel. |
2007 | The Accidental Time Machine | Joe Haldeman | A research assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology accidentally creates a forward-traveling time machine. Each leap forward in time lands him in deeper trouble. |
2008 | ' | Eoin Colfer | The sixth book in the Artemis Fowl series. After his mother contracts spelltropy, Artemis travels back in time to find a lemur that can help cure her. The trick ending creates a circular timeline that started the series. |
2008 | Found | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Thirteen-year-olds, Jonah and Chip, find out that they are missing children from time and go on a journey, along with Jonah's sister, Katherine, to uncover many secrets. |
2009 | Ruby Red | Kerstin Gier | Gwendolyn Shepherd can travel in time with a machine called a chronograph. |
2009 | Sent | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Jonah, Katherine, Chip and Alex are sent back to 1483 to learn that Chip is actually King Edward V and Alex is his brother Richard, Duke of York. |
2009 | Hero.com: Crisis Point | Andy Briggs | Time travellers can go back, but going to the future is impossible. They also can't change the past lest this cause a paradox of retrocausality. The chief villain takes advantage of retrocausality by sending two characters into the past to enable him to escape from prison. |
2009 | Time Travelers Never Die | Jack McDevitt | Adrian "Shel" Shelborne receives a package from his mysteriously disappeared father, with four devices and a note instructing him to destroy them. Soon, Shel discovers that the devices can take you anywhere at any point in time. |
2010 | Sabotaged | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Jonah and Katherine go on a mission to return a missing child, named Andrea, to her time in the Roanoke Colony. |
2010 | Blackout and All Clear | Connie Willis | Historians from 2048 go to the London Blitz during World War II to observe and end up being part of it. A novel published in two parts. |
2010 | How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe | Charles Yu | In search of his father, a time machine mechanic travels through time accompanied by TAMMY and his ontologically valid dog, Ed, all while documenting his travels in a manual for future travellers. |
2011 | Time for Patriots | Thomas Wm. Hamilton | A physics experiment gone wrong sends a military school and some neighbors to 1770, where they interact with Washington, Franklin, Mozart and others. The story ends a month after the first lunar landing in 1926. |
2011 | 11/22/63 | Stephen King | A man travels through a time portal, and attempts to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. |
2011 | The Hands of Time | Irinia Shapiro | A woman disappears, transported to 1605, after turning the hands of an antique clock. |
2012 | Amber House | Kelly Moore, Tucker Reed, Larkin Reed | A teenage girl uses psychometry to alter events in the past, changing the present and future. |
2013 | The Chronos Files series | Rysa Walker | 17-year-old Kate Pierce-Keller has to deal with sudden time shifts that cause members of her family to vanish. |
2013 | Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers | Dav Pilkey | George Beard and Harold Hutchins, two fourth graders, use a homemade time machine to travel 65 million years into the past. They also travel to 206,784 years in the past and 30 years in the future. |
2014 | Neverwas | Kelly Moore, Tucker Reed, Larkin Reed | An unforeseen change in the past necessitates the use of psychic abilities to reset the present and future. |
2014 | The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August | Catherine Webb | A man lives his life again and again from the beginning each time he dies. He finds more people like him in the Cronus club. |
2014 | Hypocritic Days | David Fiore | A man discovers that he is living in the worst possible timeline and also that he shouldn't exist. He endeavors to set things right without erasing himself in the process. Insomniac Press. |
2015 | A Long Time Until Now | Michael Z. Williamson | US soldiers on patrol in Afghanistan are transported in time to the paleolithic era where they meet other temporally displaced soldiers. |
2016 | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | Jack Thorne | In this stage play, children of characters from the corresponding book series use a Time-Turner to try preventing the death of Cedric Diggory. Repeated attempts have increasingly worse repercussions for the future. |
2017 | The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. | Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland | Members of a secret U.S. government Department of Diachronic Operations attempt to change history through time travel by the use of magic. |
2018 | The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle | Stuart Turton | Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 p.m. There are eight days, and eight witnesses. We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the killer. |
2018-ongoing | Kaitlyn and the Highlander series | Diana Knightley | Magnus Campbell comes forward in time from 18th C. Taymouth Castle Scotland to present day Amelia Island, Florida. He and Kaitlyn travel through the centuries using vessels invented in a future civilization. |
Time travel in films
Time travel is a common theme and plot device in science fiction films. The list below covers films for which time travel is central to the plot or premise of the work.Year | Title | Director | Description |
1921 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Emmett J. Flynn | The first adaptation of Mark Twain's classic; modern-day Martin Cavendish dreams that he is transported back to King Arthur's court where he has to use modern knowledge to outwit the king's enemies. |
1930 | Just Imagine | David Butler | A man struck by lightning in 1930, wakes up to a 1980 with personal aircraft, vending machines replacing sexual activity, spacecraft to Mars, people with letter- and digit-based names, pill meals, and government-determined marriages. |
1931 | A Connecticut Yankee | David Butler | The first sound version of Mark Twain's story in which a radio salesman is knocked out and wakes up in the land of King Arthur. |
1933 | Turn Back the Clock | Edgar Selwyn | Only a single time loop is needed for Joe to wish that he could relive his life and marry the wealthy woman. When he has the chance to go through his life again, he has interesting discoveries and decisions. |
1933 | Berkeley Square | Frank Lloyd | A modern man is transported back to 18th-century London where he meets his ancestors and falls in love with a woman of the era. |
1933 | Roman Scandals | Frank Tuttle | A delivery man imagines himself in Ancient Rome. |
1937 | Ali Baba Goes to Town | David Butler | A hobo falls asleep on a film set and wakes up in 8th century Baghdad. |
1944 | Time Flies | Walter Forde | A man goes back in time to the 16th century and meets William Shakespeare. |
1944 | Fiddlers Three | Harry Watt | Two sailors go back in time to Ancient Rome and are mistaken as prophets. |
1945 | Where Do We Go from Here? | Gregory Ratoff | A genie transports a man throughout time. |
1947 | Repeat Performance | Alfred L. Werker | Film noir meets science fiction when a woman shoots her husband on New Year's Eve, 1946, then wishes that she could live the year all over again. |
1949 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Tay Garnett | Very loosely based on Mark Twain's story in which a mechanic is knocked out and wakes up in the land of King Arthur. |
1951 | I'll Never Forget You | Roy Ward Baker | An American atomic scientist is transported to the 18th century, where he falls in love. |
1956 | World Without End | Edward Bernds | Astronauts returning from a voyage to Mars are caught in a time warp and are transported into a post-Apocalyptic Earth populated by mutants. |
1957 | The Undead | Roger Corman | A woman is sent back in time, via hypnosis, to the Middle Ages where she may be executed by the people of that time on suspicion of being a witch. |
1960 | Beyond the Time Barrier | Edgar G. Ulmer | A pilot flies faster than the speed of light, from 1960 to 2024, into a dystopian future divided by two populations: the submissive humans who have retreated underground and the savage mutants who have taken over the surface. |
1960 | The Time Machine | George Pal | Loose adaptation of H. G. Wells's classic in which a time traveler enters a future where the world is broken up into two classes: the peaceful Eloi and the malevolent masters of the world, the Morlocks. |
1962 | La Jetée | Chris Marker | A survivor of the Third World War is sent back in time to rescue the present. La Jetée inspired the 1995 movie, 12 Monkeys. |
1964 | The Time Travelers | Ib Melchior | Scientists find that their time-viewing screen allows them to travel through time and they become stranded in a post-apocalypse future. This movie inspired the 1966 TV series, The Time Tunnel, as well as the 1967 remake, Journey to the Center of Time. |
1965 | Dr. Who and the Daleks | Gordon Flemyng | Based on the BBC TV series. The Doctor and his companions travel in the TARDIS to the future of a post-apocalyptic world where two races, the Daleks and the Thals, follow two different paths to survive following a nuclear war. |
1966 | ' | Gordon Flemyng | Based on the BBC TV series. The Doctor and his companions travel in the TARDIS to a future London devastated by war with the Daleks. |
1967 | Journey to the Center of Time | David L. Hewitt | Scientists develop a time machine and travel to the far future where the earth is in peril and the distant past, to the age of the dinosaurs. A remake of The Time Travelers. |
1968 | Planet of the Apes | Franklin J. Schaffner | George Taylor is an astronaut who travels to a future Earth inhabited by intelligent, talking apes. |
1970 | Beneath the Planet of the Apes | Ted Post | Brent, an astronaut, travels to a future Earth ruled by apes. His search for fellow astronaut George Taylor, leads him to an underground city of nuclear mutants. |
1971 | Escape from the Planet of the Apes | Don Taylor | Three apes escape Earth's destruction by salvaging and repairing the spaceship of astronaut George Taylor, and piloting it through a time warp back to 1973. |
1972 | Slaughterhouse-Five | George Roy Hill | A man becomes displaced from time and experiences the events in his life in random order, including time spent in an alien civilization. |
1973 | Idaho Transfer | Peter Fonda | Due to an impending disaster that threatens to destroy mankind, a time machine is built by a group of young scientists to transport themselves into the future to rebuild civilization. |
1973 | ' | Leonid Gaidai | Engineer Shurik has invented a time machine in his apartment. By accident, he sends two people back into the time of Ivan IV while the real Ivan IV is sent by the same machine into Shurik's apartment. |
1978 | Superman | Richard Donner | Superman circles the Earth at tremendous speeds allowing him to travel back in time to just before an earthquake created by Lex Luthor. |
1978 | The Time Machine | Henning Schellerup | A made-for-television adaptation of the Wells novel, updating the initial setting to the contemporary 1970s, with the main character working for an American defense contractor. After various trips in time, he meets the Eloi and Morlocks of the far future. |
1979 | Time After Time | Nicholas Meyer | Using a time machine, Jack the Ripper and H. G. Wells travel from 1893 London to 1979 San Francisco. |
1980 | The Final Countdown | Don Taylor | A storm at sea transports a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier back in time from the 1980s to the 1940s. |
1980 | Somewhere in Time | Jeannot Szwarc | A man is captivated by an old picture of a beautiful actress who he feels is connected to him somehow. Through self-hypnosis he returns to the past and the love of his life. Adapted from the novel, Bid Time Return, by Richard Matheson who also wrote the script. |
1980 | The Day Time Ended | John Cardos | A triple supernova opens a rift in time space, propelling a family far into the future where they are attacked by monstrous aliens before finding refuge in a domed city. |
1981 | Time Bandits | Terry Gilliam | A young boy unwittingly joins a band of dwarves as they travel through time, hunting treasure. |
1982 | ' | William Dear | A motorcyclist competing in a desert race unknowingly gets caught in the middle of a time travel experiment and is transported by means of "time cannons" to the Old West of 1875–1877. |
1983 | Toki o Kakeru Shōjo | Nobuhiko Obayashi | A high-school girl accidentally acquires the ability to travel through time, which leads to her reliving multiple time loops. Based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1965 novel The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. |
1983 | ' | John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante and George Miller | Big-screen adaptations of three classic episodes from the popular 1950s and 1960s Rod Serling television series, plus a new segment featuring a bigot who is transported into the lives of past victims of racism. |
1984 | The Ice Pirates | Stewart Raffill | In the finale, characters go through time fields, which causes their ages to change and also causes a couple to meet their future child. |
1984 | The Terminator | James Cameron | A cyborg is sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to destroy humanity by killing the future mother of its future savior. |
1984 | The Philadelphia Experiment | Stewart Raffill | In 1943, an anti-radar experiment accidentally sends two sailors forward in time to 1984. Nancy Allen and Michael Paré star in this film. |
1984 | Non ci resta che piangere | Roberto Benigni and Massimo Troisi | The school janitor, Mario, and a teacher, Saverio, have an automobile breakdown and decide to spend the night in an inn. The next morning they awake in 15th-century Florence. |
1985 | Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis | Using a time machine installed in a DeLorean sports car, teenager Marty McFly, intervenes in his parents' first meeting back in 1955, preventing them from falling in love, and placing his own existence in danger. |
1985 | Trancers | Charles Band | A cop in the dystopian Angel City of 2247 Jack Deth’s mind is sent backwards in time into one of his ancestor’s bodies in 1985 Los Angeles to hunt a criminal who has done the same. |
1985 | Cavegirl | David Oliver | On a class excursion to a cave with stone age paintings, Rex, a clumsy teenager, gets lost. A mysterious crystal opens a gateway in time and sends him back to the stone ages, where he meets the beautiful girl, Eba. |
1985 | My Science Project | Jonathan R. Betuel | Michael and Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a science project. They find an orb that dangerously bends time and have to stop it to save the world. |
1985 | The Blue Yonder | Mark Rossman | An 11-year-old goes back in time to prevent his grandfather from making a fatal plane flight across the Atlantic. Aired on The Disney Sunday Movie under the name Time Flyer. |
1986 | Peggy Sue Got Married | Francis Ford Coppola | Peggy Sue Bodell faints at her high school reunion. When she wakes up, she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished high school. |
1986 | ' | John Hough | Catering salesman falls through a time hole to 1917 where he saves the life of a dashing Royal Flying Corps pilot, after his photo recon mission is shot down. Before he can work out what happened, he is returned to the 1980s. |
1986 | ' | Leonard Nimoy | To save Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk and his crew travel back to 1986 to retrieve and take back humpback whales, the only beings who can communicate with an alien probe that is threatening Earth. |
1986 | Flight of the Navigator | Randal Kleiser | In 1978, a boy winds up 8 years in the future, and discovers that an alien spaceship transported him there. |
1987 | Mirror for a Hero / Zerkalo dlya geroya | Vladimir Khotinenko | Two men travel from the 1980s to 1940s Stalinist USSR, and find themselves repeatedly reliving a day in a coal mine town. The older man hopes he can atone for his past while the younger begins to understand his father's earlier life. |
1987 | Masters of the Universe | David Odell | He-Man battles with Skeletor to prevent him from becoming master of the universe. Due to a cosmic key that opens a portal, the battle moves to Earth where several humans become involved in the struggle. |
1987 | Timestalkers | Michael Schulz | A professor discovers evidence of a time traveller in Old West memorabilia, and becomes involved in trying to prevent the assassination of Grover Cleveland by a 26th-century villain. |
1988 | ' | Vincent Ward | Medieval travellers from 14th-century England tunnel through Earth and burst into 20th-century New Zealand. |
1988 | Out of Time | Robert Butler | A cop from the year 2088 is transported back to 1988 while pursuing a criminal attempting to flee in a time machine, and enlists the aid of his legendary great-grandfather in pursuing the crook. |
1989 | Field of Dreams | Phil Alden Robinson | A man builds a baseball field on his farm to call back Chicago players banned due to the Black Sox Scandal. He gets his own chance to resolve his guilt over his deceased father. |
1989 | Time Trackers | Howard R. Cohen | Three time travelers from the future and a cop from the past must travel to Medieval England to capture a rogue scientist who wants to use time travel for his own needs. |
1989 | Back to the Future Part II | Robert Zemeckis | Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to 2015 to prevent Marty's kids from ruining the family reputation. Biff Tannen plots to give a sports almanac to his younger self in 1955, and win millions of dollars gambling. Marty and Doc must repair the timeline. |
1989 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Stephen Herek | Two teenagers need an "A" in history. A time traveller helps them because they are destined to create a Utopian future. They travel through time, encountering historical figures including Socrates, Joan of Arc, and Billy the Kid. |
1989 | Millennium | Michael Anderson | Time travelers from the far future steal people already destined to die, such as in plane crashes, to restock humankind in their own desolate future. Based on the 1983 John Varley novel. |
1989 | Warlock | Steve Miner | A warlock in the 17th century who has been sentenced to death for witchcraft, is transported to the 20th century, followed by a witch hunter who must stop the warlock from finding the Grand Grimoire. |
1990 | Frankenstein Unbound | Roger Corman | A scientist creates superweapon that also causes shifts in time. He is transported to 1817 where he meets Doctor Frankenstein and his monster, as well as Mary Shelley who bases her novel on true events. |
1990 | Back to the Future Part III | Robert Zemeckis | Marty McFly goes back to 1885 to stop an outlaw from killing Doc Brown in a duel, and bring him back home to 1985. |
1990 | Mr. Destiny | James Orr | A baseball player gets a second chance to see how his life good be better after traveling back to hit a game winning homerun. |
1990 | Running Against Time | Bruce Seth Green | Lamenting the 1966 death of his brother in Vietnam, a schoolteacher goes go back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination so Lyndon Johnson won't escalate the conflict. He ends up accused of the crime and the subject of a nationwide manhunt. Based on the 1986 Stanley Shapiro book. |
1991 | Aditya 369 | Singeetam Srinivasa Rao | Aditya 369 is a time machine, invented by an absent-minded professor Ram Das. Krishna, a young post-graduate, Hema and a smuggler, Raja, want to procure the machine for their own reasons. |
1991 | ' | James Cameron | In 2029, Skynet sends a shape-shifting terminator back to 1995 to kill 10-year-old John Connor, while future Connor sends a T-800 back to protect his past self and prevent a nuclear holocaust. |
1991 | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | Peter Hewitt | Two evil, robot versions of Bill and Ted are sent back in time to kill them. |
1991 | Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah | Kazuki Ōmori | Terrorists from the year 2204 seek to destroy Japan and prevent it from becoming an economic superpower. They travel to 1944 and replace Godzilla with three genetically-engineered creatures, which become the monster, King Ghidorah. |
1992 | Army of Darkness | Sam Raimi | Ash, a supermarket employee, is sent back in time by a specific book to the 14th century to fight an undead army. |
1992 | Freejack | Geoff Murphy | In a future where time travel has been invented, the rich snatch people from history a moment before their death in order to use the bodies as hosts for their own minds after death. |
1992 | Timescape | David Twohy | A father and daughter meet travelers are from the future, who intend to witness an impending catastrophe. The movie is based on the novel, Vintage Season, by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore, and was released on video as Grand Tour: Disaster in Time. |
1992 | Split Infinity | Stan Ferguson | When 14-year-old A.J. falls from a hayloft and wakes up in 1929 as her grandfather's sister, she learns the true value of family. |
1993 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III | Stuart Gillard | The turtles go back in time to feudal Japan to retrieve their kidnapped friend, April. |
1993 | Les Visiteurs | Jean-Marie Poiré | A 12th-century knight and his servant are mistakenly transported to the 20th century and find themselves adrift in modern society. |
1993 | Philadelphia Experiment II | Stephen Cornwell | A disastrous experiment in 1993 sends a stealth aircraft through a time portal into 1943 Germany. A sailor is pulled into the portal at the same time, and finds himself in a version of 1993 where the Nazis won World War II. |
1993 | ' | Jack Sholder | Barry Thomas is an average office worker who witnesses the murder of a woman that he is attracted to. That night, during a storm, Barry gets a shock from a lamp's faulty power wire at exactly 12:01 a.m. In the next few days, he realizes that the world is trapped in a time loop, with himself the only one aware of it. Barry must prevent the murder and stop the time loop, or be caught in time forever. |
1993 | Groundhog Day | Harold Ramis | Weatherman Phil Connors is trapped re-living February 2 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, leading him to re-examine his life and priorities. |
1994 | Time Chasers | David Giancola | An amateur inventor goes through time with an airplane to stop a villain from changing history for profit. |
1994 | A.P.E.X. | Phillip J. Roth | A probe from the year 2073 to the year 1973 goes wrong, creating a plague-ravaged, alternate timeline whose inhabitants are locked in a constant battle with killer robots. The hero must find a similar time machine in this alternate world and prevent the disaster from ever happening. |
1994 | Star Trek Generations | David Carson | USS Enterprise captains James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard, meet through the effects of an energy ribbon. |
1994 | Timecop | Peter Hyams | The Time Enforcement Commission is created to prevent alterations to the past. This causes a dilemma for the hero, Max Walker, who has to prevent time-travellers from altering time, but is tempted to do so himself, to prevent his wife's death. |
1995 | 12 Monkeys | Terry Gilliam | James Cole is sent back in time to acquire an unmutated form of a virus that has nearly wiped out humanity. |
1996 | Christmas Every Day | Larry Peerce | An American television movie based on William Dean Howells's 1892 short story, "Christmas Every Day". A selfish teenager is forced to relive the same Christmas every day until he comes to understand the true meaning of the holiday season. |
1996 | Doctor Who | Geoffrey Sax | The Doctor, in his eighth incarnation, has a showdown with the Master at the turn of the millennium, December 31, 1999. |
1996 | ' | Jonathan Frakes | The USS Enterprise follows the Borg back in time to stop them from altering history and preventing Earth's first warp flight and first contact with the Vulcans. |
1997 | Retroactive | Louis Morneau | An FBI agent repeatedly travels back in time to prevent a crime. The situation worsens each time around, until she decides to let things play out. |
1997 | Time Under Fire | Jeff Fahey | A US submarine runs into a time rift and a special unit goes on a mission to see what's on the other side. They find themselves in an alternate dystopian America, now a one-man dictatorship and decide to help the rebels. |
1998 | Run Lola Run / Lola Rennt | Tom Tykwer | Lola has to acquire 100,000 Deutsche Mark to save her boyfriend from the mob. The film follows one attempt after another to raise the money, each failure resetting time and restarting her run through the streets of Berlin. |
1998 | Lost in Space | Stephen Hopkins | In 2058, a family undertakes a voyage to a nearby star system to begin large-scale emigration from a soon-to-be uninhabitable Earth, but are thrown off course by a saboteur and must try to find their way home. |
1998 | Rebirth of Mothra III | Okihiro Yoneda | Mothra travels back to the Cretaceous period to defeat the evil space monster, King Ghidorah, while he is younger and weaker. |
1999 | Time at the Top | Timothy Busfield, Elisha Cuthbert, Gabrielle Boni, Matthew Harbour | 14-year-old Susan Shawson travels in time in her building's elevator, as altered by a retired physicist living in her building. It transports her from 1998 back to the same place in other years, depending on the order of buttons pushed. In 1881, she meets Victoria Walker, a girl her own age in need of assistance with her own family problems. Together, Susan, Victoria, and her young brother, Robert, succeed in changing both the past and the future. |
1999 | ' | Jay Roach | Dr. Evil is back and invents a time machine that allows him to go back to 1969, so he can steal Austin Powers' mojo. |
1999 | Galaxy Quest | Dean Parisot | A jump back in time of 13 seconds is all the time lead actor Jason Nesmith needs to save his crew from being killed. |
1999 | The Time Shifters | Mario Philip Azzopardi | A reporter notices that the same faces keep appearing in photographs of 20th century disasters. Deducing that they are time travellers, he tries to save the history he knows. |
1999 | Teen Knight | Phil Comeau | Peter wins a trip to a Medieval park. As Peter and his friends tour the castle, Lord Drakin casts a spell and sends the Peter and his friends back to 1383 where they have to stop Lord Drakin from taking the castle. Released on DVD as Medieval Park. |
1999 | Back to the '50s | Andrew Margetson | The English pop group, S Club 7 and are transported to a desert town in the year 1959 that is under the control of a gang with a corrupted sheriff as an ally. The group learns about the fate of a local chef at a diner and tries to prevent bad things despite threats against them from both the sheriff and the gang. |
1999 | The Devil's Arithmetic | Donna Deitch | A TV movie about a young woman who, during her family's Passover Seder, finds herself transported back to Poland in 1942 and sent to a death camp. |
2000 | Frequency | Gregory Hoblit | An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his father's life, but then must fix the consequences. |
2000 | Happy Accidents | Brad Anderson | A New York woman with a string of failed relationships meets a time traveler from the year 2470. |
2000 | Ditto | Kim Jung-kwon | Two people separated in time are somehow able to talk to each other using an amateur radio. The people in question are two students in the same school, one in 1979, the other in 2000. |
2000 | The Kid | Jon Turteltaub | A 40-year-old image consultant finds himself being visited by his 10-year-old self. |
2000 | For All Time | Steven Schachter | A middle-aged man stumbles across an antique watch that transports him to 1896. He falls in love, and decides to stay. He breaks the watch, then sees the situation in a new light as complications occur. |
2000 | Il Mare | Lee Hyun-seung | Two protagonists live in a lake house two years apart in time, but are able to communicate through a mysterious post box. This movie inspired the 2006 American film, The Lake House. |
2001 | Black Knight | Gil Junger | After falling into a theme park's fetid moat, a custodian crawls out into fourteenth century England. |
2001 | Donnie Darko | Richard Kelly | A teenager unknowingly re-lives October 1988 and is forced by a man in a demonic bunny suit to commit crimes in order to re-set the timeline. |
2001 | Just Visiting | Jean-Marie Poiré | A medieval knight and his serf travel to 21st century Chicago, meeting the knight's descendant. But they must travel back to their time to ensure her birth. Remake of the 1993 French movie Les Visiteurs. |
2001 | Kate & Leopold | James Mangold | A duke time travels from 1876 to the present and falls in love with a career woman in New York. |
2001 | Pokémon 4Ever | Kunihiko Yuyama Jim Malone | The film focuses on Celebi, who travels to the future with a Young Professor Oak while being chased by a hunter. |
2001 | ' | Kimberly J. Brown | TV film: In this Disney Channel movie, Marnie Piper travels through time in Halloweentown to find a spell book that will help her counteract the evil spell placed on Halloweentown. To return to present time, both Marnie and Luke travel through a time tunnel on a broomstick. |
2002 | Clockstoppers | Jonathan Frakes | A boy discovers a watch able to accelerate his molecules, putting him in a state called “Hypertime”, where he can move faster than everyone else, causing time to appear to nearly stop to him, this results in a form of time dilation where he, or anything in this state ages rapidly. |
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2002 | Returner | Takashi Yamazaki | The human race is on the edge of annihilation after decades of war with an alien force. In an outpost in Tibet, mankind's last hope of survival is a time travel device. |
2002 | The Time Machine | Simon Wells | In this remake of the 1960s version of the film, directed by H. G. Wells' great-grandson, Dr. Alexander Hartdegen travels to the future hoping to find a time where they have learned how to change the past. In the year 802,701, he becomes involved in a struggle between surface-dwelling Eloi and the underground-dwelling Morlocks. |
2002 | Time Changer | Rich Christiano | A Bible professor from 1890 comes forward in time to the present via a time machine and cannot believe the things that he sees. |
2002 | Timequest | Robert Dyke | A time traveler prevents Kennedy's assassination and history takes an alternate course. |
2002 | Austin Powers in Goldmember | Jay Roach | Upon learning that his father has been kidnapped, Austin Powers must travel to 1975 and defeat the villain Goldmember – who is working with Dr. Evil. |
2002 | ' | Andrzej Sekuła | A group of strangers mysteriously awakens in a giant cubic structure in which each room warps space-time in a different way. |
2002 | The Hunt for the Hidden Relic | Sebastian Niemann | In Israel, a student in archaeology is seeking a video camera hidden 2000 years ago by a mysterious time traveler. |
2003 | ' | Rick Mayall | Eddie Hitler builds a time traveling toilet which he calls the TURDIS. |
2003 | Timeline | Richard Donner | In this film adaptation of the book by Michael Crichton, archaeologists travel to medieval France to rescue their professor, and find themselves in the middle of a battle. |
2003 | ' | Jonathan Mostow | In 2032, Skynet sends another Terminator back in time, this time to 2004, in a final attempt to kill John Connor before the inevitable nuclear holocaust on mankind. |
2004 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Alfonso Cuarón | Hermione Granger receives a Time-Turner from Professor McGonagall, so she can attend more classes than time would normally allow. She and Harry later use the Time-Turner to save Sirius Black and Buckbeak. |
2004 | Channel Chasers | Butch Hartman | Grounded to a week of no more television, Timmy wishes himself into the world of television to escape the harsh reality of his life. Unfortunately, however, his carelessness with magic leads to his tyrannical babysitter taking over the world of the future, and now Timmy must stop her. |
2004 | Primer | Shane Carruth | Two friends build a time machine that allows them to create multiple, co-existing timelines. The effects and consequences of these interacting timelines, change the personalities of the characters and ruin their friendship. |
2004 | The Butterfly Effect | Eric Bress & J. Mackye Gruber | A college psychology student learns that, by reading his childhood journals, he can temporarily travel to the past and inhabit his younger body. By changing his past behaviours, he changes his current life, with unforeseen consequences. |
2004 | 13 Going on 30 | Gary Winick | In 1987, a 13-year-old girl makes a birthday wish and wakes up as a 30-year-old woman. |
2005 | Fetching Cody | David Ray | Distraught over his girlfriend's drug addiction, small-time dope peddler Art, uses a time machine to journey into the past in a desperate gamble to change her future. |
2005 | The Jacket | John Maybury | An amnesiac, Persian Gulf War veteran is subjected to an experimental treatment which moves him forward 15 years. |
2005 | A Sound of Thunder | Peter Hyams | For an extraordinary price, Time Safaris, Inc. will take clients through a wormhole to hunt dinosaur game. The plot is based loosely on the 1952 short story by Ray Bradbury, with the butterfly effect portrayed as much more pronounced. |
2005 | Summer Time Machine Blues | Katsuyuki Motohiro | Five college boys in a sci-fi club break their air-conditioner's remote control. In the sweltering clubhouse, a time machine appears and they go back in time to retrieve a functioning controller, but this causes complications. |
2005 | Camp Slaughter | A slasher film in which a group of present-day teenagers are sent back to 1981, and discover a summer camp which is stuck reliving the day a demented killer went on a rampage. | |
2006 | The Lake House | Alejandro Agresti | A time-travel romance where two people living in the same house at a lake, at different times, are able to exchange letters through its mailbox and fall in love. |
2006 | Click | Frank Coraci | Adam Sandler is given a remote that lets him fast forward, pause, and rewind his life. |
2006 | The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | Mamoru Hosoda | A teenage girl discovers that she can leap through time. Based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1965 novel of the same name. |
2006 | Idiocracy | Mike Judge | In 2005, a completely average private named Joe Bowers Luke Wilson is selected for a hibernation program and is placed in suspended animation for is supposed to be one year, but ends up accidentally being five hundred years, and finds that the human race of the future have devolved with lower intelligence, making him easily the smartest man alive. |
2006 | Déjà Vu | Tony Scott | Denzel Washington is an ATF agent investigating a terrorist act, who is invited to assist in a government time-travel surveillance project. |
2006 | Christmas Do-Over | In a remake of Christmas Every Day, a father has to repeat Christmas Day over and over until he realizes how selfish he has become and changes his ways. | |
2006 | Salvage | After finishing the graveyard shift at a convenience store, Claire is murdered in her home only to wake up in the convenience store, and start the cycle over again. An official selection of the 2006 Sundance Festival. | |
2007 | Bender's Big Score | Dwayne Carey-Hill | Alien scammers discover the code for time travel tattooed on Philip J. Fry's buttocks, and use it to send Bender back in time to steal priceless artifacts. |
2007 | Meet the Robinsons | Stephen J. Anderson | Young Lewis is taken to the year 2037 by his future son, Wilbur, to stop a "Bowler Hat Guy" who has stolen Lewis' memory-scanning machine. |
2007 | Premonition | Mennan Yapo | A housewife discovers that she is living the days around her husband's death in a non-chronological sequence, and attempts to prevent his death. |
2007 | Secret | Jay Chou | A high school music student discovers that she can travel forward in time with the help of a mysterious piano piece called "Secret". |
2007 | Timecrimes | Nacho Vigalondo | A man accidentally travels back to the past and meets himself there. |
2007 | The Last Day of Summer | 11-year-old Luke gets his wish that every day could be the last day of summer. | |
2008 | Minutemen | Lev L. Spiro | Three high-school outcasts use a time machine to save their classmates from embarrassing moments. Their time travel creates a black hole, which could destroy the world. A Disney Channel Original Movie. |
2008 | ' | Martin Wood | In a direct-to-video film in the Stargate franchise, Ba'al changes the timeline so that SG-1 never existed. Three people were unaffected by the change but are unable to do anything until Ba'al and the system lords arrive. |
2009 | Star Trek | J. J. Abrams | Spock's attempt to prevent a supernova fails, resulting in the destruction of the Romulan homeworld. The captain of a Romulan mining ship blames Spock, and both the Romulans and Spock fall through a black hole to the past, creating an alternate reality. |
2009 | Mr. Nobody | Jaco Van Dormael | A romantic drama about Nemo Nobody, a 118-year-old man and the last mortal on Earth, who remembers alternate versions of his life and three ages when his life was changed by a decision. |
2009 | The Time Traveler's Wife | Robert Schwentke | A romantic drama about a Chicago librarian with a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, and the complications it creates for his marriage. Based on the Audrey Niffenegger novel. |
2009 | Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel | Gareth Carrivick | Three friends attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum in the middle of a British pub. Anna Faris plays a girl from the future who sets the adventure in motion. |
2009 | A Christmas Carol | Robert Zemeckis | On Christmas Eve, miserly moneylender Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, who convince him to change his ways. |
2009 | Land of the Lost | Brad Silberling | A disgraced paleontologist, his research assistant, and a macho tour guide find themselves in a strange, alternate world inhabited by dinosaurs, monkey people, and reptilian Sleestaks after they are sucked into a space-time vortex. |
2009 | Triangle | Christopher Smith | A woman who went on a yacht trip with her friends jumps to another ship after a mysterious weather condition, and gets caught up in a terrifying time loop. |
2010 | Action Replayy | Vipul Amrutlal Shah | A young man named Bunty uses a time machine created by his girlfriend's grandfather to meet his own parents before they were married, and help them develop a more loving relationship. |
2010 | The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya | Tatsuya Ishihara | Kyon is the only one who knows that two of his classmates are missing and reality has changed. To restore his life, he gathers several keys to power an alien device and travel back three years. |
2010 | Hot Tub Time Machine | Steve Pink | Four friends spend a crazy, drunken night in a hot tub at a ski resort only to travel back in time to 1986. They are each presented with an opportunity to alter their futures. The film stars John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, and Clark Duke. |
2010 | Repeaters | Carl Bessai | A group of inmates at a rehabilitation facility are forced to repeat the same day over and over again. |
2010 | ' | Mike Newell | Disney's adaption of the of the same name. Prince Dastan has to prevent someone from changing history using a special dagger which when fueled with a special "Sand of Time", allows its wielder to experience time differently. |
2010 | ' | Mamoru Hosoda | A teenage girl discovers that she can leap through time. Based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1965 novel The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. |
2010 | ' | Kenichi Takeshita | Series protagonists Yusei Fudo, Jaden Yuki and Yugi Muto encounter Turbo Duelist Paradox, who is from the future, and who believes the only way to prevent his future from happening is to stop Duel Monsters from existing. |
2010 | Shrek Forever After | Mike Mitchell | Shrek is sent back in time by Rumpelstiltskin to prevent himself from being born, and he returns to an alternate timeline where Rumpelstiltskin rules. |
2011 | Ticking Clock | Ernie Barbarash | James is a guy from the year 2032 who comes back in time with a custom-made watch that is a time machine. He travels back in time to fix his life but fails. |
2011 | Source Code | Duncan Jones | Captain died in a helicopter crash and has been inserted in a computer program which transfers him to the body of a deceased person for the last eight minutes of his life. He cannot change the past, but he can alter events and change the future to avoid a terrorist attack. |
2011 | Midnight in Paris | Woody Allen | While visiting Paris with his fiancée, an American writer discovers a way to travel back to the 1920s, allowing him to mingle with and draw inspiration from historical greats such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein. |
2011 | 12 Dates of Christmas | James Hayman | Kate finds herself reliving Christmas Eve over and over again. She must discover how to break the cycle – should she attempt to win back her ex-boyfriend Jack, or should she pursue Miles, or something else? |
2011 | The Man from the Future | Cláudio Torres | When a brilliant physicist inadvertently creates a time machine, he goes back 20 years to the party where his girlfriend left him. Changing the events of that evening have effects that he didn't anticipate. |
2012 | Safety Not Guaranteed | Colin Trevorrow | A comedy film inspired by a 1997 classified ad in Backwoods Home Magazine from a person asking for someone to accompany him in time travel. |
2012 | Men in Black 3 | Barry Sonnenfeld | Agent J travels back in time to MIB's early years in the 1960s in order to stop an alien from assassinating his friend, Agent K, and changing history. |
2012 | Looper | Rian Johnson | Criminal organizations hire contract killers, called Loopers, to kill humans sent to them through time travel. |
2012 | Dimensions | Sloane U’Ren | Time travel, love and betrayal in 1920s England. A brilliant scientist becomes obsessed with revisiting his past – no matter what the cost. Jealousy, desire and greed surround him, clouding his judgement and sending him spiralling towards madness. |
2012 | Thermae Romae | Hideki Takeuchi | Roman architect, Lucius, repeatedly travels to present-day Japan, where he is inspired by modern baths and toilets. |
2012 | Mine Games | Richard Gray | A group of friends vacationing in the woods discover their own corpses and realize they are trapped in a time loop. |
2012 | The Philadelphia Experiment | Paul Ziller | |
2013 | +1 | Dennis Iliadis | Three college friends hit the biggest party of the year, where a mysterious phenomenon disrupts the night, quickly descending into a chaos that challenges their friendships. |
2013 | Hyperfutura | James O'Brien | In a dystopian future, citizens without jobs are sent to work camps and never heard from again. Adam Leben is a laid-off factory worker. To save his life, he answers an ad for a medical test experiment, plunging down a rabbit hole of genetic engineering, mind control, and time travel. Based on the epic poem by Eric Kopatz. |
2013 | Ruby Red | Felix Fuchssteiner | A 16-year-old girl discovers that she has inherited her family's time-travel gene. To time-travel safely, she has to cooperate with a secret order of time travelers who have a special task for her in the 17th century. |
2013 | Haunter | Vincenzo Natali | The ghost of a teenager, Lisa Johnson who, along with her family, keeps reliving the same day tries to protect a young girl, Olivia and her family from a dead serial killer, the Pale Man, who can possess the living. |
2013 | I'll Follow You Down | Richie Mehta | A present-day professor disappears, traveling back in time to visit Albert Einstein. Twelve year later, his college-age son follows him to find out why. |
2013 | Shree | Rajesh Bachchani | As part of an experiment, a man unknowingly travels into the future only to find out that he is going to be framed in a series of killings. |
2013 | The A.R.K. Report | Shmuel Hoffman | In this short film, a young girl travels into the future to find the ancient Ark of the Covenant and prevent it from falling into the hands of an evil army. |
2013 | Coherence | James Ward Byrkit | On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. |
2013 | About Time | Richard Curtis | Tim's father tells his son that the men in their family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim makes numerous trips to the past to change his circumstances and those of his friends. |
2013 | Rewind | Jack Bender | A team of scientists and military personnel travel back in time to the 1920s to change the past and prevent a major terrorist attack on present day New York. |
2013 | 11 A.M. | Kim Hyun-seok | A group of time-travel researchers at a deep-sea facility make their first test run 24 hours into the future, only to discover the facility close to destruction. They escape back to the present but have less than 24 hours to avert the coming tragedy. Korean movie. |
2014 | Mr. Peabody & Sherman | Rob Minkoff | The time-travelling adventures of an anthropomorphic canine and his adopted human son, as they endeavor to fix a time rift that they created. |
2014 | ' | Bryan Singer | The X-Men send Wolverine's consciousness to 1973 to prevent a war between the Sentinels and mankind from starting. |
2014 | Edge of Tomorrow | Doug Liman | An officer finds himself caught in a time loop in a war with an alien race. Based on 2004 novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. |
2014 | Predestination | Michael and Peter Spierig | A temporal agent goes back in time to catch an infamous terrorist known as the "Fizzle Bomber", and meets different versions of himself. Based on the short story, "All You Zombies", by Robert A. Heinlein. |
2014 | Time Lapse | Bradley D. King | A group of friends discover a machine that can take pictures of things 24 hours into the future and the troubles that this machine causes. |
2014 | Interstellar | Christopher Nolan | Set in the near future, a crew of astronauts travels through a wormhole to find a suitable new planet for humanity, experiencing time dilation on multiple occasions. |
2014 | Premature | Dan Beers | On one of the most important days of his life, Rob, a high school senior, finds himself in a time loop that is triggered every time he ejaculates. |
2014 | The Infinite Man | Hugh Sullivan | A man's attempts to construct the ultimate romantic weekend backfires when his quest for perfection traps his lover in an infinite loop. |
2014 | Movement and Location | Alexis Boling | An immigrant from 400 years in the future is sent back in time to live an easier life. |
2015 | Project Almanac | Dean Israelite | A group of teenagers construct a time machine, based on blueprints that the main character's father was developing for the United States military. |
2015 | Hot Tub Time Machine 2 | Steve Pink | The sequel of Hot Tub Time Machine. |
2015 | Synchronicity | Jacob Gentry | A physicist who invents a time machine must travel back to the past to uncover the truth about his creation and the woman who is trying to steal it. |
2015 | Indru Netru Naalai | R. Ravikumar | A scientist in 2065 invents a time machine and, to prove its capability, sends it back to 2015. However, the machine is discovered by three people who use the machine for reasons of their own. The first Indian science fiction movie. |
2015 | Counter Clockwise | George Moïse | A scientist accidentally invents a time machine that transports him six months into the future. |
2015 | Terminator Genisys | Alan Taylor | In 2029, Kyle Reese goes back in time to protect Sarah Connor, as previously established in The Terminator. When Reese arrives in 1984, he finds a whole new chronology, where Sarah was trained in combat from childhood. They try to figure out how to prevent the nuclear holocaust. |
2016 | Paradox | Michael Hurst | When a scientist on a team working on a time travel project successfully travels one hour into the future, he returns with shocking news. |
2016 | ' | Zack Snyder | The Flash travels back in time to warn Bruce Wayne of future apocalyptic events. |
2016 | ARQ | Tony Elliott | Trapped in a lab and stuck in a time loop, a disoriented couple fends off masked raiders while harboring a new energy source that could save humanity. |
2016 | 24 | Vikram Kumar | A scientist named Sethuraman invents a time machine in the form of a watch but his evil twin brother, Athreya, will go to any lengths to get the device for himself. |
2016 | Doctor Strange | Scott Derrickson | Doctor Strange enters the Dark Dimension and uses the Eye of Agamotto to create a time loop around himself and Dormammu. After repeatedly killing Strange to no avail, Dormammu finally gives in to Strange's demand that he leave Earth. |
2017 | Before I Fall | Ry Russo-Young | A popular high school senior finds herself reliving the same day over and over. |
2017 | Happy Death Day | Christopher B. Landon | A snobby young woman is murdered at her birthday party. She wakes up the morning of her death, alive, facing the same day over and over again. |
2017 | Naked | Michael Tiddes | A naked man is caught in a time loop on the day of his wedding. |
2017 | Time Trap | Mark Dennis and Ben Foster | A group of students in a remote area of Texas, searching for their missing professor, discover a mysterious cave by accident. While exploring the cave, the group experience a series of bizarre and dangerous events related to spacetime distortion. |
2017 | The Endless | Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | Two brothers return to the ‘UFO death cult’ camp where they were raised and encounter people caught in time loops. |
2018 | When We First Met | Ari Sandel | A guy in love, uses a photobox to travel back in time, to change his life. |
2018 | A Wrinkle in Time | Ava DuVernay | Thirteen-year-old middle school student Meg Murry struggles to adjust to both her school and home life ever since her father Alex, a well-renowned scientist, mysteriously disappeared. |
2018 | Time Freak | Andrew Bowler | When a physics student is dumped by his girlfriend, he invents a time machine and uses it to go back in time in order to fix every mistake he made during the relationship. |
2018 | ' | Anthony C. Ferrante | in this sixth and final installment of the famous saga Fin Shepard have to fight sharknadoes from differet periods of time in order to save his family. |
2019 | Happy Death Day 2U | Christopher B. Landon | Tree Gelbman discovers that dying over and over was surprisingly easier than the dangers that lie ahead. |
2019 | ' | Mike Mitchell | Rex Dangervest, travels through time to save his past self from the Stairgate and makes him tough so he can crash Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi's wedding and start ourmomageddon, so he can revenge his friends who abandond him. |
2019 | Non ci resta che il crimine | Massimiliano Bruno | Three friends enter a wormhole and return in time to 1982 in Rome, Italy. |
2019 | See You Yesterday | Stefon Bristol | An ambitious science prodigy creates time machines, in order to save her brother from a fatal incident. As she tries to alter the events of the past, she will eventually face the perilous consequences of time travel. |
2019 | ' | Anthony and Joe Russo | The Avengers travel back in time into previous films at their respective time periods: The Avengers, ' and Guardians of the Galaxy, to retrieve the Infinity Stones. A final battle ensues after Nebula's cybernetic implants interface with those of her 2014 counterpart and alerts 2014 Thanos to their plans to reverse the Snap from '. |
2019 | In the Shadow of the Moon | Jim Mickle | A Philadelphia police officer struggles with a lifelong obsession to track down a mysterious serial killer whose crimes defy explanation. |
2019 | Hello World | Tomohiko Itō | A man travels in time from the year 2027 to relive his school years and to correct a bad decision in his life. |
Time travel in science fiction television series
Time travel is a recurrent theme in science fiction television programs. The list below covers television series for which time travel is central to the premise and direction of the plot and setting.Start date | End date | Title | Creator | Description |
1951 | 1956 | Captain Z-Ro | Roy Steffens | Scientist Captain Z-Ro, working in his remote laboratory, safeguards mankind and history from harm. With his time machine, he both views history and sends someone back in time when the past has been altered. |
1959 | 1960 | The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show - "Peabody's Improbable History" segments | Mr. Peabody and Sherman travel to different places and events in history using the WABAC time machine. | |
1963 2005 | 1989 - | Doctor Who | Sydney Newman, Russell T Davies, Steven Moffat, Chris Chibnall | A Time Lord called "the Doctor", an extraterrestrial being, to all appearances human, from the planet Gallifrey explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. Accompanied by a number of companions, the Doctor combats a variety of foes while working to save civilisations and help people in need. |
1966 | 1967 | It's About Time | Sherwood Schwartz | Two astronauts accidentally travel to prehistoric Earth. Unable to return, they make friends with cave-people. When they do return, they inadvertently bring some with them, who must learn to get along in the 1960s. |
1966 | 1967 | The Time Tunnel | Irwin Allen | In a demonstration, a scientist turns on the experimental time tunnel, where he finds himself on board the R.M.S. Titanic. Another joins him and both are stuck in time. Each week they have a new adventure in history. |
1970 | 1971 | Catweazle | Richard Carpenter | An 11th-century wizard accidentally travels to 1969 England. He makes many humorous mistakes while trying to find his way back home. |
1970 | 1971 | Timeslip | John Cooper | Two time-traveling children visit both the past and future. |
1972 | 1972 | Time Traveller | Yasutaka Tsutsui | Based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1965 novel The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. A high-school girl accidentally acquires the ability to travel through time, which leads to her reliving multiple time loops. |
1974 | 1976 | Land of the Lost | Sid & Marty Krofft | A family are trapped in an alternate universe inhabited by dinosaurs, a primate-type people called Pakuni, and aggressive humanoid/lizard creatures called Sleestak. |
1979 | 1982 | Sapphire & Steel | Peter J. Hammond | Two time-traveling, inter-dimensional agents protect and guard the order of time in this British drama. |
1982 | 1983 | Voyagers! | James D. Parriott | A member of a league of time travelers, called Voyagers, and a boy travel through time repairing errors in world history. |
1986 | 1986 | Outlaws | Nicholas Corea | Five cowboys of the 1880s are sent to 1986 by a lightning strike. With no way to get back home, they start a detective agency to make a living. |
1988 | 1988 | Moondial | Helen Cresswell | A girl travels to the past with the help of a moondial, where she meets two children from earlier centuries and helps them with their unhappy lives. |
1988 | 2017 | Red Dwarf | Rob Grant & Doug Naylor | After 3 million years, Dave Lister leaves stasis as the last human being alive. He is aboard the ship Red Dwarf, in deep space and travelling at nearly the speed of light. Time travel is frequent in the series – usually into the past. |
1988 | 1999 | Mystery Science Theater 3000 | Joel Hodgson | In the later seasons, Mike Nelson and his robot co-stars find themselves traveling through time, ending up in places including ancient Rome. Additionally, throughout the series, movies with time travel as a major theme are shown. |
1989 | 1993 | Quantum Leap | Donald P. Bellisario | Dr. Sam Beckett becomes stuck in his past during a time-travel experiment and, in trying to return to the present time, temporarily takes the place of other people and corrects historical mistakes, thus triggering the next time jump. In his travels, he is aided by a hologram of his friend, Al. |
1990 | 1991 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures | An animated spin-off of the movies Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. | |
1991 | 1992 | ' | Bob Gale | An animated spin-off that continues on from Back to the Future Part III. |
1992 | 1993 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures | A live action spin-off of the movies Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. | |
1993 | 1999 | Goodnight Sweetheart | Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran | An accidental time traveller, Gary Sparrow, leads a double life after discovering a time portal allowing him to travel between 1990s London and wartime London of 1939–1945. |
1993 | 1994 | Time Trax | Creators: Harve Bennett, Jeffrey M. Hayes, Grant Rosenberg· | A police officer from the 22nd century makes his way back to the present time to track down fugitives from the future. |
1994 | 1994 | Toki o Kakeru Shōjo | Yasutaka Tsutsui, Ryoichi Kimizuka | Based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1965 novel The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. A high-school girl accidentally acquires the ability to travel through time, which leads to her reliving multiple time loops. |
1996 | 1999 | ' | Bob Forward, Larry DiTillio | Sequel to The Transformers. In prehistoric Earth, Predacon leader Megatron plots to change history, ensuring Predacon dominance in the future. |
1997 | 1997 | Crime Traveller | Anthony Horowitz | Jeff Slade uses a time machine to witness crimes in the past, then solve them in the present. |
1998 | 2001 | Seven Days | Christopher & Zachary Crowe | A secret branch of the NSA uses a time machine to travel back in time to avert disasters. The machine, which was found at Roswell, New Mexico, can only jump back seven days. |
1999 | 2001 | Twice in a Lifetime | Steve Sohmer | Individuals who have reached the end of their lives in one timeline are given three days to travel into their past and convince their younger selves to make a different choice at a pivotal point in their lives. |
1999 | 2006 | Lorong Waktu | Deddy Mizwar | Ramadan TV series. Islamic adventure of a teacher who found a time machine. |
2000 | 2001 | Mirai Sentai Timeranger | Four police officers travel from the year 3000 to the year 2000 to arrest time fugitives. | |
2001 | 2005 | ' | Creators: Rick Berman, Brannon Braga | Various species from the 30th century are having a "Temporal Cold War" that is interfering with life in the 22nd century, which affects the lives of the crew of the Enterprise . |
2001 | 2004 | Samurai Jack | Genndy Tartakovsky | An ancient demon throws the hero, Samurai Jack, into the future, to give himself enough time to conquer the world. |
2001 | 2003 | Time Squad | Dave Wasson | Time cops from the year 1,000,000,000 AD travel back in time to keep famous historical figures from diverting the course of history. A Cartoon Network series. |
2001 | 2001 | Power Rangers Time Force | Four police officers travel from the year 3000 to the year 2001 to arrest time fugitives. American adaptation of Mirai Sentai Timeranger. | |
2002 | 2004 | Odyssey 5 | Manny Coto, David Carson | After witnessing the destruction of Earth from space, five astronauts are sent back in time to determine how the earth was destroyed and prevent it from happening. |
2002 | 2003 | Do Over | Rick Wiener and Kenny Schwarz | Joel Larsen, age 34, has an accident that sends him back to 1981, when he was 14. He awakes in his teenage body, with his adult memories intact. With adult wisdom, though hampered by adolescent urges, Joel sets out to right the wrongs that will befall his family. |
2002 | 2002 | That Was Then | Dan Cohn, Jeff Kline, Jeremy Miller | A 30-year-old who regrets his mistakes from the past, finds himself back in high school, getting a chance to do some things over. |
2003 | 2005 | Tru Calling | Jon Harmon Feldman | A young woman who works in the city morgue receives requests from corpses to stop their untimely deaths and then wakes up the day before, in order to attempt to save them. |
2004 | 2004 | 5ive Days to Midnight | Robert Zappia, David Aaron Cohen, Anthony Peckham and Cindy Myers | When college professor J.T. Neumeyer discovers a police file that outlines the details of his murder – which is to take place five days in the future – he wastes no time trying to save his own life. |
2004 | 2010 | Lost | Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse | Survivors of a plane crash on a mysterious island in the South Pacific Ocean. Desmond Hume becomes "unstuck in time" due to electromagnetic radiation. Other characters jump erratically forwards and backwards through time. |
2004 | 2006 | Phil of the Future | Tim Maile and Douglas Tuber | A family attempts to repair their spaceship after being stranded in the past, or modern day, while maintaining the appearance of being normal people. |
2005 | 2007 | Time Warp Trio | Executive producer: Jim Rapsas | A children's cartoon where, using books, three children travel through time and space. Based on the books by Jon Scieszka. |
2006 | 2011 | Torchwood | Russell T Davies Chris Chibnall Jane Espenson John Fay | Humans and aliens from different periods in time start to come to Earth by means of a rift in the space/time continuum. |
2006 | 2010 | Heroes | Tim Kring | Three heroes can travel in time and space. Apocalyptic disasters happen and the characters travel back and forth in an attempt to prevent them. |
2006 | 2007 | Life on Mars | Matthew Graham Ashley Pharoah Tony Jordan Chris Chibnall | A police officer must learn to adapt to the way things were done in the 1970s after being thrown back in time by an accident. The U.S. version of the series, Life on Mars, starring Jason O'Mara, aired in 2008–2009. |
2006 | 2007 | ' | The Autobot Vector Prime is a defender of space-time. | |
2006 | 2007 | Day Break | Paul Zbyszewski | A policeman must relive the day when his girlfriend gets murdered so that he can prevent it from happening. A suspenseful variation on the Groundhog Day concept. |
2007 | 2011 | Primeval | Portals to different time periods start opening up and creatures from the past and future come through. There are indications that the portals are man-made, but their exact origin is shrouded in mystery. | |
2007 | 2008 | Kamen Rider Den-O | Evil creatures come from a possible future to kill a human whose existence dooms them. They grant wishes to weak-willed humans which allows them to travel farther back in time. | |
2007 | 2007 | Journeyman | Kevin Falls Matt McGuinness Tom Szentgyorgyi | A man finds himself jumping through time, unable to stop or control the jumps. A woman from 1948 also jumps into the future. Unable to jump home, she begins a legal career. They fall in love, but she jumps back home. For unknown reasons, they now jump to the same times, and she offers him advice and assistance. |
2008 | 2008 | 'New Amsterdam' | Allan Loeb and Christian Taylor | John Amsterdam, a detective with the New York Police Department, is actually a 400-year-old Dutch settler of the city, then known as New Amsterdam. Granted immortality after a heroic deed; he has led several dozen lives, giving him knowledge that helps him solve crimes in modern New York City. |
2008 | 2010 | Ashes to Ashes | Matthew Graham Ashley Pharoah Julie Rutterford Mark Greig Jack Lothian | A spin-off series from Life on Mars in which Alex Drake, a police officer with the London Metropolitan Police, who is shot in 2008, awakes in 1981 where she meets characters from the original Life on Mars series. |
2008 | 2009 | Kamen Rider Kiva | In parallel storylines in 1986 and 2008, a time traveler has to prevent his own birth so that his love may live, but instead he ensures his own existence by saving his father from being killed by the series' antagonist. | |
2008 | 2012 | Fringe | In season 4 and 5 of Fringe, time travel is used by the Observers as a means to take over human civilization in 2015. Olivia and her team are sent from the year 2015 to the year 2036 to fight off the Observers. | |
2008 | 2009 | ' | A female Terminator from the year 2027 comes back to 1999 to protect a young John Connor, the future leader of the human resistance. They move in time to hide him, but find enemies wherever they go. | |
2009 | 2017 | Dinosaur Train | Craig Bartlett | A Tyrannosaurus named Buddy travels with his adopted Pteranodon family on the Dinosaur Train, which can visit the entire Mesozoic Era, the "Age of Dinosaurs", passing through magical Time Tunnels to meet dinosaurs in Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous times. |
2009 | 2009 | Paradox | Lizzie Mickery | Detectives investigate images being broadcast to the laboratory of eminent astrophysicist, Dr. Christian King, which appear to show catastrophic events in the future. |
2009 | 2011 | Being Erica | Jana Sinyor | Erica Strange begins seeing a counselor to deal with regrets in her life, only to discover the counselor has the ability to send her back in time to actually change these events. |
2009 | 2010 | FlashForward | Brannon Braga and David S. Goyer | An incident renders the entire population of Earth unconscious for two minutes in 2009. During the "Black Out" the consciousness of the entire planet shifts forward six months into the future, where they see what could occur that day. |
2010 | 2012 | Mary Shelley's Frankenhole | Dino Stamotopolous | Dr. Victor Frankenstein has created "Frankenholes" to every time period of the past and the future. This allows historical figures and celebrities to seek the doctor's services. Although many classic horror monsters are present, the series' focus is on the mad scientist and his family. |
2011 | 2011 | Hoops & Yoyo Ruin Christmas | In a TV special, Hoops and Yoyo accidentally travel through a wormhole and meet Santa Claus when he was still Kris Kringle. | |
2011 | 2011 | Puella Magi Madoka Magica | Gen Urobuchi | A mysterious girl, named Homura Akemi, has made a contract with a being known as Kyubei, to go back in time and save the titular character. |
2011 | 2011 | Terra Nova | When Earth is threatened with extinction in 2149, specially-selected humans travel back 85 million years in hopes of preventing the later disaster. However, they arrive on a parallel version of Earth, thus avoiding a temporal paradox. | |
2011 | 2011 | Steins;Gate | Chiyomaru Shikura | A self-proclaimed "mad scientist" discovers that a new cell phone-operated microwave oven can send text messages back in time. A friend adapts it to send memories, effectively allowing time travel. |
2011 | 2018 | Once Upon a Time | Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz | Storybook characters from the New Enchanted Forest fall into a magical portal created by a time-traveling spell to the Land Without Magic and a causal loop. |
2012 | 2012 | ' | A Canadian spin-off series to Primeval in which a team of specialists deal with animals and people from other times who have travelled to present day through anomalies. | |
2012 | 2015 | Continuum | A series on the conflict between a police officer representing future corporations, and a group of anti-corporate rebels, each from the year 2077, who time-travel to Vancouver, BC around the year 2012. | |
2014 | – | Outlander | Based on Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series | Travel through time from the 1940s to 1740s. A woman from the 1940s time travels through standing stones in Scotland to the 1740s. |
2014 | – | The Flash | Based on the DC Comics character Flash | A crime scene investigator who has gained the power to move at superhuman speeds becomes a superhero crime-fighter. It is a spin-off from Arrow, existing in the same DC universe. |
2015 | – | 12 Monkeys | Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett | Time traveler James Cole travels from the year 2043 to the present day to stop the release of a deadly virus by the enigmatic organization known as "The Army of the Twelve Monkeys". |
2015 | – | El ministerio del tiempo | Pablo Olivares and Javier Olivares | The Ministry of Time is a Spanish government institution. Its patrols watch the doors of time so intruders from other eras cannot change history for their own benefit. |
2016 | 2016 | Erased | Kei Sanbe | Satoru Fujinuma can travel back to a time moments before a life-threatening incident. Going back 18 years, to when he was in elementary school, he has an opportunity to prevent a kidnapping. |
2016 | – | Legends of Tomorrow | Based on the DC Comics characters | Time Master, Rip Hunter, travels back in time to the present day where he brings together a team of heroes and villains to prevent those who would disrupt time for their benefit. |
2016 | 2016 | 11.22.63 | Stephen King | A man is presented with the chance to travel back in time and attempt to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. |
2016 | – | Tappei Nagatsuki | Subaru Natsuki finds himself on another world, attacked, and saved by a girl. Soon, they are attacked again and killed. He reawakens to the place in which he was reborn and has gained an ability to rewind time to a certain point by dying. | |
2016 | 2018 | Timeless | Shawn Ryan, Eric Kripke | History professor, scientist, and soldier team up to stop a time-traveling criminal who seeks to change the course of American history in order to prevent the rise of a shadowy organization. |
2016 | 2018 | Travellers | Brad Wright | Hundreds of years from now, surviving humans discover how to send consciousness back through time, into people of the 21st century, while attempting to change the path of humanity. |
2016 | 2017 | Frequency | Jeremy Carver | Based on the 2000 film of the same name. In 2016, a detective discovers that she can speak to her deceased father via his old ham radio. Her attempts to save his life trigger the "butterfly effect", changing the present. To fix the damage, she must work with her father across decades to solve an old murder case. |
2017 | 2017 | Making History | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, Julius Sharpe | Three friends from two different centuries experience the thrill of time travel and its unexpected results. |
2017 | 2017 | Time After Time | Kevin Williamson | Based on the 1979 novel of the same name, which was previously adapted as a feature film. H. G. Wells travels to 2017 on his time machine to capture Jack the Ripper. |
2017 | 2017 | Sagrada Reset | Shin'ya Kawatsura | |
2017 | 2020 | Dark | Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese | A Netflix series; the disappearance of two kids, and mysterious incidents around a power plant in the town of Winden, Germany, spurs a mystery that occurs every 33 years in 1953, 1986, and 2019. |
2017 | - | Find Me in Paris | A ballerina/princess from 1905 finds herself transported to 2018. |