Nuclear wars, germ warfare and terrible pollution have made planet Earth unfit for human habitation. Most men and women are sterile, the few children born have so many birth defects they can't survive for long. Suicide is very common, since little hope is left. These rescued humans, who of course are in much better health than any humans of the year 2989 A.D., are kept in a state of hibernation, to be sent to the distant future to repopulate an Earth that without humans will have healed itself. This is the last real hope of mankind.
Time travel has a serious problem.
Click here to see review of Millennium. Set in 1971 and narrated as a documentary, a team of scientists race to identify the mystery killer brought back in a secret U.S. satellite mission. An entire desert town has already been wiped out, and the fate of North America, possibly the world, is at stake. The audience feels for Batty at the same time they are praying they never meet up with him on a dark night. The story of an alien anthropologist who comes to Earth to study humans, has a love affair with a young widow, outraces police, evil scientists and the national guard to meet up with his transportation home, and draws some startling conclusions about human beings.