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General Information:
Year Released: 1936
Country: UK
Director: William Cameron Menzies
URL: http://downloads.xoom.com/view.xihtml?MOVIE=ThingsCm.rm
IMDB: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0028358
Literary Source: H.G. Wells, Things to Come

Things to Come pushes the idea that science is good, and will improve society. It shows the evolution of society through technological advancements. At the end, people are preparing for space flight. In almost all movies up to this point science is bad, but here is a grand vision of a future technocracy, where technology helps to push mankind even further.

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