10 most prophetic sci fi movies

[Newt]

Things to Come (1936) always struck me as remarkably prescient: a British science fiction film, produced by Alexander Korda and directed by William Cameron Menzies. The screenplay was written by H. G. Wells and is a loose adaptation of his own 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come and his 1931 non-fiction work, The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind. The film stars Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott, and Cedric Hardwicke.

Predicted WWII and strategic bombing, among other things.  The general 'feel' of the trends in the world politics in the film is in the right ballpark too as I recall.

[peter johnson]

Things to Come, Metropolis, and a slew of older films I can think of belong here -- I was sort of sorry to see that Popular Mechanics falls into the same trap that only newer films are worth considering that seems to affect so many of these lists from other sources.
Destination Moon is the oldest film here -- and that is essentially little more than a remake of the 1930's German film Die Frau ins Die Mond (Woman on The Moon).
peter johnson/denny crane

[skuts]

No Videodrome?

"Soon, all of us will have special names, names designed to make the cathode ray tube resonate."

1983