The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Movie history events from 1939
Cecilia Tallis becomes a nurse in London and Robbie Turner fights reluctantly in mainland Europe. (Atonement)
Thomas and Martha Wayne are shot to death during a robbery, in front of their son Bruce. (Batman (1966))
The film Gone With The Wind is released. (Best in Show)
Lee Blanchard cracks the Boulevard Citizens Bank robbery case. (Los Angeles, Ca) (The Black Dahlia)
Captain Daniel McCormack agrees to be cryogenically frozen by Harry Finlay. (Forever Young)
Ruth Jamieson dies of cancer. (Whistle Stop, AL) (Fried Green Tomatoes)
Edward Wilson is recruited to the Skull and Bones Society. (Yale University) (The Good Shepherd)
The Norton 500 motorcycle, aka "The Mighty One", is constructed that Alberto Granado and Ernesto Guevara will ride across South America, and eventually leave wrecked before the Chilean desert. (The Motorcycle Diaries)
New York Knights' elder rookie Roy Hobbs spends about half the season sitting on the bench; once he gets into the line-up, Hobbs hits home run after home run. (New York) (The Natural)
New York is attacked by flying robots, and famous scientists vanish from around the world. (New York) (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow)
A governess falls in love with a captain with seven children; they escape the Nazis by climbing the Alps into Switzerland. (Salzburg, Austria) (The Sound of Music)
Monday 9th January: Future secret service chief Ward Abbott is born. (The Bourne Ultimatum)
Friday 13th January: Arthur "Doc" Barker is killed while trying to escape from prison. (Alcatraz Prison) (Bloody Mama)
Tuesday 31st January: Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter is born. (Unknown) (Hannibal)
Friday 17th March: Doctor Totenkopf's robots attack New York City. (New York City) (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow)
Wednesday 29th March: Clark Gable & Carole Lombard marry. (Gable and Lombard)
Sunday 30th April: Lou Gehrig plays final game for New York Yankees. (The Pride of the Yankees)
Tuesday 13th June: "Doc" Barker is killed by prison guards as he attempts to escape from Alcatraz Prison. (San Francisco Bay) (F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One, The )
August: Thomas Hewitt, aka Leatherface, is born on the production floor of Lee Bros' Meat Packing Co; he is found by Luda Mae Hewitt in a dumpster outside the building. (Texas) (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning)
September: Nazis take census of Polish Jews arriving in Krakow. (Schindler's List)
Thursday 2nd November: The military tribunal of POW Theodor Kretschmar-Schuldorff. (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Sunday 26th November: Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock) is born. (Brownsville, Tennessee) (What's Love Got to Do with It)