The Movie Timeline - here's looking at movies, kid
Friday 10th February: Lieutenant Commander Michael J. Lander of the United States Navy is captured while fire-bombing a civilian hospital. (Near Ninh Bihn, Vietnam - Black Sunday)
Tuesday 14th February: Future cryoprison warden William Smithers born. (Demolition Man)
April: The hit single "Light My Fire" is released. (The Doors)
June: The Golden Age of Pirate Radio had ended. (The Boat That Rocked)
Tuesday 13th June: Thurgood Marshall appointed to Supreme Court. (The Crusaders)
Sunday 25th June: David Banner takes notes on a DB Blood Analysis. (The Hulk)
Thursday 13th July: Mrs. McGrath commits suicide by hanging herself and her pet cat, creating a media sensation. (Crimes of the Heart)
Thursday 24th August: Beatles' manager Brian Epstein dies of an overdose of sleeping pills. (Birth of the Beatles)
Sunday 27th August: Brian Epstein dies of an overdose of sleeping pills. (Birth of the Beatles)
Sunday 17th September: The Doors' live performance on The Ed Sullivan Show has no changes to the lyrics. (New York City - The Doors)
Monday 9th October: Che Guevara is executed. (Bolivia - The Motorcycle Diaries)
Saturday 21st October: The demonstration took place at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. As many as 100,000 demonstrators attended the event. The man in the stars and stripes shirt is activist Abbie Hoffman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbie_Hoffman (Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Washington - Forrest Gump)
Friday 10th November: Child psychologist Catherine Deane is born. (The Cell)
Sunday 24th December: Hong Kong Riots of the year, segues to life of writer Chow Mo-Wan. (Hong Kong - 2046)
Friday 29th December: Paul Whiteman dies of a heart attack. (Doylestown, Pennsylvania - Bix)
After the death of his mentor, Frank Lucas takes over the New York drug trade. (New York City, New York - American Gangster)
Marty McFly and Jennifer Parker born. (Hill Valley, CA - Back to the Future)
Future diamond-smuggler Danny Archer is born. (Rhodesia - Blood Diamond)
Born on the 4th of July. (Born on the Fourth of July)
Layla is born. (Buffalo, New York - Buffalo '66)
'68 Charger is made. (The Dilemma)
Bryan Johnson dies of leukemia. (Dogma)
Jim Morrison is arrested during a Doors concert. (New Haven, Connecticut - The Doors)
The Dreamers. (The Dreamers)
F.F.Fox is Whack Bat Most Player of the Fox-Year of '68 and '68 1/2. (Fantastic Mr. Fox)
Full Metal Jacket. (Full Metal Jacket)
A Soviet satelite is destroyed during a rescue mission, containing pictures of US and Soviet missle silos. (Drift Ice Station Zebra - Ice Station Zebra)
Mr. Nunemaker and 72 other people purchase Rambler Wagons. (Louisiana - Joe Dirt)
Three US astronauts are trapped in Earth orbit with 43hrs of oxygen after spending 5 months in an orbital lab. (Earth Orbit - Marooned)
Buck Dolby is born. (Middle Men)
Rhonda, future sister of future lyricist and plant-waterer Sophie Fisher, is born. (Music and Lyrics)
Amanda Krueger dies. (A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors)
Amanda Krueger dies. (A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors)
Freddy Krueger is released on a legal technicality; vigilante parents burn Freddy alive in his Boiler Room; Amanda Krueger, driven insane after the trial, hangs herself, but her body is not found. (A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child)
Richard Nixon at Republican Convention. (Miami - Nixon)
Faith gets the name of her soulmate, Damon Bradley, from a fixed ouija board. (Pennsylvania, PA - Only You)
Beloved children's TV show marionette Froggie-Doo is stolen. Brothers Eliot and Rocky Plumm and their neighbor Haley DuBois team up to find it. (Montana - A Plumm Summer)
Fank Castle was born in 1968, not '63. midread tombstone. sorry. (The Punisher)
Maria Castle, wife of Frank Castle, born. (The Punisher)
Beverly D'Onofrio marries Ray Hasen becuase she is pregnant with his child; her friend Faye tells people she is also pregnant. (Conneticut - Riding in Cars with Boys)
Wendell Rohr starts working in the courtroom. (New Orleans, Louisianna - Runaway Jury)
Gus Colyard is born. (Saw II)
Dan Freeman becomes the first black man to work for the CIA. (Virginia - The Spook Who Sat by the Door)
Dale Doback is born. (Sacramento, CA - Step Brothers)
Dennis is born. (Still Waiting...)
Truman Burbank is born, as is the world's biggest TV show as cameras begin to follow his every moment. (The Truman Show)
January: The film is in two halves, Marine training in the US, Marines in action in Vietnam. We know that the fighting in the latter half takes place in Hue so this places events in late January 1968, the time of the communist Tet offensive. For some reason you also have 1963 listed for this film. The only reason for this could be the assumption that the training sequence takes place in '63. There is no evidence for this in the film that Im aware of. Its more likely that the first half is set in 1967, though this is never said. (City of Hue, South Vietnam - Full Metal Jacket)
Monday 1st January: Sgt Barnes murders a Vietnamese woman, and his platoon burns their village. (Vietnam - Platoon)
Monday 1st January: The theoretical Zodiac killer confides to a colleague about his plans. (Zodiac)
Saturday 6th January: Ben Wilson, husband of Annie Wilson, born. (The Gift)
Saturday 13th January: Johnny Cash performs at Fulsome Prison. (Represa, CA - Walk the Line)
Thursday 1st February: Richard M. Nixon announces his candidacy for the U.S. Presidency. (Nixon)
Saturday 10th February: Laura Tollins is born. (The Number 23)
Wednesday 14th February: Lara Croft born. (Wimbledon, London - Tomb Raider)
Thursday 22nd February: June Carter finally accepts Johnny Cash's marriage proposal, live on stage. (Ontario, Canada - Walk the Line)
Tuesday 5th March: Ruth Marks (or Angela Bennett) is born. (The Net)
Saturday 16th March: Robert F Kennedy announces his candidacy for President of the United States. (Bobby)
Thursday 4th April: Martin Luther King assassinated. (Bobby)
Thursday 4th April: Rev. Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated at the Lorraine Motel. (Memphis, Tennesee - King)
Saturday 6th April: George Berger dies in the Vietnam War at a little less than 23 years of age. (Vietnam - Hair)