The Movie Timeline - of all the movie timelines on all the net, you walked into this one
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Welcome. Yes, the coding is gleefully retro here - who knew that websites could look "so 1998". But here we focus our geekery elsewhere: on movies, and more specifically, on the chronology of all movies, pasted together in a big list. Keep your submissions coming in! You make this. The list runs on one simple premise: that everything you see in the movies is true - the real mixes with the fictitious, so long as it's reported in a movie somewhere. So do join in - the above left links should help you Submit the event from the film you'd like, although do a Search first - we may well have it already!
NEWS! We have a Twitter account. Follow @MovieTimeline. You'll then be treated to one 'event' a day from the world of movie history - some'll be real world stuff, some'll be the world of fiction.
I recently blogged about my personally handpicked journey through history in 100 movies. Do click and read. It's in 3 parts, so click on the links at the bottom after part 1.
Today in movie history...
1478: 14th February: The Duke of Clarence is drowned in a vat of Malmsey wine. (England - Richard III)
1815: 14th February: Edmond Dantes returns, only to be imprisoned for sympathising with Napoleon. (France - The Count of Monte Cristo)
1900: 14th February: Several girls from Appleyard College go missing on a picnic, at Hanging Rock. (Victoria, Australia - Picnic at Hanging Rock)
1913: Friday 14th February: Jimmy Hoffa is born. (Brazil, Indiana - Hoffa)
1918: Thursday 14th February: Harold Angel is born. (New York - Angel Heart)
1925: Saturday 14th February: Three men hunt for the treasure of the Sierra Madre. (Mexico - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
1926: Sunday 14th February: Brigadier and Mrs Clive Candy attend a ball at Myrtle Bank Hotel, hosted by Lady Bembridge. (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
1929: Thursday 14th February: St Valentine's Day Massacre; two male musicians witness it and escape dressed as women. (Some Like It Hot)
1951: Wednesday 14th February: Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta for the middleweight boxing championship after LaMotta refuses to fall; finally, in the 13th round, the referee stops the contest - Robinson wins. (Chicago Stadium, IL - Raging Bull)
1967: Tuesday 14th February: Future cryoprison warden William Smithers born. (Demolition Man)
1968: Wednesday 14th February: Lara Croft born. (Wimbledon, London - Tomb Raider)
1978: Tuesday 14th February: Pi arrives in his lifeboat. (Mexico - Life of Pi)
1979: Wednesday 14th February: Cleve murders Mr. and Mrs. Phillip H. Danzig with a .30-06. Springfield rifle on the orders of Madlock. (Brooklyn, New York - Best Seller)
1982: Sunday 14th February: Brian Spilner drives carelessly. (2 Fast 2 Furious)
1983: Monday 14th February: Jason Wilson is born. (Wickliffe, Ohio - Accepted)
1989: Tuesday 14th February: Brian Spilner drives carelessly. (2 Fast 2 Furious)
1989: Tuesday 14th February: Chris Brander sends fellow sixth-grader Jamie Palamino a dozen red roses. (New Jersey - Just Friends)
1990: Wednesday 14th February: Chris Brander sends fellow seventh-grader Jamie Palamino a dozen red roses. (New Jersey - Just Friends)
1991: Thursday 14th February: A student at East Great Falls High School adds advice to the book about how men can shave their pubes to make their penises look bigger. (East Great Falls, Michigan - American Pie Presents: The Book of Love)
1991: Thursday 14th February: Chris Brander sends fellow eighth-grader Jamie Palamino a dozen red roses. (New Jersey - Just Friends)
1992: Friday 14th February: Chris Brander sends fellow freshman Jamie Palamino a dozen red roses. (New Jersey - Just Friends)
1993: Sunday 14th February: Chris Brander sends fellow sophomore Jamie Palamino a dozen red roses. (New Jersey - Just Friends)
1994: Monday 14th February: Principal Anderson subs for Ms. Vaughn. (Billy Madison)
1994: Monday 14th February: Chris Brander sends fellow high school junior Jamie Palamino a dozen red roses. (New Jersey - Just Friends)
1995: Tuesday 14th February: Chris Brander sends fellow high school senior Jamie Palamino a dozen red roses. (New Jersey - Just Friends)
2003: Friday 14th February: Dwight Stifler returns the book. (East Great Falls, Michigan - American Pie Presents: The Book of Love)
2003: Friday 14th February: Valentine's Day (New York City - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close)
2004: Saturday 14th February: Joel takes a train to Montauk instead of going to work, and meets Clem (again); Mary the receptionist quits her job at the clinic. (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
2004: Saturday 14th February: Joel Barish meets Clementine Kruczynski - again - after an unjustified feeling led him to Montauk. (Montauk - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
2006: Tuesday 14th February: A mystery man is run over and dies in Kate Forster's arms - or does not - depending on the timeline. (Chicago - The Lake House)
2008: Thursday 14th February: Kate Forster realises Alex Wyler was the man who died in her arms; Alex, having waited 2 years, turns up at the Lake House. (Chicago - The Lake House)
2011: Monday 14th February: Valentine's Day affects many people. (Los Angeles, California - Valentine's Day)
2012: Tuesday 14th February: Amy writes in her diary that she considered buying a gun for Valentine's Day. (Missouri - Gone Girl)
2016: Sunday 14th February: A Replicant called PRIS is incepted. (Blade Runner)
2016: Sunday 14th February: Supposed end of the world, according to the psychic Elaine. (Ghostbusters 2)
2052: 14th February: Weyland Industries earns patent number 14,524,002 for Method and Apparatus for first manned land-vehicle capable of negotiating vertical surfaces. This technology permits Weyland scientists and terraforming teams to reach previously inaccessible destinations. (Prometheus)
Here are a few recent films we've put in their chronological place...
Bridesmaids
Tintin
Captain America
Hugo
Moneyball
The Woman In Black
Sherlock Holmes
The King's Speech
Friends With Benefits
...as well as many others.
You can explore the dates on the left-hand bar to see discover...
When Harry Met Sally - that'll be 1977.
The Day The Bubble Burst - it was a Tuesday.
The Day The Earth Stood Still - that was a Wednesday.
Employee of the Month - that month was November 2006.
Hogwarts was founded just 61 years after King Arthur sought the Holy Grail by storming a castle with a large wooden rabbit.
Plus the coincidences, for instance...
- Gangs of New York's Amsterdam Vallon was killing Butcher Bill, down the road Abraham Lincoln was being kidnapped by Bill & Ted...
- Lucky Al Capone - he was sent to Alcatraz by Eliot Ness just in time to miss King Kong rampaging around New York...
- Andy Dufresne was wrongly sentenced to Shawshank a few short months before someone else was framed - Roger Rabbit...
Submit your own historical event from a movie (not TV - yet) by clicking here. It can be a real event (eg. the sinking of the Titanic) or a far-from-real event (eg. Marty McFly attending his parents' school dance) - so long as it's found in a film. It must be a verifiable date - whether a year subtitled at the start ("1941, France..."), a visible clue in the film (character picks up a newspaper), or some historical backdrop (From Hell's Jack The Ripper). If you know what year a movie is set in, let me know.
Thanks for linking to us and please continue to plug us on your journeys round the net. For now please ignore the crappy straightforward appearance - explore the information and trivia, have some fun with it - it really is a very simple idea. But it needs your help!
In the beginning... God created the heavens and the earth (The Bible)
Shortly after the beginning... God subcontracts the fjords to Slartibartfast, a planetary construction engineer from Magrathea (The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy)
26,000,000,000BC Los Angeles (and everywhere else) - The Earth's crust begins to harden (Adaptation)
A long time ago... Luke Skywalker and Han Solo lead a rebellion against the evil empire(Star Wars)
1 zillion BC October 9: Cavemen discover fire, and the joys of eating dinosaur egg (Caveman, 1981)
From this point on the dates get more sensible - begin the timeline...
Some other sites you may like...
The Movie Timeline twitter feed. Do follow.
Movie Banter - our podcast 'n' blog
My site as a stand-up, with gig guides, cv, etc
Ruined Endings (plots and endings of all the best films. And some bad ones.)
And unaffiliated, but friendly sites...