# List of time travel works of fiction

Time travel is a common plot element in fiction. Works where it plays a prominent role are listed below. For stories of time travel in antiquity, see the history of the time travel concept.

## Literature and theater

This list describes novels and short stories in which time travel is central to the plot or the premise of the work. Works created prior to the 18th century are listed in Time travel § History of the time travel concept.
| Year | Title | Author(s) | Description |
| 1733 | Memoirs of the Twentieth Century | Samuel Madden | A guardian angel travels back to the year 1728, with letters from 1997 and 1998. |
| 1771 | L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais (Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred) | Louis-Sébastien Mercier | An unnamed man falls asleep and finds himself in a Paris of the future. |
| 1781 | Anno 7603 | Johan Herman Wessel | Play – A good fairy sends people forward to the year 7603 AD. The people find themselves in a society where gender roles are reversed. Only women are soldiers. |
| 1819 | "Rip Van Winkle" | Washington Irving | A man falls asleep on a mountain side and wakes twenty years in the future. He finds he has been forgotten, his wife has died and his daughter is no longer a child. |
| 1838 | "The Galoshes of Fortune" | Hans Christian Andersen | One of the characters in this short story unwittingly comes in possession of magic galoshes that grant any wish expressed by the person wearing them. The galoshes take him to 15th-century Copenhagen, then back to his own time. |
| 1843 | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | The heartless Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser, is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, in order to teach him the consequences of his selfish ways. |
| 1844 | "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" | Edgar Allan Poe | In the short story the protagonist, Bedloe, claims to have been transported back to Benares in the 1780s. |
| 1881 | "The Clock that Went Backward" | Edward Page Mitchell | A clock takes people back in time. The first story to use a machine for time travel. |
| 1887 | El Anacronópete | Enrique Gaspar | An electrically powered machine takes Don Sindulfo García and his companions back to several places in history. |
| 1887 | Looking Backward: 2000–1887 | Edward Bellamy | In the late 19th century, Julian West falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes 113 years later. |
| 1888 | A Dream of John Ball | William Morris | John Ball travels between mediaeval and contemporary worlds. |
| 1888 | "The Chronic Argonauts" | H. G. Wells | An inventor takes a companion in his time machine. The companion narrates the story of their subsequent adventures. |
| 1889 | Sylvie and Bruno | Lewis Carroll | A watch both tells and determines time. |
| 1889 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Mark Twain | A man of the 19th century travels back to 528 AD in King Arthur's time. |
| 1889 | New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future | Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett | The book's female narrator wakes up in the year 2472 to find that a highly evolved society of "Amazonian" women have turned Ireland into a utopian society where women dominate over men. |
| 1891 | Tourmalin's Time Cheques | Thomas Anstey Guthrie | The protagonist is able to 'bank time' during periods of boredom, and recover it again on presentation of a cheque to a clock. The first story to address the logical paradoxes inherent in the concept of time travel. |
| 1892 | Golf in the Year 2000 | J. McCullough | A man falls asleep in 1892 and wakes up in the year 2000. Trains are supersonic, and golf and politics are the only activities not yet dominated by masculinized women. |
| 1895 | The Time Machine | H. G. Wells | An inventor creates a time machine and travels to the year 802,701 AD. There, humans have evolved into two species, Morlocks and Eloi. |
| 1904 | The Defence of Duffer's Drift | Ernest Swinton | A military tactics manual, framed as a series of six dreams by "Lieutenant Backsight Forethought" about the defence of a river crossing in the Boer War. BF learns something from each successive disaster, until in the final defence he is successful. |
| 1905 | Sultana's Dream | Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain | A feminist utopia (called Ladyland) in which women run everything and men are secluded, in a mirror-image of traditional purdah. Women scientists have discovered how to control weather and tap solar power for "electrical" technology which enables flying cars and laborless farming. |
| 1906 | The Story of the Amulet | E. Nesbit | A mysterious artifact brings British children to Babylon, Roman Gaul and other ancient civilizations, and to a future British utopia. |
| 1909 | Beatrice the Sixteenth | Irene Clyde | A time traveller discovers a lost world, which is an egalitarian utopian postgender society. |
| 1919 | "Enoch Soames" | Max Beerbohm | Short story – Enoch is transported forward from 1897 to 1997 to find out whether he became a great writer. His tale involves a Faustian pact. |
| 1920 | The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon and to the 15th Century | Leoš Janáček | An opera based on satirical novels by Svatopluk Čech from 1888, in one of which a heavy-drinking bourgeois 19th-century Prague landlord finds himself transported to 1420 in the middle of the Hussite Wars. |
| 1928 / 1929 | Armageddon 2419 A.D. | Philip Francis Nowlan | Novella – A strange cave gas transports Anthony Rogers to 2419 AD. This story was the basis of the comic strip Buck Rogers. |
| 1929 | The Bedbug | Mayakovsky | Satirical play – Frozen for fifty years, a worker is revived in 1979 and finds himself in a Communist utopia in which he doesn't fit and so becomes a specimen in a zoo showing the vices of the past. |
| 1933 | The Man Who Awoke | Laurence Manning | Norman Winters puts himself into suspended animation for 5,000 years at a time. |
| 1935 | The Box of Delights | John Masefield | Magical box allows the Kay Harker to shrink in size, to fly swiftly, to go into the past. |
| 1936 | "The Shadow Out of Time" | H. P. Lovecraft | The Great Race of Yith is an extraterrestrial species whose members move vast distances through space and time for historical studies by imposing involuntary body swaps on other beings, a process tantamount to spiritual possession. |
| 1939 | Lest Darkness Fall | L. Sprague de Camp | An archaeologist is transported from Rome, in the time of Mussolini, back to the 6th century and tries to prevent the fall of the Ostrogothic Kingdom amid the Gothic War. |
| 1941 | By His Bootstraps | Robert A. Heinlein | Novella – A circular paradox-character is brought to the future where he later operates a time machine to bring himself to the future. |
| 1941 | "The Seesaw" | A. E. van Vogt | A shop selling futuristic weapons appears in June 1947. A reporter enters and finds himself 7,000 years in the future. |
| 1942 | All-Star Comics #10 | | The Justice Society of America uses a time ray to travel 500 years into the future to secure an effective defense against bomb attacks. |
| 1943 | "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" | Lewis Padgett (pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore) | A scientist millions of years in the future, in two experiments with time machines, uses boxes of educational toys as test objects. One lands in the 19th century and influences Lewis Carroll's writing of the poem "Jabberwocky". The other arrives in 1942 and causes two children to develop parahuman abilities incomprehensible to their parents. The film The Last Mimzy was loosely based on the story. |
| 1944 | As Never Was | P. Schuyler Miller | An archeologist returns from the future with a knife, which is deposited in a museum; at the end of the story it is revealed that he had discovered the knife in the ruins of the same museum. |
| 1944 | Future Times Three | René Barjavel | Scientists invent a substance which allows time travel. Future humanity has branched into species for different tasks. They also visit the past. The story was adapted into a film in 1982. |
| 1946 | Vintage Season | "Lawrence O'Donnell" (joint pseudonym of C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner) | Time travellers from the future experience wonderful seasons and spectacular events in the past. |
| 1947 | All-Star Comics #35 | | A villain murders a scientist who invented a time machine, and tries to use it to alter history so modern technology cannot defeat his bid to conquer America. |
| 1950 | Flight to Forever | Poul Anderson | A physicist is stuck in a time machine that only can travel forwards in time. |
| 1950 | Pebble in the Sky | Isaac Asimov | In the mid-twentieth century, a man who is a retired tailor is accidentally sent to the future. |
| 1951 | City at World's End | Edmond Hamilton | The city of Middletown is the target of a super-atomic bomb that blows the city to the far-distant future instead of destroying it. The inhabitants have to explore and adapt to their new reality. |
| 1951 | The Gauntlet | Ronald Welch | After putting on a gauntlet, a boy is transported back to 1326 in Wales. |
| 1952 | "A Sound of Thunder" | Ray Bradbury | The butterfly effect means changes made in the past will affect the future. |
| 1953 | Bring the Jubilee | Ward Moore | A time traveller from an alternate reality travels back to the Battle of Gettysburg and changes his own future into ours. |
| 1954 | Experiment | Fredric Brown | An experiment involving the time travel of a small brass cube results in disaster. |
| 1955 | The End of Eternity | Isaac Asimov | Time guardians carry out "Reality Changes" to minimize human suffering, as integrated over the whole of (future) human history. |
| 1955– 1995 | Time Patrol, plus 10 others | Poul Anderson | A series of eleven stories about the Time Patrol, an organization which protects the past. |
| 1956 | "The Dead Past" | Isaac Asimov | An historian, a physicist, and a science writer break a bureaucratic monopoly on the chronoscope (a time viewer) by developing one independently, after which they soon learn why the device had been kept secret. |
| 1956 | "Extempore" | Damon Knight | Mankind learns how to travel through time. |
| 1956 | The Stars My Destination | Alfred Bester | Gully Foyle lives in a future where self-teleportation is common. He learns to teleport through time. |
| 1957 | Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd (A Week in the Wales of the Future) | Islwyn Ffowc Elis | The narrator travels twice to Wales in the year 2033. Each time he encounters a different future. (in Welsh) |
| 1957 | The Door into Summer | Robert A. Heinlein | A man has been trapped in suspended animation for thirty years. After his release, he uses a time machine to travel back in time and exact revenge on his friend and his fiancée who stole his business. |
| 1957 | "The Last Word" | Damon Knight | A tale of Armageddon and the Devil. |
| 1957 | "Soldier from Tomorrow" | Harlan Ellison | A soldier travels from back from the future to warn the world of its path towards global conflict. |
| 1958 | The Big Time | Fritz Leiber | Two time-traveling factions, the "Spiders" and the "Snakes", wage a temporal war, trying to change events throughout history. |
| 1958 | "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" | Alfred Bester | A professor travels back in time and kills his wife's grandfather so that his wife will never have existed. However, the results confound him. |
| 1958 | Tom's Midnight Garden | Philippa Pearce | In this children's novel, a boy is living in medical quarantine in a 1950s apartment building. He finds himself in the building's garden of the 1880s and there is a girl there with whom he can play. |
| 1958 | The Time Traders | Andre Norton | A team travels to 2,000 BC where they find a Soviet base that transfers them further back in time. There they have to avoid both the Soviets and malevolent aliens. |
| 1958 | Legion of Superheroes | Adventure Comics#247 | Three teenagers (Lightning Boy, Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy) members of a 30th-century "super-hero club", the Legion of Super-Heroes, travel back to the 20th century to invite Superboy to become a member of their "Legion of Super-Heroes". Multiple later Superboy stories, especially in Adventure Comics, showed Superboy breaking through the time barrier to visit the Legion. Since the fifties, the Legion has gone through several reincarnations. |
| 1959 | Galactic Derelict | Andre Norton | Using the information learned in The Time Traders, a team travels 10,000 years into the past to retrieve a crashed alien spacecraft, accidentally triggering its autopilot when they return it to the present. |
| 1959 | Cities in Flight: A Clash of Cymbals/The Triumph of Time | James Blish | Faced with the impending end of the Universe, physicists develop a grain of sodium chloride which travels backwards in time, create it some moments after the Universe's end and then trap it as it returns to study conditions in the future. |
| 1959 | "All You Zombies" | Robert A. Heinlein | Short story – A circular paradox in which a man discovers that he is his own mother and father. |
| 1959–1989 | The Time Machine series | "Donald Keith" alias of Donald & Keith Monroe | Series of 23 short stories published in Boys' Life magazine centered around a patrol of Boy Scouts who acquire an abandoned time machine. |
| 1961 | Danny Dunn, Time Traveler | Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams | Two teenagers use their professor's time machine to study the history of the United States. |
| 1962 | A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle | Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her younger brother Charles Wallace Murry, and her friend Calvin O'Keefe set out on a journey through time and space to rescue her missing father. This is the first book in L'Engle's Time Quintet and the basis for the Ava DuVernay film. |
| 1962 | Escape Attempt | Strugatsky Brothers | A time slip novel where two youths in the 22nd Century encounter a mysterious man who turns out to be a Soviet WWII soldier. |
| 1962 / 1969 | Times Without Number | John Brunner | A time traveler from an alternative world fails to prevent an alteration in the time-line, which leaves him in the present in a world (ours or at least like it) where time travel is unknown. He decides to keep the knowledge of time travel secret and accept his exile. |
| 1963 | Fantastic Four vol 1 No. 19 | Stan Lee and Jack Kirby | Heroes travel to Ancient Egypt and meet Pharaoh Rama-Tut, who is a time traveller from the 31st century. The first appearance of Marvel Comics time-travelling villain, Kang the Conqueror. |
| 1963–present | Doctor Who | various authors | Doctor Who gave rise to more than 530 original novels and novelisations based on the popular science fiction television show. |
| 1964 | Farnham's Freehold | Robert A. Heinlein | A direct hit by a nuclear missile sends a bomb shelter with Hugh Farnham (middle-aged, white) and others into a post-apocalyptic future where a black culture enslaves and cannibalizes white people. Farnham and another survivor are sent back to their own time in a time-travel experiment. They arrive in a world subtly different from the one they left and spend the rest of their lives trying to head off the series of events that led to the future they had seen. |
| 1964 | The Great Time Machine Hoax | Keith Laumer | A man inherits his uncle's mansion that has a computer that can function as a time machine, although they are slow to realize it. |
| 1965 | The Ship that Sailed the Time Stream | G.C. Edmondson | A US Navy research ship accidentally travels back in time. The book was nominated for the Nebula Award, but lost to Dune. |
| 1965 / 1967 | The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | Yasutaka Tsutsui | A high-school girl accidentally acquires the ability to travel through time, which leads to her reliving multiple time loops. |
| 1967 | Jessamy | Barbara Sleigh | A children's mystery set in England where the main protagonist travels to the time of World War I. |
| 1967 | The Technicolor Time Machine | Harry Harrison | A bankrupt film studio and a mediocre film director make a movie of the founding of Vinland. Using a time travel machine, they cast real Vikings. |
| 1968 | Hawksbill Station | Robert Silverberg | An oppressive government uses a time machine to deport their political prisoners to the Cambrian, a half-billion years in the past. |
| 1968 | The Last Starship from Earth | John Boyd | In an alternate world, Jesus founded a theocratic government that conquered Rome and still rules the world to this day. A mathematician is sent to the past under the name of "Judas Iscariot" in order to kill Jesus. |
| 1968 | Past Master | R. A. Lafferty | Members of a future society try to prevent its decline by bringing Sir Thomas More to the year 2535. |
| 1969 | Charlotte Sometimes | Penelope Farmer | A boarding-school story where the protagonist, Charlotte, travels back in time to be Claire in 1918. |
| 1969 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | A man is randomly travelling through time, jumping from one event to another in no particular order. |
| 1969 | Up the Line | Robert Silverberg | A guide takes tourists to view historical events in Constantinople. |
| 1969 | The House on the Strand | Daphne du Maurier | A drug-induced journey to a Cornish village in the 14th century. |
| 1969 | Behold the Man | Michael Moorcock | A man uses a time machine to travel to 28 AD, in the hope of meeting Jesus. |
| 1970 | Quest for the Future | A. E. van Vogt | A man once exposed to films from the future is drawn into an adventure to become part of a group of time travellers linked by a special building. |
| 1970 | Time and Again | Jack Finney | Hypnosis allows travel through time. |
| 1970 | The Year of the Quiet Sun | Wilson Tucker | A government uses a time machine to survey the future and adjust its policies accordingly. |
| 1970 | Tau Zero | Poul Anderson | The crew of a space colonization vessel aiming to reach a nearby star accidentally travels billions of years into the future due to runaway time dilation. The crew members realize that the universe is approaching a Big Crunch, and the universe collapses and then explodes in a new Big Bang. The voyagers then decelerate and finally disembark on a planet with a habitat suitably similar to Earth. |
| 1972 | Time's Last Gift | Philip José Farmer | A pastiche wherein a future Tarzan (using the name John Gribardsun) orchestrates time-travel research allowing him to travel to 12,000 BC. |
| 1972 | There Will Be Time | Poul Anderson | A man is born with the innate ability to travel in time. |
| 1973 | Time Enough for Love | Robert A. Heinlein | Lazarus Long travels back in time to 1916 and falls in love with his own mother. |
| 1973 | The Man Who Folded Himself | David Gerrold | A man receives a belt that allows him to travel through time. |
| 1973 | Crusade in Jeans | Thea Beckman | 14-year-old boy, stranded in the 13th century, saves the life of Leonardo Fibonacci. They join the Children's Crusade, and save most of them with 20th-century knowledge and high technology (such as a box of matches). |
| 1973 | "12:01 P.M." | Richard A. Lupoff | Myron Castleman, an executive in New York City, finds that he is reliving the same hour of the same day, over and over. His time loop starts at 12:01 PM and lasts until 1:00 PM, when he is somehow returned to the same place where he began the hour. |
| 1975 | Bid Time Return | Richard Matheson | A young man sees an old photograph of a woman. Through hypnosis he travels back from 1980 to 1912 to meet her. The story was the basis of the 1980 film Somewhere in Time. |
| 1976 | Woman on the Edge of Time | Marge Piercy | A woman of the 1970s who has been involuntarily committed to a mental institution is visited from the future by a time-traveling woman of the year 2137. The patient benefits from increasingly prolonged visits to this future society where people have enormous individual freedom and are trained in self-control and other social-emotional skills. |
| 1976 | An Infinite Summer | Christopher Priest | Travelers from the future "freeze" small groups of people into "tableaux". The people in each tableau vivant become invisible and permeable to others, until the effect wears off, sometimes after many years. |
| 1977 | Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation | Larry Niven | A half-finished Tipler cylinder is discovered by a future human explorer. When the leader decides to complete it, his civilization is destroyed by a nova. |
| 1979 | Roadmarks | Roger Zelazny | The protagonist and others travel on a highway that runs through time, connecting all times and possible histories. |
| 1979 | Time After Time | Karl Alexander | H. G. Wells builds a time machine, which is stolen by Jack the Ripper so he can escape the authorities and continue his killing spree in the future. |
| 1979 | Morlock Night | K. W. Jeter | The Morlocks from H. G. Wells' The Time Machine use the machine to travel back to Victorian London. |
| 1979 | Kindred | Octavia E. Butler | An African-American woman, inexplicably transported from 1976 Los Angeles to early 19th-century Maryland, meets her ancestors. |
| 1980 | The Number of the Beast | Robert A. Heinlein | Two couples (after getting married) travel in a space-time machine that can travel in the three normal spatial dimensions and in three distinct temporal dimensions. They encounter malevolent aliens, visit fictitious worlds such as Oz, and meet characters from Heinlein's other works. |
| 1980 | Timescape | Gregory Benford | Tachyons are used to warn scientists of the past about an upcoming disaster. Winner of several prestigious science fiction awards. |
| 1980 | Thrice Upon a Time | James P. Hogan | A scientist invents a machine that can send messages through time. |
| 1980 | A Rebel in Time | Harry Harrison | A racist US colonel plans to aid the Confederacy with submachine gun plans and is pursued through time by a black cop. |
| 1980 | The Restaurant at the End of the Universe | Douglas Adams | The Milliways restaurant is frozen in the last moment before the universe succumbs to final entropy. Time travel is required to reach it. |
| 1981 | The Many-Colored Land, first book of the Saga of the Pliocene Exile series | Julian May | Time travellers from the late twenty-first to the early twenty-second century go through a one-way time portal to the Earth's Pliocene. The world is controlled by humanoid extraterrestrials. |
| 1982 | Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | Time travel paradoxes form the basis of this broad comedy, as in the case of the ancient poet Lallafa. |
| 1983 | Millennium | John Varley | In the far distant future, a team of time travellers snatch the passengers of a crashed aeroplane, leaving behind prefabricated bodies for rescue teams to find. The novel is the basis of the 1989 film. |
| 1983 | The Anubis Gates | Tim Powers | In 1983, a millionaire discovers time-travel gates and organizes a trip to 1810 to attend a lecture given by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A professor hired by the millionaire is trapped in 19th-century London. |
| 1984 | "The Toynbee Convector" | Ray Bradbury | A stagnating civilization of the 1980s is revitalized when a man produces evidence of a future utopia, obtained through time travel. Mankind is inspired by the evidence to achieve this utopia. |
| 1984 | Trojan Horse: Jerusalem | J. J. Benítez | The plot of the book unveils the last period in the life of Jesus Christ as revealed through the first-hand experience of two pilots (or rather "timenauts"), members of a US Air Force top-secret military experimental project on time travel codenamed "Operation Trojan Horse", who in 1973 supposedly succeeded in travelling back in time to the land of Palestine in the year 30 A.d. A saga of, so far, 11 volumes. Last one published in 2019. |
| 1984 | TimeWars series | Simon Hawke | 12 books from 1984 to 1991 about a secret organization protecting history from change by time travelers. Many people and events we consider fictional are historical, and vice versa; the action of each book concerns the events of a famous work of literature. In the first, time travelers contesting the fate of Richard I of England become caught up in Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. |
| 1985 | The Proteus Operation | James P. Hogan | Decades after Axis victory in World War II, the besieged forces of freedom mount a covert military mission to 1939, to alter the outcome of the war. |
| 1985 | Eon | Greg Bear | Events in Eon take place in 2005, when the U.S. and Soviet Union are on the verge of nuclear war. In that tense political climate, a 290 km asteroid is detected. The humans who built the Stone seem to come from approximately 1,200 years in the future. |
| 1986–2014 | The Cross-Time Engineer series | Leo Frankowski | A 20th-century Polish engineer is transported back to 13th-century Poland, ten years before the Mongol invasion. |
| 1987 | Sphere | Michael Crichton | A man made space ship from the far future passes through a wormhole. It crashes onto the Earth where it is thought to be an alien vessel. |
| 1987 | A Tale of Time City | Diana Wynne Jones | Vivian Smith is a girl who is kidnapped while being evacuated from London during World War II. She is caught up in a struggle to preserve history. |
| 1988 | Replay | Ken Grimwood | In 1988, a man suffers a heart attack and finds himself returned to his life in 1963. |
| 1988 | Lightning | Dean Koontz | A time traveller from Nazi Germany interferes with the life of a young woman. |
| 1988 | The Devil's Arithmetic | Jane Yolen | During a Passover Seder, a woman is transported back to 1942 in Poland and is sent to a death camp. |
| 1989 | Hyperion | Dan Simmons | The Shrike is a great warrior who is sent back from the future for unknown reasons. |
| 1989 | "The Return of William Proxmire" | Larry Niven | William Proxmire enlists the help of a physicist to go back in time to cure Robert A. Heinlein's tuberculosis, expecting that Heinlein will not become a science-fiction writer, so not inspiring proponents of (in Proxmire's view money-wasting) space travel. The result is diametrically opposite to the expected. |
| 1990 | Four Past Midnight: "The Langoliers" | Stephen King | An airplane accidentally flies through a rip in the space-time continuum. It appears in the "used time" of yesterday, where dreadful "Langoliers" eat the past. |
| 1991–ongoing | Outlander series | Diana Gabaldon | A woman time travels from the 1940s to the 1740s by stepping through the standing stones in Scotland. |
| 1992 | The Guns of the South | Harry Turtledove | During the American Civil War, South African white supremacists give AK-47s to the Confederacy. |
| 1992 | Doomsday Book | Connie Willis | A history student is inadvertently sent to 1348 England, at the beginning of the Black Death pandemic. |
| 1995 | The Hundred-Light-Year-Diary | Greg Egan | After the invention of a method for sending messages back in time, the history of the future becomes common knowledge, and every person knows their own fate. |
| 1995 | From Time to Time | Jack Finney | In this sequel to Time and Again, Simon Morley travels to the year 1911, to prevent World War I. Adventures include voyaging on the RMS Titanic. |
| 1995 | The Time Ships | Stephen Baxter | The authorised sequel to H. G. Wells' The Time Machine. |
| 1996 | Timequake | Kurt Vonnegut | In 2001, people are transported to 1991 to relive their lives. |
| 1996 | Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus | Orson Scott Card | Researchers look back in time to see Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World, in order to save the world from ecological disaster. |
| 1996 | Animorphs | Katherine Applegate | Animorphs and Visser 3 are sent back a few hours to the Amazon by a Saurio Rip, with the plot used again in Altermorph 1. In Megamorph 2, the same concept is used to send the animorphs back to 65 million BC. |
| 1996 | The Dechronization of Sam Magruder | George Gaylord Simpson | Research chronologist Sam Magruder working in the year 2162 is accidentally transported 80 million years back in time to the late Cretaceous era and must learn to survive in a world of dinosaurs. |
| 1997 | In the Garden of Iden | Kage Baker | This is the first book of Baker's The Company series, all of which involve time travel. |
| 1997 | Making History | Stephen Fry | Two men in the present attempt to prevent the birth of Adolf Hitler. |
| 1997 | To Say Nothing of the Dog | Connie Willis | A comedy in which historians travel back in time to find an artifact for a wealthy woman. They experience the Blitz at St. Paul's Cathedral and travel the Thames as in Three Men in a Boat. |
| 1997 | Corrupting Dr. Nice | John Kessel | Modelled on 1930s screwball comedies; set in Cretaceous, 40 AD Jerusalem, and 2060 AD. Features a scene with a dinosaur in a hotel room. |
| 1998 | The Transall Saga | Gary Paulsen | A boy gets transported to a weird world by a blue light, only to discover that it is the dark future of planet Earth. |
| 1998 | Island in the Sea of Time | S. M. Stirling | Nantucket is transported 3000 years back in time because of a space disturbance. |
| 1998 | The Sterkarm Handshake | Susan Price | A 21st-century corporation intends to use a Time Tube to exploit the natural resources of the past, but is outfoxed by a 16th-century Scottish clan. |
| 1999 | King of Shadows | Susan Cooper | A modern-day boy switches places with a Shakespearean actor who needs to be cured by modern medicine so he can return to his own time and help Shakespeare to greater success on the stage. |
| 1999 | Timeline | Michael Crichton | Modern historians become stuck in the Middle Ages. |
| 1999 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | J. K. Rowling | Hogwarts student, Hermione Granger, acquires a Time-Turner, which allows her to take a large courseload. The device is later used to manipulate the events of a single night to free two prisoners. |
| 2000 | The Light of Other Days | Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter | A wormhole-based "time viewer" can observe people and events from any point throughout time and space. |
| 2000 | 1632 | Eric Flint | A West Virginia mining town is sent back to the Thirty Years' War in Germany. First in the 1632 series. |
| 2001 | The Chronoliths | Robert Charles Wilson | Monuments from the future appear in the early 21st century, precipitating a global political collapse. |
| 2001 | Thief of Time | Terry Pratchett | Unfreezing and freezing of time using a small mechanism. |
| 2002 | Bones of the Earth | Michael Swanwick | Palaeontologists studying dinosaurs are trapped in the Mesozoic period, but also travel into the very distant future. The novel was nominated for several science fiction awards. |
| 2002 | Night Watch | Terry Pratchett | A man interacts with a younger version of himself. |
| 2002 | Counting Up, Counting Down | Harry Turtledove | Collection of short stories, including two about a man's attempt to save his failing marriage by travelling back to the time he first met his wife. |
| 2002 | Kaleidoscope Century | John Barnes | A man on Mars has a virus that puts him to sleep every 15 years, and he wakes 10 younger. He learns of a way to go back to the past. |
| 2002 | The Eyre Affair | Jasper Fforde | Sleuth, Thursday Next, gets caught up in overlapping vortices of time and alternate reality as a villain tries to eradicate a literary classic. |
| 2003–2011 | Haruhi Suzumiya | Nagaru Tanigawa | Mikuru Asahina and Fujiwara have travelled from the future to observe a girl who is unaware that she possesses destructive reality warping powers. |
| 2003 | The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | A man with a rare genetic disorder unpredictably travels in time, living his life out of sequence. |
| 2004 | Axis of Time | John Birmingham | A naval task force from 2021 is accidentally sent back to just before the Battle of Midway. |
| 2004 | The Spark of God (orig. title: L'Éclat de Dieu) | Romain Sardou | Describes the First Crusade and the beginning of the Knights Templar in the future. |
| 2004 | All You Need Is Kill | Hiroshi Sakurazaka | When aliens invade, a new recruit dies on the battlefield, only to reawaken the day before he was killed, to fight and die again and again. |
| 2004 | For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs | Robert A. Heinlein | Engineer and pilot Perry Nelson is killed in a car accident in 1939 and wakes up in another body in 2086. Heinlein could not find a publisher for this, his first book, written in 1938–39, during his lifetime. Many themes of his later writings are here in embryonic form. |
| 2004–2005 | Warcraft: War of the Ancients Trilogy | Richard A. Knaak | A human, a dragon and an orc travel back in time to help save Azeroth from the Burning Legion. |
| 2005 | Mammoth | John Varley | A multi-billionaire clones a mammoth and sends it back in time. |
| 2006 | The Plot to Save Socrates | Paul Levinson | Time travellers from 2042 try to prevent Socrates from consuming hemlock. |
| 2006 | Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony | Eoin Colfer | The fifth in the Artemis Fowl series. Artemis and Captain Holly Short search for a missing demon, to stop a demon colony. Artemis also ends up saving Holly by manipulating time. |
| 2007 | Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey | Chuck Palahniuk | Characters participate in "Party Crashing" which can, under certain conditions, cause time travel. |
| 2007 | The Accidental Time Machine | Joe Haldeman | A research assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology accidentally creates a forward-traveling time machine. Each leap forward in time (to get out of trouble) lands him in deeper trouble. |
| 2008 | Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox | Eoin Colfer | The sixth book in the Artemis Fowl series. After his mother contracts spelltropy, Artemis travels back in time to find a lemur that can help cure her. The trick ending creates a circular timeline that started the series. |
| 2008 | A Wish After Midnight | Zetta Elliott | Black fifteen-year-old Genna is transported from modern-day Brooklyn to 1863, when Civil War split the country and draft riots rocked New York City. Somehow she must survive and return. The story of Genna and her boyfriend Judah is continued in 2016's The Door at the Crossroads. |
| 2008 | Found | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Thirteen-year-olds, Jonah and Chip, find out that they are missing children from time and go on a journey, along with Jonah's sister, Katherine, to uncover many secrets. |
| 2009 | Ruby Red (original title: Rubinrot) | Kerstin Gier | Gwendolyn Shepherd can travel in time with a machine called a chronograph. |
| 2009 | Sent | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Jonah, Katherine, Chip and Alex are sent back to 1483 to learn that Chip is actually King Edward V and Alex is his brother Richard, Duke of York. |
| 2009 | Hero.com: Crisis Point | Andy Briggs | Time travellers can go back, but going to the future is impossible. They also can't change the past lest this cause a paradox of retrocausality. The chief villain takes advantage of retrocausality by sending two characters into the past to enable him to escape from prison. |
| 2009 | Time Travelers Never Die | Jack McDevitt | Adrian "Shel" Shelborne receives a package from his mysteriously disappeared father, with four devices and a note instructing him to destroy them. Soon, Shel discovers that the devices can take you anywhere at any point in time. |
| 2009 | Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel | Gareth Carrivick | Two avid science fiction fans and their friend attempt to navigate a time travel conundrum in the middle of a British pub, where they meet a girl from the future who sets the adventure in motion. |
| 2010 | Sabotaged | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Jonah and Katherine go on a mission to return a missing child, named Andrea (really Virginia Dare), to her time in the Roanoke Colony. |
| 2010 | Blackout and All Clear | Connie Willis | Historians from 2048 go to the London Blitz during World War II to observe and end up being part of it. A novel published in two parts. |
| 2010 | How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe | Charles Yu | In search of his father, a time machine mechanic travels through time accompanied by TAMMY and his ontologically valid dog, Ed, all while documenting his travels in a manual for future travellers. |
| 2011 | Torn | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Jonah and Katherine are sent to Henry Hudson's ship in 1611, where they discover that events are playing out differently than they really did in history. |
| 2011 | 11/22/63 | Stephen King | A man travels through a time portal, and attempts to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. |
| 2012 | Caught | Margaret Peterson Haddix | When an attempt to return Lieserl Einstein to time goes wrong, Jonah and Katherine must go back to 1903 in order to unfreeze time in the present. |
| 2012 | Amber House | Kelly Moore, Tucker Reed, Larkin Reed | A teenage girl uses psychometry to alter events in the past, changing the present and future. |
| 2013 | Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers | Dav Pilkey | George Beard and Harold Hutchins, two fourth graders, use a homemade time machine to travel 65 million years into the past. They also travel to 206,784 years in the past and 30 years in the future. |
| 2013 | Risked | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Jonah, Katherine, and Chip are suddenly transported to 1918 and must try to save Anastasia and Alexei Romanov, even though their remains have been identified by modern-day scientists. |
| 2013 | The Chronicles of St Mary's | Jodi Taylor | Taylor's flagship series follows the staff of St Mary's Institute of Historical Research, especially historian Dr Madeleine "Max" Maxwell, as they time-travel to "investigate major historical events in contemporary time". |
| 2014 | Neverwas | Kelly Moore, Tucker Reed, Larkin Reed | An unforeseen change in the past necessitates the use of psychic abilities to reset the present and future. |
| 2014 | The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August | Catherine Webb | A man lives his life again and again from the beginning each time he dies. He finds more people like him in the Cronus club. |
| 2014 | Time And Time Again | Ben Elton | Former soldier Hugh Stanton is sent back to 1914 to prevent the events that started WW1 in order to avoid the deaths of millions in that conflict and subsequently WW2. However, the changes he makes also result in the Butterfly effect and the revelation that his attempt was not the first. |
| 2014 | Revealed | Margaret Peterson Haddix | When Charles Lindbergh kidnaps Katherine, the other children from the plane disappear, and the adults in his town de-age into children, Jonah must find a way to fix everything. |
| 2015 | A Long Time Until Now | Michael Z. Williamson | US soldiers on patrol in Afghanistan are transported in time to the Paleolithic era where they meet other temporally displaced soldiers. |
| 2015 | Redeemed | Margaret Peterson Haddix | After multiple timelines merge, Jonah has a new twin, Jordan, who accidentally sends himself, Jonah, and Katherine to the future. |
| 2016 | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | Jack Thorne | In this stage play, children of characters from the corresponding book series use a Time-Turner to try preventing the death of Cedric Diggory (which occurred in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire). Repeated attempts have increasingly worse repercussions for the future. |
| 2017 | All Our Wrong Todays | Elan Mastai | A man from a utopia in an alternate reality finds himself stuck in our reality after a time travel accident. |
| 2017 | The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. | Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland | Members of a secret U.S. government Department of Diachronic Operations (D.O.D.O.) attempt to change history through time travel by the use of magic. |
| 2018 | The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle | Stuart Turton | Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 p.m. There are eight days, and eight witnesses. We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the killer. |
| 2018 | The Psychology of Time Travel | Kate Mascarenhas | After its invention by four women in 1967, time travel is governed by an organization called the Conclave. The granddaughter of one of those women is knowledgeable about the complex effects such trips have on the mind, and her life intertwines with numerous time travelers and a mysterious murder. |
| 2021 | Master of the Revels | Nicole Galland | Sequel to The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (co-written with Neal Stephenson), in which Tristan Lyons, Mel Stokes, and their fellow outcasts from the Department of Diachronic Operations (D.O.D.O.) fight to stop the powerful Irish witch Gráinne from using time travel to reverse the evolution of all modern technology. |

## Film

Time travel is a common theme and plot device in science fiction films. The list below covers films for which time travel is central to the plot or premise of the work.
| Year | Title | Director(s) | Description |
| 1921 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Emmett J. Flynn | The first adaptation of Mark Twain's classic; modern-day Martin Cavendish dreams that he is transported back to King Arthur's court where he has to use modern knowledge to outwit the king's enemies. |
| 1930 | Just Imagine | David Butler | A man struck by lightning in 1930, wakes up to a 1980 with personal aircraft, vending machines replacing sexual activity, spacecraft to Mars, people with letter- and digit-based names, pill meals, and government-determined marriages. |
| 1931 | A Connecticut Yankee | David Butler | The first sound version of Mark Twain's story in which a radio salesman (Will Rogers) is knocked out and wakes up in the land of King Arthur. |
| 1933 | Turn Back the Clock | Edgar Selwyn | Only a single time loop is needed for Joe to wish that he could relive his life and marry the wealthy woman. When he has the chance to go through his life again, he has interesting discoveries and decisions. |
| 1933 | Berkeley Square | Frank Lloyd | A modern man is transported back to 18th-century London where he meets his ancestors and falls in love with a woman of the era. |
| 1933 | Roman Scandals | Frank Tuttle | A delivery man imagines himself in Ancient Rome. |
| 1937 | Ali Baba Goes to Town | David Butler | A hobo falls asleep on a film set and wakes up in 10th-century Baghdad. |
| 1944 | Time Flies | Walter Forde | A man goes back in time to the 16th century and meets William Shakespeare. |
| 1944 | Fiddlers Three | Harry Watt | Two sailors go back in time to Ancient Rome and are mistaken as prophets. |
| 1945 | Where Do We Go from Here? | Gregory Ratoff | A genie transports a man throughout time. |
| 1947 | Repeat Performance | Alfred L. Werker | Film noir meets science fiction when a woman shoots her husband on New Year's Eve, 1946, then wishes that she could live the year all over again. |
| 1949 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Tay Garnett | Very loosely based on Mark Twain's story in which a mechanic (Bing Crosby) is knocked out and wakes up in the land of King Arthur. |
| 1951 | I'll Never Forget You | Roy Ward Baker | An American atomic scientist is transported to the 18th century, where he falls in love. |
| 1955 | Journey to the Beginning of Time | Karel Zeman | Four boys travel on what is literally the river of time, and visits various prehistoric eras on their journey. |
| 1956 | World Without End | Edward Bernds | Astronauts returning from a voyage to Mars are caught in a time warp and are transported into a post-Apocalyptic Earth populated by mutants. |
| 1957 | The Undead | Roger Corman | A woman is sent back in time, via hypnosis, to the Middle Ages where she may be executed by the people of that time on suspicion of being a witch. |
| 1960 | Beyond the Time Barrier | Edgar G. Ulmer | A pilot flies faster than the speed of light, from 1960 to 2024, into a dystopian future divided by two populations: the submissive humans who have retreated underground and the savage mutants who have taken over the surface. |
| 1960 | The Time Machine | George Pal | Loose adaptation of H. G. Wells's classic in which a time traveler enters a future where the world is broken up into two classes: the peaceful Eloi and the malevolent masters of the world, the Morlocks. |
| 1962 | La Jetée | Chris Marker | A survivor of the Third World War is sent back in time to rescue the present. La Jetée inspired the 1995 movie, 12 Monkeys. |
| 1964 | The Time Travelers | Ib Melchior | Scientists find that their time-viewing screen allows them to travel through time and they become stranded in a post-apocalypse future. This movie inspired the 1966 TV series, The Time Tunnel, as well as the 1967 remake, Journey to the Center of Time. |
| 1965 | Dr. Who and the Daleks | Gordon Flemyng | Based on the BBC TV series. The Doctor and his companions travel in the TARDIS to the future of a post-apocalyptic world where two races, the Daleks and the Thals, follow two different paths to survive following a nuclear war. |
| 1966 | Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. | Gordon Flemyng | Based on the BBC TV series. The Doctor and his companions travel in the TARDIS to a future London devastated by war with the Daleks. |
| 1967 | Journey to the Center of Time | David L. Hewitt | Scientists develop a time machine and travel to the far future where the earth is in peril and the distant past, to the age of the dinosaurs. A remake of The Time Travelers. |
| 1968 | Planet of the Apes | Franklin J. Schaffner | George Taylor (played by Charlton Heston) is an astronaut who travels to Earth in the distant future, due to the effects of time dilation, and finds that it is inhabited by intelligent, talking apes. |
| 1970 | Beneath the Planet of the Apes | Ted Post | Brent, an astronaut, travels to a future Earth ruled by apes. His search for fellow astronaut George Taylor, leads him to an underground city of nuclear mutants. |
| 1971 | Escape from the Planet of the Apes | Don Taylor | Three apes escape Earth's destruction by salvaging and repairing the spaceship of astronaut George Taylor, and piloting it through a time warp back to 1973. |
| 1972 | Slaughterhouse-Five | George Roy Hill | A man becomes displaced from time and experiences the events in his life in random order, including time spent in an alien civilization. |
| 1973 | Idaho Transfer | Peter Fonda | Due to an impending disaster that threatens to destroy mankind, a time machine is built by a group of young scientists to transport themselves into the future to rebuild civilization. |
| 1973 | Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future | Leonid Gaidai | Engineer Shurik has invented a time machine in his apartment. By accident, he sends two people back into the time of Ivan IV while the real Ivan IV is sent by the same machine into Shurik's apartment. |
| 1978 | Superman | Richard Donner | Superman circles the Earth at tremendous speeds allowing him to travel back in time to just before an earthquake created by Lex Luthor. |
| 1978 | The Time Machine | Henning Schellerup | A made-for-television adaptation of the Wells novel, updating the initial setting to the contemporary 1970s, with the main character working for an American defense contractor. After various trips in time, he meets the Eloi and Morlocks of the far future. |
| 1979 | Time After Time | Nicholas Meyer | Using a time machine, Jack the Ripper and H. G. Wells travel from 1893 London to 1979 San Francisco. |
| 1980 | The Final Countdown | Don Taylor | A storm at sea transports a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier through a time portal back in time from the 1980s to 1941. |
| 1980 | Somewhere in Time | Jeannot Szwarc | A man is captivated by an old picture of a beautiful actress who he feels is connected to him somehow. Through self-hypnosis he returns to the past and the love of his life. Adapted from the novel, Bid Time Return, by Richard Matheson who also wrote the script. |
| 1980 | The Day Time Ended | John Cardos | A triple supernova opens a rift in time space, propelling a family far into the future where they are attacked by monstrous aliens before finding refuge in a domed city. |
| 1981 | Time Bandits | Terry Gilliam | A young boy unwittingly joins a band of dwarves as they travel through time, hunting treasure. |
| 1982 | Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann | William Dear | A motorcyclist competing in a desert race unknowingly gets caught in the middle of a time travel experiment and is transported by means of "time cannons" to the Old West of 1875–1877. |
| 1983 | Toki o Kakeru Shōjo | Nobuhiko Obayashi | A high-school girl accidentally acquires the ability to travel through time, which leads to her reliving multiple time loops. Based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1965 novel The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. |
| 1983 | Twilight Zone: The Movie | John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante and George Miller | Big-screen adaptations of three classic episodes from the popular 1950s and 1960s Rod Serling television series, plus a new segment featuring a bigot who is transported into the lives of past victims of racism. |
| 1984 | The Ice Pirates | Stewart Raffill | In the finale, characters go through time fields, which causes their ages to change and also causes a couple to meet their future child in a result of a stranger version of time dilation. |
| 1984 | The Terminator | James Cameron | A cyborg (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to destroy humanity by killing the mother of its future savior. |
| 1984 | The Philadelphia Experiment | Stewart Raffill | In 1943, an anti-radar experiment accidentally sends two sailors forward in time to 1984. Nancy Allen and Michael Paré star in this film. |
| 1984 | Non ci resta che piangere | Roberto Benigni and Massimo Troisi | The school janitor, Mario (Troisi), and a teacher, Saverio (Benigni), have an automobile breakdown and decide to spend the night in an inn. The next morning they awake in 15th-century Florence. |
| 1985 | Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis | Using a time machine installed in a DeLorean sports car, teenager Marty McFly intervenes in his parents' first meeting back in 1955, preventing them from falling in love and placing his own existence in danger. |
| 1985 | Trancers | Charles Band | A cop in the dystopian Angel City of 2247, Jack Deth's mind is sent backwards in time into one of his ancestor's bodies in 1985 Los Angeles to hunt a criminal who has done the same. |
| 1985 | Cavegirl | David Oliver | On a class excursion to a cave with Stone Age paintings, Rex, a clumsy teenager, gets lost. A mysterious crystal opens a gateway in time and sends him back to the Stone Ages, where he meets the beautiful girl, Eba. |
| 1985 | My Science Project | Jonathan R. Betuel | Michael and Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a science project. They find an orb that dangerously bends time and have to stop it to save the world. |
| 1985 | The Blue Yonder | Mark Rossman | An 11-year-old goes back in time to prevent his grandfather from making a fatal plane flight across the Atlantic. Aired on The Disney Sunday Movie under the name Time Flyer. |
| 1986 | Peggy Sue Got Married | Francis Ford Coppola | Peggy Sue Bodell faints at her high school reunion. When she wakes up, she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished high school. |
| 1986 | Biggles: Adventures in Time | John Hough | Catering salesman falls through a time hole to 1917 where he saves the life of a dashing Royal Flying Corps pilot, after his photo recon mission is shot down. Before he can work out what happened, he is returned to the 1980s. |
| 1986 | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | Leonard Nimoy | To save Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk and his crew travel back to 1986 to retrieve and take back humpback whales, the only beings who can communicate with an alien probe that is threatening Earth. |
| 1986 | Flight of the Navigator | Randal Kleiser | In 1978, a boy winds up 8 years in the future, and discovers that an alien spaceship transported him there after he experienced extreme time dilation. |
| 1987 | Blind Chance / Przypadek | Krzysztof Kieślowski | This Polish film presents three different storylines, told in succession, about a man running after a train; slight variations lead to huge differences in the man's life. The film was an inspiration for Run Lola Run. |
| 1987 | Mirror for a Hero / Zerkalo dlya geroya | Vladimir Khotinenko | Two men travel from the 1980s to 1940s USSR, and find themselves repeatedly reliving a day in a coal mine town. The older man hopes he can atone for his past while the younger begins to understand his father's earlier life. |
| 1987 | Timestalkers | Michael Schultz | A professor discovers evidence of a time traveller in Old West memorabilia, and becomes involved in trying to prevent the assassination of Grover Cleveland by a 26th-century villain. |
| 1988 | The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey | Vincent Ward | Medieval travellers from 14th-century England tunnel through Earth and burst into 20th-century New Zealand. |
| 1988 | Out of Time | Robert Butler | A cop from the year 2088 (Abbott) is transported back to 1988 while pursuing a criminal attempting to flee in a time machine, and enlists the aid of his legendary great-grandfather (Maher) in pursuing the crook. |
| 1989 | Field of Dreams | Phil Alden Robinson | A man builds a baseball field on his farm to call back Chicago players banned due to the Black Sox Scandal. He gets his own chance to resolve his guilt over his deceased father. |
| 1989 | Time Trackers | Howard R. Cohen | Three time travelers from the future and a cop from the past must travel to Medieval England to capture a rogue scientist who wants to use time travel for his own needs. |
| 1989 | Back to the Future Part II | Robert Zemeckis | Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to 2015 to prevent Marty's kids from ruining the family reputation. Biff Tannen plots to give a sports almanac to his younger self in 1955, and win millions of dollars gambling. Marty and Doc must repair the timeline. |
| 1989 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Stephen Herek | Two teenagers (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves) need an "A" in history. A time traveller (George Carlin) helps them because they are destined to create a Utopian future. They travel through time, encountering historical figures including Socrates, Joan of Arc, and Billy the Kid. |
| 1989 | Millennium | Michael Anderson | Time travelers from the far future steal people already destined to die, such as in plane crashes, to restock humankind in their own desolate future. Based on the 1983 John Varley novel. |
| 1989 | Warlock | Steve Miner | A warlock in the 17th century who has been sentenced to death for witchcraft, is transported to the 20th century, followed by a witch hunter who must stop the warlock from finding the Grand Grimoire. |
| 1990 | Frankenstein Unbound | Roger Corman | A scientist creates superweapon that also causes shifts in time. He is transported to 1817 where he meets Doctor Frankenstein and his monster, as well as Mary Shelley who bases her novel on true events. |
| 1990 | Back to the Future Part III | Robert Zemeckis | Marty McFly goes back to 1885 to stop an outlaw from killing Doc Brown in a duel, and bring him back home to 1985. |
| 1990 | 12:01 PM | Jonathan Heap | Kurtwood Smith plays Myron Castleman, an everyman-type who keeps repeating the same hour of his life, from 12:01pm to 1:00pm. The character is fully aware that the time loop is occurring, and nobody else appears to be aware of it. Each time the hour resets, Myron retains his memory (or as the film puts it, his consciousness), and despite his best attempts to understand what is happening, he ultimately realizes that he is entirely helpless to prevent the time bounce. Myron cannot even break the loop by killing himself, as he reappears, alive, at the next iteration; he is trapped in the loop for eternity. An adaptation of the short story by Richard A. Lupoff. |
| 1991 | Aditya 369 | Singeetam Srinivasa Rao | Aditya 369 is a time machine, invented by an absent-minded professor Ram Das. Krishna, a young post-graduate, Hema and a smuggler, Raja, want to procure the machine for their own reasons. |
| 1991 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | James Cameron | Having failed to prevent his existence, Skynet sends a shape-shifting terminator back to 1995 to kill 10-year-old John Connor, while future Connor sends a T-800 (Schwarzenegger) back to protect his past self and prevent a nuclear holocaust. |
| 1991 | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | Peter Hewitt | Two evil robot versions of Bill and Ted are sent back in time to kill them. |
| 1991 | Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah | Kazuki Ōmori | Terrorists from the year 2204 seek to destroy Japan and prevent it from becoming an economic superpower. They travel to 1944 and replace Godzilla with three genetically engineered creatures, which become the monster, King Ghidorah. |
| 1992 | Army of Darkness | Sam Raimi | Ash (Bruce Campbell), a supermarket employee, is sent back in time by a specific book to the 14th century to fight an undead army. |
| 1992 | Freejack | Geoff Murphy | In a future where time travel has been invented, the rich snatch people from history a moment before their death in order to use the bodies as hosts for their own minds after death. |
| 1992 | Timescape | David Twohy | A father and daughter meet travelers from the future, who intend to witness an impending catastrophe. The movie is based on the novel, Vintage Season, by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore, and was released on video as Grand Tour: Disaster in Time. |
| 1993 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III | Stuart Gillard | The turtles go back in time to feudal Japan to retrieve their kidnapped friend, April. |
| 1993 | Les Visiteurs | Jean-Marie Poiré | A 12th-century knight and his servant are mistakenly transported to the 20th century and find themselves adrift in modern society. |
| 1993 | Philadelphia Experiment II | Stephen Cornwell | A disastrous experiment in 1993 sends a stealth aircraft through a time portal into 1943 Germany. A sailor is pulled into the portal at the same time, and finds himself in a version of 1993 where the Nazis won World War II. |
| 1993 | 12:01 | Jack Sholder | Barry Thomas is an average office worker who witnesses the murder of a woman that he is attracted to. That night, during a storm, Barry gets a shock from a lamp's faulty power wire at exactly 12:01 a.m. In the next few days, he realizes that the world is trapped in a time loop, with himself the only one aware of it. Barry must prevent the murder and stop the time loop, or be caught in time forever. |
| 1993 | Groundhog Day | Harold Ramis | Weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is trapped re-living 2 February in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, leading him to re-examine his life and priorities. |
| 1994 | Time Chasers | David Giancola | An amateur inventor goes through time with an airplane to stop a villain from changing history for profit. |
| 1994 | A.P.E.X. | Phillip J. Roth | A time travel project probe from the year 2073 is sent to the year 1973 and goes wrong, creating a plague-ravaged, alternate timeline whose inhabitants are locked in a constant battle with killer robots. The hero must find a similar time machine in this alternate world and prevent the disaster from ever happening. |
| 1994 | Star Trek Generations | David Carson | USS Enterprise captains James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard meet through the effects of an energy ribbon. |
| 1994 | Timecop | Peter Hyams | The Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) is created to prevent alterations to the past. This causes a dilemma for the hero, Max Walker, who has to prevent time-travellers from altering time, but is tempted to do so himself, to prevent his wife's death. |
| 1995 | A Kid in King Arthur's Court | Michael Gottlieb | Loosely based on Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Calvin Fuller, a baseball-loving boy, falls into King Arthur's time. Dubbed a saviour, he dazzles Camelot with futuristic "magic," aids Arthur against a usurper, and wins the heart of Princess Katey. With Merlin's help, he returns home, hitting a home run and leaving a lasting impression on Arthur. |
| 1995 | Jumanji | | After being trapped within the world of the Jumanji board game for 26 years after getting sucked into it in 1969, Alan Parish is released by siblings Judy and Peter Shepard. Reuniting with his childhood friend Sarah Whittle, the four work together to finish the game. Alan and Sarah are transported back to 1969 and back into their child bodies. |
| 1995 | 12 Monkeys | Terry Gilliam | James Cole is sent back in time to acquire an unmutated form of a virus that has nearly wiped out humanity. |
| 1996 | Christmas Every Day | Larry Peerce | An American television movie based on William Dean Howells's 1892 short story, "Christmas Every Day". A selfish teenager is forced to relive the same Christmas every day until he comes to understand the true meaning of the holiday season. |
| 1996 | Doctor Who | Geoffrey Sax | The Doctor, in his eighth incarnation, has a showdown with the Master at the turn of the millennium, 31 December 1999. |
| 1996 | Star Trek: First Contact | Jonathan Frakes | The USS Enterprise follows the Borg back in time to stop them from altering history and preventing Earth's first warp flight and first contact with the Vulcans. |
| 1997 | Retroactive | Louis Morneau | An FBI agent repeatedly travels back in time to prevent a crime. The situation worsens each time around, until she decides to let things play out. |
| 1997 | Time Under Fire | Jeff Fahey | A US submarine runs into a time rift and a special unit goes on a mission to see what's on the other side. They find themselves in an alternate dystopian America, now a one-man dictatorship and decide to help the rebels. |
| 1998 | Run Lola Run / Lola Rennt | Tom Tykwer | Lola has to acquire 100,000 Deutsche Mark to save her boyfriend from the mob. The film follows one attempt after another to raise the money, each failure resetting time and restarting her run through the streets of Berlin. |
| 1998 | Lost in Space | Stephen Hopkins | In 2058, a family undertakes a voyage to a nearby star system to begin large-scale emigration from a soon-to-be uninhabitable Earth, but are thrown off course by a saboteur from the future and must try to find their way home. |
| 1998 | Rebirth of Mothra III | Okihiro Yoneda | Mothra travels back to the Cretaceous period to defeat the evil space monster, King Ghidorah, while he is younger and weaker. |
| 1999 | Time at the Top | Timothy Busfield, Elisha Cuthbert, Gabrielle Boni, Matthew Harbour | 14-year-old Susan Shawson travels in time in her building's elevator, as altered by a retired physicist living in her building. It transports her from 1998 back to the same place in other years, depending on the order of buttons pushed. In 1881, she meets Victoria Walker, a girl her own age in need of assistance with her own family problems. Together, Susan, Victoria, and her young brother, Robert, succeed in changing both the past and the future. |
| 1999 | Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | Jay Roach | Dr. Evil is back and invents a time machine that allows him to go back to 1969, so he can steal Austin Powers' mojo. |
| 1999 | Galaxy Quest | Dean Parisot | A jump back in time of 13 seconds is all the time lead actor Jason Nesmith (Tim Allen) needs to save his crew from being killed. |
| 1999 | The Time Shifters | Mario Philip Azzopardi | A reporter notices that the same faces keep appearing in photographs of 20th-century disasters. Deducing that they are time travellers, he tries to save the history he knows. |
| 1999 | Teen Knight | Phil Comeau | Peter (Kris Lemche) wins a trip to a medieval park. As Peter and his friends tour the castle, Lord Drakin casts a spell and sends the Peter and his friends back to 1383 where they have to stop Lord Drakin from taking the castle. Released on DVD as Medieval Park. |
| 1999 | Back to the '50s | Andrew Margetson | The English pop group S Club 7 is transported to a desert town in the year 1959 that is under the control of a gang with a corrupted sheriff as an ally. The group learns about the fate of a local chef at a diner and tries to prevent bad things despite threats against them from both the sheriff and the gang. |
| 1999 | The Devil's Arithmetic | Donna Deitch | A TV movie about a young woman who, during her family's Passover Seder, finds herself transported back to Poland in 1942 and sent to a death camp. |
| 2000 | Frequency | Gregory Hoblit | An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his father's life, but then must fix the consequences. |
| 2000 | Happy Accidents | Brad Anderson | A New York woman with a string of failed relationships meets a time traveler from the year 2470. |
| 2000 | Ditto | Kim Jung-kwon | Two people separated in time are somehow able to talk to each other using an amateur radio. The people in question are two students in the same school, one in 1979, the other in 2000. |
| 2000 | The Kid | Jon Turteltaub | A 40-year-old image consultant (Bruce Willis) finds himself being visited by his 10-year-old self. |
| 2000 | For All Time | Steven Schachter | A middle-aged man stumbles across an antique watch that transports him to 1896. He falls in love, and decides to stay. He breaks the watch, then sees the situation in a new light as complications occur. |
| 2000 | Il Mare | Lee Hyun-seung | Two protagonists live in a lake house two years apart in time, but are able to communicate through a mysterious post box. This movie inspired the 2006 American film, The Lake House. |
| 2001 | Black Knight | Gil Junger | After falling into a theme park's fetid moat, a custodian (Martin Lawrence) crawls out into fourteenth-century England. |
| 2001 | Donnie Darko | Richard Kelly | A teenager unknowingly re-lives October 1988 and is forced by a man in a demonic bunny suit to commit crimes in order to re-set the timeline. |
| 2001 | Just Visiting | Jean-Marie Poiré | A medieval knight and his serf travel to 21st-century Chicago, meeting the knight's descendant. But they must travel back to their time to ensure her birth. Remake of the 1993 French movie Les Visiteurs. |
| 2001 | Kate & Leopold | James Mangold | A duke time travels from 1876 to the present and falls in love with a career woman in New York. |
| 2001 | Pokémon 4Ever | Kunihiko Yuyama Jim Malone | The film focuses on Celebi, who travels to the future with a Young Professor Oak while being chased by a hunter. |
| 2001 | Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge | Kimberly J. Brown | TV film: In this Disney Channel movie, Marnie Piper travels through time in Halloweentown to find a spell book that will help her counteract the evil spell placed on Halloweentown. To return to present time, both Marnie and Luke travel through a time tunnel on a broomstick. |
| 2002 | 2009: Lost Memories (2009 loseuteu maemorijeu) | Si-myung Lee | |
| 2002 | Returner | Takashi Yamazaki | The human race is on the edge of annihilation after decades of war with an alien force. In an outpost in Tibet, mankind's last hope of survival is a time travel device. |
| 2002 | The Time Machine | Simon Wells | In this remake of the 1960s version of the film, directed by H. G. Wells' great-grandson, Dr. Alexander Hartdegen travels to the future hoping to find a time where they have learned how to change the past. In the year 802,701, he becomes involved in a struggle between surface-dwelling Eloi and the underground-dwelling Morlocks. |
| 2002 | Time Changer | Rich Christiano | A Bible professor from 1890 is sent forward in time to the present via a time machine, and he is astonished to see how commonplace sin has become due to the separation of religion from morality. |
| 2002 | Timequest | Robert Dyke | A time traveler prevents Kennedy's assassination and history takes an alternate course. |
| 2002 | Austin Powers in Goldmember | Jay Roach | Upon learning that his father has been kidnapped, Austin Powers must travel to 1975 and defeat the villain Goldmember – who is working with Dr. Evil. |
| 2002 | Cube 2: Hypercube | Andrzej Sekuła | A group of strangers mysteriously awakens in a giant cubic structure in which each room warps space-time in a different way. |
| 2003 | Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour | Rick Mayall | Eddie Hitler builds a time traveling toilet which he calls the TURDIS. |
| 2003 | Fun2shh... Dudes in the 10th Century | Imtiaz Punjabi | About a group of friends who end-up travelling back to 10th-century India. |
| 2003 | Timeline | Richard Donner | In this film adaptation of the book by Michael Crichton, archaeologists travel to medieval France to rescue their professor, and find themselves in the middle of a battle. |
| 2003 | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | Jonathan Mostow | In 2032, Skynet sends another Terminator back in time, this time to 2004, in a final attempt to kill John Connor before the inevitable nuclear holocaust on mankind. |
| 2004 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Alfonso Cuarón | Hermione Granger receives a Time-Turner from Professor McGonagall, so she can attend more classes than time would normally allow. She and Harry later use the Time-Turner to save Sirius Black and Buckbeak. |
| 2004 | Channel Chasers | Butch Hartman | Punished to a week without anymore television, Timmy wishes himself into the world of television to escape the harsh reality of his life. Alas, however, his carelessness with magic leads to his tyrannical babysitter taking over the world of the future, and now Timmy must stop her. |
| 2004 | Primer | Shane Carruth | Two friends build a time machine that allows them to create multiple, co-existing timelines. The effects and consequences of these interacting timelines, change the personalities of the characters and ruin their friendship. |
| 2004 | The Butterfly Effect | Eric Bress & J. Mackye Gruber | A college psychology student (Ashton Kutcher) learns that, by reading his childhood journals, he can temporarily travel to the past and inhabit his younger body. By changing his past behaviours, he changes his current life, with unforeseen consequences. |
| 2004 | 13 Going on 30 | Gary Winick | In 1987, a 13-year-old girl makes a birthday wish and wakes up as a 30-year-old woman. |
| 2005 | Fetching Cody | David Ray | Distraught over his girlfriend's drug addiction, small-time dope peddler Art (Jay Baruchel), uses a time machine to journey into the past in a desperate gamble to change her future. |
| 2005 | The Jacket | John Maybury | An amnesiac, Persian Gulf War veteran (Adrien Brody) is subjected to an experimental treatment which moves him forward 15 years. |
| 2005 | Slipstream | David van Eyssen | A socially inept scientist (Sean Astin) and a female FBI agent (Ivana Miličević) try to recover a time travel device (called "Slipstream") that was stolen by a group of bank robbers. |
| 2005 | A Sound of Thunder | Peter Hyams | For an extraordinary price, Time Safaris, Inc. will take clients through a wormhole to hunt dinosaur game. The plot is based loosely on the 1952 short story by Ray Bradbury, with the butterfly effect portrayed as much more pronounced. |
| 2005 | Summer Time Machine Blues | Katsuyuki Motohiro | Five college boys in a science fiction club break their air-conditioner's remote control. In the sweltering clubhouse, a time machine appears and they go back in time to retrieve a functioning controller, but this causes complications. |
| 2005 | Camp Slaughter | | A slasher film in which a group of present-day teenagers are sent back to 1981, and discover a summer camp which is stuck reliving the day a demented killer went on a rampage. |
| 2006 | The Lake House | Alejandro Agresti | A time-travel romance where two people living in the same house at a lake, at different times, are able to exchange letters through its mailbox and fall in love. |
| 2006 | Click | Frank Coraci | Adam Sandler is given a remote that lets him fast forward, pause, and rewind his life. |
| 2006 | The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | Mamoru Hosoda | A teenage girl discovers that she can leap through time. Based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1965 novel of the same name. |
| 2006 | Idiocracy | Mike Judge | In 2005, a completely average private named Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson) is selected for a hibernation program and is placed in suspended animation for is supposed to be one year, but ends up accidentally being five hundred years, and finds that the human race of the future have devolved with lower intelligence, making him easily the smartest man alive. |
| 2006 | Déjà Vu | Tony Scott | Denzel Washington is an ATF agent investigating a terrorist act, who is invited to assist in a government time-travel surveillance project. |
| 2006 | Christmas Do-Over | | In a remake of Christmas Every Day, a father has to repeat Christmas Day over and over until he realizes how selfish he has become and changes his ways. |
| 2006 | Salvage | | After finishing the graveyard shift at a convenience store, Claire is murdered in her home only to wake up in the convenience store, and start the cycle over again. An official selection of the 2006 Sundance Festival. |
| 2007 | Cinderella III: A Twist in Time | Frank Nissen | Cinderella's stepmother turns back time using the Fairy Godmother's magic wand to change the past and have one of her daughters marry the prince. |
| 2007 | Monica's Gang in an Adventure in Time | | The characters from Monica and Friends travels across time in search of the Four Elements to save reality as we know it. |
| 2007 | Next | Lee Tamahori | A Las Vegas magician, Nicolas Cage, able to see and live out scenarios 2 minutes before they actually happen, finds himself the target of an FBI agent trying to prevent a bombing. |
| 2007 | Bender's Big Score | Dwayne Carey-Hill | Alien scammers discover the code for time travel tattooed on Philip J. Fry's buttocks, and use it to send Bender back in time to steal priceless artifacts. |
| 2007 | Meet the Robinsons | Stephen Anderson | Young Lewis is taken to the year 2037 by his future son, Wilbur, to stop a "Bowler Hat Guy" who has stolen Lewis' memory-scanning machine. |
| 2007 | Premonition | Mennan Yapo | A housewife (Sandra Bullock) discovers that she is living the days around her husband's death in a non-chronological sequence, and attempts to prevent his death. |
| 2007 | Secret | Jay Chou | A high school music student discovers that she can travel forward in time with the help of a mysterious piano piece called "Secret". |
| 2007 | Timecrimes | Nacho Vigalondo | A man accidentally travels back to the past and meets himself there. |
| 2007 | The Last Day of Summer | | 11-year-old Luke gets his wish that every day could be the last day of summer. |
| 2008 | Love Story 2050 | Harry Baweja | About time travel to a utopian Mumbai in 2050 India. |
| 2008 | Minutemen | Lev L. Spiro | Three high-school outcasts use a time machine to save their classmates from embarrassing moments. Their time travel creates a black hole, which could destroy the world. A Disney Channel Original Movie. |
| 2008 | Stargate: Continuum | Martin Wood | In a direct-to-video film in the Stargate franchise, Ba'al (Cliff Simon) changes the timeline so that SG-1 never existed. Three people were unaffected by the change but are unable to do anything until Ba'al and the system lords arrive. |
| 2009 | Star Trek | J. J. Abrams | Spock's attempt to prevent a supernova fails, resulting in the destruction of the Romulan homeworld. The captain of a Romulan mining ship blames Spock, and both the Romulans and Spock fall through a black hole to the past, creating an alternate reality. |
| 2009 | Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life | Kunihiko Yuyama | Dialga sends Ash Ketchum, Brock, Dawn, and Sheena back in time to prevent Arceus from attacking humanity. |
| 2009 | Mr. Nobody | Jaco Van Dormael | A romantic drama about Nemo Nobody (Jared Leto), a 118-year-old man and the last mortal on Earth, who remembers alternate versions of his life and three ages when his life was changed by a decision. |
| 2009 | The Time Traveler's Wife | Robert Schwentke | A romantic drama about a Chicago librarian (Eric Bana) with a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, and the complications it creates for his marriage. Based on the Audrey Niffenegger novel. |
| 2009 | Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel | Gareth Carrivick | Three friends attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum in the middle of a British pub. Anna Faris plays a girl from the future who sets the adventure in motion. |
| 2009 | A Christmas Carol | Robert Zemeckis | On Christmas Eve, miserly moneylender Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey) is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, who convince him to change his ways. |
| 2009 | Land of the Lost | Brad Silberling | A disgraced paleontologist, his research assistant, and a macho tour guide find themselves in a strange, alternate world inhabited by dinosaurs, monkey people, and reptilian Sleestaks after they are sucked into a space-time vortex. |
| 2009 | Triangle | Christopher Smith | A woman who went on a yacht trip with her friends jumps to another ship after a mysterious weather condition, and gets caught up in a terrifying time loop. |
| 2010 | Action Replayy | Vipul Amrutlal Shah | Indian film. A young man named Bunty uses a time machine created by his girlfriend's grandfather to meet his own parents before they were married, and help them develop a more loving relationship. |
| 2010 | The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya | Tatsuya Ishihara | Kyon is the only one who knows that two of his classmates are missing and reality has changed. To restore his life, he gathers several keys to power an alien device and travel back three years. |
| 2010 | Hot Tub Time Machine | Steve Pink | Four friends spend a crazy, drunken night in a hot tub at a ski resort only to travel back in time to 1986. They are each presented with an opportunity to alter their futures. The film stars John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, and Clark Duke. |
| 2010 | Repeaters | Carl Bessai | A group of inmates at a rehabilitation facility are forced to repeat the same day over and over again. |
| 2010 | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Mike Newell | Disney's adaptation of the video game of the same name. Prince Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal) has to prevent someone from changing history using a special dagger which when fueled with a special "Sand of Time", allows its wielder to experience time differently. |
| 2010 | Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | Mamoru Hosoda | A teenage girl discovers that she can leap through time. Based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1965 novel The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. |
| 2010 | Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D: Bonds Beyond Time | Kenichi Takeshita | Series protagonists Yusei Fudo, Jaden Yuki and Yugi Muto encounter Turbo Duelist Paradox, who is from the future, and who believes the only way to prevent his future from happening is to stop Duel Monsters from existing. |
| 2010 | Shrek Forever After | Mike Mitchell | When Shrek begins missing his old life, he makes a deal with Rumpelstiltskin and is sent to an alternate timeline where he never existed and where Rumpelstiltskin rules. |
| 2011 | Ticking Clock | Ernie Barbarash | James is a guy from the year 2032 who comes back in time with a custom-made watch that is a time machine. He travels back in time to fix his life but fails. |
| 2011 | Source Code | Duncan Jones | Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) died in a helicopter crash and has been inserted in a computer program (Source Code) which transfers him to the body of a deceased person for the last eight minutes of his life. He cannot change the past, but he must use information from there to alter the future and prevent a bombing |
| 2011 | Midnight in Paris | Woody Allen | While visiting Paris with his fiancée, an American writer (Owen Wilson) discovers a way to travel back to the 1920s, allowing him to mingle with and draw inspiration from historical greats such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein. |
| 2011 | 12 Dates of Christmas | James Hayman | Kate finds herself reliving Christmas Eve (including a blind date with a man named Miles) over and over again. She must discover how to break the cycle – should she attempt to win back her ex-boyfriend Jack, or should she pursue Miles, or something else? |
| 2011 | The Man from the Future | Cláudio Torres | When a brilliant physicist inadvertently creates a time machine, he goes back 20 years to the party where his girlfriend left him. Changing the events of that evening have effects that he didn't anticipate. |
| 2012 | Adhisaya Ulagam | Shakthi Scott | Prehistoric adventure film about time travel to the era of dinosaurs. The first dinosaur film of India. |
| 2012 | Safety Not Guaranteed | Colin Trevorrow | A comedy film inspired by a 1997 classified ad in Backwoods Home Magazine from a person asking for someone to accompany him in time travel. |
| 2012 | Men in Black 3 | Barry Sonnenfeld | Agent J travels back in time to MIB's early years in the 1960s in order to stop an alien from assassinating his friend, Agent K, and changing history. |
| 2012 | Looper | Rian Johnson | Criminal organizations hire contract killers, called Loopers, to kill humans sent to them through time travel. |
| 2012 | Dimensions | Sloane U’Ren | Time travel, love and betrayal in 1920s England. A brilliant scientist becomes obsessed with revisiting his past – no matter what the cost. Jealousy, desire and greed surround him, clouding his judgement and sending him spiralling towards madness. |
| 2012 | Thermae Romae | Hideki Takeuchi | Roman architect, Lucius, repeatedly travels to present-day Japan, where he is inspired by modern baths and toilets. |
| 2012 | Mine Games | Richard Gray (director) | A group of friends vacationing in the woods discover their own corpses and realize they are trapped in a time loop. |
| 2013 | +1 | Dennis Iliadis | Three college friends hit the biggest party of the year, where a mysterious phenomenon disrupts the night, quickly descending into a chaos that challenges their friendships. |
| 2013 | Hyperfutura | James O'Brien | In a dystopian future, citizens without jobs are sent to work camps and never heard from again. Adam Leben is a laid-off factory worker. To save his life, he answers an ad for a medical test experiment, plunging down a rabbit hole of genetic engineering, mind control, and time travel. Based on the epic poem by Eric Kopatz. |
| 2013 | Ruby Red (German: Rubinrot) | Felix Fuchssteiner | A 16-year-old girl discovers that she has inherited her family's time-travel gene. To time-travel safely, she has to cooperate with a secret order of time travelers who have a special task for her in the 17th century. |
| 2013 | Haunter | Vincenzo Natali | The ghost of a teenager, Lisa Johnson (Abigail Breslin) who, along with her family, keeps reliving the same day (although she is the only one aware of it) tries to protect a young girl, Olivia (Eleanor Zichy) and her family from a dead serial killer, the Pale Man (Stephen McHattie), who can possess the living. |
| 2013 | I'll Follow You Down | Richie Mehta | A present-day professor disappears, traveling back in time to visit Albert Einstein. Twelve years later, his college-age son follows him to find out why. |
| 2013 | Shree | Rajesh Bachchani | As part of an experiment, a man unknowingly travels into the future only to find out that he is going to be framed in a series of killings. |
| 2013 | The A.R.K. Report | Shmuel Hoffman | In this short film, a young girl travels into the future to find the ancient Ark of the Covenant and prevent it from falling into the hands of an evil army. |
| 2013 | Coherence | James Ward Byrkit | On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. |
| 2013 | About Time | Richard Curtis | Tim's father tells his son that the men in their family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim makes numerous trips to the past to change his circumstances and those of his friends. |
| 2013 | Rewind | Jack Bender | A team of scientists and military personnel travel back in time to the 1920s to change the past and prevent a major terrorist attack on present day New York. |
| 2013 | 11 A.M. | Kim Hyun-seok | A group of time-travel researchers at a deep-sea facility make their first test run 24 hours into the future, only to discover the facility close to destruction. They escape back to the present but have less than 24 hours to avert the coming tragedy. Korean movie. |
| 2013 | Saving Santa | Leon Joosen Aaron Seelman | A lowly stable elf finds that he is the only one who can stop an invasion of the North Pole by using the secret of Santa's Sleigh, a TimeGlobe, to travel back in time to save Santa, twice. |
| 2014 | Mr. Peabody & Sherman | Rob Minkoff | The time-travelling adventures of an anthropomorphic canine and his adopted human son, as they endeavor to fix a time rift that they created. |
| 2014 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | Bryan Singer | The X-Men send Wolverine's consciousness to 1973 to prevent a war between the Sentinels and mutants. |
| 2014 | Edge of Tomorrow | Doug Liman | An officer (Tom Cruise) finds himself caught in a time loop in a war with an alien race. Based on 2004 novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. |
| 2014 | Predestination | Michael and Peter Spierig | A temporal agent goes back in time to catch an infamous terrorist known as the "Fizzle Bomber", and meets different versions of himself. Based on the short story, "All You Zombies", by Robert A. Heinlein. |
| 2014 | Time Lapse | Bradley D. King | A group of friends discover a machine that can take pictures of things 24 hours into the future and the troubles that this machine causes. |
| 2014 | Interstellar | Christopher Nolan | Set in the near future, a crew of astronauts travels through a wormhole to find a suitable new planet for humanity, experiencing time dilation on multiple occasions. |
| 2014 | Premature | Dan Beers | On one of the most important days of his life, Rob, a high school senior, finds himself in a time loop that is triggered every time he ejaculates. |
| 2014 | The Infinite Man | Hugh Sullivan | A man's attempts to construct the ultimate romantic weekend backfires when his quest for perfection traps his lover in an infinite loop. |
| 2014 | Movement and Location | Alexis Boling | An immigrant from 400 years in the future is sent back in time to live an easier life. |
| 2015 | Project Almanac | Dean Israelite | A group of teenagers construct a time machine, based on blueprints that the main character's father was developing for the United States military. |
| 2015 | Hot Tub Time Machine 2 | Steve Pink | The sequel of Hot Tub Time Machine. |
| 2015 | Synchronicity | Jacob Gentry | A physicist who invents a time machine must travel back to the past to uncover the truth about his creation and the woman who is trying to steal it. |
| 2015 | Indru Netru Naalai | R. Ravikumar | A scientist in 2065 invents a time machine and, to prove its capability, sends it back to 2015. However, the machine is discovered by three people who use the machine for reasons of their own. The first Indian Tamil-language science fiction film. |
| 2015 | Terminator Genisys | Alan Taylor | In 2029, Kyle Reese goes back in time to protect Sarah Connor, as previously established in The Terminator. When Reese arrives in 1984, he finds a whole new chronology, where Sarah was trained in combat from childhood. They try to figure out how to prevent Judgment Day. |
| 2015 | Kung Fury | David Sandberg | Short film. A martial artist cop travels from the 1980s to the 1940s to battle Adolf Hitler, taking a detour to Viking times in the process. |
| 2016 | Paradox | Michael Hurst | When a scientist on a team working on a time travel project successfully travels one hour into the future, he returns with shocking news. |
| 2016 | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Zack Snyder | The Flash travels back in time to warn Bruce Wayne of future apocalyptic events. |
| 2016 | Alice Through the Looking Glass | James Bobin | Alice uses the Chronosphere to travel back in time, where she encounters the younger versions of the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts. |
| 2016 | 24 | Vikram Kumar | Indian film about a scientist named Sethuraman who invents a time machine in the form of a watch but his evil twin brother, Athreya, will go to any lengths to get the device for himself. |
| 2016 | Aatadukundam Raa | G. Nageswara Reddy | Indian action-romance film involving time travel to ancient India. |
| 2016 | Baar Baar Dekho | Nitya Mehra | Indian romantic-drama about a man who tries to fix his relationship by skipping forwards and backwards through time. |
| 2016 | Doctor Strange | Scott Derrickson | Doctor Strange enters the Dark Dimension and uses the Eye of Agamotto to create a time loop around himself and Dormammu. After repeatedly killing Strange to no avail, Dormammu finally gives in to Strange's demand that he leave Earth. |
| 2016 | Your Name | Makoto Shinkai | Two high school students begin to swap bodies and form a relationship despite living three years apart in time. |
| 2017 | Before I Fall | Ry Russo-Young | A popular high school senior finds herself reliving the same day over and over. |
| 2017 | Happy Death Day | Christopher B. Landon | A snobby young woman is murdered at her birthday party. She wakes up the morning of her death, alive, facing the same day over and over again. |
| 2017 | Naked | Michael Tiddes | A naked man is caught in a time loop on the day of his wedding. |
| 2017 | Time Trap | Mark Dennis and Ben Foster | A group of students in a remote area of Texas, searching for their missing professor, discover a mysterious cave by accident. While exploring the cave, the group experience a series of bizarre and dangerous events related to spacetime distortion caused by time dilation |
| 2017 | The Endless | Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | Two brothers return to the 'UFO death cult' camp where they were raised and encounter people caught in time loops. |
| 2017 | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | Jake Kasdan | In 1996, teenager Alex becomes trapped in the video game Jumanji, he only feels he has been in maybe a few months to discover from people newly sucked into the game that 21 years have passed, and after beating the game, he finds himself brought back to 1996 in his teenage body. |
| 2018 | When We First Met | Ari Sandel | A guy in love uses a photobox to travel back in time to change his life. |
| 2018 | A Wrinkle in Time | Ava DuVernay | Thirteen-year-old middle school student Meg Murry struggles to adjust to both her school and home life ever since her father Alex, a well-renowned scientist, mysteriously disappeared. |
| 2018 | Tamizh Padam 2 | C. S. Amudhan | Indian parody film involving time travel to ancient India in the 3rd-century BC. |
| 2018 | Time Freak | Andrew Bowler | When a physics student is dumped by his girlfriend, he invents a time machine and uses it to go back in time in order to fix every mistake he made during the relationship. |
| 2018 | The Last Sharknado: It's About Time | Anthony C. Ferrante | In order to save the world from the titular "sharknadoes", Fin Shepard, his wife April and their friends Nova, Bryan and Skye travel through time to destroy the storms in different historical eras. |
| 2019 | Happy Death Day 2U | Christopher B. Landon | Tree Gelbman discovers that dying over and over was surprisingly easier than the dangers that lie ahead. |
| 2019 | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part | Mike Mitchell | Rex Dangervest (a version of Emmet from the future), travels through time to save his past self from the Stairgate and makes him tough so he can crash Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi's wedding and start Armamageddon, so he can revenge his friends who abandoned him. |
| 2019 | Non ci resta che il crimine | Massimiliano Bruno | Three friends enter a wormhole and return in time to 1982 in Rome, Italy. |
| 2019 | See You Yesterday | Stefon Bristol | An ambitious science prodigy creates time machines, in order to save her brother from a fatal incident. As she tries to alter the events of the past, she will eventually face the perilous consequences of time travel. |
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | Anthony and Joe Russo | The Avengers travel back in time to the events of The Avengers (2012), Thor: The Dark World (2013), and Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) in order to retrieve the Infinity Stones. A final battle ensues after Nebula's cybernetic implants interface with those of her 2014 counterpart and alerts 2014 Thanos to their plans to reverse the Blip from Avengers: Infinity War. |
| 2019 | Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | André Øvredal | In the third act, the main character, Stella Nicholls, is temporarily taken back in time and experiences the main antagonist's, Sarah Bellow's moment in her life, where she was tormented by her family. |
| 2019 | In the Shadow of the Moon | Jim Mickle | A Philadelphia police officer struggles with a lifelong obsession to track down a mysterious serial killer whose crimes defy explanation. |
| 2019 | Hello World | Tomohiko Itō | A man travels in time from the year 2027 to relive his school years and to correct a bad decision in his life. |
| 2019 | Terminator: Dark Fate | Tim Miller | A new Terminator (Gabriel Luna) is sent from the future to eliminate the new future leader of humanity, following John Connor's demise. |
| 2020 | Bill & Ted Face the Music | Dean Parisot | Bill & Ted go to the future to get the music they were destined to write and save reality before it collapses, while their daughters go to the past to retrieve musicians in order to help their fathers. |
| 2020 | Tenet | Christopher Nolan | The plot follows a secret agent (John David Washington) as he manipulates the flow of time to prevent World War III. |
| 2020 | Boss Level | Joe Carnahan | A retired special forces soldier tries to escape a never-ending time loop that results in his death. |
| 2020 | Palm Springs | Max Barbakow | Two strangers meet at a wedding in Palm Springs and get stuck in a time loop. |
| 2021 | Dikkiloona | Karthik Yogi | Indian film about a man who tries to change his past by travelling back in time. |
| 2021 | The Map of Tiny Perfect Things | Lev Grossman | Two teenagers create routines and perfect moments while stuck in a time loop together. |
| 2021 | Hi, Mom | Jia Ling | A young woman finds herself transported back in time from her mother's deathbed in 2001 to 1981, the year before her birth. She befriends her mother and tries to set her up for a better life. |
| 2021 | Zack Snyder's Justice League | Zack Snyder | Barry Allen (The Flash) enters the Speed Force and reverses time in order to prevent the Unity of the Mother Boxes. |
| 2021 | The Tomorrow War | Chris McKay | The world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: thirty years in the future, mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. |
| 2021 | Maanaadu | Venkat Prabhu | Indian film. A man and a police officer get trapped in a time loop on the day of the chief minister's public conference. Despite attempting to escape, they must live the same day over and over again. |
| 2022 | Alice | Krystin Ver Linden | Historical drama/revenge thriller set in Antebellum Georgia, in which escaping slave Alice (Keke Palmer) inexplicably finds her way to 1973. |
| 2022 | The Adam Project | Shawn Levy | Fighter pilot Adam Reed (Ryan Reynolds) crash-lands in 2022 from 2050, where he teams with his twelve-year-old self in order to save their future. |
| 2022 | Bimbisara | Mallidi Vassishta | About the ancient Indian king Bimbisara who time travels to modern-day India. |
| 2023 | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | James Mangold | A fictionalized version of the Antikythera mechanism is used by Nazis in an attempt to rewrite World War II, however it instead takes them from 1969 to 212 BC, to the Siege of Syracuse. |
| 2023 | Mark Antony | Adhik Ravichandran | In 1995, a young mechanic named Mark finds a telephone which can contact the past, created by Chiranjeevi. He uses it to learn the truth about his father Antony, a gangster who died in 1975. |

## Television

Time travel is a recurrent theme in science fiction television programs. The list below covers television series for which time travel is central to the premise and direction of the plot and setting.
| Start date | End date | Title | Creator(s) | Description |
| 1951 | 1956 | Captain Z-Ro | Roy Steffens | Scientist Captain Z-Ro, working in his remote laboratory, safeguards mankind and history from harm. With his time machine, he both views history and sends someone back in time when the past has been altered. |
| 1959 | 1960 | The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show – "Peabody's Improbable History" segments | | Mr. Peabody and Sherman travel to different places and events in history using the WABAC time machine. |
| 1963 (classic) 2005 (revival) | 1989 (classic) – (revival) | Doctor Who | Sydney Newman (classic), Russell T Davies, Steven Moffat, Chris Chibnall (revival) | A Time Lord called "the Doctor", an extraterrestrial being, to all appearances human, from the planet Gallifrey explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. Accompanied by a number of companions, the Doctor combats a variety of foes while working to save civilisations and help people in need. |
| 1966 | 1967 | It's About Time | Sherwood Schwartz | Two astronauts accidentally travel to prehistoric Earth. Unable to return, they make friends with cave-people. When they do return, they inadvertently bring some with them, who must learn to get along in the 1960s. |
| 1966 | 1967 | The Time Tunnel | Irwin Allen | In a demonstration, a scientist turns on the experimental time tunnel, where he finds himself on board the R.M.S. Titanic. Another joins him and both are stuck in time. Each week they have a new adventure in history. |
| 1970 | 1971 | Catweazle | Richard Carpenter | An 11th-century wizard accidentally travels to 1969 England. He makes many humorous mistakes while trying to find his way back home. |
| 1970 | 1971 | Timeslip | John Cooper | Two time-traveling children visit both the past and future. |
| 1972 | 1972 | Time Traveller | Yasutaka Tsutsui | Based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1965 novel The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. A high-school girl accidentally acquires the ability to travel through time, which leads to her reliving multiple time loops. |
| 1974 | 1976 | Land of the Lost | Sid & Marty Krofft | A family are trapped in an alternate universe inhabited by dinosaurs, a primate-type people called Pakuni, and aggressive humanoid/lizard creatures called Sleestak. |
| 1979 | 1982 | Sapphire & Steel | Peter J. Hammond | Two time-traveling, inter-dimensional agents protect and guard the order of time in this British drama. |
| 1982 | 1983 | Voyagers! | James D. Parriott | A member of a league of time travelers, called Voyagers, and a boy travel through time repairing errors in world history. |
| 1986 | 1986 | Outlaws | Nicholas Corea | Five cowboys of the 1880s are sent to 1986 by a lightning strike. With no way to get back home, they start a detective agency to make a living. |
| 1988 | 1988 | Moondial | Helen Cresswell | A girl travels to the past with the help of a moondial, where she meets two children from earlier centuries and helps them with their unhappy lives. |
| 1988 | 2017 | Red Dwarf | Rob Grant & Doug Naylor | After 3 million years, Dave Lister leaves stasis as the last human being alive. He is aboard the ship Red Dwarf, in deep space and travelling at nearly the speed of light. Time travel is frequent in the series – usually into the past. |
| 1988 | 1999 | Mystery Science Theater 3000 | Joel Hodgson | In the later seasons, Mike Nelson and his robot co-stars find themselves traveling through time, ending up in places including ancient Rome. Additionally, throughout the series, movies with time travel as a major theme are shown. |
| 1988 | 1989 | Gunbuster | Hideaki Anno | Follows a group of pilots controlling advanced mech suits fighting aliens attempting to destroy the human race, often experiencing time dilation. |
| 1989 | 1993 | Quantum Leap | Donald P. Bellisario | Dr. Sam Beckett becomes stuck in his past during a time-travel experiment and, in trying to return to the present time, temporarily takes the place of other people and corrects historical mistakes, thus triggering the next time jump. In his travels, he is aided by a hologram of his friend, Al. |
| 1990 | 1991 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures | | An animated spin-off of the movies Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. |
| 1991 | 1992 | Back to the Future: The Animated Series | Bob Gale | An animated spin-off that continues on from Back to the Future Part III. |
| 1992 | 1993 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures | | A live action spin-off of the movies Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. |
| 1993 | 1999 | Goodnight Sweetheart | Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran | An accidental time traveller, Gary Sparrow, leads a double life after discovering a time portal allowing him to travel between 1990s London and wartime London of 1939–1945. |
| 1993 | 1994 | Time Trax | Creators: Harve Bennett, Jeffrey M. Hayes, Grant Rosenberg· | A police officer from the 22nd century (Dale Midkiff) makes his way back to the present time to track down fugitives from the future. |
| 1994 | 1994 | Toki o Kakeru Shōjo | Yasutaka Tsutsui, Ryoichi Kimizuka | Based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1965 novel The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. A high-school girl accidentally acquires the ability to travel through time, which leads to her reliving multiple time loops. |
| 1996 | 1999 | Beast Wars: Transformers | Bob Forward, Larry DiTillio | Sequel to The Transformers. In prehistoric Earth, Predacon leader Megatron plots to change history, ensuring Predacon dominance in the future. |
| 1997 | 1997 | Crime Traveller | Anthony Horowitz | Jeff Slade (Michael French) uses a time machine to witness crimes in the past, then solve them in the present. |
| 1998 | 2001 | Seven Days | Christopher & Zachary Crowe | A secret branch of the NSA uses a time machine to travel back in time to avert disasters. The machine, which was found at Roswell, New Mexico, can only jump back seven days. |
| 1999 | 2001 | Twice in a Lifetime | Steve Sohmer | Individuals who have reached the end of their lives in one timeline are given three days to travel into their past and convince their younger selves to make a different choice at a pivotal point in their lives. |
| 1999 | 2006 | Lorong Waktu | Deddy Mizwar | Ramadan TV series. Islamic adventure of a Ustād who found a time machine. |
| 2000 | 2001 | Mirai Sentai Timeranger | | Four police officers travel from the year 3000 to the year 2000 to arrest time fugitives. |
| 2000 | 2005 | Andromeda | Creators: Robert Hewitt Wolfe and based on unused concepts by Gene Roddenberry | Follows Captain Dylan Hunt after he travels 300 years into the future as the result of time dilation and finds the galactic system he has lived under has been overturned for 300 years, leaving the universe in chaos, and he must use his knowledge of the past, as well as a new crew, to once again bring balance to the galaxy. Time dilation frequently appears within the series, but normal time travel is used once. |
| 2000 | 2006 | Star Trek: Enterprise | Creators: Rick Berman, Brannon Braga | Various species from the 30th century are having a "Temporal Cold War" that is interfering with life in the 22nd century, which affects the lives of the crew of the Enterprise (NX-01). |
| 2001 | 2004 | Samurai Jack | Genndy Tartakovsky | An ancient demon throws the hero, Samurai Jack, into the future, to give himself enough time to conquer the world. |
| 2001 | 2003 | Time Squad | Dave Wasson | Time cops from the year 1,000,000,000 AD travel back in time to keep famous historical figures from diverting the course of history. A Cartoon Network series. |
| 2001 | 2001 | Power Rangers Time Force | | Four police officers travel from the year 3000 to the year 2001 to arrest time fugitives. American adaptation of Mirai Sentai Timeranger. |
| 2002 | 2004 | Odyssey 5 | Manny Coto, David Carson | After witnessing the destruction of Earth from space, five astronauts are sent back in time to determine how the earth was destroyed and prevent it from happening. |
| 2002 | 2003 | Do Over | Rick Wiener and Kenny Schwarz | Joel Larsen (Penn Badgley), age 34, has an accident that sends him back to 1981, when he was 14. He awakes in his teenage body, with his adult memories intact. With adult wisdom, though hampered by adolescent urges, Joel sets out to right the wrongs that will befall his family. |
| 2002 | 2002 | That Was Then | Dan Cohn, Jeff Kline, Jeremy Miller | A 30-year-old who regrets his mistakes from the past, finds himself back in high school, getting a chance to do some things over. |
| 2003 | 2005 | Tru Calling | Jon Harmon Feldman | A young woman (Eliza Dushku) who works in the city morgue receives requests from corpses to stop their untimely deaths and then wakes up the day before, in order to attempt to save them. |
| 2004 | 2004 | 5ive Days to Midnight | Robert Zappia, David Aaron Cohen, Anthony Peckham and Cindy Myers | When college professor J.T. Neumeyer (Timothy Hutton) discovers a police file that outlines the details of his murder – which is to take place five days in the future – he wastes no time trying to save his own life. |
| 2004 | 2010 | Lost | J. J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse | Survivors of a plane crash on a mysterious island in the South Pacific Ocean. Desmond Hume becomes "unstuck in time" due to electromagnetic radiation. Other characters jump erratically forwards and backwards through time. |
| 2004 | 2006 | Phil of the Future | Tim Maile and Douglas Tuber | A family attempts to repair their spaceship after being stranded in the past, or modern day, while maintaining the appearance of being normal people. |
| 2005 | 2007 | Time Warp Trio | Executive producer: Jim Rapsas | A children's cartoon where, using books, three children travel through time and space. Based on the books by Jon Scieszka. |
| 2006 | 2011 | Torchwood | Russell T Davies Chris Chibnall Jane Espenson John Fay | Humans and aliens from different periods in time start to come to Earth by means of a rift in the space/time continuum. (Spin-off from Doctor Who.) |
| 2006 | 2010 | Heroes | Tim Kring | Three heroes can travel in time and space. Apocalyptic disasters happen and the characters travel back and forth in an attempt to prevent them. |
| 2006 | 2007 | Life on Mars | Matthew Graham Ashley Pharoah Tony Jordan Chris Chibnall | A police officer must learn to adapt to the way things were done in the 1970s after being thrown back in time by an accident. The U.S. version of the series, Life on Mars, starring Jason O'Mara, aired in 2008–2009. |
| 2006 | 2007 | Transformers: Cybertron | | The Autobot Vector Prime is a defender of space-time. |
| 2006 | 2007 | Day Break | Paul Zbyszewski | A policeman must relive the day when his girlfriend gets murdered so that he can prevent it from happening. A suspenseful variation on the Groundhog Day concept. |
| 2007 | 2011 | Primeval | | Portals to different time periods start opening up and creatures from the past and future come through. There are indications that the portals are man-made, but their exact origin is shrouded in mystery. |
| 2007 | 2008 | Kamen Rider Den-O | | Evil creatures come from a possible future to kill a human whose existence dooms them. They grant wishes to weak-willed humans which allows them to travel farther back in time. |
| 2007 | 2007 | Journeyman | Kevin Falls Matt McGuinness Tom Szentgyorgyi | A man finds himself jumping through time, unable to stop or control the jumps. A woman from 1948 also jumps into the future. Unable to jump home, she begins a legal career. They fall in love, but she jumps back home. For unknown reasons, they now jump to the same times, and she offers him advice and assistance. |
| 2008 | 2008 | New Amsterdam | Allan Loeb and Christian Taylor | John Amsterdam, a detective with the New York Police Department, is actually a 400-year-old Dutch settler of the city, then known as New Amsterdam. Granted immortality after a heroic deed; he has led several dozen lives, giving him knowledge that helps him solve crimes in modern New York City. |
| 2008 | 2010 | Ashes to Ashes | Matthew Graham Ashley Pharoah Julie Rutterford Mark Greig Jack Lothian | A spin-off series from Life on Mars in which Alex Drake, a police officer with the London Metropolitan Police, who is shot in 2008, awakes in 1981 where she meets characters from the original Life on Mars series. |
| 2008 | 2009 | Kamen Rider Kiva | | In parallel storylines in 1986 and 2008, a time traveler has to prevent his own birth so that his love may live, but instead he ensures his own existence by saving his father from being killed by the series' antagonist. |
| 2008 | 2012 | Fringe | | In season 4 and 5 of Fringe, time travel is used by the Observers as a means to take over human civilization in 2015. Olivia and her team are sent from the year 2015 to the year 2036 to fight off the Observers. |
| 2008 | 2009 | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | | A female Terminator from the year 2027 comes back to 1999 to protect a young John Connor, the future leader of the human resistance. They move in time to hide him, but find enemies wherever they go. |
| 2009 | 2017 | Dinosaur Train | Craig Bartlett | A Tyrannosaurus named Buddy travels with his adopted Pteranodon family on the Dinosaur Train, which can visit the entire Mesozoic Era, the "Age of Dinosaurs", passing through magical Time Tunnels to meet dinosaurs in Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous times. |
| 2009 | 2009 | Paradox | Lizzie Mickery | Detectives investigate images being broadcast to the laboratory of eminent astrophysicist, Dr. Christian King (Emun Elliott), which appear to show catastrophic events in the future. |
| 2009 | 2011 | Being Erica | Jana Sinyor | Erica Strange begins seeing a counselor to deal with regrets in her life, only to discover the counselor (Michael Riley) has the ability to send her back in time to actually change these events. |
| 2009 | 2010 | FlashForward | Brannon Braga and David S. Goyer | An incident renders the entire population of Earth unconscious for two minutes in 2009. During the "Black Out" the consciousness of the entire planet shifts forward six months into the future, where they see what could occur that day. |
| 2010 | 2012 | Mary Shelley's Frankenhole | Dino Stamotopolous | Dr. Victor Frankenstein has created "Frankenholes" to every time period of the past and the future. This allows historical figures and celebrities to seek the doctor's services. Although many classic horror monsters are present, the series' focus is on the mad scientist and his family. |
| 2011 | 2011 | Hoops & Yoyo Ruin Christmas | | In a TV special, Hoops and Yoyo accidentally travel through a wormhole and meet Santa Claus when he was still Kris Kringle. |
| 2011 | 2011 | Puella Magi Madoka Magica | Gen Urobuchi | A mysterious girl, named Homura Akemi, has made a contract with a being known as Kyubey, to go back in time and save the titular character. |
| 2011 | 2011 | Terra Nova | | When Earth is threatened with extinction in 2149, specially-selected humans travel back 85 million years in hopes of preventing the later disaster. However, they arrive on a parallel version of Earth, thus avoiding a temporal paradox. |
| 2011 | 2011 | Steins;Gate | Chiyomaru Shikura | A self-proclaimed "mad scientist" discovers that a new cell phone-operated microwave oven can send text messages back in time. A friend adapts it to send memories, effectively allowing time travel. |
| 2011 | 2018 | Once Upon a Time | Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz | Storybook characters from the New Enchanted Forest fall into a magical portal created by a time-traveling spell to the Land Without Magic (our world) and a causal loop. |
| 2012 | 2012 | Primeval: New World | | A Canadian spin-off series to Primeval in which a team of specialists deal with animals and people from other times who have travelled to present day through anomalies. |
| 2012 | 2015 | Continuum | | A series on the conflict between a police officer representing future corporations, and a group of anti-corporate rebels, each from the year 2077, who time-travel to Vancouver, BC around the year 2012. |
| 2013 | 2022 | Attack on Titan | Hajime Isayama | The main character of the series, Eren Jaeger, and his brother Zeke, travel back in time through their father's memories through the power of the Founding Titan. Zeke attempts to convince his brother of their father's priority of the Eldian Restorationist movement above all else but is shocked to learn of his role in persuading Grisha into slaughtering the Reiss family, the Attack Titan's ability to see the memories of its future inheritors, and of the future memories Eren showed their father. |
| 2014 | – | Outlander | Based on Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series | Travel through time from the 1940s to 1740s. A woman from the 1940s time travels through standing stones in Scotland to the 1740s. |
| 2014 | 2023 | The Flash | Based on the DC Comics character Flash | A crime scene investigator who has gained the power to move at superhuman speeds becomes a superhero crime-fighter. It is a spin-off from Arrow, existing in the same DC universe. |
| 2015 | 2018 | 12 Monkeys | Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett | Time traveler James Cole travels from the year 2043 to the present day to stop the release of a deadly virus by the enigmatic organization known as "The Army of the Twelve Monkeys". |
| 2015 | 2020 | El ministerio del tiempo | Pablo Olivares and Javier Olivares | The Ministry of Time is a Spanish government institution. Its patrols watch the doors of time so intruders from other eras cannot change history for their own benefit. |
| 2016 | 2016 | Erased | Kei Sanbe | Satoru Fujinuma can travel back to a time moments before a life-threatening incident. Going back 18 years, to when he was in elementary school, he has an opportunity to prevent a kidnapping. |
| 2016 | 2022 | Legends of Tomorrow | Based on the DC Comics characters | Time Master, Rip Hunter, travels back in time to the present day where he brings together a team of heroes and villains to prevent those who would disrupt time for their benefit. |
| 2016 | 2016 | 11.22.63 | Stephen King | A man is presented with the chance to travel back in time and attempt to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. |
| 2016 | – | Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World | Tappei Nagatsuki | Subaru Natsuki finds himself on another world, attacked, and saved by a girl. Soon, they are attacked again and killed. He reawakens to the place in which he was reborn and has gained an ability to rewind time to a certain point by dying. |
| 2016 | 2019 | Milo Murphy's Law | Dan Povenmire, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh | Bureau of Time Travel Agents from the future travel back in time to prevent pistachios from going extinct. |
| 2016 | 2018 | Timeless | Shawn Ryan, Eric Kripke | History professor, scientist, and soldier team up to stop a time-traveling criminal who seeks to change the course of American history in order to prevent the rise of a shadowy organization. |
| 2016 | 2018 | Travellers | Brad Wright | Hundreds of years from now, surviving humans discover how to send consciousness back through time, into people of the 21st century, while attempting to change the path of humanity. |
| 2016 | 2017 | Frequency | Jeremy Carver | Based on the 2000 film of the same name. In 2016, a detective discovers that she can speak to her deceased father via his old ham radio. Her attempts to save his life trigger the "butterfly effect", changing the present. To fix the damage, she must work with her father across decades to solve an old murder case. |
| 2017 | 2017 | Making History | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, Julius Sharpe | Three friends from two different centuries experience the thrill of time travel and its unexpected results. |
| 2017 | 2017 | Time After Time | Kevin Williamson | Based on the 1979 novel of the same name, which was previously adapted as a feature film. H. G. Wells travels to 2017 on his time machine to capture Jack the Ripper. |
| 2017 | 2017 | Sagrada Reset | Shin'ya Kawatsura | |
| 2017 | 2017 | Tunnel | Choi Jin-hee, Studio Dragon | A police detective trying to find a serial killer chases a suspect through a tunnel, only to wind up 30 years in the future. The series had a Thai remake in 2019. |
| 2017 | 2020 | Dark | Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese | A Netflix series; the disappearance of several locals, and other mysterious incidents around a power plant in the fictional town of Winden, Germany, spurs a mystery that occurs in 33 year cycles, starting originally in 1953, 1986, and 2019. |
| 2017 | – | Find Me in Paris | | A ballerina/princess from 1905 finds herself transported to 2018. |
| 2019 | 2019 | Twice Upon a Time | Guillaume Nicloux | Arte/Netflix miniseries. Vincent Dauda (Gaspard Ulliel), dreams of winning back his ex, Louise (Freya Mavor). One day he is delivered a package he never ordered. A strange wooden box, without any bottom, through which he can travel through time. It just so happens to bring him back to Louise before they split up. |
| 2020 | 2020 | JL50 | Shailender Vyas | About an Indian airplane which travels ahead 35 years in time through a wormhole. |
| 2020 | 2020 | Mirakel | | In 2020 two Swedish scientists, Vilgot and Anna-Karin, develop an artificial wormhole (also known as an artificial black hole) in an attempt to control the electricity market. It malfunctions and instead causes two girls, Mira in 2020 and Rakel in 1920, to travel through time and swap bodies with each other. |
| 2021 | 2023 | Loki | Michael Waldron | An alternate version of Loki (Marvel Cinematic Universe) is captured by the Time Variance Authority (TVA), whose agents travel to different points in time in order to preserve the "Sacred Timeline". |
| 2021 | – | Link Click | Li Haoling | Using superpowers to enter their clientele's photos one by one, Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang take their work seriously at "Time Photo Studio," a small photography shop set in the backdrop of a modern metropolis. Each job can be full of danger, but nothing is more important than fulfilling every order, no matter the scale...or peril involved! |
| 2021 | – | Tokyo Revengers | Ken Wakui | |
| 2021 | – | Tuttle Twins | Daniel Harmon | A grandmother takes her twin grandchildren through time on her mobility scooter to meet historical figures. |
| 2022 | 2022 | Again My Life | Han Chul-soo, Kim Yong-min | A young prosecutor who gets killed while trying to take down a powerful corrupted politician had his consciousness sent back to 15 years ago by a female Grim Reaper, in order to pursue justice. |
| 2022 | – | Midnight at the Pera Palace | | Modern-day journalist Esra finds herself thrust back into 1919 via a portal in the historic Pera Palace Hotel and must attempt to foil a plot there which could change the course of Turkish history. |
| 2022 | 2022 | Summer Time Rendering | | In his attempts to overcome the mysterious phenomena afflicting his hometown of Hitogashima, Shinpei Ajiro must often restart from "save points" after being killed. The mechanics of time travel and its interactions with said phenomena present Shinpei with both peril and opportunity. |
| 2022 | 2022 | The Time Traveler's Wife | Steven Moffat | A romantic drama about a man with a genetic disorder which causes him to sporadically travel through time for short periods, and the complications it creates for his marriage. Based on the Audrey Niffenegger novel. |
| 2023 | 2023 | Scott Pilgrim Takes Off | | The titular character, Scott Pilgrim, is taken to the future by his older self during his fight with Matthew Patel in order to prevent his relationship with Ramona Flowers and his subsequent battles with her Seven Evil Exes from happening. Present Scott was able to return home thanks to a future version of Ramona, but the lives of his friends as well as the Exes changed after initially believing him dead with the former now reformed after getting full closure from the previous relationships with Ramona. |
| 2023 | 2023 | Bodies | Paul Tomalin | The story starts with the appearance of a dead body in Longharvest Lane in the Whitechapel area of London. This event happens in the same location in four years – 1890, 1941, 2023 and 2053 – and leads to four investigations by Metropolitan Police detectives that eventually become interlinked, with far-reaching consequences. |

### Game shows

| Start date | End date | Title | Production company | Description |
| 1993 | 1995 | Time Busters | Broadsword Productions | A group of contestants travel back in time led by Professor McNulty on a Time Bus to investigate and restore original timelines from the evil Dr Paradox and his time vandals. |

## Video games

| Year | Title | Developer(s) | Description |
| 1995 | Chrono Trigger | Square | The player controls the protagonist and his companions, who travel through time to prevent a global catastrophe. |
| 1998 | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time | Nintendo | The player travels back and forth in time by 7 years in order to prevent Ganondorf from seizing the Triforce and taking over Hyrule. |
| 2000 | The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask | Nintendo | The player travels in a 3-day time loop in order to prevent Majora from crashing the Moon into Termina. |
| 2011 | The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword | Nintendo | The player travels back and forth from the distant past in order to prevent Ghirahim from resurrecting the Demon King Demise and seizing the Triforce. |
| 2019 | Outer Wilds | Mobius Digital | The player explores the ruins of the Nomai in a solar system stuck in a 22-minute time loop, attempting to discover the history of the Nomai, and the cause of the time loop. |
| 2021 | Twelve Minutes | Annapurna Interactive | The player must repeat the events of a titular 12-minute cycle to solve the mystery of his pregnant wife and the accusation that she murdered a man's father. |
| 2023 | In Stars and Time | Armor Games Studios | The player repeats the same two days, trying to save the country from the villain and break free from the time loop. |
| 2024 | Not For Broadcast: The Timeloop DLC | NotGames | The player, stuck in a timeloop with his boss during the so-called "Night of Smiles", must solve the mystery unfolding within the newsroom related to that day's special guest. |