List of time travel works of fiction

Time travel is a common element of fiction, depicted in a variety of media.

Time travel in novels and short stories

Time travel is a recurrent theme in science fiction literature. Thousands of books incorporate time travel. Below are examples of texts that are repeatedly recognized as works of science fiction (as the genre has been defined in this article) that integrate time travel.

Date	Title	Author	Description
1733	Memoirs of the Twentieth Century	Samuel Madden	A guardian angel travels to 1728 with letters from 1997 and '98.
1838	Missing One's Coach: An Anachronism	Anonymous Dublin University Magazine	Traveler picked up by a stagecoach but is suddenly transported back over a thousand years.
1843	A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens	Ghosts accompany Scrooge into the past to show him his life, then to the future to show the consequences of his heartlessness if he does not change his ways.
1861	Paris Before Men	Pierre Boitard	Magic of a "lame demon" allows main character to interact with prehistoric life.
1881	The Clock That Went Backward	Edward Page Mitchell	A clock that has the power to take people back in time.
1887	El Anacronopete	Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau	First to introduce a time machine, originally written as a zarzuela in 1881, released as a novel in 1887.
1887	Looking Backward: 2000-1887	Edward Bellamy	Julian West, towards the end of the 19th century, falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes up 113 years later.
1888	A Dream of John Ball	William Morris	Describes a time travel encounter between the medieval and modern worlds.
1888	"The Chronic Argonauts"	H. G. Wells	An inventor takes another with him in a time machine, before deciding to leave for a time where he will fit in more.
1889	Sylvie and Bruno	Lewis Carroll	The story features a watch that not only indicated the time, but actually determined it: "instead of its going with the time, time goes with it".
1889	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	Mark Twain	19th century citizen goes to King Arthur's time (528 AD).
1891	Tourmalin's Time Cheques	Thomas A. Gutherie	Time travel and the paradoxes that can result from it.
1892	Golf in the Year 2000	J. McCullough	A man falls asleep in 1892 and wakes up in the year 2000. Noted for its accurate predictions of the year 2000.
1895	The Time Machine	H. G. Wells	Inventor creates a time machine and travels to the year 802,701 A.D., where he finds humanity have evolved into two races, Morlocks and Eloi.
1919	Enoch Soames	Max Beerbohm	Enoch is transported 100 years into the future (1997) to see if he became a great writer or not – a Faustian-like pact with the Devil is involved.
1928/ 1929	Armageddon 2419 A.D.	Philip Francis Nowlan	Anthony Rogers is transported to the year 2419 by a strange cave gas. Later became the comic strip Buck Rogers.
1936	Burnt Norton	T. S. Eliot	Begins with "Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future..."
1939	A Traveller in Time	Alison Uttley	A child goes back into Derbyshire of the Babington Plot and Mary, Queen of Scots.
1939	Lest Darkness Fall	L. Sprague De Camp	An archaeologist is transported from Mussolini's Rome to 6th century Italy and attempts to prevent the fall of the Roman Empire.
1941	By His Bootstraps	Robert A. Heinlein	Circular paradox-character is brought to the future where he later operates a time machine to bring himself to the future.
1942	All-Star Comics #10		Justice Society of America use a time ray to travel 500 years into the future and get an effective bombing defence to protect America.
1944	Future Times Three	René Barjavel	Two scientists invent a substance which allows a man to time travel. They travel to the future, where humanity has branched into different species with their own particular tasks, and then to the past. It was adapted as a movie in 1982
1946	Vintage Season	"Lawrence O'Donnell" (joint pseudonym of C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner)	Time travellers from the future experience wonderful seasons and spectacular events in the past.
1947	All-Star Comics #35		Villain Per Degaton murders a scientist who has invented a time machine and tries to use it to change history, causing modern technology from the Present, meaning he can then conquer America with technology protected from the effects.
1950	Pebble in the Sky	Isaac Asimov	A retired tailor from the mid-20th century is accidentally pitched forward into the future.
1951	The Gauntlet	Ronald Welch	After putting on a gauntlet, a boy finds himself transported back to Wales in 1326.
1952	"A Sound of Thunder"	Ray Bradbury	Changes in the past affect the future; part of the genealogy of the term Butterfly effect.
1953	Bring the Jubilee	Ward Moore	A time traveller from an alternate reality appears at the Battle of Gettysburg and alters his own future into ours.
1954	"Experiment"	Fredric Brown	An experiment involving the time travel of a small brass cube results in disaster.[1]
1955	The End of Eternity	Isaac Asimov	Time guardians carry out strategic actions, called Reality Changes, in order to minimize human suffering as integrated over the whole of (future) human history.
1955	"The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway"	William Tenn	Historian returns to the mid-20th century to study artist whose works he finds himself having to create, so the past is a product of the future's interest in the past.
1955– 1995	Time Patrol, plus 10 others	Poul Anderson	Series of 11 novels related to the Time Patrol, an organization which protects the past.
1956	"Extempore"	Damon Knight	Man learns how to travel through time.
1956	Pawley's Peepholes	John Wyndham	Time travellers from the future disrupt life in a small town by treating it as a quaint place for sightseeing.
1956	The Stars My Destination	Alfred Bester	In a future in which self-teleportation is common, Gully Foyle discovers how to teleport himself through time as well.
1957	Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd (A Week in the Wales of the Future)	Islwyn Ffowc Elis	A novel in the Welsh language, in which the narrator travels to Wales on two occasions in the year 2033 and encounters contrasting future scenarios each time.
1957	The Door into Summer	Robert A. Heinlein	After thirty years trapped in suspended animation, a man uses a time machine to go back and exact revenge on his friend and fiancée for stealing his business.
1957	"The Last Word"	Damon Knight	Tale of Armageddon and the Devil.
1957	"Soldier From Tomorrow"	Harlan Ellison	A soldier comes back from the future to warn against the path toward global conflict.
1957	"The Seventh Voyage"	Stanislaw Lem	Space Traveler Ijon Tichy travels through a time vortex in an attempt to help himself fix a defect in his spaceship. This sets off a chain of time loops in which many versions of himself interact with each other (From The Star Diaries).
1957	Double Indemnity	Robert Sheckley	Everett Barthold travels through time to find an ancestor lookalike who can be used to defraud an insurance company.
1958	"The Men Who Murdered Mohammed"	Alfred Bester	Comedy in which a professor travels back in time to kill someone by killing their grandparent, but the results confound him. Explores many time travel scenarios in a short story format.
1959	"—All You Zombies—"	Robert A. Heinlein	Circular paradox – a time traveler who has undergone gender transition manipulates his younger selves to become his own mother and father
1959	The Day We Explored the Future	Donald Keith	Boy Scouts find an abandoned time machine and visit the year 4000 AD. (First of a 23-story Time Machine series appearing 1959–1989 in Boys' Life.)
1960	The Weirdstone of Brisingamen	Alan Garner	Colin and Susan go back in time in the caves of Alderley Edge in Cheshire – crystal bracelet, magic great wolf included.
1961	Danny Dunn, Time Traveler	Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams	A couple of teenagers use their professor's time machine to study the history of the US.
1962	Fantastic Four vol 1 No. 19	Stan Lee and Jack Kirby	The Fantastic Four travel to Ancient Egypt, and meet Pharaoh Rama-Tut, who is really another time traveller, from the 31st century. First appearance of Marvel Comics time-travelling villain Kang.
1963	The Other End of the Line	Walter Tevis	George Bletzo mistakenly calls his own phone number and talks to himself a few months into the future. Predestination in play.
1964	Time Tunnel	Murray Leinster	Large immobile masses of iron in the earth's crust enable two-way travel between two points in the planet's history.
1963–present	Doctor Who	various authors	More than 530 original novels and novelisations based on the popular television show.
1965	The Ship that Sailed the Time Stream	G. C. Edmondson	Ensign Joe Rate, "captain of a wooden ship in a predominantly atomic navy", is transported, with his ship and crew, first back to the time of the Vikings, then to the time of the Romans.
1966	The Green Bronze Mirror	Lynne Ellison	Teenage girl finds ancient mirror buried in sand, looks into it, is transported back in time to the Roman Empire – where she is mistaken for a runaway slave.
1966	The Man From When	Dannie Plachta	A man inadvertently destroys the world in order to travel back eighteen minutes in time.
1967	The Girl Who Leapt Through Time	Yasutaka Tsutsui	A high-school girl who accidentally acquires the ability to time travel.
1967	The Technicolor Time Machine	Harry Harrison	A bankrupt film studio, and mediocre film director, use a time machine to make a movie of the founding of Vinland, with real Vikings.
1968	Hawksbill Station	Robert Silverberg	A time machine is used by an oppressive government for deporting political prisoners a billion years in the past, to the Pre-Cambrian era.
1969	Slaughterhouse-Five	Kurt Vonnegut	A man is randomly traveling through time in his life jumping from one event to another in no particular order.
1969	Up the Line	Robert Silverberg	Time travel as guided tours to past historical events.
1969	The House on the Strand	Daphne du Maurier	Drug-induced trip back to a 14th-century Cornish village.
1969	Behold the Man	Michael Moorcock	A man travels in a time machine to 28 AD, hoping to meet the historical Jesus.
1970	Chronocules	D. G. Compton	A millionaire establishes a research village to experiment with time travel.
1970	Time and Again	Jack Finney	Uses hypnosis to travel through time.
1970	The Year of the Quiet Sun	Wilson Tucker	The government uses a forward-traveling time machine to survey the future and adjust its policies accordingly.
1972	Time's Last Gift	Philip José Farmer	Four scientists/anthropologists travel from 2070 A.D. to 12,000 B.C.
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	Main character receives a belt that allows him to travel through time. Complications ensue.
1973	Crusade in Jeans	Thea Beckman	Rudolf Hefting is a fourteen-year-old who volunteers for an experiment with a time machine. The experiment goes well, but he ends up accidentally stranded in the 13th century. He saves the life of Leonardo Fibonacci without realizing who he is, and together they join the German Children's Crusade, where he aids the children and manages to save most of them from horrible fates with the aid of his twentieth-century knowledge and a couple of items from the future (such as a box of matches).
1975	Bid Time Return	Richard Matheson	A young man sees an old photograph of a woman, and through hypnosis travels back in time from 1980 to 1912 to meet her. Basis of the 1980 film Somewhere in Time. Winner of the 1976 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
1976	"An Infinite Summer"	Christopher Priest	Time travelers from the future journey through the 20th century and use a device to "freeze" small groups of people into "tableaux" which they find interesting. The people in each tableau then become invisible and permeable to others, until the effect wears off, sometimes after many years.
1977	Time Storm	Gordon R. Dickson	A cosmic anomaly sweeps the Earth, subdividing the surface into irregular zones whose "present" is a randomly determined historical period of the past or future, which changes at irregular intervals. One man attempting to rescue his ex-wife accumulates a group of refugees from throughout history.
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.
1978	"The Very Slow Time Machine"	Ian Watson	An enigmatic traveler from the future, in a time vessel which cannot be breached, baffles scientists in his past. (His messages include: "you must travel through time by an equal amount of accumulate hindward potential...")
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	What happens when H. G. Wells' time machine returns from the future.
1979	Closing the Timelid	Orson Scott Card	A man uses time travel to experience the sensation of death.
1980	Timescape	Gregory Benford	Use of tachyons to warn scientists of the past about an upcoming disaster. Winner of the 1980 Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards and the 1981 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
1980	Thrice Upon a Time	James P. Hogan	Messages are sent back through time which delete the timeline in which it exists.
1980	A Rebel in Time	Harry Harrison	Time machine misuse. A rogue US colonel plans to aid the Confederacy with submachine gun plans - and is pursued by a black cop.
1980	Kindred	Octavia Butler	Dana, an African-American woman, is inexplicably transported from 1976 Los Angeles to early 19th century Maryland. She meets her ancestors: Rufus, a white slave holder, and Alice, an African-American woman who was born free, but forced into slavery later in life.
1980	The Restaurant at the End of the Universe	Douglas Adams	Milliways is frozen in the last moment of the universe before it succumbs to final entropy, requiring time travel to reach it. Menu prices are astronomical, but patrons are advised to deposit a penny in a bank account now. By the time a patron reaches the final moment of history, compound interest will have transformed the penny into a fortune large enough to pay the bill.
1980	The Man Who Loved Morlocks	David J. Lake	H. G. Wells' time traveller confronts the Morlocks again, this time equipped with a camera and revolver.
1981	The Many-Colored Land, first book of the Saga of the Pliocene Exile series	Julian May	Time travellers from the late 21st/early 22nd century go through a one-way time portal to the Earth's Pliocene period, already controlled by humanoid extraterrestrials.
1982	Life, the Universe and Everything	Douglas Adams	Time travel paradoxes form the basis of broad comedy, as in the case of the ancient poet Lallafa.
1983	Millennium	John Varley	In the far distant future, a time-travel team snatches the passengers of a plane collision, leaving prefabricated bodies behind for the rescue teams to find. Basis of the 1989 film.
1983	The Anubis Gates	Tim Powers	In 1983, a millionaire discovers time-travel gates and organizes a trip to the past to attend a lecture by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1810. 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, apparently obtained through time travel. Mankind is inspired by the evidence to actually achieve this utopia.
1985	Professor Rondi's Time Machine	Satyajit Ray	Professor Shonku is invited by Professor Rondi to a demonstration of a time machine that Rondi has reportedly discovered. Shonku is disturbed by the news of murder of another scientist, Professor Klaiber, who, Shonku knew, was also working on a time machine. Shonku comes to suspect that Rondi is Klaiber's murderer. He uses the time machine to find incriminating evidence.
1985	The Proteus Operation	James P. Hogan	In a world dominated by a victorious Third Reich, the besieged forces of freedom mount a covert military mission back to 1939 in a desperate attempt to alter the outcome of World War II.
1985	Star Trek: Ishmael	Barbara Hambly	Spock is aboard a Klingon ship when it travels back in time to Seattle in 1867. He discovers a Klingon plot to destroy the United Federation of Planets by assassinating an ancestor of his mother, a prominent local businessman who will later be instrumental in repelling an invasion by the alien Karsids.
1986	Highway of Eternity	Clifford D. Simak	People from the future run to the past to avoid the fate of being forced into a non-corporeal form.
1986	Running Against Time	Stanley Shapiro	In an effort to prevent the Vietnam War, a man travels back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
1987	Sphere	Michael Crichton	A manmade space ship from the far future passes through a wormhole and crashes on Earth centuries earlier, where it is eventually found and misidentified as an alien vessel.
1987	A Tale of Time City	Diana Wynne Jones	A girl, Vivian Smith, is kidnapped while being evacuated from London during World War II, and is caught up in a struggle to preserve history.
1988	Replay	Ken Grimwood	A man in 1988 suffers a heart attack and finds himself back in his life in 1963.
1988	"Ripples in the Dirac Sea"	Geoffrey A. Landis	A man inventing a time machine using Dirac's theories of negative energy travels to the 1960s and discovers he can participate in the past, but not change it (Nebula Award 1989).
1988	Lightning	Dean Koontz	A time traveler from Nazi Germany interferes with the life of a young woman in his future.
1988	The Devil's Arithmetic	Jane Yolen	During a Passover Seder, a woman is transported back to Poland in 1942 and is sent to a death camp.
1989	Hyperion	Dan Simmons	A great warrior, the Shrike, is sent from the future for an unknown reason. Main characters travel through time in a very complex timeline.
1990	Four Past Midnight: "The Langoliers"	Stephen King	An airplane accidentally flies through a rip in space/time and appears in the "used time" of yesterday, in which dreadful "Langoliers" eat the past.
1991-ongoing	Outlander series	Diana Gabaldon	Time-travel romance. The series begins with the novel Outlander, in which a woman time travels through standing stones in Scotland from the 1940s to the 1740s.
1992	The Guns of the South	Harry Turtledove	During the American Civil War, South African white supremacists give the Confederacy AK-47s.
1992	Doomsday Book	Connie Willis	Travel through time from 2048 to 14th century, constrained by automatic avoidance of paradoxes.
1993	The Cross-Time Engineer	Leo Frankowski	A 20th century Polish engineer is transported back to 13th century Poland ten years before the Mongol invasion.
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 back in time to the year 1911 to try to prevent World War I, and, among other adventures, voyages on the RMS Titanic.
1995	The Time Ships	Stephen Baxter	Authorised sequel to H. G. Wells' The Time Machine.
1996	Timequake	Kurt Vonnegut	People in 2001 are transported back to 1991 to relive their lives.
1996	The Dechronization of Sam Magruder	George Gaylord Simpson	A scientist working in the year 2162 is thrown back in time 80 million years to the Jurassic period.
1996	Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus	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	In book 11, the 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. The same concept is uses to sent the animorphs back to time to 65 million B.C. in Megamorph 2. In the Andalite Chronicles, Elfangor discovers a technology known as the Time Matrix, seen again in Megamorph 3.
1996	The Devil on the Road	Robert Westall	A young motorbiker takes shelter in a barn in Suffolk during a storm and is transported back to the 17th century at the time of the English Civil War.
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 time travelers from 2048 travel back to the 19th century in order to find an artifact for a dictatorial wealthy woman; adventures occur in The Blitz and other occasions.
1997	Corrupting Dr. Nice	John Kessel	Modeled 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 as to return to his own age and help Shakespeare to greater success on the stage.
1999	All of an Instant	Richard Garfinkle	People from three atemporal time tribes must unite to save the crystallization and fracturing of all of history.
1999	Timeline	Michael Crichton	Historians travel to and 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, a magical necklace that allows her to travel back in time on a daily basis in order to take an unusually large courseload. The device is later used to manipulate the events of a single night to aid a wrongly accused convict's escape.
2000	The Light of Other Days	Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter	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.
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	Paleontologists studying dinosaurs are trapped in the Mesozoic period, but also travel into the very distant future. The novel was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2002, and the Hugo Award, John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and Locus Awards in 2003.
2002	Meridian	John Schettler	ForeWord Magazine Silver Medal Winner for Sci-fi Book of The Year, 2002. The first ever experiment in time travel sets off a "Time War" where opposing sides struggle to alter key events on the Meridians of Time. Five book series: Meridian, Nexus Point, Touchstone, Anvil of Fate, Golem 7.
2002	Night Watch	Terry Pratchett	Character interacts with a younger version of himself.
2002	Counting Up, Counting Down	Harry Turtledove	Time travel with the twin perspectives of a man who travels back in time for relationship stability.
2002	Guardian	Joe Haldeman	Born in 1858, Rosa journeys from the Civil War South to the Northeast, marries a villainous husband, and flees with their 14-year-old boy Daniel for the Klondike Gold Rush, all before learning that the talking, shapeshifting raven she sometimes encounters is a Guardian. Raven allows her to journey through space and time, then restores her to her "present" in 1898, now an adjacent universe, with comic and romantic results.
2002	Thief!	Malorie Blackman	A huge storm traps a girl who is accused of being a thief and takes her into the future.
2002	Kaleidoscope Century	John Barnes	Takes place on Mars. A man 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 in overlapping vortices of time and alternate reality as a villain tries to eradicate a literary classic.
2003-ongoing	Haruhi Suzumiya	Nagaru Tanigawa	Two characters, Mikuru Asahina and Fujiwara, are time travelers from the future, and many parts of the story line involve time traveling.
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 (orig. title: L'Éclat de Dieu)	Romain Sardou	Describes the First Crusade and the beginning of the Knights Templar in the future.
2004	Pen Pal	Lou Antonelli	Loops in a man's life are told through a narrative that goes from future to present.
2004	All You Need Is Kill	Hiroshi Sakurazaka	When the aliens invade, Keiji Kiriya is a new recruit sent to fight. He dies on the battlefield, only to be reawaken the day before he was killed, to fight and die again and again.
2004–2005	Warcraft: War of the Ancients Trilogy	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	Multibillionaire clones a mammoth and sends it back in time.
2006	Sojourn	Jana G. Oliver	A Time Rover from 2057 returns to 1888 London in search of a missing time tourist, only to be caught in the Jack the Ripper murders and the history-changing plots of a mysterious group of shape-shifters called Transitives.
2006	The Plot to Save Socrates	Paul Levinson	Time travelers from 2042 try to prevent Socrates from consuming hemlock.
2006	Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony	Eoin Colfer	Fifth book in the Artemis Fowl series. Artemis must pair up with his old comrade Captain Holly Short to track down the missing demon, before the spell that holds a demon island, Hybras, in limbo dissolves completely and the lost demon colony returns violently to Earth. 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	Meet The Robinsons	Steve Anderson	Principal character meets his future son and then travels to the future to meet his family.
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 (to get out of trouble) lands him in deeper trouble.
2007	The Lifehouse Trilogy	Spider Robinson	Three books (Mindkiller (1982), Time Pressure (1988), LifeHouse (1997)) chronicle the story of visitors from Earth's future visiting the past to essentially harvest souls.
2007	Virtual Evil	Jana G. Oliver	A Time Rover from 2057 is sent to 1888 London to find Harter Defoe, the first time traveler who is slowly going insane.
2008	Madman's Dance	Jana G. Oliver	Abandoned in a Victorian insane asylum, memories erased, a Time Rover from 2057 must find a way to thwart a plot from the future that will remake British history.
2008	"The Region of Unlikeness"	Rivka Galchen	An engineering graduate student finds herself entangled with a man who may or may not be her own son traveled back in time.
2008	The Little Book	Selden Edwards	The last heir of a Boston banking family wakes up in Vienna in the time leading up to the Second World War. He meets his father, grandfather, Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, Gustav Mahler and others.
2008	Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox	Eoin Colfer	Sixth book in the Artemis Fowl series. After Angeline Fowl contracts spelltropy, Artemis travels back in time eight years to when he was ten years old to find a lemur that can help cure his mother. The plot twist in the end of the book 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 (original title: Rubinrot)	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.
2010	Expiration Date	Duane Swierczynski	Hardboiled pulp tale of an ex-journalist who discovers pills in his grandfather's medicine cabinet that transport him back in time to the 1970s.
2010	Sabotaged	Margaret Peterson Haddix	Jonah and Katherine go on yet another mission to return a missing kid named Andrea (really Virginia Dare) to her time in the Roanoke Colony.
2010	Blackout and All Clear	Connie Willis	Time travelers from 2048 go to the London Blitz during World War II to observe and end up being part of it. 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 adventures through time accompanied by TAMMY and his ontologically valid dog, Ed, all while documenting his travels in a manual for future travellers.
2011	World of Warcraft: Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects	Christie Golden	Thrall, an orc shaman, travels through time and alternative reality in order to find his inner strength.
2011	11/22/63	Stephen King	A man travels through a time portal to 1958, intending to stop Lee Harvey Oswald from shooting John F. Kennedy.
2011-2013	Fairy Tail	Hiro Mashima	Two time travellers, Lucy Heartfilia and Rogue Cheney, both use a device called the Eclipse Gate from the Book of Zeref to travel back in time for different purposes.
2012	Amber House	Kelly Moore, Tucker Reed, Larkin Reed	A teen girl uses psychometry to alter events in the past, changing the present and future.
2012	Tempest	Julie Cross	First book in the Tempest Trilogy, Jackson Meyer discovers he has the ability to time travel, but he soon finds things are more complicated than they seem. He has to figure out the answers to how his power works and who is after him before it is too late to save the ones he loves.
2013	Vortex	Julie Cross	Second book in the Tempest Trilogy, Jackson Meyer tries to accept his role as an agent of Tempest and to adjust to the changes he has made to the timeline.
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.
2014	Timestorm	Julie Cross	In the final book of the Tempest Trilogy, the fight between Tempest and Eyewall comes to a startling conclusion. Can Jackson Meyer save those he loves, or will he end up destroying the world?
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 Here and Now	Ann Brashares	A girl and her community immigrated to New York when she was twelve, not from a different country, but from a different time—a future where a mosquito-borne illness has mutated into a pandemic, killing millions and leaving the world in ruins. A man travels back in time to save his family from being slaughtered by a psychopathic assassin.

Time travel in films

Time travel is a common theme and plot device in science fiction films. Below are examples of science fiction films that incorporate time travel.

Year	Title	Director	Description
1921	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	Emmett J. Flynn	The first of several film adaptations of Mark Twain's classic.
1923	Rex – Hvad Diogenes søkte og fandt	Trygve Dalseg	A Norwegian movie, actually a commercial for Rex margarine, where Diogenes of Sinope travels in time, meeting Nero and Napoleon, amongst others, in search for the true Rex.
1930	Just Imagine	David Butler	Starts in 1880, then cuts to 1930, then cuts to a futuristic New York in 1980. A man was struck by lightning in 1930 and wakes up to a 1980 with personal aircraft, vending machines replacing sexual activity, spacecraft to Mars, people with letters-dash-digits based names, pill meals, and government-biased marriages.
1933	Turn Back the Clock		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 contemporary man is transported back to 18th century London where he meets his ancestors and falls in love with a woman of the period.
1944	Time Flies	Walter Forde	A music hall performer travels back to Elizabethan times using a time machine.
1947	Repeat Performance		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. Will she make the same choice a second time?
1949	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	Tay Garnett	Very loosely based on Mark Twain's story in which a mechanic (Bing Crosby) 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 who is transported to the 18th century, where he falls in love.
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've retreated underground, and the savage mutants who've 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. 12 Monkeys was inspired by La Jetée.
1964	The Time Travelers	Ib Melchior	Scientists find their time-viewing screen allows them to travel through time; they become stranded in a post-apocalypse future. An adventure film directed by B-movie director Ib Melchior that 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. In this, the Doctor is an inventor not an alien. His TARDIS device takes the Doctor and companions to the future of an alien world.
1966	Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.	Gordon Flemyng	Based on the BBC TV series. In this the Doctor is an inventor not an alien. His TARDIS device takes the Doctor and companions to a future London devastated by war.
1967	Journey to the Center of Time	David L. Hewitt	Scientists develop a time machine and travel to the far future and the distant past. A remake of The Time Travelers.
1968	Planet of the Apes	Franklin J. Schaffner	George Taylor (played by Charlton Heston) travels to a future Earth inhabited by intelligent talking apes.
1970	Beneath the Planet of the Apes	Ted Post	Another astronaut, Brent, travels to the future Earth ruled by apes. His search for Taylor leads 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 astronaut Taylor's spaceship and piloting it through a time warp back to 1973.
1972	Slaughterhouse-Five	George Roy Hill	A man travels to various times and places from his life in addition to another planet.
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	Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future	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.
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 warship back in time from the 1980s to the 1940s.
1980	Somewhere in Time	Jeannot Szwarc	Adapted from the novel Bid Time Return from writer Richard Matheson, who also wrote the script. Playwright Richard Collier has his whole life changed by a mysterious woman, that's connected to him somehow. When he sees the picture of beautiful stage actress Elise McKenna, he goes inside a journey to return to the past and live the love of his lifetime.
1981	Time Bandits	Terry Gilliam	A young boy unwittingly joins a band of dwarves as they travel through time hunting treasure.
1982	Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann	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 1875-77.
1983	Twilight Zone: The Movie	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 Terminator	James Cameron	A cyborg (Arnold Schwarzenegger) 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 (Massimo Troisi) and the teacher Saverio (Roberto Benigni) have an automobile breakdown, decide to spend the night in an inn, and the next morning they awake in the Florence of the 16th century.
1985	Back to the Future	Robert Zemeckis	Time travel is achieved by means of a flux capacitor installed in a DeLorean DMC12 sports car. Present-day 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	Jack Deth is a kind of cop/bounty hunter in a future dystopic Los Angeles.
1985	Cavegirl	David Oliver	On a class excursion to a cave with stone age paintings the clumsy Rex gets lost. A mysterious crystal opens a gateway in time and sets him back to the stone ages, where he meets a group of prehistoric fellows and the gorgeous 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	Biggles: Adventures in Time	John Hough	Unassuming catering salesman Jim Ferguson falls through a time hole to 1917 where he saves the life of dashing Royal Flying Corps pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth after his photo recon mission is shot down. Before he can work out what has happened, Jim is zapped back to the 1980s.
1986	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	Leonard Nimoy	To save Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk and his crew travel back to 1986 and retrieve the beings who can communicate with an alien probe (humpback whales).
1986	Outlaws	Nicholas Corea	Five cowboys of the 1880s are sent forward through time 100 years and fight crime.
1986	Flight of the Navigator	Randal Kleiser	In 1978, a boy winds up 8 years into the future, and discovers an alien spaceship brought him there.
1986	Kin-dza-dza	Georgiy Daneliya	A Russian dystopian comedy. Uncle Vova asks a person from the planet Alpha to move him and Fiddler back in time to save two aliens who got imprisoned because of the main hero's actions.
1987	Mirror for a Hero / Zerkalo dlya geroya	Vladimir Khotinenko	Two heroes circle multiple times in 1949, adapting to the harsh post-war life, meeting the parents of one of them, finally returning to the present time, having reassesed their attitude towards elders.
1987	Masters of the Universe	David Odell	The villain uses a camcorder-like gadget that shows the past, and an inventor opens up wormholes to other timestreams allowing the heroine (a young Courteney Cox) to save her parents from dying.
1987	Timestalkers	Michael Schulz	A professor who's lost his family finds evidence of a time traveller in Old West memorabilia.
1988	The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey	Vincent Ward	Medieval travelers from 14th century England tunnel through Earth and burst into 20th century New Zealand.
1989	Field of Dreams	Phil Alden Robinson	Major league baseball players from the early 20th century time travel to the present year of 1989. When Ray Kinsella is in Minnesota searching for former major-leaguer "Moonlight" Graham, he is mysteriously transported from 1989 to 1972 where he encounters Graham as an elderly doctor.
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 McFly family's reputation. Along the way, an old Biff Tannen steals the DeLorean so he can give a sports almanac to himself in 1955, and win millions of dollars gambling. This creates a hellish alternate timeline that it's up to Marty and the Doc to correct.
1989	Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure	Stephen Herek	Two teenagers (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves) will not graduate from high school unless they pull an "A" on their history project. A time traveler (George Carlin) visits them to help because their success on this report is vital as it ensures they will stay together to create a Utopian future. As Bill & Ted travel through time, they encounter 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, in order 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 witch craft is transported to the 20th century, followed by a witch hunter who must stop the warlock finding the Grand Grimoire.
1990	Frankenstein Unbound	Roger Corman	A scientist creates a weapon that causes your enemy to disappear but has a side effect of causing shifts in time. The scientist is transported back in time to 1817 and he meets Doctor Frankenstein and his monster as well as Mary Shelley, who in this film wrote her novel based 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.
1991	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	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 (Schwarzenegger) back as well to protect his past self and prevent a nuclear holocaust.
1991	Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey	Peter Hewitt	Two evil robot versions of Bill & Ted are sent back in time to kill them.
1991	Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah	Kazuki Ōmori	Terrorists from the year 2204 travel back in time as part of a plot to destroy the nation of Japan and prevent it from becoming a global economic superpower. To do this, they travel to 1944 and remove the dinosaur that will become Godzilla from a Pacific island and replace him with three genetically-engineered creatures, which are exposed to a hydrogen bomb test ten years later and become the monster King Ghidorah.
1992	Army of Darkness	Sam Raimi	Ash (Bruce Campbell), 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	The rich, in a future where time travel has been invented, 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	Ben Wilson and daughter Hillary are visited by a strange group of travelers looking for lodging. The travelers are from the future, intending to witness an impending catastrophe. Based on the novel Vintage Season by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore. Released on video as Grand Tour: Disaster in Time.
1992	Split Infinity	Stan Ferguson	To 14y/o A.J., her family is an embarrassment and she blames her grandfather for losing the family farm. One night A.J. falls from the hayloft and wakes up back in 1929 as her grandfather's sister. While there 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 a kidnapped April.
1993	Les Visiteurs	Jean-Marie Poiré	A 12th-century knight and his servant travel in time to the end of the 20th century and find themselves adrift in modern society.
1993	The 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, and finds himself in the terrifying 1993 that resulted from a Nazi victory in World War II.
1993	12:01	Jack Sholder	Barry Thomas is an average office worker. He becomes attracted to Lisa, a scientist in the same company. After work, Barry witnesses the murder of Lisa and goes to a bar to get drunk. That night, there is a storm and Barry gets a shock from a lamp's faulty power wire at exactly 12:01 a.m. The next few days, he realizes the world is trapped in a time loop, with himself the only one aware of it. Barry must prevent Lisa's murder and stop the time loop or be caught in time forever.
1993	Groundhog Day	Harold Ramis	Weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is trapped re-living February 2 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
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 time travel experiment in which a robot probe is sent from the year 2073 to the year 1973 goes terribly wrong thrusting one of the project scientists, a man named Nicholas Sinclair into a plague ravaged alternate timeline whose war weary inhabitants are locked in a constant battle with killer robots which are automatically being sent there from Sinclair's lab. To escape this situation, Sinclair 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	Includes a prohibition against changing the past. The Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) is created to prevent alterations to the past. This causes a dilemma for the hero, Max Walker, who has to prevent time-travelers from altering time, but is tempted to do so 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		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.
1996	Doctor Who	Geoffrey Sax	This film involves the Doctor in his eighth incarnation and has a showdown with the Master.
1996	Star Trek: First Contact	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. 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. They decide to help the rebels.
1998	Run Lola Run / Lola Rennt	Tom Tykwer	Lola has to acquire DEM 100,000 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 back in time in her building's elevator, as altered by a retired physicist living in her building. It transports her from Philadelphia of 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. Gradually discovering the power of her time machine, Susan, Victoria, and her young brother Robert travel back and forth in time and succeed in changing both the past and the future.
1999	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	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 (Tim Allen) needs to save his crew from being killed.
1999	The Time Shifters	Mario Philip Azzopardi	A television film in which a reporter notices that the same faces keep appearing in photographs of 20th century disasters, deduces that they are time travelers, and tries to save the history he knows.
1999	Teen Knight	Phil Comeau	Peter (Kris Lemche) wins the soda contest to a trip to the Medieval Park. As Peter and his friends go on a castle tour, Lord Drakin casts a spell and sends the Peter and his friends back in time to 1383. Released on DVD as Medieval Park.
1999	Back to the '50s	Andrew Margetson	TV special about the English pop group S Club 7 finding a time portal while on their way to Los Angeles. They find themselves in a desert town in the year 1959 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 (film)	Donna Deitch	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 (Bruce Willis) finds himself being visited by his 10-year old self.
2000	For All Time	Steven Schachter	Charles Lattimer (Mark Harmon) is an everyday man facing middle age and a marriage to Kristen (Catherine Hicks) coming to an end. He stumbles across a time slip that occurs on one of his regular train rides, as the train goes through a tunnel. Coming across an antique watch, he learns it allows him to get off the train during the time slip, whereupon he finds himself back in 1896. Before long he finds a newfound love, Laura Brown (Mary McDonnell), and realises he belongs there. In a fit, he breaks the watch then sees the situation in a new light and complications occur when the portal back to the past starts to close, leading him to a decision that could leave him stranded out of his own time.
2000	Il Mare	Lee Hyun-seung	The two protagonists both 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 (Martin Lawrence) 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 and returns with a boy named Sam when being chased by a hunter.
2001	Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge	Kimberly J. Brown	In this Disney Channel movie, Marnie Piper travels through time in Halloweentown to find a clue to break the evil spell placed on Halloweentown. Later on both Marnie and Luke travel through a time tunnel on a broomstick.
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	Remake of 1960s version of the film, directed by H. G. Wells' great-grandson, has little in common with H. G. Wells's original novel.
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 changes history by warning Jackie Kennedy about the future.
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	Cube 2: Hypercube	Andrzej Sekuła	A group of strangers mysteriously awaken in a giant cubic structure in which each room warps space-time in a different way.
2002	Das Jesus Video	Sebastian Niemann	In Israel, a student in archaeology is seeking a video camera hidden 2000 years ago by a mysterious time traveler.
2002	An Angel for May	Harley Cokeliss	Tom travels fifty years to the past after discovering a time machine. He meets May, a little orphan who needs help. Now that he knows his friends' fate and his own, he will try to reorder the events and change their history.
2003	Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour	Rick Mayall	Eddie Hitler builds a time traveling toilet which he calls the TURDIS.
2003	Timeline	Richard Donner	Film adaptation of the book by Michael Crichton.
2003	Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines	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	Primer	Shane Carruth	Time travelers can only use the time machine to travel to when the machine was first turned on. But you can bring a second running time machine back with you and after leaving the first machine, climb in the second. Aaron obsessively returns to a party one night to prevent a murder and become a hero.
2004	The Butterfly Effect	Eric Bress & J. Mackye Gruber	A college psychology student (Ashton Kutcher) learns he can temporarily travel to his past and change it. The time traveling in this film involves a process initiated by reading childhood journals.
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 drug-addicted girlfriend, Cody (Sarah Lind), who's overdosed and fallen into a coma, small-time dope peddler Art (Jay Baruchel) uses a time machine to journey into the past in a desperate gamble to change her future.
2005	The Jacket	John Maybury	A amnesiac Persian Gulf War veteran (Adrien Brody) 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 a time in pre-history to hunt dinosaur game. 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	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.
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	Idiocracy	Mike Judge	Luke Wilson as Corporal Joe Bauers (later "Not Sure") a U.S. Army librarian, along with a prostitute named Rita, are selected for a suspended animation experiment which is supposed to last one year but which is forgotten for five hundred years.
2006	Christmas Do-Over		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		Claire encounters horror and murder after finishing a day working at a convenience store, not once but many times. An official selection of the 2006 Sundance Festival.
2007	11 Minutes Ago	Bob Gebert	Traveling in 11-minute increments, a time-tumbler from 48-years in the future spends two years of his life weaving through a two-hour wedding reception.
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	House wife (Sandra Bullock) learns that her husband died in a car crash the previous day, but wakes up next morning to find him well and alive, and awakens the next day to a time when it has been a few weeks since he had died.
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 that one invented 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	Stargate: Continuum	Martin Wood	Direct-to-video film in the Stargate franchise. Ba'al (Cliff Simon) changes the timeline so that SG-1 or the Stargate program 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 (Jared Leto), a 118-year-old man and the last mortal on Earth, who can predict the future and tells of alternate life paths, often changing course with the flick of a decision.
2009	The Time Traveler's Wife	Robert Schwentke	A romantic drama about a Chicago librarian (Eric Bana) 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	Two geeks and a cynic 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 (Jim Carrey) is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, in order to change his ways.
2009	Land of the Lost	Brad Silberling	A disgraced paleontologist named Dr. Rick Marshall, 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 to a yacht trip with her friends, jumps to another ship after a mysterious weather condition, and gets caught up in a terrifying loop of events.
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 two of his classmates are missing and everything is different. 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	Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time	Mike Newell	Disney's adaption of the video game of the same name. Prince Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal) 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	Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D: Bonds Beyond Time	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.
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 Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) died in a helicopter crash and has been inserted in a computer program called Source Code which transfers him to the body of a deceased person for the last eight minutes of his life. He cannot change the past, since Source Code is not a time machine, 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 fiancee, an American writer (Owen Wilson) 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	The Man from the Future	Cláudio Torres	A brilliant physicist spends 20 years developing a time machine, then he comes back in time and tries to do everything different.
2012	Safety Not Guaranteed	Colin Trevorrow	Comedy film inspired by a 1997 Backwoods Home Magazine classified ad by 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 abuse time travel to kill humans and avoid tracking of their bodies.
2012	Quantum of Vengeance	Ben Wydeven	In 1998, as a young girl, Emily Freeman witnesses her father being brutally murdered. 14 years later, her professor reveals that he has successfully built a time machine, which inspires her to go back in time and seek vengeance.
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, desires 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		A group of friends vacationing in the woods discover their own corpses and realize they are trapped in a time loop which they attempt to break.
2013	Rubinrot	Felix Fuchssteiner	Gwendolyn Shepherd is actually a very normal 16-year-old teen. What's annoying is that her family definitely has a tad too many secrets. They all have to do with the time-travel gene that is passed down in the family. Everyone is certain that Gwen's cousin Charlotte has the gene, and so everything is all Charlotte, all the time. Until the day Gwen, out of the clear blue sky, suddenly finds herself in London at the end of the 19th century. She knows right away that she, and not Charlotte, was born to be a time traveler - even if she could certainly do without it. Just as she could do without Charlotte's arrogant boyfriend Gideon de Villiers, with whom she now has to forge an alliance in order to clear up the biggest secret of her family history. One thing is clear: she will do everything possible to solve the ancient mysteries. What isn't clear is that one should not fall in love between the times. For that really makes things complicated!
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	Due to an experiment, a man unknowingly travels into the future, only to find out that he is going to be framed in series of killings. He has to come back and save his future.
2013	The A.R.K. Report	Shmuel Hoffman	A short film. A young girl travels into the future in order 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 his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life.
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	Pete's Christmas	Zachary Gordon	A Hallmark movie. Pete just had the worst Christmas ever: no presents from his parents, his brothers blaming him for their problems, neighbors bullying him, and his grandpa leaving the house. He then wakes up to find he is stuck in a time loop repeating that awful Christmas Day.
2013	11 A.M.		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 advanced canine and his adopted son, as they endeavor to fix a time rift they created.
2014	X-Men: Days of Future Past	Bryan Singer	The X-Men send the character Wolverine's consciousness to 1973 to prevent a war between Sentinels and mankind from starting in the first place.
2014	Edge of Tomorrow	Doug Liman	An officer (Tom Cruise) 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	Saphirblau	Felix Fuchssteiner, Katharina Schöde	Gwen has just discovered, that she's the final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve. Now she has to juggle with constant trips to the past, her relationships with Gideon and figuring out dark secrets surrounding the Circle.
2014	Predestination	Michael and Peter Spierig	A person goes back in time in order to catch an infamous terrorist known as the "Fizzle Bomber". 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 poses.
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	Rob, a high school senior, keeps waking up in the morning of one of the most important days of his life every time he ejaculates during this day.
2014	The Infinite Man	Hugh Sullivan	A man's attempts to construct the ultimate romantic weekend backfire when his quest for perfection traps his lover in an infinite loop.
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	Indru Netru Naalai	Ravi Kumar	An Indian scientist in the year of 2065 invents a time machine and, to prove its capability, sends it back in time to 2015. However, the machine is seen by three people in the past. First Indian science fiction Tamil movie.
2015	Terminator Genisys	Alan Taylor	In 2029, Kyle Reese is sent back in time by John Connor to protect his mother Sarah, as previously established by The Terminator. But when Reese arrives in 1984, he finds a whole new chronology, where Sarah was trained in combat from childhood by a Terminator. Sarah, Kyle and the Terminator try to figure out how to prevent the nuclear holocaust.

Time travel in science fiction television series

Time travel is a recurrent theme in science fiction television programs. In some television series, time travel creates the premise and direction for the plot and/or setting of the show. Two model examples of television shows that utilize time travel in this way are Doctor Who and Quantum Leap. There are other television programs that incorporate time travel in only one, or some of their episodes. The table below encompasses television shows that fall into the first of these two categories. Shows that fall into the second category may be found in List of television series that include time travel.

Start date	End Date	Title	Author	Description
1951	1956	Captain Z-Ro	Roy Steffens	Scientist Captain Z-Ro, working in his remote laboratory, safeguards mankind and history from impending harm. He has a time machine, the ZX-99, both to view history and to send someone back in time.
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 (Classic), 2005 revival	1989 (Classic); - (Revival)	Doctor Who		A Time Lord known as "the Doctor" travels through time and space in a TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space).
1966	1967	It's About Time	Sherwood Schwartz	Two astronauts who break the speed of light, accidentally travel back in time to prehistoric Earth. When they realise that they are unable to return, they make friends with the cave-people they encounter. Eventually, they are able to return, but inadvertently bring some of the cave-people with them who then have to learn how to get along in the 1960s.
1966	1967	The Time Tunnel	Irwin Allen	The year is 1968, and Doug Phillips and Tony Newman are working on a top secret project beneath the Arizona desert called "tic-toc". The project has been 10 years in the making, and a visiting senator wants to see if this project really works, or he will cut the funding for it. To prove that it can work, Tony Newman turns on the time tunnel and goes back to the year 1912, and is on board the R.M.S. Titanic, which would sink hours later. Doug Phillips goes into the tunnel to help Tony, and both are stuck hapless in time. They are catapulted each week to a new adventure in history.
1970	1971	Catweazle	Richard Carpenter	11th century wizard accidentally ensorcels his way into the 20th. Humorous mistakes are made.
1970	1971	Timeslip	John Cooper	Two time traveling children visit both the past and future.
1974	1976	Land of the Lost	Sid & Marty Krofft	Land of the Lost details the adventures of the Marshall family (father Rick, and his children Will and Holly) who 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 (dir.s Shaun O'Riordan & David Foster)	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 and a boy travel through time repairing errors in world history.
1988	1988	Moondial (TV serial)	Helen Cresswell	After a family tragedy, a girl is transported into the past.
1988	–	Red Dwarf	Rob Grant & Doug Naylor	Having been in suspended animation for 3 million years, Dave Lister leaves stasis as the last human being alive. The Red Dwarf (the ship he is on) is in deep space and travelling at nearly the speed of light. Time travel occurs in this incident, as well as on many other occasions in the series – usually into the past.
1989	1993	Quantum Leap	Donald P. Bellisario	Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) helped to develop Quantum Leap, a project that would allow a person to time travel back to any point since that person was born. Beckett ended up being the test subject, and while he could remember only certain details, he traded places with a person in the past. Others in the past saw the other person instead of Beckett. In the present, an observer named Al (Dean Stockwell), whom Beckett could see as a hologram, gave Beckett advice. This usually involved having Beckett correct some problem in the other person's life.
1990	1991	Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures		Animated spin off of the movies Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
1991	1992	Back to the Future: The Animated Series	Bob Gale	Continues on from Back to the Future Part III.
1992	1993	Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures		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	1995	Mighty Morphin Power Rangers	Haim Saban, Jason David Frank, Amy Jo Johnson, David Yost	In this live action TV show, Time traveling is featured in episodes "Rangers Back in Time, Part I, II", "Return of the Green Ranger, Part I, II, III", "Wild West Rangers, Part I, II", "Rangers in Reverse" are examples of time traveling.
1993	1994	Time Trax	Creators: Harve Bennett, Jeffrey M. Hayes, Grant Rosenberg·	A police officer from the 22nd century (Dale Midkiff) makes his way back to our time to track down fugitives from the future.
1996	1996	Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers	Haim Saban, Jason David Frank, David Yost	In this live-action TV show, Master Vile has used the Orb of doom and the Power Rangers go back in time and become children. The power rangers seek help and the Aliens from Aquitar assist the power rangers as they find a way to restore time and themselves to their young adult age and the Earth to its present time by seeking out the Zeo Crystals.
1997	1997	Crime Traveller	Anthony Horowitz	Jeff Slade (Michael French) uses a time machine created by colleague Holly Turner's father to solve crimes. The machine operates seemingly-randomly, sending the user(s) back in time a time that can be a matter of minutes, or several days.
1998	2001	Seven Days	Christopher & Zachary Crowe	NSA Agent Frank B. Parker can travel back 7 days in a time machine powered by alien technology.
1999	2001	Twice in a Lifetime	Steve Sohmer	Individuals who have reached the end of their lives in one timeline are given three days, by a "heavenly judge", to travel into their past and convince their younger selves to make a different choice at a pivotal point to effect a different outcome
2000	2001	Mirai Sentai Timeranger		Four policemen travel from the year 3000 to the year 2000 to arrest fugitives.
2001	2005	Star Trek: Enterprise	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 (NX-01).
2001	2004	Samurai Jack	Genndy Tartakovsky	An ancient demon throws the hero Samurai Jack into the future, in order to allow himself enough time to conquer the world.
2001	2003	Time Squad	Dave Wasson	Time cops from the year 1,000,000,000 A.D. travel back in time to keep famous historical figures from diverting the course of history. A Cartoon Network series.
2002	2004	Odyssey 5	Manny Coto, David Carson	Astronauts (including Peter Weller and Sebastian Roché) are sent back in time after witnessing the end of the Earth from space.
2002	2003	Do Over	Rick Wiener and Kenny Schwarz	Joel Larsen (Penn Badgley), a 34-year-old man, gets a second chance to get his life right, thanks to a freakish accident that catapults him back to 1981, as a 14-year old. He is electrocuted, then wakes up in his teenage body, but with all his adult memories intact. Blessed 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 a lot of 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 (Eliza Dushku) 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 (Timothy Hutton) 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	Desmond Hume, former Royal Scots Regimen, is caused by electromagnetic radiation to become "unstuck in time." His consciousness switches between 2004 (the present) and 1996. Benjamin Linus, former leader of the island natives, travels ten months into the future after moving the island. In Season 5, the characters on the island skip through time to different periods of the island's past and future.
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. Ricky Ullman starred.
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 alike from different periods in time start to come through to our world by means of a rift in the space/time continuum. (Spin-off from Doctor Who.)
2006	2010	Heroes	Tim Kring	Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka) and Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia) can travel in time and space. This is the foundation for the plot of both series one and series two, in which 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, Sam Tyler (played by John Simm), 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	Transformers: Cybertron		The Autobot Vector Prime is a defender of space-time.
2006	2007	Day Break	Paul Zbyszewski	A cop 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 start to 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		The protagonists must work with and fight creatures known as Imagin who come from a possible future and have come back in time to kill the key figure to the Junction Point: a human whose sole existence ensures that the Imagin's future cannot exist. The Imagin grant wishes to weak-willed humans to travel farther back in time along that person's memories in order to find the Junction Point by destroying anyone and anything in their way to change the future.
2007	2007	Journeyman	Kevin Falls Matt McGuinness Tom Szentgyorgyi	Dan Vasser is the main protagonist of the series, who finds himself jumping through time, unable to stop or control the jumps. Olivia "Livia" Beale is also a traveler from 1948 who jumps into the future. After not being able to jump home, she was stuck in Dan's present and adapted to life there, where she began a legal career and fell in love with Dan, only to finally jump back home while on the plane. For unknown reasons, she now jumps to the same times that Dan visits, and offers him advice and assistance in his missions.
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 since led several dozen various lives down through the centuries, giving him knowledge that helps him solve modern-day crimes in New York City.
2008	2010	Ashes to Ashes	Matthew Graham Ashley Pharoah Julie Rutterford Mark Greig Jack Lothian	Spin-off series from "Life on Mars" set in the 1980s.
2008	2009	Kamen Rider Kiva		Parallel storylines taking in 1986 and 2008 are told, with two of the protagonists from the 2008 timeline going back in time to 1986. The latter time traveler goes back in time to attempt to prevent his birth such that his love may live, but instead ensures that his existence remains 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 in 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	Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles		A female Terminator from the year 2027 comes back in time to 1999 to protect a young John Connor. They then use the time displacement equipment to move forward in time by 8 years to hide John. Various other Terminators are sent back in time on varying missions.
2009	–	Dinosaur Train	Craig Bartlett	A Tyrannosaurus named Buddy travels with his adopted Pteranodon family on the Dinosaur Train. The Dinosaur Train has the ability to visit the entire Mesozoic Era, the "Age of Dinosaurs", passing through magical Time Tunnels to meet the dinosaurs in the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous time periods.
2009	2009	Paradox (TV series)	Lizzie Mickery	Detective Inspector Rebecca Flint (Tamzin Outhwaite), Detective Sergeant Ben Holt (Mark Bonnar) and Detective Constable Callum Gada (Chiké Okonkwo) investigate images being broadcast to an eminent astrophysicist Dr Christian King's (Emun Elliott) laboratory, 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 (Michael Riley) has the ability to send her back in time to actually change these events.
2009	2010	FlashForward	Brannon Braga and David S. Goyer	FBI agent Mark Benford and the rest of the world fall victim to an incident that renders the entire population of Earth unconscious for two minutes seventeen seconds on 6 October 2009. During the "Black Out", as it is called, the consciousness of everyone on the entire planet shifts forward six months into the future to the date 29 April 2010, where they witness their potential futures that could occur that day.
2010	–	Mary Shelley's Frankenhole	Dino Stamotopolous	Dr. Victor Frankenstein has since completely mastered immortality and now has also created an infinite number of Einstein-Rosen Bridge "wormholes" portals or "Frankenholes" between his small Eastern European village (which is teeming with monsters and supernatural forces) and every time period from the past and the future. This allows historical figures and celebrities seeking the doctor's services to find him. Although many classic horror monsters are present, the series' focus is mainly on Dr. Frankenstein 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 is revealed to have 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 disaster later. However, they arrive on a parallel version of Earth. (This avoids questions of creating a paradox when time-travelling.)
2012	2012	Primeval: New World		A Canadian spin-off series to Primeval.
2012	2015	Continuum (TV series)		This Canadian science fiction series centres 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 in and around year 2012.
2014	–	Outlander	Based on Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series	Travel through time from the 1940s to 1740s. Woman time travels through standing stones in Scotland.
2014	–	Flash	Based on the DC Comics character Flash	A costumed superhero crime-fighter with the power to move at superhuman speeds. It is a spin-off from Arrow, existing in the same DC universe.
2015	–	El ministerio del tiempo	Pablo Olivares and Javier Olivares	The Ministry of Time is an autonomous Spanish government institution that reports directly to the Prime Minister. Its patrols have to watch the doors of time so that no intruder from other eras can change history for their own benefit.

Time travel in video games

Main article: List of games containing time travel

Title	Date	Description
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time	1991	As the TMNT reach the Technodrome, Shredder sends them through a time warp through the past (Age of Dinosaurs, a pirate ship in 1530 AD, a train in the American West in 1885 AD) and the future (New York City in 2020 AD and a Star Base in 2100 AD) before they can go back to their present in 1991.
Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle	1993	In order to prevent Purple Tentacle from growing a pair of arms and subsequently enslaving humanity, students Bernard, Laverne and Hoagie attempt to travel one day back in time in Dr. Edison's Chron-o-Johns, time machines housed in portable toilets. During the trip, the machines malfunction and strand Hoagie and Laverne 200 years into the past and future respectively. Players control each character in his/her own time zone (past, present, future), meeting historical figures and progenitors/descendants of some characters; the goal is to return Hoagie and Laverne to the present and prevent Purple Tentacle's world domination.
Chrono Trigger	1995	A group of heroes from different eras travel back and forth through time in an attempt to prevent the end of the world in the year 1999.
Crash Bandicoot: Warped	1998	Crash Bandicoot is sent to various points in time to retrieve relics.
Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense	1999	A car combat game and Sequil to Vigilante 8 Time Travel plays a big role in this games storyline. as well as one character "Agent Chase" using a weapon that momentarily freezes time for anything his weapon hits. the future vehicles and time travel systems used in the game appear to be very much inspired by Back to the Future.
TimeSplitters series	2000–2005	At the series' core is the struggle of human beings against the TimeSplitters, a race of aliens that attempt to exterminate humanity by altering its past. The first game in the series took the perspective of several characters fighting off the TimeSplitters in their own eras. The second game added two central protagonists, Sgt. Cortez and Corporal Hart, soldiers from 2401 who traveled to different eras to fight the TimeSplitters. Future Perfect placed a heavier emphasis on a linear story, cinematic cutscenes and character-based humor, and follows Cortez as he teams up with characters against the TimeSplitters and a new, human antagonist, mad scientist Jacob Crow. The ending of Future Perfect implies a definite conclusion to the plot, although a fourth game has been in development hell since 2007.
Shadow of Memories (US: Shadow of Destiny)	2001	The protagonist, Eike Kusch, is murdered at the start of the game by a knife stab on the back. He is saved from death by an unknown entity who gives him a time travel device, called a digipad, that can be used to send Eike back to a pre-determined point in time, allowing him to take actions in order to prevent his death. After being sent back 30 minutes, Eike succeeds in preventing his stabbing, only to find that he is killed in some different manner, starting the time-travel cycle again. During the course of the game, Eike travels to several time periods as far back as medieval times, gradually uncovering the connection behind the attempts on his life, the mysterious being who saves him and his own past. The game features several possible endings, depending on the player's actions and choices that alter the timeline.
Timeshift	2007	Scientists from the near future have begun work on creating a viable time machine. The project results in the creation of two devices, the Alpha Suit, a less advanced prototype jump suit, and the Beta Suit, a more advanced, so-called military grade model with features the Alpha Suit lacks such as combat-related timeshifting abilities and an integrated artificial intelligence to prevent the creation of temporal paradoxes. The director of the project, Dr. Aiden Krone, takes the Alpha Suit and travels into the past. Once there he alters the timeline, placing himself as the ruler of the Krone Magistrate that controls a dystopic world. The protagonist, a fellow scientist whose name is never spoken (never mentioned in the game or manual), then takes the Beta Suit and follows Dr. Krone back to the year 1939 (in an alternate timestream) to a place called Alpha District. During the trip parts of the Beta suit are damaged, forcing the protagonist to assist the Occupant Rebellion against Dr. Krone in hopes of salvaging parts from the Alpha suit.
World of Warcraft	2007–present	Many quests are available to players which bring their character's mind and/or body back in time.
Braid	2008	Braid is a platformer art game where the player manipulates time in a variety of creative ways to solve puzzles. Braid's story also deals with the subject of time travel in a way similar to the relationship portrayed in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future	JP: 2008, US: 2010	The Third in the Professor Layton series, set between London Present and 10 years later. Layton receives a letter from Luke ten years in the future. and it is connected by a failed time Machine Demonstration and the missing Prime Minister of the UK
Back to the Future: The Game	2010	The game takes place six months after the events of the film Back to the Future Part III and sees Marty McFly, the protagonist of the series, trying to adjust to a life without his best friend, scientist Doctor Emmett "Doc" Brown, whose belongings are being sold off by the bank following his disappearance to an unknown time period. Out of nowhere, an intact duplicate of the destroyed DeLorean time machine appears in front of Marty, and hints and notes inside instruct him to come to Doc's rescue, who is stranded in the year 1931, during the time of Prohibition. The game's series follows the events of Marty and Doc trying to repair hellish timelines created by their past attempts.
Achron	2010	RTS time travel game – if you lose a skirmish you can travel back to before it happened and avoid or fix it. But so can your opponents. http://www.achrongame.com/site/
Singularity	2010	An FPS game in which the player takes the role of an American soldier, Captain Nathaniel Renko. Renko travels back in time to 1955 when he saves a man named Nikolai Demichev from dying in a fire. Back in the present, Renko discovers that the man he saved, Demichev, has taken over the world. Captain must now use a time manipulation device (TMD) created by Victor Barisov (killed by Demichev in the past) to defeat the mad Russian. The TMD can move an object backwards or forwards in time, attract something and hold it indefinitely, or send a pulse of energy that can stun or kill enemies.
Final Fantasy XIII-2	2012 (2011 in Japan)	The two characters, Noell Kress and Serah Farron, must travel across time through special gates, unlocked with ornate statues. Their goal is to fix the timeline, which has been disturbed by their antagonist Caius Ballad to instigate the end of time itself.
Steins;Gate	2011	The main character, Rintaro Okabe, invents a microwave with his friends that can send text messages into the past. This causes him to travel between "world lines", where he find out that in the "alpha world line" that by the year 2036, the world is a dystopia ruled by SERN (based on "CERN") and he has to travel back into the "beta timeline" in order to stop the world from becoming a dystopia after being warned by a time traveler using the name "John Titor", but once he reaches the "beta timeline, he has to travel to the "Steins;Gate" timeline in order to prevent World War III.
BioShock Infinite	2013	Bioshock Infinite's Plot is based around both time travel and the many-worlds interpretation of Quantum physics.
World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor	2014	The orc Garrosh Hellscream goes back in time to an alternate reality to unite the old orc clans into an "Iron Horde", using them in an attempt to conquer the world in the present day reality he came from.
Life Is Strange	2015	The game's plot focuses on Maxine Caulfield, a photography student who discovers that she has the ability to rewind time at any moment, leading her every choice to enact the butterfly effect.

See also

• List of films featuring time loops

External links

• timelinks – the big list of time travel video, time travel movies, & time travel TV – over 600 movies and television
• UltimateTimeTravel – the best source on the web for finding time travel books, time travel movies, and time travel computer games
• SciFan: Time Travel – Time Control – Time Warp – list of over 2400 books featuring time travel
• Aparta Krystian. Conventional Models of Time and Their Extensions in Science Fiction Master's thesis exploring conceptual blending in time travel.
• K.T. Jae in Amazon Books