Episode devoted to aliens from other worlds featured in sci-fi films, comic books and other fiction, from early 20th century to Independence Day (1996). Jakob Stegelmann recaps the history covering Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Le voyage dans la lune (1902), the sci-fi magazine Amazing Stories, the comic book strips Flash Gordon, the serials Flash Gordon (1936/I) and Superman (1941), The War of the Worlds (1953), This Island Earth (1955), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Invaders from Mars (1953), 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957), The Man from Planet X (1951), It Came from Outer Space (1953), Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956), It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958), the comic book Weird Science from E.C. Comics, Star Wars (1977), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Alien (1979) and Independence Day (1996).
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