First Men in the Moon (1964)

 

Coming out five years before men actually landed on the moon, this classic tale based off HG Wells’ 1901 work is a true masterpiece. The plot is as follows: in 1964 men reach the moon and realize that someone from England has claimed the moon in the name of Queen Victoria. They find Arnold Bedford who had travelled to the moon 65 years earlier who proceeds to tell the scientists about his trip to the moon with his fiancé Katherine Callender and their eccentric neighbor, Joseph Carver. He tells them that they met an insect like race there as well. The special effects were done by Ray Harryhausen and is some of his best work.