Go behind the scenes of Alien Nation and discover how Stan Winston Studio created hundreds of alien masks and prosthetic makeups to bring newcomer characters to life: bit.ly/AlienNationFB Alien Nation is set in 1991, a few years after an off-course alien spaceship has landed on Earth, depositing 300,000 bulbous-headed aliens, called ‘newcomers’, a specially-bred slave race that attempts to integrate into human society. More than a science fiction movie, the film was a metaphor for race relations