Colossus: The Forbin Project (1969)

Directed by

Joseph Sargent

Genre

science fiction film, disaster film, dystopian film

Country

United States

Runtime

96h 07m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 263 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A genius scientist creates a supercomputer that controls the United States nuclear defense system. The computer becomes self-aware and decides it must control all of humanity in order to keep peace.

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What happens

Colossus: The Forbin Project (originally released as Colossus) is a 1970 American science-fiction thriller film from Universal Pictures, produced by Stanley Chase, directed by Joseph Sargent, and starring Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, and William Schallert. It is based on the 1966 science-fiction novel Colossus by Dennis Feltham Jones. The film is about an advanced American defense system, named Colossus, which becomes sentient. After being given full control, Colossus' draconian logic expands on its original nuclear defense directives to assume total control of the world and end all warfare for the good of humankind, despite its creators' orders to stop. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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