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Minority Report gestural interface
Minority Report gestural interface from Minority Report (2002)

This showcase scene near the beginning of Minority Report introduces viewers to a futuristic gestural interface for accessing a database of premonitory video clips depicting violent crimes.

VR5 jack-in via phone modem
VR5 jack-in via phone modem from VR5 (1995)

The 1995 Fox TV series VR5 used phone modems and virtual reality as a way to access the subconscious

Disclosure VR scene
Disclosure VR scene from Disclosure (1994)

Michael Douglas enters a virtual world of web pages and 2D avatars of Demi Moore

Inglourious Basterds Kill Hitler
Inglourious Basterds Kill Hitler from Inglourious Basterds (2009)

In this climactic scene from Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, two American soldiers defy historiographical conventions by machine-gunning Hitler to death in a burning theater

X-Files JFK Assassination
X-Files JFK Assassination from X-Files: Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man (1996)

This clip shows the X-Files version of the JFK assassination, in which the Cigarette Smoking Man fired the fatal shots from a storm drain

Panther morph sequence from Michael Jackson video
Panther morph sequence from Michael Jackson video from Black or White (1991)

The panther morph and window smashing scene from Michael Jackson's Black or White music video

Blade Runner 3D photo scene
Blade Runner 3D photo scene from Blade Runner (1982)

A photograph acts as interface to a 3D space

Hackers final showdown
Hackers final showdown from Hackers (1995)

A multi-ethnic, international network of rollerblading teenage hackers defeat a corrupt, corporate systems administrator.

Peeping Tom Trailer
Peeping Tom Trailer from Peeping Tom (1960)

The 1960 theatrical trailer for Michael Powell's Peeping Tom, demonstrating the film's linkage of cinematic voyeurism and murder

Olympia opening
Olympia opening from Olympia (1938)

The opening sequence of athletes warming up in Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia

VW suicide bomber ad
VW suicide bomber ad from Small But Tough (2005)

A fake ad for the Volkswagen Polo

Bionic Woman opening
Bionic Woman opening from The Bionic Woman (1976-78)

Title sequence from TV's Bionic Woman