# The best movie set in every year... but not made in that year **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2013, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457 "2013-05-15T22:13:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/261 "2013-05-21T19:31:04Z")
> [@Moonchild](#): > > From 1871 - 2005 we are only missing 1887, 1892 & 1894. The first trial of Alfred Dreyfus took place in 1894, and is depicted in The Life of Emile Zola. However, the climax is probably in 1898 during Zola’s own libel trial (which was followed by Dreyfus’s pardon). There are a couple of movies called The Dreyfus Case but again I expect the climax is in 1898 instead of 1894. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/262 "2013-05-21T19:39:08Z")
> [@Moonchild](#): > > Just curious, how are you guys orchestrating your searches? For me, I just sorta think of a movie (or performer and think of their period movies) and then search in Wiki for the year if I don’t already know it. But I’m betting you, **Colibri** , and some others have a different process. Care to share? As the Prof. says, Wiki has categories on “film set in (date),” but these are not exhaustive and are also sometimes inaccurate. Wiki also has lists of historical movies in various categories. I’ve rejected some movies that Wiki indicates for a particular year because the movie is too diffuse and includes scenes from too many other years. I’ll often think of a historical movie and then check to see if a date can be fixed for it (sometimes from the date of an event depicted in the movie). But I’ve also been working in reverse, thinking of a historical event or character and seeing if there are any movies on it. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/263 "2013-05-21T19:41:24Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > BC 10,000 10,000 BC > 467 King Arthur > 1057 Macbeth > 1349 The Seventh Seal > 1699 Captain Kidd > 1792 A Tale of Two Cities > 1892 (alternate) Heaven’s Gate Can you verify the 1892 date for **Heaven’s Gate** as being valid? Wiki is showing 1890. It appears the movie (which I haven’t seen) spans a number of years, but concentrated in this range… though it’s not indicated if it’s more 1890, 1892 or what. Even though it’s considered a bad film, Heaven’s Gate is a famously bad and probably more worthy than **Wabash Avenue** , which I’m guessing is pretty arcane. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/264 "2013-05-21T19:57:26Z")
> [@Moonchild](#): > > Can you verify the 1892 date for **Heaven’s Gate** as being valid? Wiki is showing 1890. It appears the movie (which I haven’t seen) spans a number of years, but concentrated in this range… though it’s not indicated if it’s more 1890, 1892 or what. > > Even though it’s considered a bad film, Heaven’s Gate is a famously bad and probably more worthy than **Wabash Avenue** , which I’m guessing is pretty arcane. The movie is at least loosely based on the Johnson County Cattle War (and the original title was even _The Johnson County War_), which took place in 1892. While it’s an extremely inaccurate version of the actual events, if you accept that tie-in that can fix the date. Although it was a legendary disaster when first released, in recent years some critics have reassessed the movie and some now call it a masterpiece. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/265 "2013-05-21T20:14:00Z")
Fascinating thread! May I add: 6,000,000 BC 2001: A Space Odyssey (Dawn of Man sequence) 932 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1517 Apocalypto 1776 The Patriot 1849 Cloud Atlas 1936 Cloud Atlas 1941 Casablanca / Pearl Harbor / 1941 1973 Cloud Atlas 1974 Dick 1986 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1989 The Abyss 2012 Cloud Atlas / 2012 2063 Star Trek: First Contact 2144 Cloud Atlas 2279 Star Trek: The Motion Picture 2285 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan / Star Trek III: The Search for Spock 2286 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 2287 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 2293 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country / Star Trek Generations 2321 Cloud Atlas 2371 Star Trek Generations 2373 Star Trek: First Contact 2375 Star Trek: Insurrection 2379 Star Trek: Nemesis 4000 A.I. Artificial Intelligence Cloud Atlas, Star Trek IV and Star Trek: First Contact take place in several different years. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/266 "2013-05-21T20:21:10Z")
I think you kindof missed the point of the thread for most of those. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/267 "2013-05-21T20:27:38Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Fascinating thread! May I add: > 932 Monty Python and the Holy Grail > 1517 Apocalypto > 1776 The Patriot > 1941 Casablanca / Pearl Harbor / 1941 > 1974 Dick > 1986 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home > 2063 Star Trek: First Contact > Cloud Atlas, Star Trek IV and Star Trek: First Contact take place in several different years. Limit one year per customer. I don’t know about Cloud Atlas, but the majority of the action in the two Star Trek films took place in the earlier year for both of them. Is there a reference to an actual date in Monty Python & the Holy Grail? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/268 "2013-05-21T22:51:05Z")
_The Patriot_ covers the entire American Revolution. Not possible to pin it down to one year. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/269 "2013-05-21T22:56:06Z")
Getting back to 1945, somebody suggested **Downfall** earlier. How did that get omitted? It’s a better choice (temporally) than _Schindler’s List_ or _Empire of the Sun_, since (unlike those films, which cover the whole war) it takes place entirely in 1945. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/270 "2013-05-21T22:59:47Z")
> [@Moonchild](#): > > Just curious, how are you guys orchestrating your searches? For me, I just sorta think of a movie (or performer and think of their period movies) and then search in Wiki for the year if I don’t already know it. But I’m betting you, **Colibri** , and some others have a different process. Care to share? I found [this site](http://lists.lucywho.com/films-by-decade-of-setting-c18317244.html) to be helpful. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/271 "2013-05-21T23:31:16Z")
Wow, that’s quite a reference. Takes some of the fun out of it! ---
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> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Is there a reference to an actual date in Monty Python & the Holy Grail? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/273 "2013-05-22T02:17:04Z")
Latest update: BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman BC 1,000,000 One Million BC BC 10,000 10,000 BC BC 1200 Troy BC 480 300 BC 326 Sikandar (1941) BC 261 Asoka BC 216 Hannibal BC 72 Spartacus BC 48 Caesar and Cleopatra BC 44 Julius Caesar BC 30 Cleopatra 33 Life of Brian / The Passion of the Christ 40 Caligula 68 Quo Vadis 70 The Last Days of Pompeii 140 The Eagle 180 Gladiator 208 Red Cliff 450 Attila 460 The Last Legion 528 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 709 Outlander 778 Orlando and the Knights of France 859 House of Flying Daggers 922 The Thirteenth Warrior **932 Monty Python and the Holy Grail** 984 Dragonheart 1000 Valhalla Rising **1057 Macbeth** 1099 El Cid 1170 Becket 1183 The Lion in Winter 1187 Kingdom of Heaven 1199 Robin Hood (2010) 1210 Brother Sun Sister Moon 1215 Ironclad 1242 Alexander Nevsky 1298 Braveheart 1327 The Name of the Rose 1344 Season of the Witch 1348 Black Death **1349 The Seventh Seal** 1389 Battle of Kosovo 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1482 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1485 Richard III 1492 1492: Conquest of Paradise 1517 Apocalypto 1533 The Royal Hunt of the Sun 1535 A Man for All Seasons 1536 Anne of the Thousand Days 1547 Crossed Swords 1553 Lady Jane 1558 Elizabeth (1998) 1560 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1575 Kagemusha 1588 Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) 1594 How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1601 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex 1607 The New World 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1634 Black Robe / The Devils 1665 Girl with a Pearl Earring 1667 The Scarlet Letter 1685 Lorna Doone 1692 The Crucible **1699 Captain Kidd** 1712 Rob Roy 1756 The Mission 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1776 1776 1779 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 1787 Robinson Crusoe 1788 The Madness of King George 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty 1791 That Night in Varennes **1792 A Tale of Two Cities** 1793 Marie Antoinette 1794 Danton 1798 The Wild Child 1799 The Marquise of O / Sleepy Hollow 1805 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 1808 The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade 1813 Swiss Family Robinson 1815 Waterloo 1816 Gothic 1827 Children of Paradise 1828 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser **1831 Under Capricorn** 1832 Les Miserables 1836 The Alamo 1841 Amistad 1854 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1857 Mangal Pandey: The Rising 1858 Django Unchained 1860 The Pony Express 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg / Glory 1864 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly / Cold Mountain 1865 Lincoln 1867 Juarez 1869 Union Pacific 1871 In Old Chicago 1872 Around the World in 80 Days 1873 Cowboys and Aliens 1874 Blazing Saddles 1875 The Story of Alexander Graham Bell 1876 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon / The Molly Maguires 1877 The Last Samurai 1878 Cheyenne Autumn 1879 Zulu 1880 Stagecoach / True Grit (2012) 1881 Tombstone 1882 The Man Who Would Be King 1883 Krakatoa, East of Java 1884 3:10 to Yuma 1885 Topsy Turvy / Back to the Future III / The Oxbow Incident 1886 Geronimo: An American Legend 1888 From Hell 1889 Mayerling 1890 Hello, Dolly! 1891 Sherlock Holmes (2009) **1892 Heaven’s Gate** 1893 Far and Away / Lagaan 1895 The Four Feathers 1896 The Far Country 1897 The Gold Rush 1898 A Message to Garcia 1899 The Prestige / Newsies 1900 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1901 The Shootist 1902 Breaker Morant 1903 Tom Horn 1904 Meet Me in St. Louis 1905 Battleship Potemkin 1906 Ragtime 1907 Viva Maria! 1908 Take Me Out To The Ball Game 1909 Fanny and Alexander 1910 Mary Poppins 1911 1911 1912 Titanic 1913 The Wild Bunch 1914 The African Queen 1915 Gallipoli 1916 Paths of Glory 1917 Lawrence of Arabia 1918 War Horse 1919 Eight Men Out 1920 Matewan 1921 Sunrise at Campobello 1922 The Great Gatsby / Thoroughly Modern Millie 1923: The Hours 1924 Chariots of Fire 1925 Inherit the Wind 1926 The Sand Pebbles 1927 Singin’ in the Rain 1928 The Artist / Bullets Over Broadway 1929 Some Like It Hot 1930 Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale 1931 Cabaret 1932 They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? 1933 Sounder 1934 Pennies from Heaven / Bonnie and Clyde / Victor Victoria 1935 The King’s Speech / To Kill a Mockingbird 1936 Raiders of the Lost Ark / The Sting 1937 Chinatown / Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou? 1938 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1939 To Be or Not to Be (the original) 1940 The Spirit of the Beehive / The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 1941 Tora! Tora! Tora! 1942 Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo / Summer of '42 1943 Come and See / A League of Their Own 1944 Saving Private Ryan / A Bridge Too Far / Pan’s Labyrinth / The Longest Day / Au Revoir Les Enfants / Inglorious Basterds 1945 Schindler’s List / Empire of Sun / **Downfall** 1946 The Godfather / The Black Stallion (Coppola owns 1946!) 1947 42 / Tucker: A Man and His Dream 1948 Devil in a Blue Dress 1949 The Man Who Wasn’t There 1950 Men in War / Snow Falling on Cedars 1951 The Last Picture Show / Mash 1952 Hoosiers 1953 L.A. Confidential / Heavenly Creatures 1954 My Favorite Year / Heavenly Creatures 1955 Back to the Future 1956 The Polar Express 1957 The Battle of Algiers / Far From Heaven 1958 The Godfather Part II / A League of Their Own 1959 Diner / Stand By Me / Dead Poets Society 1960 Grease 1961 61\* 1962 American Graffiti / Animal House 1963 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1964 Mississippi Burning 1965 Moonrise Kingdom / The Outsiders / Year of Living Dangerously 1966 JFK / Casualties of War 1967 Platoon 1968 The Unbearable Lightness of Being / A Bronx Tale 1969 Taking Woodstock / Awakenings 1970 Apollo 13 / Apocalypse Now 1971 Remember the Titans 1972 All the President’s Men 1973 Ratcatcher / Almost Famous 1974 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy / **Dick** 1975 The Deer Hunter 1976 Dazed and Confused 1977 Summer of Sam 1978 Lords of Dogtown 1979 Argo / Super 8 1980 No Country for Old Men 1981 Wet Hot American Summer / Let the Right One In 1982 Waltz with Bashir / Son of Rambow 1983 Stand and Deliver / This Is England 1984 1984 / Billy Elliot 1985 The Wedding Singer / SLC Punk! 1986 The Squid and the Whale 1987 Fargo 1988 Donnie Darko 1989 Buffalo Soldiers 1990 Rent 1991 The Big Lebowski 1992 Primary Colors 1993 Black Hawk Down 1994 Hotel Rwanda 1995 Invictus / The Insider **1996 Spinning Boris** 1997 Amélie 1998 Escape from New York 1999 Strange Days 2000 **Death Race 2000** 2001 2001: A Space Odyssey / World Trade Center / Flight 93 2002 Moneyball 2003 127 Hours 2004 The Hurt Locker 2005 Transformers: the Movie (1986) 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2012 I Am Legend 2013 The Postman 2015 Back to the Future II / Robocop 2018 Rollerball (1975) 2019 Blade Runner 2020 **V for Vendetta** 2022 Soylent Green 2025 Repo Men 2026 Metropolis 2027 Children of Men 2032 Demolition Man 2035 I, Robot / **Twelve Monkeys** 2044 Looper 2054 Minority Report 2056 Red Planet 2057 Sunshine 2063 Star Trek: First Contact **2078 Screamers** 2084 Total Recall (the original) 2093 Prometheus 2122 Alien 2139 Judge Dredd 2150 Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. 2151 Vanilla Sky 2160 Avatar 2173 Sleeper 2179 Aliens 2199 The Matrix 2214 The Fifth Element 2220 Forbidden Planet 2259 Star Trek: Into Darkness 2274 Logan’s Run 2293 Zardoz 2491 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2500 Waterworld 2505 Idiocracy 2517 Serenity 2592 Riddick 2805 Wall-E 3000 3000 A.D. (aka Captive Women) 3978 Planet of the Apes (1968) 5021 Planet of the Apes (2001) 12090 Vampire Hunter D 40000 Barbarella 802,701 The Time Machine (2002) Explanations (open to reconsideration): **Heaven’s Gate** to be the only 1892 entry (good explanation, **Colibri** ) and excluding **Wabash Avenue** (1892), which is a bit arcane by comparison. (Wabash Avenue fans, allow yourself to retort!) It’s very debatable where **12 Monkeys** should go, but because it came out in 1995, I think it better in 2035 than 1996 (among other reasons). **Mission to Mars** (25% on RT) scrapped for **V for Vendetta** (73% on RT). **Cloud Atlas** is too “Gumpian” for the timeline. Star Trek IV (“the one with the whale”) is present day, per the film’s release and the future date was only on screen for a short while. I’m not sure about exact dates for Apocalypto and Dick (I had previously looked on the internet for specific and valid dates), but I can’t prove those aren’t correct, so, worthwhile. A.I., on the other hand does not provide a specific date, either, and the 4000 was a very short part of the movie. We discussed Casablanca earlier in the thread. 1941 & Pearl Harbor not on par with current 1941 entries. Previously discussed, also. **Downfall** re-entered for 1945. Not sure if it was removed because of better entries (don’t think so as Empire of the Sun and Schindlers both comprise a longer period of time than a single year) or by accident. Re: **Monty Python** … umm, okay. I think the next evolution of this list – especially in light of discovery of available websites to make this list fairly easy – is to determine _the best_ (most appropriate) movie for each year. Of course, determining best/most appropriate is its own debate. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/274 "2013-05-22T02:44:58Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Limit one year per customer… Sorry, the OP doesn’t say that. Is that for the entire duration of the thread, or at a time? If the latter, I’ll resubmit: 2279 Star Trek: The Motion Picture ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/275 "2013-05-22T03:57:04Z")
Some major upgrades: 1918: [All Quiet On the Western Front (1930)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front_(1930_film)) Winner of two Academy Awards, including Best Director, and considered one of the 100 best American movies. 1941: [From Here to Eternity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Here_to_Eternity) Winner of 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Considered one of the 100 best American movies. 1943: [The Guns of Navarone](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guns_of_Navarone_(film)) Starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn. Won Golden Globe for Best Picture. Won one Academy Award, and nominated for six others, including Best Picture and Best Director. 1947: [Judgement at Nuremburg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_at_Nuremberg) Starring Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Marlene Dietrich, and Montgomery Clift. Nominated for 11 Academy Awards, and won two. 1948: [Exodus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_(1960_film)) Starring Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, and Sal Mineo. Movie begins in 1947, but most of the action and the climax are in 1948. New entry: 1866 [Red River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_(1948_film)) Fictionalized account of first cattle drive on the Chisolm Trail, which took place in 1866. PS: The last update missed: 467 King Arthur ---
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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Sorry, the OP doesn’t say that. Is that for the entire duration of the thread, or at a time? What he means is, a film can only be entered for one year. If a film covers multiple years, in your nomination you have to specify which year you think is most important in that film (whether in time, or in plot/theme). You can’t nominate the same film for multiple years. You can submit as many nominations as you want in a post. ---
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BC 227 **The Emperor and the Assassin** 1856 [**The Chess Players** (_Shatranj Ke Khilari_)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatranj_Ke_Khiladi) > [@Moonchild](#): > > Just curious, how are you guys orchestrating your searches? Mostly thinking of a movie and tracking down when it was actually set. But I’ve also been trawling a bit for foreign cinema, especially Indian movies; I think if it’s something reasonably widely known and available to Western audiences and with English subtitles it qualifies for the List. It’s kind of cool to see where other filmmaking traditions cluster their periods of historical interest. ---
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The Lord of the Rings? > **[Middle-earth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-earth)** > > Middle-earth is the setting of much of the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy. The term is equivalent to the Miðgarðr of Norse mythology and Middangeard in Old English works, including Beowulf. Middle-earth is the oecumene (i.e. the human-inhabited world, or the central continent of Earth) in Tolkien's imagined mythological past. Tolkien's most widely read works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, are set entirely in Middle-earth. "Middle-earth" has also become a short-hand term for... > [@](#): > > Tolkien wrote many times that Middle-earth is located on our Earth.[1] He described it as an imaginary period in Earth’s past, not only in The Lord of the Rings,[2] but also in several letters.[3] He put the end of the Third Age at about 6,000 years before his own time,[4] So, removing about 2000 years after BC, we arrive to 4000 BC. Therefore: BC 4000 **The Lord of the Rings** (_The fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King._) For the really obsessed: I did check, most of the action does take place in one year. > **[Timeline of Arda](https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline_of_Arda)** > > Here is the complete timeline of Arda in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth canon - from Arda's creation to the last known events of the Fourth Age. Before the creation of the Sun, few dates can be given, and the dates that are given in Valinorean Years,... ---
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If it hasn’t been submitted, for 1941, Casablanca. ---
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Oh, I think I can date a very ancient one: > **[Chicxulub crater](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater)** > > The Chicxulub crater (/tʃiːkʃuːˈluːb/ cheek-shoo-LOOB; .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Spanish: \[tʃikʃuˈlub\] ⓘ) is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is offshore, but the crater is named after the onshore community of Chicxulub Pueblo (not the larger coastal town of Chicxulub Puerto). I... > [@](#): > > The age of the rocks shows that this impact structure dates from the end of the Cretaceous Period, roughly 66 million years ago. The impact associated with the crater is implicated in causing the extinction of the dinosaurs as suggested by the K-Pg boundary, the geological boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods. Some critics argue that the impact was not the sole reason[5] and others debate whether there was a single impact or whether the Chicxulub impactor was one of several that may have struck the Earth at around the same time. Disney’s Dinosaur (2000) deals with the impact and does play with the idea that not all dinosaurs died just there. 66 million BC **Dinosaur** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457.md?page=15)