Cool Stuff: Movie and Television Time Travel Timeline

Posted on Friday, September 4th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta

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What if the popular time travelers of cinema and television history existed on the same timeline? David McCandless created this crazy visualization as part of his upcoming book The Visual Miscellaneum ($18 preorder on Amazon). The chart tracks all the action between 800 AD and 4000 AD, and the tracking is color-coded by method of time travel: Alien Technology, Force of Nature, Time Machine, Deep Freeze, or Unknown. McCandless also imagines what possible paradoxes might occur when multiple time travelers converge on the same date. Check out the full chart after the jump.

Thanks to /Film reader Jack Q for the tip. Found on informationisbeautiful via io9 via reddit.

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maxk2010

thats way too confusing...

Gelman

I'm confused why BacktotheFuture 3 connects to 1996. Am I forgetting a part of the plot? Marty went from 1955 back to 1885, then up to 1985, right?

Gelman

He should have included a mini-loop for Groundhog Day.

Nokoo

Where the hell is 'Lost'?

Gelman

it got lost.

bigtones

Ben Linus must have moved it.

Dan Berry

hhahaha no locke, i told you to move it.

jason

where is primer?

freemachine

The arcs for 'Primer' and 'Time Crimes' would presumably be too small to see on this time-line. They only involved a few hours of time travel.

Doctor

No lost or doctor who? I declare this thread FAIL

dbldn11

This is a great idea... but there are so many movies that are forgotten or ignored. Primer, The Final Countdown, and so much more. Hopefully, they'll get enough feedback to make 2.0

Rockie

it's great

here's a colored sharpie. draw your favorite shows on there.

ed

its already too confusing as is. adding more movies isn't going to make it BETTER.

thiotimoline

There's a mistake. The Time Machine (2300) doesn't touch 2300

Andrew Crivilare

"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana."

freemachine

How is Austin Powers' time travel (in The Spy Who Shagged Me) the result of 'Alien Technology'? I haven't seen it in a long time, but I thought it was just a 'Time Machine'. Also, this lists Austin Powers' time travel in International Man of Mystery as 'Unknown', when it's clear that he was put into a 'Deep Freeze'.

freemachine

Also missing: Alien - Aliens (2122 - 2179). Not sure if that would be considered 'Deep Freeze' or 'Unknown'.

Dirtsandwich

"Somewhere in Time" and "The Time Traveler's Wife" are a couple. Is "Timeline" and "Timecop" on there?

Indignant Potato

Cool concept, but failure in execution. Though it would be endlessly complicated to do so, LOST and Doctor Who require entries here. But it would have been relatively easy to include Time After Time, dammit. Ugh, such an underrated movie. :(

dax32

terminator?

gg

No Doctor Who????? It's not like the Doctor is the most iconic time traveler there is or anything... /sarcasm

sfsilver

No Dr. Who timelines - of course that would probably quadruple the number the number of lines on the chart.

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