Best Uses of Time Travel

Who wouldn't be interested in traveling backwards and forwards through time? Think of the wrongs that could be righted, the historical figures you could meet ... the stocks that could be purchased! Hollywood, already one step ahead, made time travel a popular device with movies like Back to the Future and 12 Monkeys. In some cases the problems of time travel outweighs its benefits, but the ability to act on it is nothing but cool.
[Text by John DeNardo]

Back to the Future, 1985. © MCA/Universal Pictures. Courtesy of the Everett Collection