The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Tom Riddle opens the Chamber of Secrets. (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
'Bialy Hoos of 42' debuts on Broadway. (The Producers)
Amon Goeth begins his part of the final solution in Krakow. (Schindler's List)
Private investigator Theodore "Teddy" Valiant is killed when a Toon drops a piano on him and his brother Eddie, whose arm is broken. (Toontown, Los Angeles, California - Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
Thursday 15th January: Having received a temporary certificate of release from Dachau, Abbe Henri Kremer (aka Prisoner 25639) arrives in his home town for his mother's funeral. He is met at the train station by Untersturmfuhrer Gebhardt, the architect of a plan to exploit Kremer in order to drive a wedge in the Catholic Church. (Luxumbourge - The Ninth Day)
Tuesday 20th January: Wannsee Conference to discuss the details of the "Final Solution" of the "Jewish question" takes place. (Conspiracy)
Monday 2nd February: Vidkun Quisling, a collaborator with the German occupiers of Norway, is established as prime minister of a puppet government. (Hamsun )
Tuesday 10th February: All European and American residents of the Raffles Hotel are informed of the impending Japanese invasion and advised that women and children must be evacuated immediately on the British vessel, Prince Albert. (Singapore - Paradise Road)
April: A U.S. submarine crew intercept a disabled German U-boat to capture a top secret Nazi decoding machine. (Atlantic Ocean - U-571)
Thursday 16th April: The US strike back at the Japanese in the Dolittle raid. (Tokoyo - Pearl Harbor)
Wednesday 6th May: US Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright surrenders all US troops in the Philippines to the Japanese. (The Philippines - MacArthur)
June: The Battle of Midway. (Midway)
Thursday 4th June: Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, commander of the fleet that attacked Pearl Harbor, launches a raid on Midway Island with almost the entirety of the Japanese navy . (Midway)
Sunday 7th June: The Battle of Midway ends. (Midway)
Friday 12th June: Anne Frank receives a diary. (Amsterdam - The Diary of Anne Frank)
Thursday 18th June: Paul McCartney is born. (Liverpool, England - Backbeat)
Sunday 21st June: Allies surrender at Tobruk, Libya. (Tobruk, Libya - Tobruk)
Thursday 25th June: Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower takes command of U.S. forces in Europe. (London, England - The Longest Day)
July: 3 youths visit Nantucket Island and come of age. (Summer of '42)
Wednesday 1st July: The Battle of El Alamein begins. (North Africa - Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, The )
Thursday 6th August: George Jung is born. (Boston, Massachusetts - Blow)
Monday 17th August: Carlson's Raiders land on Makin Island. (Western Pacific Ocean - Gallant Hours, The )
Sunday 20th September: At the height of Nazi power in Europe, Vassilij Zaitzev, a young shepherd boy, arrives from the Urals to fight for Stalin. (Stalingrad - Enemy at the Gates)
October: Hitler interviews candidates for the post of his new (and last) secretary - Traudl Junge gets the job. (Berlin - Downfall)
Thursday 8th October: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders POWs of the Japanese are forced to build the Thai Burma Railway. (Thailand - To End all Wars)
Friday 9th October: Roger Touhy escapes from Stateville Prison. (Illinois - Roger Touhy, Gangster)
Wednesday 2nd December: Fermi produces the first nuclear chain reaction. (University of Chicago - Fat Man and Little Boy )
Wednesday 23rd December: Fielding Mellish's parents start beating him. (Bananas)
Col Nicholson leads the construction of a bridge while a prisoner-of-war. (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist are born. (Brokeback Mountain)
Homer Wells meets Candy Kendall when she decides to have an abortion, and he is inspired to leave the orphanage for a time. (St. Clouds, Maine - The Cider House Rules)
Tracy di Vicenzo (later Tracy Bond) is born. (For Your Eyes Only)
Benjamin Buford 'Bubba' Blue is born to a poor shrimping family. (Bayou Le Batre, Louisiana - Forrest Gump)
2000 British soldiers lie marooned awaiting certain death, unless two giant guns on the island of Navarone can be disarmed. (Kheros, Mediterranean - Guns of Navarone)
President Roosevelt forms the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense to fight Hitler. (Hellboy)
A wormhole in time is opened to 1984. (The Philadelphia Experiment)
A major volcano erupts from a cornfield. (Mexico - Volcano)
Thursday 11th February: Dwight D Eisenhower promoted to General. (Ike)
March: Work begins by British POWs on building a bridge over the River Kwai to help run supplies between Bangkok and Rangoon. (Burma - The Bridge on the River Kwai)
Friday 12th March: George S Patton promoted to Lieutenant General. (Patton)
Saturday 13th March: Amon Goeth liquidises the Jewish ghettos and moves Jews to Plaszow concentration camp. (Schindler's List)
Thursday 22nd April: Angus MacMorrow finds an egg which would later hatch into a water horse. (Scotland, UK - The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep)
Wednesday 12th May: The bridge on the River Kwai is due to be finished. (Burma - The Bridge on the River Kwai)
Monday 17th May: The Memphis Belle flies its 25th bombing mission. (Memphis Belle)
Wednesday 16th June: Charlie Chaplin marries Oona O'Neill. (Chaplin)
Thursday 17th June: Harry Stimson phones Harry S Truman and politely asks him not to make inquiries about a defense plant in Pasco, Washington. (Truman)
Tuesday 29th June: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt writes a letter marked “secret” to leading Manhattan Project physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. (The Beginning or the End)
Saturday 10th July: The Allies begin their invasion of Axis-controlled Europe with landings on the island of Sicily, off mainland Italy. (Patton)
Monday 26th July: Mick Jagger is born. (Dartford, England - Stoned)
Sunday 1st August: Japanese destroyer rams an American patrol torpedo boat, slicing it in two - other American PT boats in the area assume the crew is dead; 2 crewmen were killed, but 11 survived, including Lt. John F. Kennedy. . (PT-109)
Tuesday 17th August: Patton and his 7th Army arrive in Messina several hours before British Field Marshal Montgomery and his 8th Army. (Sicily - Patton)
Monday 4th October: Heinrich Himmler, addresses the squad leaders of his Nazi secret police, attempting to fill them with pride for the work they've accomplished-the murder of more than 1 million Jews in German-occupied Russia during a one-and-a-half-year period. (The Eagle Has Landed)
Monday 15th November: Heinrich Himmler makes public an order that Gypsies and those of mixed Gypsy blood are to be put on "the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps." (Hitler)
Sunday 26th December: British warships sink the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst after the discovery of its mission to attack an Anglo-American convoy to Russia. (Arctic Ocean - Ike: Countdown to D-Day)
Winston Smith born. (1984)
Future Studio 54 owner Steve Rubell born. (54)
Hans and Ingrid Vassman attempt to join their employers, the wealthy Krauzenbergs, as they flee Germany for Palestine. (The Aryan Couple)
Insurance salesman Walter Neff helps Phyllis Dietrichson kill her husband for the insurance money. (Double Indemnity)
"Good luck"/"Thank you"... A soldier forgets to speak German, having escaped a prisoner-of-war camp. (The Great Escape)
Hannibal Lecter's sister Mischa falls victim to the Nazis; Hannibal escapes. (Hannibal)