included · Mechanical

The Time Machine

Simon Wells · 96 minutes

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.

Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Time travel drives much of the story.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Mechanical.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

Attempts to change a personal death lead to multiple journeys and the distant-future conflict.

An inventor’s time machine carries him 800,000 years forward.

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

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan68.6

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance8/10

high confidence

Quality consensus5.9/10

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: 96.36 base × 71.2% 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: Guy Pearce, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law, Sienna Guillory, Laura Kirk

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Edition by edition

Releases & formats

11 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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