The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Mary Corleone born. (The Godfather)
LAPD's 'Bloody Christmas'; 'My Funny Valentine' recorded by Chet Baker, and 'The Christmas Blues' by Dean Martin; 'Roman Holiday' in cinemas. (Los Angeles - LA Confidential)
Victoria Lynn Riggs, future wife of Sgt Martin Riggs, is born. (Lethal Weapon)
Mona Lisa Smile. (Mona Lisa Smile)
A spaceship crashes carrying a strange visitor from another world. (nr Smallville, Kansas - Superman)
Future police officer Arthur Shea is born. (Boston, Massachusetts - The Town)
Dewey Cox performs for the first time at a talent show, inciting a near-riot. (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story)
Earth invaded by Martians. (War of the Worlds)
Wednesday 7th January: Harry S. Truman tells the world that that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. (Washington, D.C. - Truman)
Friday 16th January: Tony Brancato and Anthony Trombino are machine gunned down in a car. (Los Angeles, California - LA Confidential)
Wednesday 21st January: Deuce Perkins, Mickey Cohen's drug lieutenant and associate are machine gunned down in his Brentwood home. (Los Angeles, California - LA Confidential)
Monday 26th January: 3 Nite Owl Killers, 1 Officer Slain in Bunker Hill Shootout. (Los Angeles, California - LA Confidential)
Thursday 5th March: Stalin dies of a stroke. (Stalin)
Tuesday 21st April: Roy Cohn and David Schine return to the United States after a controversial investigation of United States Information Service (USIS) posts in Europe. (Citizen Cohn)
Saturday 6th June: "Sleepy" Bill Burns dies. (Ramona, CA - Eight Men Out)
Friday 19th June: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed. (Citizen Cohn)
Wednesday 14th October: Fred Friendly and Edward R Murrow begin to question Senator McCarthy's methods. (CBS Studios - Good Night, and Good Luck)
Monday 19th October: Sig Mickelson convinced to run a story opposing Senator McCarthy's condemnation of Milo Radulovich. (CBS Studios - Good Night, and Good Luck)
Tuesday 20th October: 10:30pm - Ed Murrow broadcasts news report claiming Milo Radulovich was wrongly accused of Communist tendencies. (CBS Studios - Good Night, and Good Luck)
Thursday 19th November: Swan makes a deal with the devil that keeps him looking young for the next twenty years. (Phantom of the Paradise)
Friday 20th November: Billy Maharg dies. (Philadelphia, PA - Eight Men Out)
December: Peter Appleton has a car accident and loses his memory - he awakes being told he must be Luke Trimble, a lost solider from 9 years previous. (Lawson, California - The Majestic)
Sunday 6th December: Elwood Blues is born. (Cook County, Chicago, Illinois - Blues Brothers 2000)
Mathematician John Nash is attacked while delivering Top Secret newspaper clippings to an abandoned mansion, and stumbles home in a schizophrenic stupor. (Cambridge, MA - A Beautiful Mind)
The Hudson Hornet crashes during an attempt to qualify for the Piston Cup; afterward he retires from racing. (Cars)
Messrs Peacock, Scarlet, White, Plum, Mustard & Green may have murdered My Boddy, a cook, a maid, a policeman, a chauffeur & a singing telegram. (New England - Clue)
A group of researchers find a prehistoric "gillman" in the Amazon River. (Amazon River, South America - Creature from the Black Lagoon)
Peyton Westlake is born. (Darkman)
Dr. Freund is a Cornell college professor. (Ithaca, New York - Drag Me To Hell)
Don Vito Corleone dies while playing with his granddaughter; Carlo Rizzi dies and his son Michael Francis Rizzi is born. (The Godfather)
Godzilla destroys Tokyo for the first tme before being destroyed by the oxygen destroyer. (Gojira)
A type of MJ-12 is made. (Race to Witch Mountain)
John Kramer is born. (Saw IV)
Hank is born. (Saw VI)
The Military fights giant mutated ants. (New Mexico - Them!)
Dewey Cox' professional debut as a singer. He is immediately signed to a record deal by nice Jewish businessmen. (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story)
Friday 5th March: Creature from the Black Lagoon is released. (American Pie: Beta House)
Tuesday 9th March: Edward Murrow broadcasts report condemning Senator McCarthy's methods. (Good Night, and Good Luck)
Tuesday 6th April: Senator McCarthy broadcasts his reply to Edward Murrow, accusing him of Communist leanings. (Good Night, and Good Luck)
Thursday 6th May: Roger Bannister runs the first four-minute mile. (Oxford - Four Minutes)
Saturday 8th May: Millie Dupree is born. (New Orleans, Louisianna - Runaway Jury)
Saturday 29th May: Bankers, industrialists, CEOs and politicians devise a plan to manipulate technology, economics, media, population control, and religion to maintain the status quo. Their plan calls for the CIA to make microchips to put in human temples. (Bug)
Monday 7th June: Martin Harris is born. (Unknown)
Wednesday 9th June: Joseph Welch lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether communism has infiltrated the U.S. armed forces. (Citizen Cohn)
Tuesday 22nd June: Teens Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme murder Pauline's mother Honora. (Christchurch, New Zealand - Heavenly Creatures)
Tuesday 22nd June: Juliet Hulme and Pauline (Rieper) Parker bludgeon Pauline's mother with a half-brick to death in Victoria Park, Christchurch, New Zealand. (Christchurch, New Zealand - Heavenly Creatures)
Monday 5th July: Elvis records "That's All Right, Mama". (Walk the Line)
Friday 24th September: Daisy is run over, ending her ballet career. (Paris - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Thursday 28th October: Yamamori Family Underboss, Shihichi Yamagata, is murdered in a gangland hit by a Shinkai faction drug dealer, sparking off a prolonged and deadly power struggle within the ranks of the once-powerful yakuza family. (Hiroshima, Japan - The Yakuza Papers)
November: Godzilla destroys Tokyo. (Tokyo - Godzilla, King of The Monsters!)
Thursday 4th November: Lonnie Shaver is born. (United States - Runaway Jury)
Wednesday 24th November: Linda Porter dies, leaving Cole a widower who would rarely write again. (De-lovely)
Sunday 28th November: Enrice Fermi dies. (Chicago, Illinois - Fat Man and Little Boy )
Tuesday 30th November: Lawrence Summers is born. (New Haven, Connecticut - The Social Network)
Thursday 2nd December: The U.S. Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Senator Joseph R. McCarthy for conduct unbecoming of a senator. (Washington, D.C. - Citizen Cohn)
Saturday 11th December: Uichi Shinkai is killed by yakuza disguised as police, thus eliminating Tetsuya Sakai's last rival for control of the Yamamori Family. (Hiroshima, Japan - The Yakuza Papers)
Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander becomes an American citizen, according to his claims (Apt Pupil)
The film 'I Married An Abolitionist' is released in cinemas. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
Ron Johnson is born. (Ridgemont, CA - Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
The mother of Ray and wife of John Kinsella dies. (Field of Dreams)