Man from Atlantis (1977): The Death Scouts

Introduction Man from Atlantis is a short-lived American science fiction/fantasy television series that ran for 13 episodes on the NBC network during the 1977-1978 season, following four television films that had aired earlier in 1977. Ratings success by these movies led to the commissioning of a weekly series for the 1977-1978 season, but it was… Read More

Man from Atlantis (1977): Man from Atlantis

Introduction Man from Atlantis is a short-lived American science fiction/fantasy television series that ran for 13 episodes on the NBC network during the 1977-1978 season, following four television films that had aired earlier in 1977. Ratings success by these movies led to the commissioning of a weekly series for the 1977-1978 season, but it was… Read More

Man from Atlantis Film & TV Series Overview (1977)

Introduction Man from Atlantis is a short-lived American science fiction/fantasy television series that ran for 13 episodes on the NBC network during the 1977-1978 season, following four television films that had aired earlier in 1977. Ratings success by these movies led to the commissioning of a weekly series for the 1977-1978 season, but it was… Read More

U 47 – Kapitanleutant Prien (1958)

Introduction U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien (English: U 47 – Lieutenant Commander Prien) is a 1958 black-and-white German war film portraying the World War II career of the U-boat captain Günther Prien. It stars Dieter Eppler and Sabine Sesselmann and was directed by Harald Reinl. Outline The film begins shortly after the outbreak of World… Read More

Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie (2010)

Introduction Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie is a 2010 British adult computer-animated action science fiction film set in Games Workshop’s fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe and based on the Ultramarines Chapter of the Space Marines. Terence Stamp, Sean Pertwee, and John Hurt head the cast of voice actors, and the screenplay was written by Black Library… Read More

Under Electric Clouds (2015)

Introduction Under Electric Clouds (Russian: Pod electricheskimi oblakami, Под электрическими облаками) is a 2015 Russian sci-fi drama film directed by Aleksei Alekseivich German. Outline Episodic, spiritual and existentialistic look at the state the Russia is in in 2017, exactly one hundred years after the communist-led Russian Revolution. The future looks gloomy, since the world is… Read More

Who’ll Stop the Rain (1978)

Introduction Who’ll Stop the Rain is a 1978 American crime film directed by Karel Reisz and starring Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, Michael Moriarty, and Anthony Zerbe. The screenplay was by Judith Rascoe and Robert Stone, based on Stone’s novel Dog Soldiers (1974). Outline The film opens in Saigon at the height of the Vietnam War.… Read More