included · Nonlinear temporal perception

Slaughterhouse-Five

George Roy Hill · 100 minutes

Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.

Drama, Science Fiction, War

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Temporal events and their consequences run throughout the story.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Nonlinear temporal perception.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

Billy's involuntary movement among childhood, war and later life determines the film's entire structure.

Billy experiences episodes of his life out of order, involuntarily detached from linear time.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan76.3

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance10/10

high confidence

Quality consensus6.8/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 76.25 base × 100.0% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine

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Releases & formats

7 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

These listings do not establish a best edition. Use the specifications to shortlist compatible releases, then follow the source to verify details and availability.

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