Essential Films to See at Least Once Before You Die

2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick's 1968 space epic was inspired by Arthur C. Clarke's 1951 short story "The Sentinel". Dr. Dave Bowman and a team of other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission; their ship's computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly bizarre behavior, leading to the ultimate showdown between man and machine.

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