Your birth year
2006
Superman
1978
Superman is 28 years older than you
It's from 1978, before you were born.
- Director
- Richard Donner
- Genre
- Superhero
- Star
- Christopher Reeve
- Released
- 1978
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About
As of 2026, it's 48 years old.
Superman made audiences 'believe a man could fly' in 1978 — that was literally the tagline, and the effects delivered, launching the modern superhero blockbuster decades before it became Hollywood's entire business model. Christopher Reeve's earnest, gentle Man of Steel set the gold standard the role is still measured against.
Grand, sincere, and powered by John Williams's soaring theme, it treated a comic-book hero with genuine sweep and heart.
Iconic and foundational, Superman is the film that proved a guy in a cape could anchor a serious epic — and quietly invented the genre that ate Hollywood.
