Five hundred years in the future, aboard a small, incredibly mobile spaceship a crew tries to survive.

At the Dawn of Man, a group of hominids encounters a mysterious black monolith that is alien to their surroundings. A hominid discovers the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey. The bone is tossed in the air and it's a 21st century spacecraft hovering over the Earth, skipping ahead millions of years in technological development only to imply that man hasn't advanced very far at all psychologically. U.S. scientist Dr. Heywood Floyd travels to the...

The crew of the Serenity is getting desperate. They are laying low in order to protect their doctor, Simon Tam, and his telepathic traumatized little sister, River. Simon and River are hiding from the Alliance. This has made getting jobs harder and now they are desperate. When they take River on a robbery during which the Reavers attack, Simon decides that it's time to leave the crew of the Serenity for his and River's safety. She mutters 'Miranda,...

Event Horizon is the high-tech, pioneering research spacecraft that has mysteriously vanished, without a trace, on its maiden voyage seven years earlier. But a weak, persistnet signal from the long-missing craft prompts a rescue team to wing its way throught the galaxy on a bold rescue mission.

Two hundred and fifty years in the future, life as we know it is threatened by the arrival of evil. Only the fifth element can stop the evil from extinguishing life, as it tries to do every five thousand years.