Elleno Ripley kot edino preživelo posadke vesoljske ladje Nostromo, odkrije ekipa po 57. letih kroženja po galaksiji v umetni hibernaciji. Korporacija zgodbi o srečanju s smrtonosnim bitjem častnice Ripley ne verjame, dokler ne izgubi komunikacije z naseljeno kolonijo na planetu LV-426. Korporacija najame Ripley kot svetovalko na reševalni misiji, z ekipo neustrašnih kolonijskih marincev.
Rastoči populaciji gensko naprednih opic, ki jih vodi Cezar, grozi tolpa ljudi, ki so pred desetimi leti preživeli epidemijo smrtonosnega virusa. Dosežejo nestabilno premirje, ki pa ne traja dolgo, saj se nasprotni strani znajdeta na robu vojne, ki bo odločila, katera vrsta bo prevladala planetu Zemlja.
Med angleško kolonizacijo Virginije se med vojakom Johnom Smithom in hčerjo plemenskega poglavarja Pocahontas razvije ljubezen.
Polkovnik Terry Childer (Jackson), urejeni častnik ter veteran Vietnama in Libana, je vojska obtožila umora. Za svojega zagovornika izbere tovariša Hays Hodgesa (Tommy Lee Jones), tovariša, ki mu dolguje življenje.
In the year 2149, the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped and overcrowded, with the majority of plant and animal life extinct. The future of mankind is in jeopardy, and its only hope for survival is in the distant past. An ordinary family goes on an extraordinary journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a part of a massive expedition to save the human race.
One day in the distant future. Humans live shoulder to shoulder in “colonies” separated by rock. Outside the colonies, a dangerous undeveloped area called “the Labyrinth” is expanding. Those who risk their lives to develop “the Labyrinth”, who mark out the undeveloped areas, are known as “Markers”. A young girl, Memempu, who wants to be a Marker one day, and a man, Gagumber, who used to be one. This mismatched father and daughter now take on the Labyrinth! “If there’s no path, dig one!”
At its heart, Banished is a story of survival. Though it is set in the stark historical reality of the founding of the penal colony in Australia in 1788 after the arrival of the First Fleet, it is not the story of Australia and how it came to be. Rather, it is a tale of love, faith, justice and morality played out on an epic scale in a confined community where the stakes are literally life and death.
A look into the Belgian colonisation of Congo through interviews of both colonials as Congolese people that lived it.
