One of the very first narrative films, Georges Méliès's "A Trip to the Moon," is about aliens. Sure, everyone remembers that shot of a rocket ship crashing into the eye of the man in the moon, but as ...

Fans of ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial‘ by Steven Spielberg know the story well: a lonely boy, a stranded alien, and a race against time to send the creature back home. It’s a film that has set the ...