The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1971
Woodward begins working for the Washington Post. (All the President's Men)
The film McMillan and Wife is released. (Best in Show)
Play Misty For Me released in cinemas. (Dirty Harry)
Deena Jones and The Dreams have a No 1 hit record. (Dreamgirls)
J.T.Racoon is Whack Bat Most Valuable Player of the Fox-Year of '71 1/2. (Fantastic Mr. Fox)
F.F.Fox is Whack Bat Most Valuable Player of the Fox-Year '71. (Fantastic Mr. Fox)
Gryffindor Quidditch team player M.G. McGonagall wins an award. (Hogwarts) (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
Dr Lanning, Designer of the 3 Laws of Robotics Programs is born. (I, Robot)
Joe Nunemaker is born. (Joe Dirt)
The break-up of The Main Street Singers, as founder Chuck Wiseman moves to San Francisco and sets up 'Three Wiseman's Sex Emporium' with brothers Howard and Dell. (A Mighty Wind)
The imprisonment sentences of Floyd Swilley and Wesley Cooke end. (Jessup County, Mississippi) (Mississippi Burning)
Tina Gray's father abandons her. (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
Faith is again given the name of her soulmate, Damon Bradley, by a fortune-teller, again fixed. (Pittsburgh, PA) (Only You)
Precious is born. (Harlem, New York) (Precious)
After T.C. Williams High School Titans' perfect season, the team and the city become closer than ever. (Alexandria, Virginia) (Remember the Titans)
Jim Court's income doesn't change substantially over the next 17 years. (Seattle, Washington) (Say Anything...)
Dwight "Dewey" Riley is born. (Woodsboro, CA) (Scream)
Dr Gerald Finney stays in an old hotel and hypnotises himself back to 1571. (Venice) (Somewhere In Time)
Dan Freeman resigns his post at the CIA and begins recruiting and training gang members to a black nationalist army. (New York) (The Spook Who Sat by the Door)
George W Bush is challenged by his father as to what career he should pursue. (W.)
Wednesday 6th January: The U.S. Army drops charges of an alleged cover-up in the My Lai massacre against four officers. After the charges were dropped, a total of 11 people had been cleared of responsibility during the My Lai trials. (Pinkville)
Tuesday 2nd February: Major General Idi Amin declares himself President of Uganda and Chief of the Armed Forces. (The Last King of Scotland)
Thursday 18th February: Private healthcare is introduced to the US by President Richard Nixon. (Sicko)
April: Raoul Duke and Dr Gonzo go on a drug-fuelled trip. (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
Thursday 15th April: David Webb - later to become spy Jason Bourne - is born. (Missouri) (The Bourne Supremacy)
Saturday 15th May: After graduating from college, five friends take one last road trip to Mexico before saying goodbye. (Austin, Tezas) (Fandango)
Wednesday 16th June: Amelia Donaghy born. (The Bone Collector)
Saturday 3rd July: Jim Morrison dies of heart failure, likely caused by a drug overdose. (Paris, France) (The Doors)
Monday 26th July: Inspector William Armstrong traces the Zodiac Killer back to the school they suspect he worked at. (Zodiac)
Monday 26th July: Inspector William Armstrong traces the Zodiac killer back to a school janitor. (Zodiac)
Monday 2nd August: The Nixon administration officially acknowledges that the CIA is maintaining a force of 30,000 'irregulars' fighting the Communist Pathet Lao in Laos. (Nixon)
Wednesday 4th August: The police visit Arthur Leigh Allen in connection with the Zodiac killings. (Zodiac)
Sunday 15th August: Richard Nixon turns his attention away from the war in Vietnam and announces a sweeping series of economic initiatives, including a ninety-day freeze on wages and rents, as well as the end of America's twenty-five-year-old policy of converting foreign money into gold. (Nixon)
Saturday 4th September: First day of school. (Alexandria, Virginia) (Remember the Titans)
Friday 12th November: Richard Nixon sets February 1, 1972, as the deadline for the withdrawal of an additional 45,000 U.S. troops. (Nixon)
Thursday 23rd December: Jimmy Hoffa released from prison on the condition he not participate in union activities for 10 years. (Hoffa)
Friday 24th December: Frank Cross dumps Claire Phillips to pursue his career. (Scrooged)