# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/81 "2013-05-16T06:23:38Z")
BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman BC 1,000,000 One Million BC BC 72 Spartacus BC 44 Julius Caesar 33 Life of Brian 208 Red Cliff 922 The Thirteenth Warrior 1183 The Lion in Winter 1327 The Name of the Rose 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1535 A Man for All Seasons 1547 Crossed Swords 1560 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1776 1776 1799 The Marquise of O 1805 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 1827 Children of Paradise 1858 Django Unchained 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg 1865 Lincoln 1874 Blazing Saddles 1876 The Molly Maguires 1881 Tombstone 1882 The Man Who Would Be King 1884 3:10 to Yuma 1885 Topsy Turvy / Back to the Future III 1888 From Hell 1893 Lagaan 1893 Far and Away 1901 The Shootist 1902 Breaker Morant 1904 Meet Me in St. Louis 1905 Battleship Potemkin 1906 Ragtime 1910 Mary Poppins 1912 Titanic 1913 The Wild Bunch 1915 Gallipoli 1916 Paths of Glory 1917 Lawrence of Arabia 1919 Eight Men Out 1920 Matewan 1922 The Great Gatsby 1927 Singin’ in the Rain 1929 Some Like It Hot 1931 Cabaret 1933 Sounder 1934 Pennies from Heaven 1935 The King’s Speech 1936 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1937 O 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 1941 Tora, Tora, Tora 1943 Come and See 1944 Saving Private Ryan and A Bridge Too Far and Pan’s Labyrinth 1945 Downfall 1946 The Godfather 1947 42 1950 Men in War 1951 The Last Picture Show 1953 L.A. Confidential 1955 Back to the Future 1957 The Battle of Algiers 1958 The Godfather Part II 1959 Diner or **Stand By Me** **1960 Grease** 1961 61\* 1962 (tie) American Graffiti and Animal House 1963 **One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest** 1964 Mississippi Burning 1965 Moonrise Kingdom 1966 JFK 1967 Platoon 1968 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1969 Taking Woodstock 1970 Apollo 13 (Apocalypse Now???) 1972 All the President’s Men 1973 Ratcatcher 1975 The Deer Hunter 1976 Dazed and Confused 1977 Summer of Sam 1979 Argo or Super 8??? 1980 No Country for Old Men 1983 Heartbreak Ridge 1984 1984 1986 The Squid and the Whale 1987 Fargo 1991 The Big Lebowski 1993 Black Hawk Down 1997 Amélie 1998 Escape from New York 1999 Strange Days 2000 Escape from Los Angeles 2001 2001:A Space Odyssey 2004 The Hurt Locker 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2019 Blade Runner 2022 Soylent Green 2027 Children of Men 2084 Total Recall (the original) 2274 Logan’s Run 2491 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2505 Idiocracy With all due respect to Mermaids, 1963 should go to **One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest**. [This scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l00C74Ziy8U) is referencing the 1963 World Series. Umm, you might be overlooking something, **JK1245** : Pulp Fiction, Se7en and Say Anything are not period pieces. And can you definitively state that Apocalypse Now occurs in 1970? I’m looking on the internet but not finding a specific year (or years). But I would agree with you that it’s considered a better movie than Apollo 13. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/82 "2013-05-16T06:25:54Z")
Would **Chariots of fire** count for 1924? A lot of the movie is set in 1919… 2173 - **Sleeper** ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/83 "2013-05-16T06:37:14Z")
That’s a good question and I’ve never seen the movie. Either by theme or by movietime minutes, which year seems to be most represented? I would say that would be the answer. **Chinatown** somehow got slipped from the list (1937). As good as **Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?** is, Chinatown is a classic. You could add **Inglorious Basterds** to 1944 as well. ---
**Author:** ![UncaStuart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncastuart/32/404_2.png) [@UncaStuart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncaStuart)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/84 "2013-05-16T06:38:02Z")
BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman BC 1,000,000 One Million BC BC 72 Spartacus BC 44 Julius Caesar 33 Life of Brian 208 Red Cliff 922 The Thirteenth Warrior 1183 The Lion in Winter 1327 The Name of the Rose 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1535 A Man for All Seasons 1547 Crossed Swords 1560 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1776 1776 1799 The Marquise of O 1805 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 1827 Children of Paradise 1858 Django Unchained 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg 1865 Lincoln 1874 Blazing Saddles 1876 The Molly Maguires 1881 Tombstone 1882 The Man Who Would Be King 1884 3:10 to Yuma 1885 Topsy Turvy / Back to the Future III 1888 From Hell 1893 Lagaan 1893 Far and Away 1901 The Shootist 1902 Breaker Morant 1904 Meet Me in St. Louis 1905 Battleship Potemkin 1906 Ragtime 1910 Mary Poppins 1912 Titanic 1913 The Wild Bunch 1915 Gallipoli 1916 Paths of Glory 1917 Lawrence of Arabia 1919 Eight Men Out 1920 Matewan 1922 The Great Gatsby 1927 Singin’ in the Rain 1929 Some Like It Hot 1931 Cabaret 1933 Sounder 1934 Pennies from Heaven 1935 The King’s Speech 1936 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1937 O 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 1941 Tora, Tora, Tora **1942 Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo** 1943 Come and See 1944 Saving Private Ryan and A Bridge Too Far and Pan’s Labyrinth 1945 Downfall 1946 The Godfather 1947 42 1950 Men in War 1951 The Last Picture Show 1953 L.A. Confidential 1955 Back to the Future 1957 The Battle of Algiers 1958 The Godfather Part II 1959 Diner or Stand By Me 1960 Grease 1961 61\* 1962 (tie) American Graffiti and Animal House 1963 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1964 Mississippi Burning 1965 Moonrise Kingdom 1966 JFK 1967 Platoon 1968 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1969 Taking Woodstock 1970 Apollo 13 (Apocalypse Now???) 1972 All the President’s Men 1973 Ratcatcher 1975 The Deer Hunter 1976 Dazed and Confused 1977 Summer of Sam 1979 Argo or Super 8??? 1980 No Country for Old Men 1983 Heartbreak Ridge 1984 1984 1986 The Squid and the Whale 1987 Fargo 1991 The Big Lebowski 1993 Black Hawk Down 1997 Amélie 1998 Escape from New York 1999 Strange Days 2000 Escape from Los Angeles 2001 2001:A Space Odyssey 2004 The Hurt Locker 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2019 Blade Runner 2022 Soylent Green 2027 Children of Men 2084 Total Recall (the original) 2274 Logan’s Run 2491 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2505 Idiocracy ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/85 "2013-05-16T06:39:06Z")
BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman BC 1,000,000 One Million BC BC 72 Spartacus BC 44 Julius Caesar 33 Life of Brian 208 Red Cliff 922 The Thirteenth Warrior 1183 The Lion in Winter 1327 The Name of the Rose 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1535 A Man for All Seasons 1547 Crossed Swords 1560 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1776 1776 1799 The Marquise of O 1805 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 1827 Children of Paradise 1858 Django Unchained 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg 1865 Lincoln 1874 Blazing Saddles 1876 The Molly Maguires 1881 Tombstone 1882 The Man Who Would Be King 1884 3:10 to Yuma 1885 Topsy Turvy / Back to the Future III 1888 From Hell 1893 Lagaan 1893 Far and Away 1901 The Shootist 1902 Breaker Morant 1904 Meet Me in St. Louis 1905 Battleship Potemkin 1906 Ragtime 1910 Mary Poppins 1912 Titanic 1913 The Wild Bunch 1915 Gallipoli 1916 Paths of Glory 1917 Lawrence of Arabia 1919 Eight Men Out 1920 Matewan 1922 The Great Gatsby 1924 Chariots of Fire 1927 Singin’ in the Rain 1929 Some Like It Hot 1931 Cabaret 1933 Sounder 1934 Pennies from Heaven 1935 The King’s Speech 1936 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1937 Chinatown 1938 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1939 To Be or Not to Be (the original) 1940 The Spirit of the Beehive 1941 Tora, Tora, Tora 1942 **Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo** 1943 Come and See 1944 Saving Private Ryan and A Bridge Too Far and Pan’s Labyrinth 1945 Downfall 1946 The Godfather 1947 42 1950 Men in War 1951 The Last Picture Show 1953 L.A. Confidential 1955 Back to the Future 1957 The Battle of Algiers 1958 The Godfather Part II 1959 Diner or Stand By Me 1960 Grease 1961 61\* 1962 (tie) American Graffiti and Animal House 1963 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1964 Mississippi Burning 1965 Moonrise Kingdom 1966 JFK 1967 Platoon 1968 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1969 Taking Woodstock 1970 Apollo 13 (Apocalypse Now???) 1972 All the President’s Men 1973 Ratcatcher 1975 The Deer Hunter 1976 Dazed and Confused 1977 Summer of Sam 1979 Argo or Super 8??? 1980 No Country for Old Men 1983 Heartbreak Ridge 1984 1984 1986 The Squid and the Whale 1987 Fargo 1991 The Big Lebowski 1993 Black Hawk Down 1997 Amélie 1998 Escape from New York 1999 Strange Days 2000 Escape from Los Angeles 2001 2001:A Space Odyssey 2004 The Hurt Locker 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2019 Blade Runner 2022 Soylent Green 2027 Children of Men 2084 Total Recall (the original) 2173 Sleeper 2274 Logan’s Run 2491 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2505 Idiocracy Let’s make Chariots of Fire 1924. I love **Eight Men Out**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/86 "2013-05-16T06:39:15Z")
BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman BC 1,000,000 One Million BC BC 72 Spartacus BC 44 Julius Caesar 33 Life of Brian 208 Red Cliff 922 The Thirteenth Warrior 1183 The Lion in Winter 1327 The Name of the Rose 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1535 A Man for All Seasons 1547 Crossed Swords 1560 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1776 1776 1799 The Marquise of O 1805 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 1827 Children of Paradise **1857 Mangal Pandey: The Rising** 1858 Django Unchained 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg 1865 Lincoln 1874 Blazing Saddles 1876 The Molly Maguires 1881 Tombstone 1882 The Man Who Would Be King 1884 3:10 to Yuma 1885 Topsy Turvy / Back to the Future III 1888 From Hell 1893 Lagaan 1893 Far and Away 1901 The Shootist 1902 Breaker Morant 1904 Meet Me in St. Louis 1905 Battleship Potemkin 1906 Ragtime 1910 Mary Poppins 1912 Titanic 1913 The Wild Bunch 1915 Gallipoli 1916 Paths of Glory 1917 Lawrence of Arabia 1919 Eight Men Out 1920 Matewan 1922 The Great Gatsby 1927 Singin’ in the Rain 1929 Some Like It Hot 1931 Cabaret 1933 Sounder 1934 Pennies from Heaven 1935 The King’s Speech 1936 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1937 O 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 1941 Tora, Tora, Tora 1943 Come and See 1944 Saving Private Ryan and A Bridge Too Far and Pan’s Labyrinth 1945 Downfall 1946 The Godfather 1947 42 1950 Men in War 1951 The Last Picture Show 1953 L.A. Confidential 1955 Back to the Future 1957 The Battle of Algiers 1958 The Godfather Part II 1959 Diner or Stand By Me 1960 Grease 1961 61\* 1962 (tie) American Graffiti and Animal House 1963 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1964 Mississippi Burning 1965 Moonrise Kingdom 1966 JFK 1967 Platoon 1968 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1969 Taking Woodstock 1970 Apollo 13 (Apocalypse Now???) 1972 All the President’s Men 1973 Ratcatcher 1975 The Deer Hunter 1976 Dazed and Confused 1977 Summer of Sam 1979 Argo or Super 8??? 1980 No Country for Old Men 1983 Heartbreak Ridge 1984 1984 1986 The Squid and the Whale 1987 Fargo 1991 The Big Lebowski 1993 Black Hawk Down 1997 Amélie 1998 Escape from New York 1999 Strange Days 2000 Escape from Los Angeles 2001 2001:A Space Odyssey 2004 The Hurt Locker 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2019 Blade Runner 2022 Soylent Green 2027 Children of Men 2084 Total Recall (the original) 2274 Logan’s Run 2491 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2505 Idiocracy ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/87 "2013-05-16T06:47:19Z")
BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman BC 1,000,000 One Million BC **BC 326 Sikandar** (1941) BC 72 Spartacus BC 44 Julius Caesar 33 Life of Brian 208 Red Cliff 922 The Thirteenth Warrior 1183 The Lion in Winter 1327 The Name of the Rose 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1535 A Man for All Seasons 1547 Crossed Swords 1560 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1776 1776 1799 The Marquise of O 1805 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 1827 Children of Paradise 1857 Mangal Pandey: The Rising 1858 Django Unchained 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg 1865 Lincoln 1874 Blazing Saddles 1876 The Molly Maguires 1881 Tombstone 1882 The Man Who Would Be King 1884 3:10 to Yuma 1885 Topsy Turvy / Back to the Future III 1888 From Hell 1893 Lagaan 1893 Far and Away 1901 The Shootist 1902 Breaker Morant 1904 Meet Me in St. Louis 1905 Battleship Potemkin 1906 Ragtime 1910 Mary Poppins 1912 Titanic 1913 The Wild Bunch 1915 Gallipoli 1916 Paths of Glory 1917 Lawrence of Arabia 1919 Eight Men Out 1920 Matewan 1922 The Great Gatsby 1927 Singin’ in the Rain 1929 Some Like It Hot 1931 Cabaret 1933 Sounder 1934 Pennies from Heaven 1935 The King’s Speech 1936 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1937 O 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 1941 Tora, Tora, Tora 1943 Come and See 1944 Saving Private Ryan and A Bridge Too Far and Pan’s Labyrinth 1945 Downfall 1946 The Godfather 1947 42 1950 Men in War 1951 The Last Picture Show 1953 L.A. Confidential 1955 Back to the Future 1957 The Battle of Algiers 1958 The Godfather Part II 1959 Diner or Stand By Me 1960 Grease 1961 61\* 1962 (tie) American Graffiti and Animal House 1963 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1964 Mississippi Burning 1965 Moonrise Kingdom 1966 JFK 1967 Platoon 1968 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1969 Taking Woodstock 1970 Apollo 13 (Apocalypse Now???) 1972 All the President’s Men 1973 Ratcatcher 1975 The Deer Hunter 1976 Dazed and Confused 1977 Summer of Sam 1979 Argo or Super 8??? 1980 No Country for Old Men 1983 Heartbreak Ridge 1984 1984 1986 The Squid and the Whale 1987 Fargo 1991 The Big Lebowski 1993 Black Hawk Down 1997 Amélie 1998 Escape from New York 1999 Strange Days 2000 Escape from Los Angeles 2001 2001:A Space Odyssey 2004 The Hurt Locker 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2019 Blade Runner 2022 Soylent Green 2027 Children of Men 2084 Total Recall (the original) 2274 Logan’s Run 2491 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2505 Idiocracy ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/88 "2013-05-16T06:54:51Z")
BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman BC 1,000,000 One Million BC BC 326 Sikandar (1941) BC 72 Spartacus BC 44 Julius Caesar 33 Life of Brian **40 Caligula** 208 Red Cliff 922 The Thirteenth Warrior 1183 The Lion in Winter 1327 The Name of the Rose 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1535 A Man for All Seasons 1547 Crossed Swords 1560 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1776 1776 1799 The Marquise of O 1805 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 1827 Children of Paradise 1857 Mangal Pandey: The Rising 1858 Django Unchained 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg 1865 Lincoln 1874 Blazing Saddles 1876 The Molly Maguires 1881 Tombstone 1882 The Man Who Would Be King 1884 3:10 to Yuma 1885 Topsy Turvy / Back to the Future III 1888 From Hell 1893 Lagaan 1893 Far and Away 1901 The Shootist 1902 Breaker Morant 1904 Meet Me in St. Louis 1905 Battleship Potemkin 1906 Ragtime 1910 Mary Poppins 1912 Titanic 1913 The Wild Bunch 1915 Gallipoli 1916 Paths of Glory 1917 Lawrence of Arabia 1919 Eight Men Out 1920 Matewan 1922 The Great Gatsby 1927 Singin’ in the Rain 1929 Some Like It Hot 1931 Cabaret 1933 Sounder 1934 Pennies from Heaven 1935 The King’s Speech 1936 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1937 O 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 1941 Tora, Tora, Tora 1943 Come and See 1944 Saving Private Ryan and A Bridge Too Far and Pan’s Labyrinth 1945 Downfall 1946 The Godfather 1947 42 1950 Men in War 1951 The Last Picture Show 1953 L.A. Confidential 1955 Back to the Future 1957 The Battle of Algiers 1958 The Godfather Part II 1959 Diner or Stand By Me 1960 Grease 1961 61\* 1962 (tie) American Graffiti and Animal House 1963 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1964 Mississippi Burning 1965 Moonrise Kingdom 1966 JFK 1967 Platoon 1968 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1969 Taking Woodstock 1970 Apollo 13 (Apocalypse Now???) 1972 All the President’s Men 1973 Ratcatcher 1975 The Deer Hunter 1976 Dazed and Confused 1977 Summer of Sam 1979 Argo or Super 8??? 1980 No Country for Old Men 1983 Heartbreak Ridge 1984 1984 1986 The Squid and the Whale 1987 Fargo 1991 The Big Lebowski 1993 Black Hawk Down 1997 Amélie 1998 Escape from New York 1999 Strange Days 2000 Escape from Los Angeles 2001 2001:A Space Odyssey 2004 The Hurt Locker 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2019 Blade Runner 2022 Soylent Green 2027 Children of Men 2084 Total Recall (the original) 2274 Logan’s Run 2491 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2505 Idiocracy Of course, _Caligula_ is the “best” movie set in 40 AD in the sense that it’s the _only_ movie, AFAIK, set in 40 AD. This thread needs a website or a database or something. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/89 "2013-05-16T07:14:33Z")
BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman BC 1,000,000 One Million BC BC 326 Sikandar (1941) BC 72 Spartacus BC 44 Julius Caesar 33 Life of Brian 40 Caligula 208 Red Cliff 922 The Thirteenth Warrior 1183 The Lion in Winter 1327 The Name of the Rose 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1535 A Man for All Seasons 1547 Crossed Swords 1560 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1776 1776 1799 The Marquise of O 1805 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 1827 Children of Paradise 1857 Mangal Pandey: The Rising 1858 Django Unchained 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg 1865 Lincoln 1874 Blazing Saddles 1876 The Molly Maguires 1881 Tombstone 1882 The Man Who Would Be King 1884 3:10 to Yuma 1885 Topsy Turvy / Back to the Future III 1888 From Hell 1893 Lagaan 1893 Far and Away 1901 The Shootist 1902 Breaker Morant 1904 Meet Me in St. Louis 1905 Battleship Potemkin 1906 Ragtime 1910 Mary Poppins 1912 Titanic 1913 The Wild Bunch 1915 Gallipoli 1916 Paths of Glory 1917 Lawrence of Arabia 1919 Eight Men Out 1920 Matewan 1922 The Great Gatsby 1924 Chariots of Fire 1927 Singin’ in the Rain 1929 Some Like It Hot 1931 Cabaret 1933 Sounder 1934 Pennies from Heaven 1935 The King’s Speech 1936 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1937 Chinatown 1938 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1939 To Be or Not to Be (the original) 1940 The Spirit of the Beehive 1941 Tora, Tora, Tora 1943 Come and See 1944 Saving Private Ryan and A Bridge Too Far and Pan’s Labyrinth 1945 Downfall 1946 The Godfather 1947 42 1950 Men in War 1951 The Last Picture Show 1953 L.A. Confidential 1955 Back to the Future 1957 The Battle of Algiers 1958 The Godfather Part II 1959 Diner or Stand By Me 1960 Grease 1961 61\* 1962 (tie) American Graffiti and Animal House 1963 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1964 Mississippi Burning 1965 Moonrise Kingdom 1966 JFK 1967 Platoon 1968 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1969 Taking Woodstock 1970 Apollo 13 (Apocalypse Now???) 1972 All the President’s Men 1973 Ratcatcher 1975 The Deer Hunter 1976 Dazed and Confused 1977 Summer of Sam 1979 Argo or Super 8??? 1980 No Country for Old Men 1983 Heartbreak Ridge 1984 1984 1986 The Squid and the Whale 1987 Fargo 1991 The Big Lebowski **1992 Primary Colors** 1993 Black Hawk Down 1997 Amélie 1998 Escape from New York 1999 Strange Days 2000 Escape from Los Angeles 2001 2001:A Space Odyssey 2004 The Hurt Locker 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2019 Blade Runner 2022 Soylent Green 2027 Children of Men 2084 Total Recall (the original) 2173 Sleeper 2274 Logan’s Run 2491 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2505 Idiocracy ---
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BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman BC 1,000,000 One Million BC BC 326 Sikandar (1941) BC 72 Spartacus BC 44 Julius Caesar 33 Life of Brian 40 Caligula 208 Red Cliff 922 The Thirteenth Warrior 1183 The Lion in Winter 1327 The Name of the Rose 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1535 A Man for All Seasons 1547 Crossed Swords 1560 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1776 1776 1799 The Marquise of O 1805 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 1827 Children of Paradise 1857 Mangal Pandey: The Rising 1858 Django Unchained 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg 1865 Lincoln 1874 Blazing Saddles 1876 The Molly Maguires 1881 Tombstone 1882 The Man Who Would Be King 1884 3:10 to Yuma 1885 Topsy Turvy / Back to the Future III 1888 From Hell 1893 Lagaan 1893 Far and Away 1901 The Shootist 1902 Breaker Morant 1904 Meet Me in St. Louis 1905 Battleship Potemkin 1906 Ragtime 1910 Mary Poppins 1912 Titanic 1913 The Wild Bunch 1915 Gallipoli 1916 Paths of Glory 1917 Lawrence of Arabia 1919 Eight Men Out 1920 Matewan 1922 The Great Gatsby 1924 Chariots of Fire 1927 Singin’ in the Rain 1929 Some Like It Hot 1931 Cabaret 1933 Sounder 1934 Pennies from Heaven 1935 The King’s Speech 1936 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1937 Chinatown 1938 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1939 To Be or Not to Be (the original) 1940 The Spirit of the Beehive 1941 Tora, Tora, Tora 1943 Come and See 1944 Saving Private Ryan and A Bridge Too Far and Pan’s Labyrinth 1945 Downfall 1946 The Godfather 1947 42 1950 Men in War 1951 The Last Picture Show 1953 L.A. Confidential 1955 Back to the Future 1957 The Battle of Algiers 1958 The Godfather Part II 1959 Diner or Stand By Me 1960 Grease 1961 61\* 1962 (tie) American Graffiti and Animal House 1963 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1964 Mississippi Burning 1965 Moonrise Kingdom 1966 JFK 1967 Platoon 1968 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1969 Taking Woodstock 1970 Apollo 13 (Apocalypse Now???) 1972 All the President’s Men 1973 Ratcatcher 1975 The Deer Hunter 1976 Dazed and Confused 1977 Summer of Sam 1979 Argo or Super 8??? 1980 No Country for Old Men 1983 Heartbreak Ridge 1984 1984 1986 The Squid and the Whale 1987 Fargo **1988 Donnie Darko** 1991 The Big Lebowski 1992 Primary Colors 1993 Black Hawk Down 1997 Amélie 1998 Escape from New York 1999 Strange Days 2000 Escape from Los Angeles 2001 2001:A Space Odyssey 2004 The Hurt Locker 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2019 Blade Runner 2022 Soylent Green 2027 Children of Men 2084 Total Recall (the original) 2173 Sleeper 2274 Logan’s Run 2491 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2505 Idiocracy ---
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BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman BC 1,000,000 One Million BC BC 326 Sikandar (1941) BC 72 Spartacus BC 44 Julius Caesar 33 Life of Brian 40 Caligula 208 Red Cliff 922 The Thirteenth Warrior 1183 The Lion in Winter 1327 The Name of the Rose 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1535 A Man for All Seasons 1547 Crossed Swords 1560 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1776 1776 1799 The Marquise of O 1805 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 1827 Children of Paradise 1857 Mangal Pandey: The Rising 1858 Django Unchained 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg 1865 Lincoln 1874 Blazing Saddles 1876 The Molly Maguires 1881 Tombstone 1882 The Man Who Would Be King 1884 3:10 to Yuma 1885 Topsy Turvy / Back to the Future III 1888 From Hell 1893 Lagaan 1893 Far and Away 1901 The Shootist 1902 Breaker Morant 1904 Meet Me in St. Louis 1905 Battleship Potemkin 1906 Ragtime 1910 Mary Poppins 1912 Titanic 1913 The Wild Bunch 1915 Gallipoli 1916 Paths of Glory 1917 Lawrence of Arabia 1919 Eight Men Out 1920 Matewan 1922 The Great Gatsby 1924 Chariots of Fire 1927 Singin’ in the Rain 1929 Some Like It Hot 1931 Cabaret 1933 Sounder 1934 Pennies from Heaven 1935 The King’s Speech 1936 Raiders of the Lost Ark / **The Sting** 1937 Chinatown 1938 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1939 To Be or Not to Be (the original) 1940 The Spirit of the Beehive 1941 Tora, Tora, Tora 1943 Come and See 1944 Saving Private Ryan and A Bridge Too Far and Pan’s Labyrinth 1945 Downfall 1946 The Godfather 1947 42 1950 Men in War 1951 The Last Picture Show 1953 L.A. Confidential 1955 Back to the Future 1957 The Battle of Algiers 1958 The Godfather Part II 1959 Diner or Stand By Me 1960 Grease 1961 61\* 1962 (tie) American Graffiti and Animal House 1963 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1964 Mississippi Burning 1965 Moonrise Kingdom 1966 JFK 1967 Platoon 1968 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1969 Taking Woodstock 1970 Apollo 13 (Apocalypse Now???) 1972 All the President’s Men 1973 Ratcatcher 1975 The Deer Hunter 1976 Dazed and Confused 1977 Summer of Sam 1979 Argo or Super 8??? 1980 No Country for Old Men 1983 Heartbreak Ridge 1984 1984 1986 The Squid and the Whale 1987 Fargo 1988 Donnie Darko 1991 The Big Lebowski 1992 Primary Colors 1993 Black Hawk Down 1997 Amélie 1998 Escape from New York 1999 Strange Days 2000 Escape from Los Angeles 2001 2001:A Space Odyssey 2004 The Hurt Locker 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2019 Blade Runner 2022 Soylent Green 2027 Children of Men 2084 Total Recall (the original) 2173 Sleeper 2274 Logan’s Run 2491 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2505 Idiocracy ---
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BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman BC 1,000,000 One Million BC BC 326 Sikandar (1941) BC 72 Spartacus BC 44 Julius Caesar 33 Life of Brian - **The Passion of the Christ (Say what you want, it was a great and well done movie.)** 40 Caligula 208 Red Cliff 922 The Thirteenth Warrior 1183 The Lion in Winter 1327 The Name of the Rose 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1535 A Man for All Seasons 1547 Crossed Swords 1560 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1776 1776 1799 The Marquise of O 1805 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 1827 Children of Paradise 1857 Mangal Pandey: The Rising 1858 Django Unchained 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg 1865 Lincoln 1874 Blazing Saddles 1876 The Molly Maguires 1881 Tombstone 1882 The Man Who Would Be King 1884 3:10 to Yuma 1885 Topsy Turvy / Back to the Future III 1888 From Hell 1893 Lagaan 1893 Far and Away 1901 The Shootist 1902 Breaker Morant 1904 Meet Me in St. Louis 1905 Battleship Potemkin 1906 Ragtime 1910 Mary Poppins 1912 Titanic 1913 The Wild Bunch 1915 Gallipoli 1916 Paths of Glory 1917 Lawrence of Arabia 1919 Eight Men Out 1920 Matewan 1922 The Great Gatsby 1924 Chariots of Fire 1927 Singin’ in the Rain 1929 Some Like It Hot 1931 Cabaret 1933 Sounder 1934 Pennies from Heaven 1935 The King’s Speech 1936 Raiders of the Lost Ark / The Sting 1937 Chinatown 1938 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1939 To Be or Not to Be (the original) 1940 The Spirit of the Beehive 1941 Tora, Tora, Tora 1943 Come and See 1944 Saving Private Ryan and A Bridge Too Far and Pan’s Labyrinth 1945 Downfall 1946 The Godfather 1947 42 1950 Men in War 1951 The Last Picture Show 1953 L.A. Confidential 1955 Back to the Future 1957 The Battle of Algiers 1958 The Godfather Part II 1959 Diner or Stand By Me 1960 Grease 1961 61\* 1962 (tie) American Graffiti and Animal House 1963 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1964 Mississippi Burning 1965 Moonrise Kingdom 1966 JFK 1967 Platoon 1968 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1969 Taking Woodstock 1970 Apollo 13 (Apocalypse Now???) 1972 All the President’s Men 1973 Ratcatcher 1975 The Deer Hunter 1976 Dazed and Confused 1977 Summer of Sam 1979 Argo or Super 8??? 1980 No Country for Old Men 1983 Heartbreak Ridge 1984 1984 1986 The Squid and the Whale 1987 Fargo 1988 Donnie Darko 1991 The Big Lebowski 1992 Primary Colors 1993 Black Hawk Down 1997 Amélie 1998 Escape from New York 1999 Strange Days 2000 Escape from Los Angeles 2001 2001:A Space Odyssey 2004 The Hurt Locker 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2019 Blade Runner 2022 Soylent Green 2027 Children of Men 2084 Total Recall (the original) 2173 Sleeper 2274 Logan’s Run 2491 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2505 Idiocracy ---
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BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman BC 1,000,000 One Million BC BC 326 Sikandar (1941) BC 72 Spartacus BC 44 Julius Caesar 33 Life of Brian / The Passion of the Christ 40 Caligula 208 Red Cliff 922 The Thirteenth Warrior 1183 The Lion in Winter 1327 The Name of the Rose 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1535 A Man for All Seasons 1547 Crossed Swords 1560 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1776 1776 1799 The Marquise of O 1805 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 1827 Children of Paradise 1857 Mangal Pandey: The Rising 1858 Django Unchained 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg 1865 Lincoln 1874 Blazing Saddles 1876 The Molly Maguires 1881 Tombstone 1882 The Man Who Would Be King 1884 3:10 to Yuma 1885 Topsy Turvy / Back to the Future III 1888 From Hell 1893 Lagaan 1893 Far and Away **1900 Picnic at Hanging Rock** 1901 The Shootist 1902 Breaker Morant 1904 Meet Me in St. Louis 1905 Battleship Potemkin 1906 Ragtime 1910 Mary Poppins 1912 Titanic 1913 The Wild Bunch 1915 Gallipoli 1916 Paths of Glory 1917 Lawrence of Arabia 1919 Eight Men Out 1920 Matewan 1922 The Great Gatsby 1924 Chariots of Fire 1927 Singin’ in the Rain 1929 Some Like It Hot 1931 Cabaret 1933 Sounder 1934 Pennies from Heaven 1935 The King’s Speech 1936 Raiders of the Lost Ark / The Sting 1937 Chinatown 1938 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1939 To Be or Not to Be (the original) 1940 The Spirit of the Beehive 1941 Tora, Tora, Tora 1943 Come and See 1944 Saving Private Ryan and A Bridge Too Far and Pan’s Labyrinth 1945 Downfall 1946 The Godfather 1947 42 1950 Men in War 1951 The Last Picture Show 1953 L.A. Confidential 1955 Back to the Future 1957 The Battle of Algiers 1958 The Godfather Part II 1959 Diner or Stand By Me 1960 Grease 1961 61\* 1962 (tie) American Graffiti and Animal House 1963 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1964 Mississippi Burning 1965 Moonrise Kingdom 1966 JFK 1967 Platoon 1968 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1969 Taking Woodstock 1970 Apollo 13 (Apocalypse Now???) 1972 All the President’s Men 1973 Ratcatcher 1975 The Deer Hunter 1976 Dazed and Confused 1977 Summer of Sam 1979 Argo or Super 8??? 1980 No Country for Old Men 1983 Heartbreak Ridge 1984 1984 1986 The Squid and the Whale 1987 Fargo 1988 Donnie Darko 1991 The Big Lebowski 1992 Primary Colors 1993 Black Hawk Down 1997 Amélie 1998 Escape from New York 1999 Strange Days 2000 Escape from Los Angeles 2001 2001:A Space Odyssey 2004 The Hurt Locker 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2019 Blade Runner 2022 Soylent Green 2027 Children of Men **2150 Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.** 2084 Total Recall (the original) 2173 Sleeper 2274 Logan’s Run 2491 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2505 Idiocracy ---
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BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman BC 1,000,000 One Million BC BC 326 Sikandar (1941) BC 72 Spartacus BC 44 Julius Caesar 33 Life of Brian / The Passion of the Christ 40 Caligula 208 Red Cliff 922 The Thirteenth Warrior 1183 The Lion in Winter 1327 The Name of the Rose 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1535 A Man for All Seasons 1547 Crossed Swords 1560 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1776 1776 1799 The Marquise of O 1805 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 1827 Children of Paradise 1857 Mangal Pandey: The Rising 1858 Django Unchained 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg 1865 Lincoln 1874 Blazing Saddles 1876 The Molly Maguires 1881 Tombstone 1882 The Man Who Would Be King 1884 3:10 to Yuma 1885 Topsy Turvy / Back to the Future III 1888 From Hell 1893 Lagaan 1893 Far and Away 1900 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1901 The Shootist 1902 Breaker Morant 1904 Meet Me in St. Louis 1905 Battleship Potemkin 1906 Ragtime 1910 Mary Poppins 1912 Titanic 1913 The Wild Bunch 1915 Gallipoli 1916 Paths of Glory 1917 Lawrence of Arabia 1919 Eight Men Out 1920 Matewan 1922 The Great Gatsby 1924 Chariots of Fire 1927 Singin’ in the Rain 1929 Some Like It Hot 1931 Cabaret 1933 Sounder 1934 Pennies from Heaven 1935 The King’s Speech 1936 Raiders of the Lost Ark / The Sting 1937 Chinatown 1938 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1939 To Be or Not to Be (the original) 1940 The Spirit of the Beehive 1941 Tora, Tora, Tora 1943 Come and See 1944 Saving Private Ryan / A Bridge Too Far / Pan’s Labyrinth 1945 Downfall 1946 The Godfather 1947 42 1950 Men in War 1951 The Last Picture Show 1953 L.A. Confidential 1955 Back to the Future 1957 The Battle of Algiers 1958 The Godfather Part II 1959 Diner / Stand By Me 1960 Grease 1961 61\* 1962 American Graffiti / Animal House 1963 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1964 Mississippi Burning 1965 Moonrise Kingdom 1966 JFK 1967 Platoon 1968 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1969 Taking Woodstock 1970 Apollo 13 / Apocalypse Now 1972 All the President’s Men 1973 Ratcatcher 1975 The Deer Hunter 1976 Dazed and Confused 1977 Summer of Sam 1979 Argo / Super 8 1980 No Country for Old Men 1983 Heartbreak Ridge 1984 1984 1986 The Squid and the Whale 1987 Fargo 1988 Donnie Darko 1991 The Big Lebowski 1992 Primary Colors 1993 Black Hawk Down 1997 Amélie 1998 Escape from New York 1999 Strange Days 2000 Escape from Los Angeles 2001 2001: A Space Odyssey 2004 The Hurt Locker 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2019 Blade Runner 2022 Soylent Green 2027 Children of Men 2084 Total Recall (the original) 2150 Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. 2173 Sleeper 2274 Logan’s Run 2491 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2505 Idiocracy **3978 Planet of the Apes** (1968) **5021 Planet of the Apes** (2001) ---
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It’s been a while since I saw it, but I think this might be correct: 1242: Alexander Nevsky I don’t feel like updating the whole list. ---
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BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman BC 1,000,000 One Million BC BC 326 Sikandar (1941) BC 72 Spartacus BC 44 Julius Caesar 33 Life of Brian / The Passion of the Christ 40 Caligula 208 Red Cliff 922 The Thirteenth Warrior 1183 The Lion in Winter 1242 Alexander Nevsky 1327 The Name of the Rose 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1535 A Man for All Seasons 1547 Crossed Swords 1560 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1776 1776 1799 The Marquise of O 1805 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 1827 Children of Paradise 1857 Mangal Pandey: The Rising 1858 Django Unchained 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg 1865 Lincoln 1874 Blazing Saddles 1876 The Molly Maguires 1881 Tombstone 1882 The Man Who Would Be King 1884 3:10 to Yuma 1885 Topsy Turvy / Back to the Future III 1888 From Hell 1893 Lagaan 1893 Far and Away 1900 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1901 The Shootist 1902 Breaker Morant 1904 Meet Me in St. Louis 1905 Battleship Potemkin 1906 Ragtime 1910 Mary Poppins 1912 Titanic 1913 The Wild Bunch 1915 Gallipoli 1916 Paths of Glory 1917 Lawrence of Arabia 1919 Eight Men Out 1920 Matewan 1922 The Great Gatsby 1924 Chariots of Fire 1927 Singin’ in the Rain 1929 Some Like It Hot 1931 Cabaret 1933 Sounder 1934 Pennies from Heaven 1935 The King’s Speech 1936 Raiders of the Lost Ark / The Sting 1937 Chinatown 1938 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1939 To Be or Not to Be (the original) 1940 The Spirit of the Beehive 1941 Tora, Tora, Tora 1943 Come and See 1944 Saving Private Ryan / A Bridge Too Far / Pan’s Labyrinth 1945 Downfall 1946 The Godfather 1947 42 1950 Men in War 1951 The Last Picture Show 1953 L.A. Confidential 1955 Back to the Future 1957 The Battle of Algiers 1958 The Godfather Part II 1959 Diner / Stand By Me 1960 Grease 1961 61\* 1962 American Graffiti / Animal House 1963 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1964 Mississippi Burning 1965 Moonrise Kingdom 1966 JFK 1967 Platoon 1968 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1969 Taking Woodstock 1970 Apollo 13 / Apocalypse Now 1972 All the President’s Men 1973 Ratcatcher 1975 The Deer Hunter 1976 Dazed and Confused 1977 Summer of Sam 1979 Argo / Super 8 1980 No Country for Old Men 1983 Heartbreak Ridge 1984 1984 1986 The Squid and the Whale 1987 Fargo 1988 Donnie Darko 1991 The Big Lebowski 1992 Primary Colors 1993 Black Hawk Down 1997 Amélie 1998 Escape from New York 1999 Strange Days 2000 Escape from Los Angeles 2001 2001: A Space Odyssey 2004 The Hurt Locker 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2019 Blade Runner 2022 Soylent Green 2027 Children of Men **2032 Demolition Man** 2084 Total Recall (the original) 2150 Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. 2173 Sleeper 2274 Logan’s Run 2491 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2505 Idiocracy 3978 Planet of the Apes (1968) 5021 Planet of the Apes (2001) ---
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BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman BC 1,000,000 One Million BC BC 326 Sikandar (1941) BC 72 Spartacus BC 44 Julius Caesar 33 Life of Brian / The Passion of the Christ 40 Caligula 208 Red Cliff 922 The Thirteenth Warrior 1183 The Lion in Winter 1242 Alexander Nevsky 1327 The Name of the Rose 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1535 A Man for All Seasons 1547 Crossed Swords 1560 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1776 1776 **1788 The Madness of King George** 1799 The Marquise of O 1805 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 1827 Children of Paradise 1857 Mangal Pandey: The Rising 1858 Django Unchained 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg 1865 Lincoln 1874 Blazing Saddles 1876 The Molly Maguires 1881 Tombstone 1882 The Man Who Would Be King 1884 3:10 to Yuma 1885 Topsy Turvy / Back to the Future III 1888 From Hell 1893 Lagaan 1893 Far and Away 1900 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1901 The Shootist 1902 Breaker Morant 1904 Meet Me in St. Louis 1905 Battleship Potemkin 1906 Ragtime 1910 Mary Poppins 1912 Titanic 1913 The Wild Bunch 1915 Gallipoli 1916 Paths of Glory 1917 Lawrence of Arabia 1919 Eight Men Out 1920 Matewan 1922 The Great Gatsby 1924 Chariots of Fire 1927 Singin’ in the Rain 1929 Some Like It Hot 1931 Cabaret 1933 Sounder 1934 Pennies from Heaven 1935 The King’s Speech 1936 Raiders of the Lost Ark / The Sting 1937 Chinatown 1938 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1939 To Be or Not to Be (the original) 1940 The Spirit of the Beehive 1941 Tora, Tora, Tora 1943 Come and See 1944 Saving Private Ryan / A Bridge Too Far / Pan’s Labyrinth 1945 Downfall 1946 The Godfather 1947 42 1950 Men in War 1951 The Last Picture Show 1953 L.A. Confidential 1955 Back to the Future 1957 The Battle of Algiers 1958 The Godfather Part II 1959 Diner / Stand By Me 1960 Grease 1961 61\* 1962 American Graffiti / Animal House 1963 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1964 Mississippi Burning 1965 Moonrise Kingdom 1966 JFK 1967 Platoon 1968 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1969 Taking Woodstock 1970 Apollo 13 / Apocalypse Now 1972 All the President’s Men 1973 Ratcatcher 1975 The Deer Hunter 1976 Dazed and Confused 1977 Summer of Sam 1979 Argo / Super 8 1980 No Country for Old Men 1983 Heartbreak Ridge 1984 1984 1986 The Squid and the Whale 1987 Fargo 1988 Donnie Darko 1991 The Big Lebowski 1992 Primary Colors 1993 Black Hawk Down 1997 Amélie 1998 Escape from New York 1999 Strange Days 2000 Escape from Los Angeles 2001 2001: A Space Odyssey 2004 The Hurt Locker 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2019 Blade Runner 2022 Soylent Green 2027 Children of Men 2032 Demolition Man 2084 Total Recall (the original) 2150 Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. 2173 Sleeper 2274 Logan’s Run 2491 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2505 Idiocracy 3978 Planet of the Apes (1968) 5021 Planet of the Apes (2001) **40000 Barbarella** ---
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BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman BC 1,000,000 One Million BC BC 326 Sikandar (1941) BC 72 Spartacus BC 44 Julius Caesar 33 Life of Brian / The Passion of the Christ 40 Caligula 208 Red Cliff 922 The Thirteenth Warrior 1183 The Lion in Winter 1242 Alexander Nevsky 1327 The Name of the Rose 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1535 A Man for All Seasons 1547 Crossed Swords 1560 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1776 1776 1788 The Madness of King George 1799 The Marquise of O 1805 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World **1815 Waterloo** 1827 Children of Paradise 1857 Mangal Pandey: The Rising 1858 Django Unchained 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg 1865 Lincoln 1874 Blazing Saddles 1876 The Molly Maguires 1881 Tombstone 1882 The Man Who Would Be King 1884 3:10 to Yuma 1885 Topsy Turvy / Back to the Future III 1888 From Hell 1893 Lagaan 1893 Far and Away 1900 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1901 The Shootist 1902 Breaker Morant 1904 Meet Me in St. Louis 1905 Battleship Potemkin 1906 Ragtime 1910 Mary Poppins 1912 Titanic 1913 The Wild Bunch 1915 Gallipoli 1916 Paths of Glory 1917 Lawrence of Arabia 1919 Eight Men Out 1920 Matewan 1922 The Great Gatsby 1924 Chariots of Fire 1927 Singin’ in the Rain 1929 Some Like It Hot 1931 Cabaret 1933 Sounder 1934 Pennies from Heaven 1935 The King’s Speech 1936 Raiders of the Lost Ark / The Sting 1937 Chinatown 1938 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1939 To Be or Not to Be (the original) 1940 The Spirit of the Beehive 1941 Tora, Tora, Tora **1942 Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo** 1943 Come and See 1944 Saving Private Ryan / A Bridge Too Far / Pan’s Labyrinth 1945 Downfall 1946 The Godfather 1947 42 1950 Men in War 1951 The Last Picture Show 1953 L.A. Confidential 1955 Back to the Future 1957 The Battle of Algiers 1958 The Godfather Part II 1959 Diner / Stand By Me 1960 Grease 1961 61\* 1962 American Graffiti / Animal House 1963 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1964 Mississippi Burning 1965 Moonrise Kingdom 1966 JFK 1967 Platoon 1968 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1969 Taking Woodstock 1970 Apollo 13 / Apocalypse Now 1972 All the President’s Men 1973 Ratcatcher 1975 The Deer Hunter 1976 Dazed and Confused 1977 Summer of Sam 1979 Argo / Super 8 1980 No Country for Old Men 1983 Heartbreak Ridge 1984 1984 1986 The Squid and the Whale 1987 Fargo 1988 Donnie Darko 1991 The Big Lebowski 1992 Primary Colors 1993 Black Hawk Down 1997 Amélie 1998 Escape from New York 1999 Strange Days 2000 Escape from Los Angeles 2001 2001: A Space Odyssey 2004 The Hurt Locker 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2019 Blade Runner 2022 Soylent Green 2027 Children of Men 2032 Demolition Man 2084 Total Recall (the original) 2150 Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. 2173 Sleeper 2274 Logan’s Run 2491 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2505 Idiocracy **2517 Serenity** 3978 Planet of the Apes (1968) 5021 Planet of the Apes (2001) 40000 Barbarella ---
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BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman BC 1,000,000 One Million BC BC 326 Sikandar (1941) BC 72 Spartacus BC 44 Julius Caesar 33 Life of Brian / The Passion of the Christ 40 Caligula 208 Red Cliff 922 The Thirteenth Warrior 1183 The Lion in Winter 1242 Alexander Nevsky 1327 The Name of the Rose 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1535 A Man for All Seasons 1547 Crossed Swords 1560 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri **1712 Rob Roy** 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1776 1776 1788 The Madness of King George 1799 The Marquise of O 1805 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 1815 Waterloo 1827 Children of Paradise 1857 Mangal Pandey: The Rising 1858 Django Unchained 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg 1865 Lincoln 1874 Blazing Saddles 1876 The Molly Maguires 1881 Tombstone 1882 The Man Who Would Be King 1884 3:10 to Yuma 1885 Topsy Turvy / Back to the Future III 1888 From Hell 1893 Lagaan 1893 Far and Away 1900 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1901 The Shootist 1902 Breaker Morant 1904 Meet Me in St. Louis 1905 Battleship Potemkin 1906 Ragtime 1910 Mary Poppins 1912 Titanic 1913 The Wild Bunch 1915 Gallipoli 1916 Paths of Glory 1917 Lawrence of Arabia 1919 Eight Men Out 1920 Matewan 1922 The Great Gatsby 1924 Chariots of Fire 1927 Singin’ in the Rain 1929 Some Like It Hot 1931 Cabaret 1933 Sounder 1934 Pennies from Heaven 1935 The King’s Speech 1936 Raiders of the Lost Ark / The Sting 1937 Chinatown 1938 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1939 To Be or Not to Be (the original) 1940 The Spirit of the Beehive 1941 Tora, Tora, Tora 1942 Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo 1943 Come and See 1944 Saving Private Ryan / A Bridge Too Far / Pan’s Labyrinth 1945 Downfall 1946 The Godfather 1947 42 1950 Men in War 1951 The Last Picture Show 1953 L.A. Confidential 1955 Back to the Future 1957 The Battle of Algiers 1958 The Godfather Part II 1959 Diner / Stand By Me 1960 Grease 1961 61\* 1962 American Graffiti / Animal House 1963 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1964 Mississippi Burning 1965 Moonrise Kingdom 1966 JFK 1967 Platoon 1968 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1969 Taking Woodstock 1970 Apollo 13 / Apocalypse Now 1972 All the President’s Men 1973 Ratcatcher 1975 The Deer Hunter 1976 Dazed and Confused 1977 Summer of Sam 1979 Argo / Super 8 1980 No Country for Old Men 1983 Heartbreak Ridge 1984 1984 1986 The Squid and the Whale 1987 Fargo 1988 Donnie Darko 1991 The Big Lebowski 1992 Primary Colors 1993 Black Hawk Down 1997 Amélie 1998 Escape from New York 1999 Strange Days 2000 Escape from Los Angeles 2001 2001: A Space Odyssey 2004 The Hurt Locker 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2019 Blade Runner 2022 Soylent Green 2027 Children of Men 2032 Demolition Man 2084 Total Recall (the original) 2150 Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. 2173 Sleeper 2274 Logan’s Run 2491 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2505 Idiocracy 2517 Serenity 3978 Planet of the Apes (1968) 5021 Planet of the Apes (2001) 40000 Barbarella ---
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BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman BC 1,000,000 One Million BC BC 326 Sikandar (1941) BC 72 Spartacus BC 44 Julius Caesar 33 Life of Brian / The Passion of the Christ 40 Caligula 208 Red Cliff 922 The Thirteenth Warrior 1183 The Lion in Winter 1242 Alexander Nevsky 1327 The Name of the Rose 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1535 A Man for All Seasons 1547 Crossed Swords 1560 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1712 Rob Roy 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1776 1776 1788 The Madness of King George 1799 The Marquise of O 1805 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 1815 Waterloo 1827 Children of Paradise 1857 Mangal Pandey: The Rising 1858 Django Unchained 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg 1865 Lincoln 1874 Blazing Saddles 1876 The Molly Maguires 1881 Tombstone 1882 The Man Who Would Be King 1884 3:10 to Yuma 1885 Topsy Turvy / Back to the Future III 1888 From Hell 1893 Lagaan 1893 Far and Away 1900 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1901 The Shootist 1902 Breaker Morant 1904 Meet Me in St. Louis 1905 Battleship Potemkin 1906 Ragtime 1910 Mary Poppins 1912 Titanic 1913 The Wild Bunch **1914 The African Queen** 1915 Gallipoli 1916 Paths of Glory 1917 Lawrence of Arabia 1919 Eight Men Out 1920 Matewan 1922 The Great Gatsby 1924 Chariots of Fire 1927 Singin’ in the Rain 1929 Some Like It Hot 1931 Cabaret 1933 Sounder 1934 Pennies from Heaven 1935 The King’s Speech 1936 Raiders of the Lost Ark / The Sting 1937 Chinatown 1938 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1939 To Be or Not to Be (the original) 1940 The Spirit of the Beehive 1941 Tora, Tora, Tora 1942 Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo 1943 Come and See 1944 Saving Private Ryan / A Bridge Too Far / Pan’s Labyrinth 1945 Downfall 1946 The Godfather 1947 42 1950 Men in War 1951 The Last Picture Show 1953 L.A. Confidential 1955 Back to the Future 1957 The Battle of Algiers 1958 The Godfather Part II 1959 Diner / Stand By Me 1960 Grease 1961 61\* 1962 American Graffiti / Animal House 1963 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1964 Mississippi Burning 1965 Moonrise Kingdom 1966 JFK 1967 Platoon 1968 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1969 Taking Woodstock 1970 Apollo 13 / Apocalypse Now 1972 All the President’s Men 1973 Ratcatcher 1975 The Deer Hunter 1976 Dazed and Confused 1977 Summer of Sam 1979 Argo / Super 8 1980 No Country for Old Men 1983 Heartbreak Ridge 1984 1984 1986 The Squid and the Whale 1987 Fargo 1988 Donnie Darko 1991 The Big Lebowski 1992 Primary Colors 1993 Black Hawk Down 1997 Amélie 1998 Escape from New York 1999 Strange Days 2000 Escape from Los Angeles 2001 2001: A Space Odyssey 2004 The Hurt Locker 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2019 Blade Runner 2022 Soylent Green 2027 Children of Men 2032 Demolition Man 2084 Total Recall (the original) 2150 Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. 2173 Sleeper 2274 Logan’s Run 2491 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2505 Idiocracy 2517 Serenity 3978 Planet of the Apes (1968) 5021 Planet of the Apes (2001) 40000 Barbarella [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457.md?page=6)