# 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:** 21
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> [@Clothahump](#): > > 1932 The Green Mile. That’s the book; the movie changed it to 1935. ---
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AD 33 is taken but I think that an epic like [Ben-Hur](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Hur_%281959_film%29) (1959) should not be omitted, so we should go for when the action starts and remains for awhile, in AD 26; as an option, Ben-Hur tells the Roman Commander in the movie how long he was in the galleys, so the sea battle and his freedom in Rome was good chunk of the movie and takes place 3 years later in AD 29. \*\*26 Ben-Hur \*\* ---
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Updated: 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 1300 Jason and the Argonauts** **BC 1213 The Ten Commandments** 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 **26 Ben-Hur** 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 **630 - The Message** 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 **1401 12 Paces without a Head** 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1448 The Divine Weapon **1453 The Conquest of 1453 1458 The Conclave 1480 Flavia the Heretic** 1482 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1485 Richard III 1492 1492: Conquest of Paradise **1500 Prince of Foxes** 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 1848 Cousin Bette 1849 The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin 1850 The Legend of Zorro **1853 Dimples / The Bushido Blade** 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 The Song of Bernadette / 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 / **The Great Waldo Pepper** 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 / **The Green Mile** 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 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 / **Four Days in September** 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 / **The Lives of Others** 1985 The Wedding Singer / SLC Punk! 1986 The Squid and the Whale / **Hot Tube Time Machine** 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 **2023 Gunbuster** 2024 .hack/The Movie 2025 Repo Men 2026 Metropolis 2027 Children of Men **2028 Robocop (August 2013 release)** 2029 Ghost In The Shell 2031 Frankenstein Unbound 2032 Demolition Man 2033 Tank Girl 2035 I, Robot / Twelve Monkeys 2037 Meet The Robinsons **2041 Time Chasers** 2044 Looper **2046 Doom 2047 Event Horizon** 2054 Minority Report 2056 Red Planet 2057 Sunshine **2059 Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century** 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) **Django Unchained** moved to 1858. Since we are not trying to pare down the best movie of each year, everybody’s favorite 1986 movie, **Hot Tube Time Machine** has been re-added to the list. I’m gonna go search the web, but is there now movie depicting the California Gold Rush of 1848-1851-ish? The Gold Rush by Charlie Chaplin, perhaps? Anyhow, I’m’na go look. ---
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I can’t seem to find **The Conquest of 1453**. Not sure if the 1453 should be in the title. I did find a movie called **Conquest** that is a 1996 Hungarian film about the Magyar settlement in Hungary in AD 896. And that baby’s gettin’ added to the list! But if somebody can post the link to the 1453, that would help. 'Cause you know, I’m the judge, jury and executioner of this thread! 😛 There yet another period piece called **Conquest** that was released in 1937 (per Wiki) involving Napoleon Bonepart, but I haven’t yet nailed down a specific date for it. Looking like somewhere between 1806-1810. ---
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Meant to move **Django Unchained** to 1859. Will move it on the next update. ---
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1848 Sutter’s Gold (1936) ---
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> [@Moonchild](#): > > 1848 Sutter’s Gold (1936) Also, [The Robin Hood of El Dorado](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robin_Hood_of_El_Dorado) ---
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_“Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And unto this, Conan, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!”_ > **[Hyborian Age](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyborian_Age)** > > The Hyborian Age is a fictional period of Earth's history within the artificial mythology created by Robert E. Howard, serving as the setting for the sword and sorcery tales of Conan the Barbarian. > The word "Hyborian" is derived from the legendary northern land of the ancient Greeks, Hyperborea, and it is rendered as such in the earliest draft of Howard's essay "The Hyborian Age". Howard described the Hyborian Age taking place sometime after the sinking of Atlantis and before the beginning of r... > [@](#): > > The Hyborian Age is a fictional period within the artificial mythology created by Robert E. Howard, in which the sword and sorcery tales of Conan the Barbarian and Red Sonja are set. > > The word “Hyborian” is a transliterated contraction by Howard of the Ancient Greek “hyperborean”, referring to a “barbaric dweller beyond the boreas (north wind).”[1] Howard stated that the geographical setting of the Hyborian Age is that of our Earth, but in a fictional version of a period in the past, c. Upper Paleolithic (40,000 to 10,000 B.C.).[2] > > The reasons behind the invention of the Hyborian Age were perhaps commercial: Howard had an intense love for history and historical dramas; however, at the same time, he recognized the difficulties and the time-consuming research needed in maintaining historical accuracy. By conceiving a timeless setting – a vanished age – and by carefully choosing names that resembled our history, Howard avoided the problem of historical anachronisms and the need for lengthy exposition.[3] Very smart, Mr. Howard, I will go for what the reviewer at [IMDb reports](http://www.imdb.com/reviews/131/13139.html): \*\*BC 12,000 Conan the Barbarian (The one with _Ahnold_) \*\* to stay away from 10,000 ---
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1199 - Robin and Marian 1943 - A Canterbury Tale 1879 - Zulu Dawn 2027 - Nemesis 1888 - Murder by Decree 1939 - Dunkirk ---
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> [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](#): > > 1939 - Dunkirk The evacuation of British forces was in May-June 1940. Does most of the movie take place the year before? ---
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> [@Moonchild](#): > > I’m gonna go search the web, but is there now movie depicting the California Gold Rush of 1848-1851-ish? The Gold Rush by Charlie Chaplin, perhaps? Anyhow, I’m’na go look. Chaplin’s “The Gold Rush” is set in the Klondike gold rush ca. 1896-1899. Don’t know if the year is specified. ---
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> [@Moonchild](#): > > I’m gonna go search the web, but is there now movie depicting the California Gold Rush of 1848-1851-ish? The Gold Rush by Charlie Chaplin, perhaps? Anyhow, I’m’na go look. > [@rsat3acr](#): > > Chaplin’s “The Gold Rush” is set in the Klondike gold rush ca. 1896-1899. Don’t know if the year is specified. I pegged The Gold Rush as belonging to 1897 since that was the start of the “Klondike Stampede” and the iconic images of prospectors climbing the Chilkoot Pass in the snow, shown in the opening of the movie. ---
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> [@Moonchild](#): > > I can’t seem to find **The Conquest of 1453**. Not sure if the 1453 should be in the title. I did find a movie called **Conquest** that is a 1996 Hungarian film about the Magyar settlement in Hungary in AD 896. And that baby’s gettin’ added to the list! But if somebody can post the link to the 1453, that would help. 'Cause you know, I’m the judge, jury and executioner of this thread! 😛 > > There yet another period piece called **Conquest** that was released in 1937 (per Wiki) involving Napoleon Bonepart, but I haven’t yet nailed down a specific date for it. Looking like somewhere between 1806-1810. **The Conquest of 1453** is an alternate English title for **Fetih 1453**. Here’s the Wiki: [Fetih 1453 - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetih_1453) ---
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From Wiki’s [List of Asian historical drama films](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asian_historical_drama_films): BC 500 Amrapali BC 326 Sikandar BC 316 The Warring States BC 250 Mahindagamanaga 219 The Lost Bladesman 229 Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon 473 The God King 660 Once Upon a Time in a Battlefield 700 Warriors of Heaven and Earrth 986 Saving General Yang 1083 Ambikapathy 1159 Gate of Hell 1220 The Golden Horde 1442 Blood Letter 1548 The Legend of Suriyothai 1575 Kagemusha 1600 Shogun ---
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Updating in a moment… ---
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Arc **1442 Blood Letter** 1448 The Divine Weapon 1453 The Conquest of 1453 1458 The Conclave 1480 Flavia the Heretic 1482 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1485 Richard III 1492 1492: Conquest of Paradise 1500 Prince of Foxes 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 **1548 The Legend of Suriyothai** 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 **1600 Shogun** 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 1848 Cousin Bette / **1848 Sutter’s Gold** (1936) / **The Robin Hood of El Dorado** 1849 The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin 1850 The Legend of Zorro 1853 Dimples / The Bushido Blade 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 The Song of Bernadette 1859 Creation / Seven Angry Men / 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 / 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 / **Zulu Dawn** 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 / **Murder by Decree** 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 / The Great Waldo Pepper 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 / The Green Mile 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 / **Dunkirk** 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 / **A Canterbury Tale** 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 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 / Four Days in September 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 / The Lives of Others 1985 The Wedding Singer / SLC Punk! 1986 The Squid and the Whale / Hot Tube Time Machine 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 2023 Gunbuster 2024 .hack/The Movie 2025 Repo Men 2026 Metropolis 2027 Children of Men / **Nemesis** 2028 Robocop (August 2013 release) 2029 Ghost In The Shell 2031 Frankenstein Unbound 2032 Demolition Man 2033 Tank Girl 2035 I, Robot / Twelve Monkeys 2037 Meet The Robinsons 2041 Time Chasers 2044 Looper 2046 Doom 2047 Event Horizon 2054 Minority Report 2056 Red Planet 2057 Sunshine 2059 Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century 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](#): > > The evacuation of British forces was in May-June 1940. Does most of the movie take place the year before? No, you’re right - I wasn’t concentrating. Sorry! ---
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> [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](#): > > No, you’re right - I wasn’t concentrating. Sorry! No worries. Then _Dunkirk_ can join _Atonement_ as a 1940 movie - the evacuation is prominently featured in the latter film, as well. ---
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Another 1945 one - A Matter of Life and Death. ---
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Although 1910 has Mary Poppins, another favorite and more historically based movie should be added: > **[Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_Magnificent_Men_in_their_Flying_Machines)** > > Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours and 11 Minutes is a 1965 British epic period comedy film that satirises the early years of aviation. Directed and co-written by Ken Annakin, the film stars an international ensemble cast, including Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, Robert Morley, Terry-Thomas, James Fox, Red Skelton, Benny Hill, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Gert Fröbe, and Alberto Sordi. > Set in the year 1910, the film follows a fictitious air race... > [@](#): > > Running at over two hours’ length, _ **Those Magnificent Men In their Flying Machines** _ … (most cinemas abbreviated the full title and it was eventually re-released with the shorter title) was treated as a major production, one of only three full-length 70 mm Todd-AO Fox releases in 1965 with an intermission and musical interlude spliced into the original screenings.[8] Due to the Todd-AO process, Those Magnificent Men In their Flying Machines was considered an exclusive feature shown in deluxe Cinerama venues where customers needed reserved seats purchased ahead of time.[29] Considered one of the most popular exemplars of the '60s “epic comedy” genre, it was an immediate box-office success, far out-grossing the similar car race comedy, The Great Race (1965) and even eclipsing the perennial favourite, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).[16] Audience reaction both in first release and even today, is nearly universal in assessing the film as one of the “classic” aviation films.[30] **1910 Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, Or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457.md?page=22)