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1692 – Travelers (TV Series 2016–2018)

Hundreds of years from now the last surviving humans have developed the technology to send their consciousnesses back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These “travelers” assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future. (rottentomatoes)

Travelers is a Canadian-American science fiction television series created by Brad Wright, starring Eric McCormackMackenzie PorterJared AbrahamsonNesta CooperReilly Dolman, and Patrick Gilmore. (wiki)

documentary

1620 – Extinction: The Facts (2020 documentary)

With a million species at risk of extinction, David Attenborough explores how this crisis of biodiversity has consequences for us all.

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1586 – Before the Fire (2020)

spacetime coordinates: 2020. family farms near the small towns of Delmont and Letcher, South Dakota.

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Before the Fire is a pandemic thriller directed by Charlie Buhler. The film follows a TV actress whose career is cut short when an influenza pandemic sends her back to the small town she fled years before. (wiki)

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1564 – Mimic (1997)

spacetime coordinates: 1990’s New York City

Mimic is a 1997 American science fiction horror film co-written and directed by Guillermo del Toro based on Donald A. Wollheim‘s short story of the same name, and starring Mira SorvinoJeremy NorthamJosh BrolinCharles S. DuttonGiancarlo Giannini and F. Murray Abraham. The film features Norman Reedus in his Hollywood debut. (wiki)

Originally planned as a single 30-min. short as part of a feature of sci-fi/horror/comedy shorts by Miramax. The other segments also grew into the features Impostor (2001) and Alien Love Triangle (2008).

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1555 – Cooties (2014)

spacetime coordinates: 2013 – Fort Chicken, Illinois

Cooties is a 2014 American horror comedy film directed by Jonathan MilottCary Murnion from a screenplay written by Ian Brennan and Leigh Whannell. The film stars Elijah WoodAlison PillRainn WilsonJack McBrayer, WhannellNasim Pedrad, Brennan, and Jorge Garcia as a group of elementary school employees who fight to survive an outbreak among students that turn them aggressive and cannibalistic. (wiki)

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1552 – Outbreak (1995)

spacetime coordinates: The film focuses on an outbreak of a fictional Ebola-like Motaba virus, in Zaire and later in a small town in the United States. It is primarily set in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the fictional town of Cedar Creek, CaliforniaOutbreak‘s plot speculates how far military and civilian agencies might go to contain the spread of a deadly, contagious disease.

outbreak_ver2_xlgOutbreak is a 1995 American medical disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and based on Richard Preston‘s 1994 nonfiction book The Hot Zone. The film stars Dustin HoffmanRene RussoMorgan Freeman and Donald Sutherland, and co-stars Cuba Gooding Jr.Kevin Spacey and Patrick Dempsey. (wiki)

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The single biggest threat to man’s continued dominance on the planet is the virus.

— Joshua Lederberg, Ph.D., Nobel laureate, Film introduction: Outbreak (1995)
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1549 – Flu (2013)

spacetime coordinates: 2010’s district of Bundang in Seongnam (satellite city of Seoul)

Flu (Korean: 감기; RR: Gamgi; alternatively titled The Flu) is a 2013 South Korean disaster film written and directed by Kim Sung-su, about an outbreak of a deadly strain of H5N1 that kills its victims within 36 hours, throwing the district of Bundang in Seongnam, which has a population of nearly half a million people, into chaos. It stars Jang Hyuk and Soo Ae. (wiki)

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