included · Mechanical
The History of Time Travel
A fictional documentary about the creation of the world's first time machine, the men who created it, and the unintended ramifications it has on world events.
Science Fiction, Drama
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 Mechanical.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
The documentary's changing account of the invention makes alterations to history its pervasive narrative device.
A fictional documentary follows an invented time machine and its changes to history.
Check the supporting sources ↓An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.
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The scores
Weighted archive score
high confidence
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: 47.10 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: Stephen Adami, Krista Ales, Valerie Black, Ryan Blackburn, Garland Buffalo
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