the 50s were a golden age for science
fiction filmmaking but the next decade
was every bit as significant who knows
genius is mysterious welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten science
fiction movies of the 1960s for this
list we’re taking a look at the films
that continue to evolve the genre of
science fiction through new technology
and ideas if man was superior
why didn’t he survive remember that this
list is restricted to feature-length
movies so don’t expect to see La jetée
here this is part of a series of videos
spanning the decades of sci-fi flicks
from the 1950s to the 2000s welcome
aboard
number 10 voyage to the bottom of the
sea
here they are racing under the sea okay
so it might have borrowed a fair bit
from other bizarre exploration films of
yesteryear particularly 20,000 Leagues
Under the Sea
heck the movie even stars Peter Lorre
and features a giant squid for crying
out loud
but even if it was riding on the 50s
flick success voyage to the bottom of
the sea still stood out as an
entertaining dive into familiar waters
with interesting characters illogical
science and occasionally some
challenging ethical themes I’ve decided
not to fire the missile in short it’s
the submarine equivalent of Star Trek if
God ordains a man should die without a
fight then why does he give us a will to
live number nine Alphaville Khojaly
they’d only full-blood Febby who would
have thought sci-fi and film noir could
be such a perfect formula for success
very the other see for this uses she did
technique writer director jean-luc
Godard apparently did when he made
Alphaville this French movie has all the
makings of a classic film noir
with its slick secret agent mystery and
suspenseful music you don’t see by savvy
what they were that Nazi sea
what distinguishes Alphaville as science
fiction is its otherworldly setting
elegant black-and-white cinematography
and flashy angles make real-life Paris
look like a futuristic Wonderland
without the help of complex effects or
sets underneath the film’s beautiful
exterior is a meaningful story about
liberation news of what is espio sonzai
but it comes attended a spiel Monsieur
Johnson never ate Fantastic Voyage
you see once you begin to grow you
become a menace to the body and you’ll
trigger them off here’s a film that
takes something as familiar as the human
body and turns it into something
extraordinary thank you through detailed
and oscar-winning art direction and the
magic of blue screen a team of
specialists shrink down and venture
inside a dying man
arterial wall to the left
Plus high speed 15 knots although it
contains plenty of eye candy Fantastic
Voyage is also full of quiet atmospheric
moments
it spends a good half hour building
matters up then plays out in real time
as our heroes race to complete their
mission
we better get prepared the just isn’t
time the result is an exciting journey
that makes studying human anatomy fun
listen the heart yes
slowed down a great deal sounds like
heavy artillery it’s nice down quite a
barrage over 40 million beats in a year
number seven the last man on earth yeah
I’m an MP Simon
based on Richard Matheson’s novel I am
Legend the last man on earth centers on
Vincent Price as the seemingly sole
inheritor of the abandoned world someone
else is alive but where are they where
are they hiding
well excluding the countless vampire
mutants that now roam the plagued planet
the film plops us right in the middle of
crisis dilemma as he fights for his
survival and the last of humanity an
unknown germ is being blown around the
world it’s highly contagious and it’s
reached plague proportions it’s the
actors empathetic performance that sells
this chilling flick which helped pave
the way for more disease outbreak movies
for generations to come
brings all of you all of you freaks
mutations number 6 seconds of course the
photography’s are not too professional
but I think it’s fair enough
unsatisfied with his life a man is
motivated by the company to fake his
death and alter his appearance company
and employee in his pursuit of freedom
the man enters a funhouse of
disorientation that brings new meaning
to the phrase identity crisis but
there’s things we have to talk about my
identity anyway we will later you’re
unlikely to find a more superbly shot
movie from this decade
courtesy of master cinematographer James
Wong how it’s a masterpiece
good work filmed in black and white from
low angles wide angles over the shoulder
angles and extreme close-ups seconds
will make any person paranoid even if
the sound is turned off the entire
time sorry it all has 10 like this
number five Village of the Damned whole
village fell asleep
following a tranquil opening sequence
Village of the Damned takes a paralyzing
plunge into hell on earth an attempted
suicide
Janet Paul whose husband only came back
from sea yesterday and dreadful Treasury
other women in the village half out of
their minds the film is set in a village
duh where every inhabitant suddenly
drops unconscious for reasons unknown
the village is very near panicking a few
months after they awaken the town’s
women subsequently start giving birth to
the freakiest damn children imaginable
you all right
picture a cult of Damien’s only more
powerful and blonder
this is a great setup that delivers with
haunting developments by the end you and
your significant other will definitely
want to make best friends with birth
control that means that every woman in
this village who is capable of
childbirth is going to have a baby I
can’t believe it
this is not a matter of belief vicar
it’s a matter of fact number four
Fahrenheit 451
Fonfon is the temperature at which book
paper catches fire and starts to burn
Fahrenheit 451 of course started off as
a novel by Ray Bradbury which tackled
issues such as book burning and
censorship what dumont I hope to get out
of all this print happiness what a party
dear – must’ve be kind of ironic then
that the novel would later be banned in
schools across America why is it
forbidden because it made people unhappy
do you really believe that oh yes
books disturb people to make them
anti-social if you didn’t get to read it
in high school at least do yourself a
service and check out the worthy film
adaptation ok my family often
paralleling Nazi Germany Fahrenheit 451
presents a society oblivious to the
fascism taking place
the film will motivate anyone to fight
ignorant through the power of knowledge
speech and flamethrowers number three
the time machine this is a time machine
interstellar travel is easy time travel
is hard but the time machine occupies
the same the same space that it did a
moment before it went off on its journey
in this adaptation of HG Wells classic
novel an eager inventor adventures to
the Future via the most iconic non
DeLorean time machine in cinematic
history so I push the lever on board
even greater speed
through impressive time-lapse
photography effects the audience sees
the world changed before their very eyes
from World War 1 to the 800 thousands
what the inventor finds in this
mysterious future challenges him to
contemplate humanity’s bleak destiny and
his own error of taking the present for
granted I’m sorry because I could tell
so much the people of my time weena I
could let them know about about the
sorrow and the happiness that the future
has in store for them
number 2 Planet of the Apes a topless
Charlton Heston lands on a planet where
apes reign supreme just saying that
synopsis will make anyone feel silly get
your stinking paws off me you damn dirty
ape as silly as the premise might sound
though planet of the 8 never settled for
being another b-movie fella why are
always created equal some Apes it seems
are more equal than others Michael
Wilson of Lawrence of Arabia and Rod
Serling of The Twilight Zone saw
potential for a thought-provoking story
about slavery ignorance and government
to suggest that we can’t learn anything
about the simian native of a study of
man is sheer nonsense director Franklin
J Schaffner flawlessly brought their
vision to life through revolutionary
visuals most notably taking home an
honorary Oscar for makeup that the ape
evolved from a lower order of primate
possibly man oh and then there’s that
ending which we won’t dare spoil finally
really did it
yo before we voyage to our top pick here
are a few honorable mentions all right
huh mr. president
love love what’s the matter no
scientific curiosity we pair cut it off
number one 2001 a Space Odyssey directed
by Stanley Kubrick this masterpiece took
a huge step forward for science fiction
filmmaking which is appropriate since
the story is about evolution
2001 takes us on an astounding leap
through time from primitive mankind
discovering their first tool to future
mankind developing their most advanced
tool I’m sorry Dave I’m afraid I can’t
do that like all great sci-fi films
a Space Odyssey offers so many
fascinating ideas that a brief review
like this just can’t do it justice I’m
sorry Dave I don’t have enough
information all that can be said in a
nutshell is that it’s the closest any
films come to depicting sheer visual
poetry do you agree with our list it
checks it checks on the nose Lucius I
think we’ve hit it what’s your favorite
sci-fi movie from the 1960s for more
entertaining top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
I’ve still got the greatest enthusiasm
and confidence in the mission
fiction filmmaking but the next decade
was every bit as significant who knows
genius is mysterious welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten science
fiction movies of the 1960s for this
list we’re taking a look at the films
that continue to evolve the genre of
science fiction through new technology
and ideas if man was superior
why didn’t he survive remember that this
list is restricted to feature-length
movies so don’t expect to see La jetée
here this is part of a series of videos
spanning the decades of sci-fi flicks
from the 1950s to the 2000s welcome
aboard
number 10 voyage to the bottom of the
sea
here they are racing under the sea okay
so it might have borrowed a fair bit
from other bizarre exploration films of
yesteryear particularly 20,000 Leagues
Under the Sea
heck the movie even stars Peter Lorre
and features a giant squid for crying
out loud
but even if it was riding on the 50s
flick success voyage to the bottom of
the sea still stood out as an
entertaining dive into familiar waters
with interesting characters illogical
science and occasionally some
challenging ethical themes I’ve decided
not to fire the missile in short it’s
the submarine equivalent of Star Trek if
God ordains a man should die without a
fight then why does he give us a will to
live number nine Alphaville Khojaly
they’d only full-blood Febby who would
have thought sci-fi and film noir could
be such a perfect formula for success
very the other see for this uses she did
technique writer director jean-luc
Godard apparently did when he made
Alphaville this French movie has all the
makings of a classic film noir
with its slick secret agent mystery and
suspenseful music you don’t see by savvy
what they were that Nazi sea
what distinguishes Alphaville as science
fiction is its otherworldly setting
elegant black-and-white cinematography
and flashy angles make real-life Paris
look like a futuristic Wonderland
without the help of complex effects or
sets underneath the film’s beautiful
exterior is a meaningful story about
liberation news of what is espio sonzai
but it comes attended a spiel Monsieur
Johnson never ate Fantastic Voyage
you see once you begin to grow you
become a menace to the body and you’ll
trigger them off here’s a film that
takes something as familiar as the human
body and turns it into something
extraordinary thank you through detailed
and oscar-winning art direction and the
magic of blue screen a team of
specialists shrink down and venture
inside a dying man
arterial wall to the left
Plus high speed 15 knots although it
contains plenty of eye candy Fantastic
Voyage is also full of quiet atmospheric
moments
it spends a good half hour building
matters up then plays out in real time
as our heroes race to complete their
mission
we better get prepared the just isn’t
time the result is an exciting journey
that makes studying human anatomy fun
listen the heart yes
slowed down a great deal sounds like
heavy artillery it’s nice down quite a
barrage over 40 million beats in a year
number seven the last man on earth yeah
I’m an MP Simon
based on Richard Matheson’s novel I am
Legend the last man on earth centers on
Vincent Price as the seemingly sole
inheritor of the abandoned world someone
else is alive but where are they where
are they hiding
well excluding the countless vampire
mutants that now roam the plagued planet
the film plops us right in the middle of
crisis dilemma as he fights for his
survival and the last of humanity an
unknown germ is being blown around the
world it’s highly contagious and it’s
reached plague proportions it’s the
actors empathetic performance that sells
this chilling flick which helped pave
the way for more disease outbreak movies
for generations to come
brings all of you all of you freaks
mutations number 6 seconds of course the
photography’s are not too professional
but I think it’s fair enough
unsatisfied with his life a man is
motivated by the company to fake his
death and alter his appearance company
and employee in his pursuit of freedom
the man enters a funhouse of
disorientation that brings new meaning
to the phrase identity crisis but
there’s things we have to talk about my
identity anyway we will later you’re
unlikely to find a more superbly shot
movie from this decade
courtesy of master cinematographer James
Wong how it’s a masterpiece
good work filmed in black and white from
low angles wide angles over the shoulder
angles and extreme close-ups seconds
will make any person paranoid even if
the sound is turned off the entire
time sorry it all has 10 like this
number five Village of the Damned whole
village fell asleep
following a tranquil opening sequence
Village of the Damned takes a paralyzing
plunge into hell on earth an attempted
suicide
Janet Paul whose husband only came back
from sea yesterday and dreadful Treasury
other women in the village half out of
their minds the film is set in a village
duh where every inhabitant suddenly
drops unconscious for reasons unknown
the village is very near panicking a few
months after they awaken the town’s
women subsequently start giving birth to
the freakiest damn children imaginable
you all right
picture a cult of Damien’s only more
powerful and blonder
this is a great setup that delivers with
haunting developments by the end you and
your significant other will definitely
want to make best friends with birth
control that means that every woman in
this village who is capable of
childbirth is going to have a baby I
can’t believe it
this is not a matter of belief vicar
it’s a matter of fact number four
Fahrenheit 451
Fonfon is the temperature at which book
paper catches fire and starts to burn
Fahrenheit 451 of course started off as
a novel by Ray Bradbury which tackled
issues such as book burning and
censorship what dumont I hope to get out
of all this print happiness what a party
dear – must’ve be kind of ironic then
that the novel would later be banned in
schools across America why is it
forbidden because it made people unhappy
do you really believe that oh yes
books disturb people to make them
anti-social if you didn’t get to read it
in high school at least do yourself a
service and check out the worthy film
adaptation ok my family often
paralleling Nazi Germany Fahrenheit 451
presents a society oblivious to the
fascism taking place
the film will motivate anyone to fight
ignorant through the power of knowledge
speech and flamethrowers number three
the time machine this is a time machine
interstellar travel is easy time travel
is hard but the time machine occupies
the same the same space that it did a
moment before it went off on its journey
in this adaptation of HG Wells classic
novel an eager inventor adventures to
the Future via the most iconic non
DeLorean time machine in cinematic
history so I push the lever on board
even greater speed
through impressive time-lapse
photography effects the audience sees
the world changed before their very eyes
from World War 1 to the 800 thousands
what the inventor finds in this
mysterious future challenges him to
contemplate humanity’s bleak destiny and
his own error of taking the present for
granted I’m sorry because I could tell
so much the people of my time weena I
could let them know about about the
sorrow and the happiness that the future
has in store for them
number 2 Planet of the Apes a topless
Charlton Heston lands on a planet where
apes reign supreme just saying that
synopsis will make anyone feel silly get
your stinking paws off me you damn dirty
ape as silly as the premise might sound
though planet of the 8 never settled for
being another b-movie fella why are
always created equal some Apes it seems
are more equal than others Michael
Wilson of Lawrence of Arabia and Rod
Serling of The Twilight Zone saw
potential for a thought-provoking story
about slavery ignorance and government
to suggest that we can’t learn anything
about the simian native of a study of
man is sheer nonsense director Franklin
J Schaffner flawlessly brought their
vision to life through revolutionary
visuals most notably taking home an
honorary Oscar for makeup that the ape
evolved from a lower order of primate
possibly man oh and then there’s that
ending which we won’t dare spoil finally
really did it
yo before we voyage to our top pick here
are a few honorable mentions all right
huh mr. president
love love what’s the matter no
scientific curiosity we pair cut it off
number one 2001 a Space Odyssey directed
by Stanley Kubrick this masterpiece took
a huge step forward for science fiction
filmmaking which is appropriate since
the story is about evolution
2001 takes us on an astounding leap
through time from primitive mankind
discovering their first tool to future
mankind developing their most advanced
tool I’m sorry Dave I’m afraid I can’t
do that like all great sci-fi films
a Space Odyssey offers so many
fascinating ideas that a brief review
like this just can’t do it justice I’m
sorry Dave I don’t have enough
information all that can be said in a
nutshell is that it’s the closest any
films come to depicting sheer visual
poetry do you agree with our list it
checks it checks on the nose Lucius I
think we’ve hit it what’s your favorite
sci-fi movie from the 1960s for more
entertaining top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
I’ve still got the greatest enthusiasm
and confidence in the mission
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