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1. (2001) A 21st century man finds a time portal near the Brooklyn Bridge (of all places), and has fun going back to the 1870s and taking pictures. While there, he's spotted by Lord Mountbatten, who becomes intrigued with his camera and follows him back. Nearly overwhelmed by culture shock, he meets up with Kate McKay, who teaches him how to fit in. Of course they fall in love.
2. (2004) It's Harry's third year at Hogwarts, and he's got an awful lot to take care of. Not only does he have to save Buckbeak from the executioner and Sirius from the Dementors, but it turns out that he also has to save himself from having his soul sucked out by a Dementor's kiss. It's a good thing that he has Hermione and her time-turner that lets them jump back a couple of hours to get the job done properly.
3. (1985) While being pursued by terrorists, Marty jumps into the time machine that Dr. Emmet Brown made, and finds himself back in the year 1955. While there, he almost prevents his parents from getting together, and must find a way to ensure that they fall in love, to ensure his own eventual existence.
4. (1978) When Lex Luthor decides to up the value of his property holdings by destroying most of California, Lois Lane gets buried in the resultant earthquake. Unable to accept her death, our Man of Steel flies around the Earth fast enough to make it rotate backwards, causing time to run backwards and allowing him the breathing space he needs to rescue her.
5. (1986) An alien probe is destroying Earth as it tries to locate a species of whale that has been extinct for years. Trying to return home in a Klingon spaceship, Captain Kirk and his crew decipher the code, and travel back in time to acquire a pair of humpback whales, so that they can repopulate the species, and save Earth from the probe.
6. (2001) It's 2029, and Astronaut Leo Davidson is on a routine mission when he gets caught in a space/time wormhole. He lands on a planet ruled by talking apes, where humans are uncommunicative, and treated as slaves. In his efforts to return home he finds, to his dismay, that he is already there. Instead of having landed on a different planet, he has really only landed at a different time.
7. (1981) A group of dwarfs have "borrowed" a map from the Supreme Being, which shows where all the time holes are. They're using this to go bouncing around looking for treasure, and meeting all kinds of strange and ridiculous characters along the way. Somehow poor Kevin has managed to be swept along with them on their travels.
8. (2001) Jamal Walker works at Medieval World Amusement Park. He finds a strange medallion when cleaning out the moat, and bumps his head while trying to get it out. When he comes to, he finds himself in 14th century England where he becomes drawn into all kinds of intrigue, while trying to open his own chain of fast-food restaurants.
9. (1980) Caught in a freak storm, a nuclear aircraft carrier, carrying a crew of 6,000 men, is thrown back in time. They find themselves just outside of Hawaii hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. They're faced with having to decide whether to interfere and change the future, or to let the attack, with all the subsequent loss of life, proceed.
10. It's bonus question time. What kind of travel is featured in "Time Bandits", "Back to the Future", "The Time Machine", and many of these other wonderful movies?
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