The Day the Earth Stood Still
From out of space...A warning and an ultimatum.
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A thoughtful Cold War-era science fiction parable that uses an alien ultimatum to interrogate humanity's capacity for peace and self-destruction.
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
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