The best time-travel films, series, games & books

Uses a newly discovered wormhole not as a shortcut but as humanity's last gamble on survival.

The Avengers' desperate reversal of Thanos hinges entirely on getting the timeline exactly right.

Harry's life is in danger as Sirius Black closes in — and only time itself offers a way out.

Skeletor seizes a mysterious Cosmic Key and Castle Grayskull, turning a fantasy battle cosmic.

Two strangers body-swap across time, racing to connect before the timeline closes around them.

A time machine drops into the middle of a gangster standoff, turning one bad night into many.

A reprogrammed T-800 races back to protect young John Connor and stop a nuclear apocalypse.

Marty McFly must mend his own parents' love story or erase himself from existence.

A sociopathic genius drags his timid grandson across the universe, skewering every sci-fi convention.

Subaru's ability to rewind death forces him to relive each failure until he gets it right.

A 1945 combat nurse is swept back to 1743 Scotland, where her life is immediately threatened.

A 900-year-old Time Lord saves planets for a living — and is very, very good at it.

A Joseon villainess reincarnated in a modern actress's body collides into a chaotic love-hate romance.

A robotic cat from the 22nd century dispenses pocket gadgets that keep bending time for one hapless boy.

A blue jay and a raccoon stumble through surreal misadventures while working mundane groundskeeper jobs.

The original Time Lord, wandering history in a blue police box, set the template for every adventure after.

A driverless DeLorean reappears six months after the films end, pulling Marty back into unfinished business.

Two friends bumble through a humorous-surreal adventure that keeps rewriting its own setup.

A third portal lets you jump between two timelines, demanding four-dimensional puzzle thinking.

Students discover they can change the past via e-mail and a modified microwave, with spiraling consequences.

Players travel to history's bloodiest battles to rewrite outcomes before the timeline collapses.

An old inventor and his sidekick the Snail manipulate past and future to fix a broken present.

Step into the TARDIS as the Doctor's companion and outwit Daleks and Cybermen across time.

Chess meets multiverse theory — moves ripple across timelines, making every turn a time-travel puzzle.

Dana is snatched from modern California to the antebellum South, with no say over when or why.

Ali, 15, is a physics prodigy whose intellect leaves him out of step with everyone around him.

History students travel to 14th-century France and discover the past pushes back hard.

Vimes is hurled thirty years into his own past and must survive long enough to shape his own future.

Claire returns to the present after twenty years carrying secrets that now come due.

A blow on the head sends a Yankee to 528 A.D., where he modernizes King Arthur's kingdom.

Humanity learns to step sideways into parallel Earths, multiplying the possibilities of where — and when — to exist.

The sixth Outlander novel deepens Claire's centuries-spanning secrets as the American Revolution looms.