2001: A Space Odyssey

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968.

Guest host Alicia Malone introduces 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968.

Dave (Keir Dullea) and Frank (Gary Lockwood) instruct their mission-control computer "Hal" to leave them where the computer cannot listen-in, as they discuss a disturbing system-error, in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968.

Promo for TCM's The Essentials, this week featuring host Alec Baldwin and guest William Friedin, on 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968, at 8pm ET on Saturday, September 2nd.

Just a portion of the trippy part, Dave (Keir Dullea) has left the mother-ship in an "EVA" pod, after hearing secret instructions, and sees weird stuff as he approaches Jupiter, late in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968.

The ending of director Stanley Kubrick's "Dawn Of Man" sequence, the apes have become carnivorous and homicidal, and a bone thrown in the air leads to one of the most famous edits in film history, in 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968.

TCM's Original Promo for the 15-part documentary by film historian Mark Cousins, The Story Of Film: An Odyssey, premiering Monday, September 2nd at 10pm ET.

Introduction of the HAL 9000 computer (voice by Douglas Rain) and the two not-hibernating members of the Jupiter mission on the spaceship Discovery One, Dave (Keir Dullea) and Frank (Gary Lockwood), in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968.

Second stanza of Stanley Kubrick's "Dawn Of Man" sequence, the apes awaken one morning to find what will become known as "the monolith," early in 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968.

Set piece for director Stanley Kubrick, four million years since the "Dawn Of Man" sequence, astronauts on the surface of the moon investigate a mysterious monolith identical to the ones the apes saw, in 2001: A Space Odyssey, from Arthur C. Clarke's novel and screenplay.

Keir Dullea stars in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Stanley Kubrick's classic sci-fi epic featuring Oscar winning special effects.