Stargate (1994)

 

This was everyone’s first introduction to the Stargate universe. The movie starts in 1928 where Catherine Langford’s father first digs up what would come to be known as the Stargate. 66 years later Catherine invites Dr. Daniel Jackson, Egyptologist, linguist, and conspiracy theorist to examine the Gate. He determines that it creates an artificial wormholes between planets. Going through the wormhole, Jackson, Colonel Jack O’Neill and a group of Air Force personnel arrive on the planet Abydos where a version of Ancient Egyptian society still exists. Our characters learn that the earth was invaded millennium ago by the Egyptian god Ra who is actually an alien being who possessed humans to extend his own life. The people on Abydos are the descendents of those people that Ra abducted so long ago. When Ra returns to the planet, it is up to our heroes to overthrow him once and for all. A fitting pilot to a great franchise.