One of the very first narrative films, Georges Méliès's "A Trip to the Moon," is about aliens. Sure, everyone remembers that shot of a rocket ship crashing into the eye of the man in the moon, but as ...

I don’t know about you, but as a child, nothing scared me more than the idea of getting abducted by aliens. It’s impossible that we’re the only living organisms in the universe. But in not knowing the ...