2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
Sight and Sound 2022: Critics' Poll — No. 6Sight and Sound 2022: Directors' Poll — No. 1Stanley Kubrick
- Director:
- Stanley Kubrick
- Studio:
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Starring:
- Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rain
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A mysterious black monolith appears to prehistoric apes and sparks their first use of tools. Millions of years later, another is found buried on the Moon, and astronauts Dave Bowman and Frank Poole head for Jupiter on a mission controlled by the computer HAL 9000, which begins to act against them.