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1. Back to the Future Part III (1990)

PG | 118 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Stranded in 1955, Marty McFly learns about the death of Doc Brown in 1885 and must travel back in time to save him. With no fuel readily available for the DeLorean, the two must figure how to escape the Old West before Emmett is murdered.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Tom Wilson

Votes: 480,642 | Gross: $87.73M

2. Risen (2021)

109 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Disaster unfolds when a meteor strikes a small town, turning the environment uninhabitable and killing everything in the surrounding area.

Director: Eddie Arya | Stars: Zahlee Moore, Izzy Bridger, Lily Brown Griffiths, Dominic Stone

Votes: 3,177

3. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: The Inner Light (1992)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Picard awakes to find himself living in a small village where he is a well-known member of the community who is suffering from a delusion of being a starship captain.

Director: Peter Lauritson | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 8,252

4. The Transformers (1984–1987)
Episode: Masquerade (1985)

TV-Y7 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The Autobots secretly pose as Stunticons in an effort to discover Megatron's secret plans.

Directors: Andy Kim, Bob Kirk, Al Kouzel, Bob Matz, Norm McCabe, Margaret Nichols, Karen Peterson, Tom Ray, Robert Shellhorn, Bob Treat, Terry Lennon | Stars: Michael Bell, Wally Burr, Corey Burton, Roger C. Carmel

Votes: 110

5. The Transformers (1984–1987)
Episode: Blaster Blues (1985)

TV-Y7 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When the Decepticons hijack Earth's airwaves, the music-loving Autobot Blaster is the only one who can stop them.

Directors: Andy Kim, Bob Kirk, Al Kouzel, Bob Matz, Norm McCabe, Margaret Nichols, Karen Peterson, Tom Ray, Robert Shellhorn, Bob Treat, Terry Lennon | Stars: Jack Angel, Arlene Banas, Michael Bell, Corey Burton

Votes: 128

6. Tomorrow's Build (2021– )
Episode: The World's Largest Telescope is Being Built on Two Continents (2021)

9 min | Documentary

A consortium of nations is building a radio telescope that will have a collecting area of one square kilometer and a base line of nearly nine thousand kilometers. A collection of radio ... See full summary »

Stars: Joseph McMullin, Fred Mills

7. Dr. Becky (2015– )
Episode: JWST's Successor: The Carl Sagan Observatory - a 12 Metre Optical Telescope Searching for Exo-Earth (2022)

16 min | Documentary, News

A proposal for a visible light space telescope dubbed Carl Sagan for optically imaging exo-planets is circulating hoping to capitalize on the knowledge base of the engineers who build the James Webb space telescope.

Star: Becky Smethurst

8. Sixty Symbols (2009– )
Episode: Untangling the Cosmic Web - Sixty Symbols (2021)

12 min | Documentary

Dr. Gray offers an introduction to the cosmic web.

Stars: Meghan Gray, Brady Haran

9. Mars (2016–2018)
Episode: Grounded (2016)

TV-14 | 47 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

The Daedalus crew battles across the harsh Martian terrain to reach their base camp.

Director: Everardo Gout | Stars: Jihae, Alberto Ammann, Clémentine Poidatz, Anamaria Marinca

Votes: 761