Time Bandits

by Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam, directed by Terry Gilliam

• Release: 16 July 1981
• Format: Feature Film
• Genre: Fantasy
• Audience: Adults
• Content: Definite Time Travel
• Original Language: English

Is it all ready? Right. Come on then. Back to creation. We mustn’t waste any more time. They’ll think I’ve lost control again and put it all down to evolution.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

• Ancient History (3000 BC to AD 476: Bronze/Iron Ages)
• Middle Ages (AD 476 to 1454)
• Circa AD 1700 to 1799
• Circa AD 1900 to 1929
• Circa AD 1970 to 1999

Time Travel Methods

• Time Rifts: The poorly created universe is riddle with time rifts..

Themes

• Time Montages

Real-World Tags

• Ancient Greece
• HMS Titanic
• Napoleon
• Napoleonic Wars

Fictional Tags

• Agamemnon
• Deities: The Supreme Being and the Evil Genius.
• Fairies, Goblins, Dwarves, Nymphs, Elves, and Others of the Fae
• Giants
• Metafictional Reality
• Minotaurs, Centaurs, and Other Mash-Ups
• Ogres
• Parallel Universes or Dimensions
• Robin Hood
• Trolls

Groupings

• Cited in Worlds Enough and Time, edited by Gary Westfahl ()

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY

We haven’t yet mapped out the time travel itinerary.