In Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey', an enigmatic monolith is discovered on the moon, triggering a quest to Jupiter. The journey's crew must confront HAL 9000, an increasingly sentient and dangerous onboard computer.
A glowing fetus floats in space, looking at Earth, looking at us. Kubrick refused to explain it for the rest of his life. The shot proposes that humanity’s next form, like its first, will simply arrive.
Revolutionary special effects for its depiction of space