Planet of the Apes

“Somewhere in the Universe, there must be something better than man!”

Astronaut George Taylor (Charlton Heston) crash-lands on a barren planet and sets out to find his crew, driven by the need to survive and escape. He discovers a functioning civilization, but the inhabitants are intelligent apes, and humans are the hunted species. The world he knew is already gone, buried beneath the planet's surface, and the apes built theirs on the ruins of his.