The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
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 2nd November: Mr. Miyagi's wife and son die due to complications during childbirth. (Manzanar, CA - The Karate Kid)
Friday 1st December: John Densmore, future drummer of The Doors, is born. (Maine - The Doors)
Tuesday 12th December: There is a fire in a church where Nazis are keeping various prisoners. (The Reader)
Wednesday 13th December: Wassily Kandinsky dies. (France - Six Degrees of Separation)
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)
Fredericka S. Freund gets her medical degree at Baylor University. (Waco, Texas - Drag Me To Hell)
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)
Gene Kelly 1945. (United States - I Love You, Beth Cooper)
Hitler and several high ranking members of the Third Riech die in a fire when Shosanna burns down her own cinema during the screening of a Nazi propaganda film (Paris - Inglourious Basterds)
Lt Raine carves a swastika on Landa's forehead so that he will be marked as a Nazi for the rest of his life. (France - Inglourious Basterds)
'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)
Eric Johnston becomes president of the MPAA. (This Film is Not Yet Rated)
Smalls Gas Station, somewhere off the Interstate, is established. (Vacancy)
January: Ezra Cobb digs up his mother's corpse and treats it as if it was alive. (Deranged)
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)
Tuesday 30th January: After nearly three years in captivity, 511 allied POWs are rescued from the Cabanatuan Prison Camp by a joint effort of Filipino guerillas and Army Rangers led by Capt Robert Prince under the command of Lt Col Henry Mucci. (The Philippines - The Great Raid)
February: Rachel Stein becomes Ellis de Vries and works for the resistance as a spy in Gestapo HQ. (Holland - Black Book)
Friday 2nd February: Dr Carl Goerdeler executed for his part in the assassination attempt on Hitler. (Germany - Valkyrie)
Monday 19th February: Operation Detachment, the U.S. Marines' invasion of Iwo Jima, is launched. (Flags of Our Fathers)
Monday 19th February: Dick Lewiston lands in Iwo Jima. (Iwo Jima, Japan - The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard)
Friday 23rd February: U.S. Marines raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, the highest point on the island and a key strategic point. (Iwo Jima - Flags of Our Fathers)
Monday 12th March: General Friedrich Fromm executed for his part in the assassination attempt on Hitler. (Germany - Valkyrie)
Thursday 29th March: Gen. George S. Patton's 3rd Army captures Frankfurt, as "Old Blood and Guts" continues his march east. (Frankfurt, Germany - Patton)
Saturday 14th April: George S Patton promoted to General. (Patton)
Wednesday 18th April: Ernie Pyle killed by Japanese machine-gun fire. (le Shima, off the coast of Okinawa, Japan - From Two Men and a War)
Thursday 19th April: SS Officer Ludwig Muntze is arrested for negotiating with terrorists and sent for execution. (Holland - Black Book)
Friday 20th April: The Dutch Resistance break into Gestapo HQ for a rescue attempt, but it is a set-up and most are killed. (Holland - Black Book)
Friday 20th April: On the morning of Hitler's 56th birthday, Russian artillery fire finally hits Berlin. (Berlin - Downfall)
Saturday 21st April: Ellis de Vriers is arrested as a spy by SS Officer Franken - she and Franken's former boss Ludwig Muntze escape to a locally moored boat. (Holland - Black Book)
Monday 23rd April: Adolf Hitler tells Eva Braun the best way to commit suicide, and declares privately that he believes the war is lost. (Berlin - Downfall)
Tuesday 24th April: President Truman is briefed on the Manhattan Project. (Truman)
Monday 30th April: Adolf Hitler commits suicide. (Berlin, Germany - Death of Adolf Hitler, The )
Monday 30th April: Hitler commits suicide. (Downfall)
Saturday 5th May: The German forces in the Netherlands surrender; Eliss de Vries and Ludwig Muntze face an uncertain future as they are sought as Nazis; SS Officer Franken tries to escape to Hamburg on a boat filled with stolen Jewish loot. (Holland - Black Book)
Monday 7th May: Tommy born to Mrs Walker on the day that Germans surrender and end World War II. (London - Tommy)
Wednesday 9th May: Herman Goering is captured by the U.S. Seventh Army. (Bavaria - Inside the Third Reich)
Friday 11th May: Brunnlitz liberated by Russians. (Schindler's List)
Thursday 24th May: Priscilla Presley is born. (Brooklyn, New York - Elvis)
Sunday 27th May: Kenneth H. Dahlberg is awarded the Distinguished Service Cross . (All the President's Men)
Friday 8th June: President Truman issues order regarding release of classified scientific information. (Truman)
Friday 15th June: Judy Garland marries Vincente Minnelli. (Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows )
Tuesday 19th June: Tobias J.A. Wolff is born. (Birmingham, Alabama - This Boy's Life)
Friday 29th June: 800 men are eaten by sharks after delivering the Hiroshima bomb. (Jaws)
Thursday 26th July: Winston Churchill is forced to resign as Prime Minister following his party's electoral defeat by the Labour Party. (Young Winston)
Monday 6th August: The first atomic bomb dropped over Japan. (Hiroshima - Enola Gay and the Atomic Bombing of Japan)