The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
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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...
1922: Wednesday 6th December: The United Kingdom and Ireland sign the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which establishes the Irish Free State. (Ireland; United Kingdom - Michael Collins)
1928: Thursday 6th December: Hagrid born. (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
1938: Tuesday 6th December: A factory owner jumps from the window of room 1408 at The Dolphin Hotel. (New York - 1408)
1941: Saturday 6th December: USS Nimitz nuclear-power aircraft-carrier appears via a temporal vortex, till nearly Pearl Harbor time. (Pacific Ocean - The Final Countdown)
1953: Sunday 6th December: Elwood Blues is born. (Cook County, Chicago, Illinois - Blues Brothers 2000)
1963: Friday 6th December: Jerry Fernandez is born. (Puerto Rico - Runaway Jury)
1973: Thursday 6th December: Susie Salmon is murdered by her neighbour George Harvey. (Norristown, Pennsylvania - The Lovely Bones)
1975: Saturday 6th December: Kabov is given information on Dahlia Iyad by Colonel Riaf. (Miami, Florida - Black Sunday)
1979: Thursday 6th December: Joe Morelli is born. (Trenton, New Jersey - One for the Money)
1980: Saturday 6th December: Mark David Chapman searches for John Lennon. (New York City, New York - Chapter 27)
1980: Saturday 6th December: Mark Chapman returns to New York, speaks to two women, and gets the album Double Fantasy from a record store. (New York City, New York - The Killing of John Lennon)
1982: Monday 6th December: Indiana Jones has sex with a woman and leaves to go on adventures. The woman is pregnant with Will. (Disaster Movie)
2008: Saturday 6th December: Cousin Kritofferson lives with the Foxes when his father is ill. Mr. Fox and Kylie the oppossum. Mr. Fox tells Kylie his plan to steal from Boggis' chicken house. (Fantastic Mr. Fox)
2008: Saturday 6th December: The new Infant Sorrow album African Child drops from #54 to #93 on Billboard 200. (Get Him to the Greek)
2010: Monday 6th December: Jill runs into the forest after having dinner with Jack's family and the homeless man Otto. (Los Angeles, California - Jack and Jill)
2012: Thursday 6th December: Debbie finds out that she is pregnant and yells at Joseph. Billie Joe Armstrong attends The Rumour concert. Pete wishes there were more people. (Los Angeles, California - This Is 40)
2079: 6th December: Burke orders colonists on planet LV-426 to investigate the Alien ship. This event leads to the deaths of the entire colony, except for one little girl called Newt. (LV-426 - Aliens)
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...