The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society living in apparent harmony and bliss, but as the Traveler stays in the future he discovers a hidden barbaric and depraved subterranean class. Wells's transparent commentary on the capitalist society was an instant bestseller and launched the time-travel genre.
Adaptations (3)
The Time Machine has been adapted 3 times, across film and television film, from 1960 to 2002.
The Time Machine1960 · film · 103 min · dir. George Pal · IMDb ↗A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
The Time Machine1978 · television film · 99 min · dir. Henning Schellerup · IMDb ↗IMDb5.1A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.
The Time Machine2002 · film · 96 min · dir. Simon Wells · IMDb ↗Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
