Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder

Highlights

Download our free app exploring 60 of the greatest sci-fi films ever made, with stunning images, trivia and passionate analysis.

Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris and Stalker

The making of two inner-space odysseys.

Are you a replicant?

Take the Voight-Kampff test that Rick Deckard and all Blade Runners swear by.

Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder on BFI Player

Delve into the BFI Player sci-fi collection to watch a host of incredible films online now.

Our season will include over 1000 screenings of classic film and television programmes at over 200 locations across the UK, from outdoor events at iconic British sites to screenings in multiplexes, local cinemas and community venues.

The Sci-Fi 60 app

Download our free app exploring 60 of the greatest sci-fi films ever made, with stunning images, trivia and passionate analysis.
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Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris and Stalker

The making of two inner-space odysseys.
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Sci-fi videos

Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood on 2001

The stars from 2001: A Space Odyssey talk about how they met with director Stanley Kubrick, the rotating set in the film and HAL 9000’s voice.
Blake’s 7 panel discussion

Jan Chappell, Michael Keating, Stephen Greif and Sally Knyvette discuss BBC sci-fi television series Blake’s 7.
2001: A Space Odyssey special panel discussion

Actors Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood take part in a special panel discussion to mark the rerelease of Stanley Kubrick’s iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Mediatheque collection

Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder

A mind-bending new collection celebrating British TV’s contribution to science fiction available at BFI Mediatheques around the UK.

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Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder – A BFI Compendium

Delve into the other worlds, future visions and altered states of sci-fi film and TV in this new book, which contains 160 pages of lavishly...

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DVDs and Blu Ray

Buy Red Shift on DVD and Blu Ray

Take a journey through English history in this film by Alan Garner and John MacKenzie.
Buy Children’s Film Foundation: Outer Space on DVD and Blu Ray

Three fondly remembered sci-fi adventure films newly transferred from the BFI National Archive after many years out of distribution.
Buy The Day the Earth Caught Fire (DVD) on DVD and Blu Ray

Newly remastered by the BFI National Archive, this definitive version of the classic British science fiction thriller is released by the BFI as part of Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder.
Buy Out of the Unknown box set on DVD and Blu Ray

The classic anthology science fiction series from 1965 is one of the most daring, ambitious and inventive series ever created.