2001 A Space Odyssey

In four movements spanning millions of years: prehistoric apes discover a black monolith and learn to use tools; in 2001 a second monolith is found on the moon; astronauts Dave Bowman and Frank Poole journey toward Jupiter with the superintelligent computer HAL 9000; Dave undergoes a transformation beyond human comprehension. Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece is cinema’s most ambitious philosophical statement — a film about where humanity came from where it is going and whether intelligence inevitably destroys what created it.