1959 – Dante’s Peak (1997)

spacetime coordinates: 1990’s Dante’s Peak, Washington

Dante’s Peak is a 1997 American disaster thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson starring Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton, and Charles Hallahan.

The film is set in the fictional town of Dante’s Peak where the inhabitants fight to survive a volcanic eruption from a long dormant stratovolcano that has suddenly woken up. Despite mostly negative reviews, it was a box office success and has since gained a cult following among disaster film aficionados. (wiki)

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1953 – Tracker (2010)

spacetime coordinates: 1903 around Auckland in the British colony of New Zealand

Tracker is a 2010 British–New Zealand action-thriller film directed by Ian Sharp and starring Ray Winstone as a renowned Afrikaner commando leader of the Second Boer War and a master tracker & Temuera Morrison as a Maori harpooner on a whaling ship. (wiki)

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1949 – O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

spacetime coordinates: 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 crime comedy-drama film written, produced, co-edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson, with Chris Thomas King, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning in supporting roles.

The film is a modern satire loosely based on Homer‘s epic Greek poem The Odyssey that incorporates social features of the American South. The title of the film is a reference to the Preston Sturges 1941 film Sullivan’s Travels, in which the protagonist is a director who wants to film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a fictitious book about the Great Depression. (wiki)

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1939 – Pathfinder (unrated version, 2007)

spacetime coordinates: a Viking Age expedition arrives in North America, intending to subjugate or slaughter the native “Skræling” population.

Pathfinder (also known by the alternate title Pathfinder: The Legend of the Ghost Warrior) is a 2007 American epic action film directed by Marcus Nispel. It stars Karl Urban, Clancy Brown, Ralf Moeller, Moon Bloodgood, Russell Means, Jay Tavare, and Nathaniel Arcand.

The film was loosely based on a 1987 Norwegian film Pathfinder. It was also adapted into a graphic novel by Dark Horse Comics. (wiki)

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1921 – Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)

spacetime coordinates: 2010’s Montana wilderness

Those Who Wish Me Dead is a 2021 American neo-Western action thriller film directed by Taylor Sheridan based on the novel of the same name by Michael Koryta

The film follows a boy (Finn Little) who witnesses the murder of his father and goes on the run with a smokejumper (Angelina Jolie) in the Montana wilderness to escape a pair of assassins (Nicholas Hoult and Aidan Gillen) hired to silence him; Jon Bernthal, Medina Senghore, and Jake Weber also star. (wiki)

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1890 – The Ice Road (2021)

spacetime coordinates: 2010’s Winnipeg > northern Manitoba

The Ice Road is a 2021 American action thriller film written and directed by Jonathan Hensleigh. It follows a team of truck drivers in a dangerous mission over a frozen ocean to deliver a crucial component to save workers trapped in a collapsed mine. (wiki)

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1875 – Infinite (2021)

Infinite is a 2021 American science fiction action film directed by Antoine Fuqua. Ian Shorr wrote the screenplay based off a story by Todd Stein, who in-turn adapted D. Eric Maikranz‘s 2009 novel The Reincarnationist Papers. The film stars Mark Wahlberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Cookson, Jason Mantzoukas, Rupert Friend, Toby Jones, and Dylan O’Brien. (wiki)

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