The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Young Hannibal Lecter and his family flee their castle home due to the onslaught of Russian forces against the Nazis at the end of WWII. After taking refuge at their lodge, Lecter's parents are killed during a fire fight. (Lithuania - Hannibal Rising)
A group of war profiteers break in to the Lecter family's lodge & hold Hannibal & his sister, Mischa, captive. Mischa would later contract pnuemonia. The profiteers, nearly starved, killed her for food; Hannibal swears vengeance. (Lithuania - Hannibal Rising)
Mrs Laura Henderson dies, leaving her Windmill Theatre to Vivian Van Damm. (Mrs. Henderson Presents)
The Spanish Civil War comes to an end, and Ofelia escapes the real world of her sadistic army general stepfather by discovering that she might be heir to a magical kingdom. (Spain - Pan's Labyrinth)
Mr Morrow goes blind, and resultantly every woman he meets hereafter looks like Mae West. (The Tall Guy)
Young Jack Cash dies after a circular saw accident. (Dyess, Arkansas - Walk the Line)
Eric Lensher, imprisoned in a concentration camp with his family, uses his mutant powers for the first time. (Poland - X-Men)
Tuesday 4th January: U.S. aircraft begin dropping supplies to guerrilla forces throughout Western Europe. (Ike: Countdown to D-Day)
Saturday 5th February: Hans Akkermans is arrested by the Gestapo and makes a deal with them to turn in rich Jewish families to them. (Holland - Black Book)
Monday 21st February: Hideki Tojo grabs even more power as he takes over as Japanese Army Chief of Staff, a position that gives him direct control of the Japanese military. (Tora! Tora! Tora!)
Thursday 24th February: Maj. Gen. Frank Merrill's guerrilla force, nicknamed "Merrill's Marauders," begin a campaign in northern Burma. (Merrill's Marauders )
Monday 28th February: Hannah Reitsch, the first female test pilot in the world, suggests the creation of the Nazi equivalent of a kamikaze squad of suicide bombers while visiting Adolf Hitler. (Berchtesgaden - Operation Crossbow)
Saturday 4th March: Louis "Lepke" Buchalter is executed. (Sing Sing Prison, New York - Lepke)
Friday 10th March: Richard Ripley is born. (Out of Sight)
April: The few remaining Jews in the Warsaw ghetto revolt against the Nazis. (Warsaw, Poland - The Pianist)
April: Over 10,000 murdered Jewish bodies exhumed and subequently burned195. (Schindler's List)
Tuesday 4th April: Daddy Carroll born. (My Own Private Idaho)
May: Fielding Mellish's parents stop beating him. (Bananas)
Sunday 14th May: George Lucas is born. (Modesto, California - Fall of a Saga )
Thursday 25th May: Germany launches Operation Knight's Move, in an attempt to seize Yugoslav communist partisan leader Josep Broz Tito . (Drvar, Yugoslavia - Ike: Countdown to D-Day)
Tuesday 6th June: D-Day. (The Longest Day)
Tuesday 6th June: Private Luke Trimble of the 101st Airborne jumps into Normandy during the early hours. (Normandy, France - The Majestic)
Tuesday 6th June: Dr Ferreiro and Mercedes visit the guerillas in the hills; Ofelia undertakes the 2nd of her tasks, to break into The Pale Man's lair and place a key in a lock. (Spain - Pan's Labyrinth)
Tuesday 6th June: Captain John Miller of the US Army lands and leads a breakthrough of the German defenses at Omaha Beach; days later he will be assigned a mission to find a missing paratrooper, Private James Francis Ryan, whose last remaining brother died that morning. (Omaha Beach, Normandy - Saving Private Ryan)
Tuesday 6th June: Private James Francis Ryan of the 101st Airborne jumps into Normandy during the early hours. (Normandy, France - Saving Private Ryan)
Tuesday 6th June: Hundreds of soldiers, including Teddy Duchamp's father, storm the beach. (Normandy - Stand By Me)
Friday 9th June: Luke Trimble is reported missing in action after rescuing various men in his own 101st Airborne Division. (France - The Majestic)
Monday 12th June: Lt John F. Kennedy receives the Navy’s highest honour for gallantry for his heroic actions as a gunboat pilot, and a Purple Heart for wounds received during battle. (J.F.K.: Reckless Youth)
Tuesday 13th June: Capt. John Miller dies protecting a bridge. (Saving Private Ryan)
Friday 4th August: Anne Frank captured. (Amsterdam - The Diary of Anne Frank)
September: Women imprisoned in Plaszow are transferred to Auschwitz. (Schindler's List)
Sunday 17th September: Operation Market-Garden begins, the Anglo-American operation to take Nijmeagan Bridge. (A Bridge Too Far)
Saturday 23rd September: Hans Akkermans performs an operation on young Max Stein as an emergency before he and his family escape for Belgium. (Holland - Black Book)
Sunday 24th September: Rachel Stein's hiding-place is bombed, and she escapes to a greenhouse with a local Dutch sailor. (Holland - Black Book)
Monday 25th September: The Stein family and many other rich Jewish families try to attempt on a boat to Belgium, but are intercepted by a Nazi boat - only Rachel Stein survives. (Holland - Black Book)
Monday 25th September: Operation Market-Garden ends, the Anglo-American operation to take Nijmeagan Bridge. (A Bridge Too Far)
Monday 25th September: Gordon Gekko is born. (New Brunswick, New Jersey - Wall Street)
Monday 9th October: The Nazis attempt to open a portal and let out the 7 Gods of Chaos; a baby demon comes through and US soldiers adopt it. (Hellboy)
Thursday 12th October: Lucien Lacombe is arrested as a Nazi collaborator; he is tried by a military court of the Resistance, sentenced to death and executed. (France - Lacombe Lucien)
Saturday 14th October: Erwin Rommel commits suicide by taking cyanide. (Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, The )
November: City ordered to be re-taken by Hitler, with an all-out offensive on the Ardennes region. (Antwerp, Belgium - Battle of the Bulge)
November: Oskar Schindler secures the release of the women at Auschwitz and has them transferred to his own camp at Brunnlitz. (Schindler's List)
November: 2 secret agents (one British and one American) slip behind German lines on a mission to find a German double agent. (German Alps, Germany - Where Eagles Dare)
Thursday 14th December: The Battle of the Bulge starts in the forests of the Ardennes. (Belgium - Patton)
Saturday 16th December: Lt Hart uses a court-martial to escape from a POW camp so he can blow up an ammunition dump. (Hart's War)
Wednesday 20th December: Dwight D Eisenhower promoted to General of the Army. (Ike)
Tuesday 26th December: General George S. Patton employs an audacious strategy to relieve the besieged Allied defenders during the brutal Battle of the Bulge. (Bastogne, Belgium - Patton)
Jerry Mulligan stays after serving as a G.I. to become a painter. (Paris - An American in Paris)
Olympic athlete Eric Liddell dies in occupied territory while serving as a missionary. (China - Chariots of Fire)
Planes go missing mysteriously. (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
Iona Hildebrandt crowned Mount Rose American Teen Princess, before her tiara's turned into scrap to help fight Japan. (Mount Rose - Drop Dead Gorgeous)
15 yr old Pamela Voorhees is impregnated by Elias Voorhees. (Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter)
Don Corleone shot while shopping for oranges; Connie Corleone marries Carlo Rizzi; Santino Corleone Jr born to Sonny. (The Godfather)
Alec Trevelyan's parents survive the Betrayal of the Cossacks, but later commit suicide. (Goldeneye)
'Accentuate The Positive' recorded. (LA Confidential)
Puyi captured by the Soviets while fleeing Japan, put on trial for co-operating with Japan, and spends the next few years in a Chinese re-education camp. (The Last Emperor)
Grace Stewart and her children are apparently spooked by ghosts. (An island off the British mainland - The Others)
Smalls Gas Station, somewhere off the Interstate, is established. (Vacancy)
Sunday 7th January: British Gen. Bernard Montgomery gives a press conference in which he all but claims complete credit for saving the Allied cause in the Battle of the Bulge. (Patton)
Friday 26th January: Audie Murphy wounded. (France - To Hell and Back)