Where to watch
Available at home
A teenager travels back in time to 1955 and risks his future to fix the past.
Trailer
Why watch this film?
Our suggestions
When teenager Marty McFly is blasted to 1955 in the DeLorean time machine created by the eccentric Doc Brown, he finds himself mixed up in a time-shattering chain reaction that could vaporize his future - and leave him trapped in the past.
"Robert Zemeckis ed with Steven Spielberg's Amblin to bring one of the greatest adventure and sci-fi movies of the 1980s. In the story, a crazed scientist (Christopher Lloyd) builds a time machine from a DeLorean DMC-12, but becomes involved with Libyan terrorists and causes his friend, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox in the role that defined the actor's life) to go back to the 1950s. Thus emerges a fun movie with a story full of humor and adventure in equal measure. A classic that would spawn two more memorable sequels."