Battlefield Earth (film)

Battlefield Earth also referred to as Battlefield Earth A Saga of the Year 3000 is a 2000 AmericanCanadian science fiction action film based upon the first half of L. Ron Hubbards 1982 novel of the same name. Directed by Roger Christian and starring John Travolta, Barry Pepper, and Forest Whitaker, the film depicts an Earth that has been under the rule of the alien Psychlos for 1,000 years and tells the story of the rebellion that develops when the Psychlos attempt to use the surviving humans as gold miners.

In the year 3000, Earth has been ruled for 1,000 years by the Psychlos, a brutal race of giant humanoid aliens. The remnants of humanity are either enslaved by the Psychlos and used for manual labor or survive in primitive tribes living in remote areas outside Psychlo control. Jonnie Goodboy Tyler Barry Pepper, a member of one such tribe, leaves his home in the Rocky Mountains on a journey of exploration. He joins forces with Carlo Kim Coates, a hunter, but both men are captured by a Psychlo raiding party and transported to a slave camp at the Psychlos main base on Earth, a giant dome built over the ruins of Denver, Colorado.Terl John Travolta, the Psychlo security chief on Earth, has been condemned by his superiors to remain indefinitely at his post on Earth as punishment for an unclear incident involving the Senators daughter. Aided by his deputy, Ker Forest Whitaker, Terl devises a plan to buy his way off the planet by making a fortune using human slaves to mine gold in radioactive areas. Psychlos are unable to visit such areas due to the explosive interaction of the gas that they breathe with radionuclide particles. Terl selects Jonnie as his foreman for the project and gives him a Psychlo education using a rapidlearning machine. Terl gives Jonnie a party of slaves and a Psychlo flying shuttle and orders him to go out and find gold. ........

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