2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke released a film that was a visual essay about human evolution, machine intelligence, and the cosmos, set to Strauss waltzes and spanning from a bone thrown into the air to a starchild over earth. Bewildering and beautiful, it became the most influential science fiction film ever made.
In context
Also in 1968 (8 other events on record)
- Tet Offensive stuns America · Southeast Asia · War
- Martin Luther King assassinated · North America · Politics
- Soviet tanks crush Prague Spring · Europe · Politics
- My Lai massacre · Southeast Asia · War
- Paris erupts in May 1968 · Europe · Politics
- RFK assassinated in Los Angeles · North America · Politics
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.