# The best movie set in every year... but not made in that year

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**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)\
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> [@Colibri](#):
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> 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.

Ah, thanks. Then:

2279 Star Trek: The Motion Picture  
2285 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan / Star Trek III: The Search for Spock  
2287 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier  
2293 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country  
2371 Star Trek Generations  
2373 Star Trek: First Contact  
2375 Star Trek: Insurrection  
2379 Star Trek: Nemesis

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> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#):
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> If it hasn’t been submitted, for 1941, Casablanca.

Submitted a while back, and rejected for being made in essentially the same year it is set. Set in December 1941, started production in May 1942.

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I had a few others, shut down the computer without saving. I do remember:

**1939 The Natural** Not yet sure how it stands up to **To Be or Not to Be**.

I’ll update a little later. Will also try to shed some light on criteria for what makes for the best entry in a given year.

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Latest update:

BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman  
**BC 66 million Dinosaur**  
BC 1,000,000 One Million BC  
BC 10,000 10,000 BC  
**BC 4000 The Lord of the Rings**  
BC 1200 Troy  
BC 480 300  
BC 326 Sikandar (1941)  
BC 261 Asoka  
**BC 227 The Emperor and the Assassin**  
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  
**467 King Arthur**  
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  
**1856 The Chess Players (Shatranj Ke Khilari)**  
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  
**1866 Red River**  
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 / **1918: All Quiet On the Western Front (1930)**  
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) / **The Natural**  
1940 The Spirit of the Beehive / The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe  
1941 Tora! Tora! Tora! / **From Here to Eternity**  
1942 Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo / Summer of '42  
1943 Come and See / A League of Their Own /\*\* The Guns of Navarone\*\*  
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 / **Judgement at Nuremburg**  
1948 Devil in a Blue Dress / **1948: Exodus**  
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 / **Lords of Flatbush**  
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 / **Dog Day Afternoon**  
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) / **Grassroots**  
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  
**2279 Star Trek: The Motion Picture  
2285 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan / Star Trek III: The Search for Spock  
2287 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier**  
2293 Zardoz / **Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country**  
**2371 Star Trek Generations  
2373 Star Trek: First Contact  
2375 Star Trek: Insurrection  
2379 Star Trek: Nemesis**  
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)

Added also:  
1958 Lords of Flatbush  
1972 Dog Day Afternoon (only three years preceding the movie’s release)  
2005 [Grassroots](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1634286/) It’s a small political drama piece that came out last year about someone who is actually a friend of mine. 🙂

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And BTW, thank you for all your work on this project, Moonchild. Madame Pepperwinkle and I are enjoying it mightily. (Pass the popcorn, Mme P. What’s that? It’s back in the Jurassic?)

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**Dead Poets’ Society** probably deserves some consideration in the 1959 slot.

ETA: Oops. I see you’ve already got that one listed.

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I’m with ya, Professor. Not just the creator, I’m also a fan! I had been thinking about posting this for a while, but never imagined it would become this thorough! (I should have known better.)

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> [@Spoke](#):
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> **Dead Poets’ Society** probably deserves some consideration in the 1959 slot.

It’s there. I added it a while back, but recognized at the time that’s it’s not quite on par with **Diner** or **Stand By Me**.

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Just horsing around with Tobey McGuire:

**1938 Seabiscuit  
1973 Secretariat  
1973 The Ice Storm**

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:: whinnies ::

Many thanks also, **Moonchild**. Fun thread!

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Also:

1940 Atonement  
1962 Thirteen Days  
1966 JFK  
1997 The Queen  
2006 Little Miss Sunshine  
2007 Juno  
2008 Game Change  
2009 The Messenger

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1194 **Ivanhoe**

(Not sure a date is ever explicitly mentioned but that was the year King Richard was ransomed from Leopold of Austria, which is a major plot point of both book and movie.)

Yup, fascinating thread; I’m not sure I’d bet against our being able to find at least one movie for every year from 1750 to present and at least one movie per decade for 50 BCE on up!

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> 1966 JFK

Already on the list.

> [@](#):
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> 2006 Little Miss Sunshine  
> 2007 Juno  
> 2009 The Messenger

Another requirement (indicated in the title of the thread itself) is that the movie not be set in the same year it was made. None of these qualifies. (Admittedly, this makes recent years hard to fill, so Zero Dark Thirty (2012) has been accepted even though the climax occurs in 2011.)

> [@](#):
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> 2008 Game Change

Since this was made in 2012, it qualifies.

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Also:
> 
> 1940 Atonement  
> 1962 Thirteen Days  
> 1966 JFK  
> 1997 The Queen  
> 2006 Little Miss Sunshine  
> 2007 Juno  
> 2008 Game Change  
> 2009 The Messenger

**Atonement, 13 Days, The Queen** and **Game Change** are all good (I assume so without checking, anyway). I think the list is best represented by theatrically released movies, but Game Change is not the first non-theatrically released entry (e.g. 61\*).

**LMS, Juno** and **The Messenger** were all released in the year the movie is (approximately) set in, so not valid. **JFK** is already on the list.

In other words, what\*\* Colibri\*\* said. 😃

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Let’s get rid of a few of those pesky late 2000’s years:

2006 Slumdog Millionaire (2008)  
2007 [Double Dragon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Dragon_(film)) (1994)  
2009 [Freejack](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freejack) (1992)

The last two are respectively at 0% and 15% on RT, but whaddya gonna do?😉

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1616 _Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World_  
1718 _Swashbuckler_

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Alternate selections:

1871 _La commune_ - amazing recreation/reimagining of 1871 Paris Commune  
1908 _The Great Race_ - Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood et al. Has its fans.

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> [@Colibri](#):
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> …Another requirement (indicated in the title of the thread itself) is that the movie not be set in the same year it was made…

> [@Moonchild](#):
>
> …In other words, what\*\* Colibri\*\* said. 😃

Ah, right you are. Thanks.

Some more prospects:

1863 Her Majesty Mrs. Brown  
1868 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea  
1939 Hyde Park on Hudson  
1966 The Hurricane  
1973 The Lovely Bones  
1988 For Queen and Country  
1991 Courage Under Fire

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1448 The Divine Weapon

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OMG, I had neglected to notice one of my top 10 all-time favorite movies!

**1991 Three Kings**

( **Grassroots** , my friend tells me, was actually in 2001, no chance against the current entries.)

I’ll update in a bit…

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