Colossus: The Forbin Project

Colossus: The Forbin Project (produced in 1969 though released in 1970) is an American science fiction thriller film. It is based upon the 1966 novel Colossus, by Dennis Feltham Jones, about a massive American defense computer, named Colossus, becoming sentient and deciding to assume control of the world. Dr. Charles A. Forbin is the chief designer of a secret government project. He and his team have built an advanced supercomputer, called "Colos... More

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  • 1970

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  • 1 h 40 min

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  • Colossus The Forbin Project,
  • The Forbin Project,
  • Forbin Project,
  • Colossus: the Forbin Project

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Joseph Sargent

Joseph Sargent (born July 22, 1925) is an American film director. He has directed many television movies, but his best known feature film works are probably White Lightning, MacArthur, Nightmares and Jaws: The Revenge, with his most popular film being The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. He has won...

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  • We built a super computer with a mind of its own and now we must fight it for the world!
  • This is the dawning of the age of Colossus. (where peace is compulsory... freedom is forbidden... and Man's greatest invention could be Man's greatest mistake).

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  • 1970
  • Nov 23, 2004
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  • 1 h 40 min

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Colossus

Colossus (1966) is a science fiction novel by British author Dennis Feltham Jones, about super-computers assuming control of man. Two sequels, The Fall of Colossus (1974) and Colossus and the Crab (1977) continued the story. Colossus was adapted cinematically as Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)....

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Appears in ranked lists:

List Rank Year Note
  • 6,048
  • Apr 25, 2010
  • 6.5

The Movie List: the first 9200 of 2010-04-25

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