James Francis Cameron was born on August 16, 1954 in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada. He moved to the United States in 1971. The son of an engineer, he majored in physics at California State University but, after graduating, drove a truck to support his screenwriting ambition. He landed his first professional film job as art director, miniature-set builder, and process-projection supervisor on Roger Corman’s Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) and debuted as a director with Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1981) the following year. In 1984, he wrote and directed The Terminator (1984), a futuristic action-thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn and Linda Hamilton. It was a huge success. After this came a string of successful science-fiction action films such as Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). In 1990, Cameron formed his own production company, Lightstorm Entertainment.
A human-looking, apparently unstoppable cyborg is sent from the future to kill Sarah Connor; an ordinary soldier – Kyle Reese is sent to stop it.
A civilian diving team are enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.
The planet from Alien has been colonized, but contact is suddenly lost. Ripley begrudgingly joins the rescue team of Colonial Marines to discover what happened.