# 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:** 19
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Not much historical or archeological evidence there, but traditions point at about BC 1000 - 950 as the time of Solomon. And we got another old Hollywood Epic with Yul Brynner and Gina Lollobrigida: [Solomon and Sheba (1959)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_and_Sheba), was a big hit in the day, some critics point it now as one of the worst movies but IMDb gives it 6 out of 10 stars. The beginning of the movie does mention that the action begins 1000 years before the birth of Christ, so: **BC 1000 Solomon and Sheba.** ---
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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 2528 Land of the Pharaohs BC 1340 Princess of the Sun BC 1336 The Egyptian BC 1200 Troy BC 1000 Solomon and Sheba BC 500 Sita Sings the Blues 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 568 Goliath and the Barbarians 629 Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons 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 1194 Ivanhoe 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 1448 The Divine Weapon 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 1541 Highlander 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 1596 The Merchant of Venice 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1601 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex 1607 The New World 1616 Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1634 Black Robe / The Devils 1637 The Last Valley 1649 Cromwell 1665 Girl with a Pearl Earring 1667 The Scarlet Letter 1685 Lorna Doone / Captain Blood 1692 The Crucible 1699 Captain Kidd 1709 The Sovereign’s Servant 1712 Rob Roy 1718 Swashbuckler 1745 The Master of Ballantrae 1748 Plunkett & Macleane 1753 Casanova (2005) 1756 The Mission 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1762 The Rise of Catherine the Great 1769 Seven Cities of Gold 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 1797 Billy Budd 1798 The Wild Child 1799 The Marquise of O / Sleepy Hollow 1804 The Far Horizons (story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition) 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 1817 Princess Caraboo 1827 Children of Paradise 1828 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1829 The Count of Monte Cristo 1831 Under Capricorn 1832 Les Miserables 1836 The Alamo 1841 Amistad 1844 Brigham Young 1847 Jeremiah Johnson 1849 The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin 1850 The Legend of Zorro 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 1861 Gods and Generals / Gone With The Wind 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg / Glory / Her Majesty Mrs. Brown / Gangs of New York 1864 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly / Cold Mountain 1865 Lincoln / The Outlaw Josey Wales 1866 Red River 1867 Juarez 1868 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1869 Union Pacific 1870 Mademoiselle Fifi 1871 In Old Chicago / La commune 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 / The Yearling 1879 Zulu 1880 Stagecoach / True Grit (2012) 1881 Tombstone / My Darling Clementine 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 1887 Shanghai Knights 1888 From Hell 1889 Mayerling 1890 Hello, Dolly! 1891 Sherlock Holmes (2009) 1892 Heaven’s Gate 1893 Far and Away / Lagaan 1894 Princess Kaiulani / The Life of Emile Zola 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! / A Room with a View 1908 Take Me Out To The Ball Game / The Great Race 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 / 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 / Seabiscuit 1939 To Be or Not to Be (the original) / The Natural / Hyde Park on Hudson 1940 The Spirit of the Beehive / The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe / Atonement 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 1947 42 / Tucker: A Man and His Dream / Judgement at Nuremburg 1948 Devil in a Blue Dress / 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 / Thirteen Days 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 / The Hurricane 1967 Platoon 1968 The Unbearable Lightness of Being / A Bronx Tale 1969 Taking Woodstock / Awakenings 1970 Apollo 13 / Apocalypse Now 1971 Remember the Titans / We Are Marshall 1972 All the President’s Men / Dog Day Afternoon / Bat\*21 1973 Ratcatcher / Almost Famous / The Lovely Bones / Secretariat / The Ice Storm 1974 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy / Dick 1975 The Deer Hunter 1976 Dazed and Confused 1977 Summer of Sam 1978 Lords of Dogtown 1979 Super 8 1980 No Country for Old Men / Argo / Salvador 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 / The Hunt for Red October 1985 The Wedding Singer / SLC Punk! 1986 The Squid and the Whale 1987 Fargo 1988 Donnie Darko / For Queen and Country 1989 Buffalo Soldiers 1990 Rent 1991 The Big Lebowski / Courage Under Fire / Three Kings 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) 2006 Slumdog Millionaire 2007 Double Dragon 2008 Game Change 2009 Freejack 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2012 I Am Legend 2013 The Postman 2014 Moon Child 2015 Back to the Future II / Robocop 2016 Stealth 2017 Barb Wire 2018 Rollerball (1975) 2019 Blade Runner 2020 V for Vendetta 2021 Johnny Mnemonic 2022 Soylent Green 2024 .hack/The Movie 2025 Repo Men 2026 Metropolis 2027 Children of Men 2029 Ghost In The Shell 2031 Frankenstein Unbound 2032 Demolition Man 2033 Tank Girl 2035 I, Robot / Twelve Monkeys 2037 Meet The Robinsons 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 2154 Elysium 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) 10191 Dune 12090 Vampire Hunter D 40000 Barbarella 802,701 The Time Machine (2002) ---
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1859 Seven Angry Men ---
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Do we intend to try and reach agreement about the years with multiple nominations, or the films nominated for multiple years ? Basically, is the intent to end up with a 1 film/1 year list ? ---
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I know it’s not what the OP had in mind, but I’d rather have a complete list with every movie we can think of for every year possible, than squeeze the list and leave out a lotta good flicks. Just my two cents’ worth. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/366 "2013-05-30T14:01:15Z")
1013 - The Ceremony of Innocence 1043 - Lady Godiva of Coventry 1066 - 1066 (The Battle for Middle Earth) ---
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Trying to fill in some gaps: 1370 A Knight’s Tale 1837 The Young Victoria 1843 The Tell-Tale Heart 1845 The Raven 1855 The Great Train Robbery 1859 Creation There are already movies for these years, but I’ll also suggest: 1776 The Crossing 1874 Disraeli 1896 The Gold Rush 2022 No Escape ---
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1714 The Bridge of San Luis Rey 1724 The Accidental Gangster and the Mistaken Courtesan 1728 The Beggar’s Opera 1744 Young Catherine ---
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Is there no movie out there about the 1848 revolutions in Europe? ---
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> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Is there no movie out there about the 1848 revolutions in Europe? A quick check and all I find is Cousin Bette, based on Balzac’s novel, and set in Paris on the brink of the revolutions. 1848 Cousin Bette ---
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I was also surprised to find no prominent movie about John Brown’s abortive 1859 raid at Harper’s Ferry. ---
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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > 1896 The Gold Rush The Gold Rush is already listed for 1897. Although the gold strike itself took place in 1896, the rush didn’t start until the spring in the following year, so I pegged that as the year in which the movie is set. ---
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> [@williambaskerville](#): > > Do we intend to try and reach agreement about the years with multiple nominations, or the films nominated for multiple years ? > > Basically, is the intent to end up with a 1 film/1 year list ? I’ve been thinking about this. That was the original intent as stated in the OP, and then the idea seemed to fall off, maybe just because we don’t have to have a definitive movie for each year to appreciate the thread and build on it. I made an attempt to revive it, but I don’t know that my heart was in it other than as an effort to keep the thread going. Ultimately, it just doesn’t seem like a very important matter and maybe that’s as it should be. And certainly there are certain years where it really is not possible to have a definitive movie (ex. 1962 with Animal House and American Graffiti). Plus – and this is a pretty big deal from a maintenance standpoint – copying and pasting removes the coding, so the lower-sized fonts get bounced unless you copy and paste the list, including coding, to your desktop. And then you pretty much need to be the only one who updates the list. Anyhow, all IMHO. ---
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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 2528 Land of the Pharaohs BC 1340 Princess of the Sun BC 1336 The Egyptian BC 1200 Troy BC 1000 Solomon and Sheba BC 500 Sita Sings the Blues 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 568 Goliath and the Barbarians 629 Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons 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 **1013 The Ceremony of Innocence 1043 Lady Godiva of Coventry** 1057 Macbeth **1066 1066: The Battle for Middle Earth)** 1099 El Cid 1170 Becket 1183 The Lion in Winter 1187 Kingdom of Heaven 1194 Ivanhoe 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 **1370 A Knight’s Tale** 1389 Battle of Kosovo 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1448 The Divine Weapon 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 1541 Highlander 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 1596 The Merchant of Venice 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1601 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex 1607 The New World 1616 Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1634 Black Robe / The Devils 1637 The Last Valley 1649 Cromwell 1665 Girl with a Pearl Earring 1667 The Scarlet Letter 1685 Lorna Doone / Captain Blood 1692 The Crucible 1699 Captain Kidd 1709 The Sovereign’s Servant 1712 Rob Roy **1714 The Bridge of San Luis Rey** 1718 Swashbuckler **1724 The Accidental Gangster and the Mistaken Courtesan 1728 The Beggar’s Opera** **1744 Young Catherine** 1745 The Master of Ballantrae 1748 Plunkett & Macleane 1753 Casanova (2005) 1756 The Mission 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1762 The Rise of Catherine the Great 1769 Seven Cities of Gold 1776 1776 / **The Crossing** 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 1797 Billy Budd 1798 The Wild Child 1799 The Marquise of O / Sleepy Hollow 1804 The Far Horizons (story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition) 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 1817 Princess Caraboo 1827 Children of Paradise 1828 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1829 The Count of Monte Cristo 1831 Under Capricorn 1832 Les Miserables 1836 The Alamo **1837 The Young Victoria** 1841 Amistad **1843 The Tell-Tale Heart** 1844 Brigham Young **1845 The Raven** 1847 Jeremiah Johnson 1 **848 Cousin Bette** 1849 The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin 1850 The Legend of Zorro 1854 The Charge of the Light Brigade **1855 The Great Train Robbery** 1856 The Chess Players (Shatranj Ke Khilari) 1857 Mangal Pandey: The Rising 1858 Django Unchained **1859 Creation / Seven Angry Men** 1860 The Pony Express 1861 Gods and Generals / Gone With The Wind 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg / Glory / Her Majesty Mrs. Brown / Gangs of New York 1864 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly / Cold Mountain 1865 Lincoln / The Outlaw Josey Wales 1866 Red River 1867 Juarez 1868 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1869 Union Pacific 1870 Mademoiselle Fifi 1871 In Old Chicago / La commune 1872 Around the World in 80 Days 1873 Cowboys and Aliens 1874 Blazing Saddles / **Disraeli** 1875 The Story of Alexander Graham Bell 1876 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon / The Molly Maguires 1877 The Last Samurai 1878 Cheyenne Autumn / The Yearling 1879 Zulu 1880 Stagecoach / True Grit (2012) 1881 Tombstone / My Darling Clementine 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 1887 Shanghai Knights 1888 From Hell 1889 Mayerling 1890 Hello, Dolly! 1891 Sherlock Holmes (2009) 1892 Heaven’s Gate 1893 Far and Away / Lagaan 1894 Princess Kaiulani / The Life of Emile Zola 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! / A Room with a View 1908 Take Me Out To The Ball Game / The Great Race 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 / 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 / Seabiscuit 1939 To Be or Not to Be (the original) / The Natural / Hyde Park on Hudson 1940 The Spirit of the Beehive / The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe / Atonement 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 1947 42 / Tucker: A Man and His Dream / Judgement at Nuremburg 1948 Devil in a Blue Dress / 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 / Thirteen Days 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 / The Hurricane 1967 Platoon 1968 The Unbearable Lightness of Being / A Bronx Tale 1969 Taking Woodstock / Awakenings 1970 Apollo 13 / Apocalypse Now 1971 Remember the Titans / We Are Marshall 1972 All the President’s Men / Dog Day Afternoon / Bat\*21 1973 Ratcatcher / Almost Famous / The Lovely Bones / Secretariat / The Ice Storm 1974 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy / Dick 1975 The Deer Hunter 1976 Dazed and Confused 1977 Summer of Sam 1978 Lords of Dogtown 1979 Super 8 1980 No Country for Old Men / Argo / Salvador 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 / The Hunt for Red October 1985 The Wedding Singer / SLC Punk! 1986 The Squid and the Whale 1987 Fargo 1988 Donnie Darko / For Queen and Country 1989 Buffalo Soldiers 1990 Rent 1991 The Big Lebowski / Courage Under Fire / Three Kings 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) 2006 Slumdog Millionaire 2007 Double Dragon 2008 Game Change 2009 Freejack 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2012 I Am Legend 2013 The Postman 2014 Moon Child 2015 Back to the Future II / Robocop 2016 Stealth 2017 Barb Wire 2018 Rollerball (1975) 2019 Blade Runner 2020 V for Vendetta 2021 Johnny Mnemonic 2022 Soylent Green / **No Escape** 2024 .hack/The Movie 2025 Repo Men 2026 Metropolis 2027 Children of Men 2029 Ghost In The Shell 2031 Frankenstein Unbound 2032 Demolition Man 2033 Tank Girl 2035 I, Robot / Twelve Monkeys 2037 Meet The Robinsons 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 2154 Elysium 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) 10191 Dune 12090 Vampire Hunter D 40000 Barbarella 802,701 The Time Machine (2002) ---
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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I was also surprised to find no prominent movie about John Brown’s abortive 1859 raid at Harper’s Ferry. _Seven Angry Men_ (1955) which I posted. Although I agree it’s not really a prominent movie. ---
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2023 Gunbuster 2028 Robocop (the remake, set to hit the silver screen in August this year) ---
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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I was also surprised to find no prominent movie about John Brown’s abortive 1859 raid at Harper’s Ferry. Well, there’s _Santa Fe Trail_, with Errol Flynn as Jeb Stuart. ---
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630 - The Message (Muhammad biopic, starring Anthony Quinn; not sure if this is exactly the right year) ---
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2041 Time Chasers 2046 Doom 2047 Event Horizon 2059 Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century ---
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Not bad. We now have every year from 1854-2029, and every decade from the 1660s to the 2100s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457.md?page=20)