# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/161 "2013-05-17T20:26:06Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > 1989 Buffalo Soldiers > 1990 Rent > 1994 Hotel Rwanda > 1995 Invictus > 1996 12 Monkeys Inquiry regarding 12 Monkeys: Per Wiki, Cole originally goes back to 1990 – when he first meets/kidnaps Madeline Stowe’s character – but the “present” (however you define it; I’m referring to the post-apocalyptic time frame) isn’t really stated in terms of the actual year. But the larger question is, was the movie really about 1996? (Thinking…) Yeah, I guess 1996. But it seems like the movie’s “home base” (for lack of better words) happens in the post-apocalyptic period, that feels like the real setting… but not really where the plot/conflict happens. It’s a judgement call. I have to remove Back to the Future II in 1985. Makes me feel dirty allowing it. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/162 "2013-05-17T20:34:12Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > If this is the case, I suggest that using **The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly** as an example of a specific 1864 time frame is nebulous. Was there an indication of how long Arch Stanton had been planted or how long they had been looking for the gold? Unless there is more specificity, the movie could have been set in 1862, 63, 64, or 65. According to the [list of goofs in IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060196/goofs), the date is ambiguous. The story evidently takes place during the Confederate invasion of New Mexico in 1862. However, mentions of Lee and Grant imply a later date, and of Andersonville Prison Camp indicate it’s no earlier than 1864. Apparently one of the other graves in the cemetery is marked 1864. There are lots of anachronisms in various artifacts. Notably the Cavalry flags have 50 stars, and a car can be seen in the background of one scene.😃 I would say no definite date can be assigned to TGTBATU, so another movie should be found for 1864. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/163 "2013-05-17T20:36:12Z")
> [@Moonchild](#): > > Yeah, I guess 1996. But it seems like the movie’s “home base” (for lack of better words) happens in the post-apocalyptic period, that feels like the real setting… but not really where the plot/conflict happens. It’s a judgement call. I thought about this too, but it seems to me that the most dramatic elements of the plot, and the climax, occur in 1996. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/164 "2013-05-17T20:54:56Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I would say no definite date can be assigned to TGTBATU, so another movie should be found for 1864. If TV movies are allowable, [_Andersonville_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andersonville_(film)) would work. ---
**Author:** ![DxZero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DxZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DxZero)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/165 "2013-05-17T21:13:26Z")
BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman BC 1,000,000 One Million BC BC 1200 Troy BC 480 300 BC 326 Sikandar (1941) BC 72 Spartacus BC 44 Julius Caesar 33 Life of Brian / The Passion of the Christ 40 Caligula **180 Gladiator** 208 Red Cliff 460 The Last Legion 528 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 922 The Thirteenth Warrior 1183 The Lion in Winter **1187 Kingdom of Heaven** 1199 Robin Hood (2010) 1242 Alexander Nevsky 1298 Braveheart 1327 The Name of the Rose 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1482 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1492 1492: Conquest of Paradise 1533 The Royal Hunt of the Sun 1535 A Man for All Seasons 1547 Crossed Swords 1558 Elizabeth 1560 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1607 The New World 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1634 Black Robe / The Devils 1665 Girl with a Pearl Earring 1667 The Scarlet Letter 1692 The Crucible 1712 Rob Roy 1756 The Mission 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1776 1776 1788 The Madness of King George 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty 1791 That Night in Varennes 1794 Danton 1798 The Wild Child 1799 The Marquise of O / Sleepy Hollow 1805 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 1808 The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade 1815 Waterloo 1816 Gothic 1827 Children of Paradise 1832 Les Miserables 1836 The Alamo 1841 Amistad 1854 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1857 Mangal Pandey: The Rising 1858 Django Unchained 1860 The Pony Express 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg / Glory 1864 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1865 Lincoln 1872 Around the World in 80 Days 1874 Blazing Saddles 1876 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1877 The Last Samurai 1878 Cheyenne Autumn 1879 Zulu 1880 Stagecoach 1881 Tombstone 1882 The Man Who Would Be King 1884 3:10 to Yuma 1885 Topsy Turvy / Back to the Future III / The Oxbow Incident 1886 Geronimo: An American Legend 1888 From Hell 1891 Sherlock Holmes (2009) 1893 Lagaan 1893 Far and Away 1897 The Gold Rush 1898 A Message to Garcia 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 1910 Mary Poppins 1912 Titanic 1913 The Wild Bunch 1914 The African Queen 1915 Gallipoli 1916 Paths of Glory 1917 Lawrence of Arabia 1918 War Horse 1919 Eight Men Out 1920 Matewan 1921 Sunrise at Campobello 1922 The Great Gatsby 1924 Chariots of Fire 1925 Inherit the Wind 1926 The Sand Pebbles 1927 Singin’ in the Rain 1928 The Artist 1929 Some Like It Hot 1931 Cabaret 1932 King Kong (2005) 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 / The Longest Day 1945 Schindler’s List 1946 The Godfather 1947 42 1950 Men in War 1951 The Last Picture Show 1952 Hoosiers 1953 L.A. Confidential 1954 Snow Falling on Cedars 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 1978 Lords of Dogtown 1979 Argo / Super 8 1980 No Country for Old Men 1981 Wet Hot American Summer 1982 Waltz with Bashir 1983 Heartbreak Ridge 1984 1984 1985 Back to the Future II 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 / World Trade Center / Flight 93 2002 Moneyball 2004 The Hurt Locker 2005 Transformers: the Movie (1986) 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2013 The Postman 2019 Blade Runner 2022 Soylent Green 2026 Metropolis 2027 Children of Men 2032 Demolition Man 2035 I, Robot 2057 Sunshine 2074 Looper 2084 Total Recall (the original) **2093 Prometheus** 2122 Alien 2150 Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. 2160 Avatar 2173 Sleeper 2179 Aliens 2199 The Matrix 2214 The Fifth Element 2274 Logan’s Run 2293 Zardoz 2491 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2500 Waterworld 2505 Idiocracy 2517 Serenity 2805 Wall-E 3978 Planet of the Apes (1968) 5021 Planet of the Apes (2001) 12090 Vampire Hunter D 40000 Barbarella 802,701 The Time Machine (2002) All Ridley Scott update ---
**Author:** ![DxZero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DxZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DxZero)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/166 "2013-05-17T21:19:15Z")
1899- The Prestige (give or take a few years) ---
**Author:** ![tbook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tbook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tbook)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/167 "2013-05-17T21:23:38Z")
I would recommend that Snow Falling on Cedars replace Men in War for 1950. While men in war is a decent film it covers only the actions of few men on one day. Snow Falling on Cedars is comprehensive in covering a story that evolves over time and ends in 1950. But it does a decent job of capturing the events of 1950 in small town. ---
**Author:** ![DxZero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DxZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DxZero)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/168 "2013-05-17T21:34:28Z")
1880 (I think) - True Grit (Coen Bros Version) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/169 "2013-05-17T21:39:49Z")
> [@tbook](#): > > I would recommend that Snow Falling on Cedars replace Men in War for 1950. While men in war is a decent film it covers only the actions of few men on one day. Snow Falling on Cedars is comprehensive in covering a story that evolves over time and ends in 1950. But it does a decent job of capturing the events of 1950 in small town. If _Snow Falling on Cedars_ is moved, I have a good replacement for 1954: _My Favorite Year_. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/170 "2013-05-17T21:43:45Z")
BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman BC 1,000,000 One Million BC BC 1200 Troy BC 480 300 BC 326 Sikandar (1941) BC 72 Spartacus BC 44 Julius Caesar 33 Life of Brian / The Passion of the Christ 40 Caligula 180 Gladiator 208 Red Cliff 460 The Last Legion 528 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 922 The Thirteenth Warrior 1183 The Lion in Winter 1187 Kingdom of Heaven 1199 Robin Hood (2010) 1242 Alexander Nevsky 1298 Braveheart 1327 The Name of the Rose 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1482 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1492 1492: Conquest of Paradise 1533 The Royal Hunt of the Sun 1535 A Man for All Seasons 1547 Crossed Swords 1558 Elizabeth 1560 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1607 The New World 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1634 Black Robe / The Devils 1665 Girl with a Pearl Earring 1667 The Scarlet Letter 1692 The Crucible 1712 Rob Roy 1756 The Mission 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1776 1776 1788 The Madness of King George 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty 1791 That Night in Varennes 1794 Danton 1798 The Wild Child 1799 The Marquise of O / Sleepy Hollow 1805 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 1808 The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade 1815 Waterloo 1816 Gothic 1827 Children of Paradise 1832 Les Miserables 1836 The Alamo 1841 Amistad 1854 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1857 Mangal Pandey: The Rising 1858 Django Unchained 1860 The Pony Express 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg / Glory 1864 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1865 Lincoln 1872 Around the World in 80 Days 1874 Blazing Saddles 1876 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1877 The Last Samurai 1878 Cheyenne Autumn 1879 Zulu 1880 Stagecoach 1881 Tombstone 1882 The Man Who Would Be King 1884 3:10 to Yuma 1885 Topsy Turvy / Back to the Future III / The Oxbow Incident 1886 Geronimo: An American Legend 1888 From Hell 1891 Sherlock Holmes (2009) 1893 Lagaan 1893 Far and Away 1897 The Gold Rush 1898 A Message to Garcia 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 1910 Mary Poppins 1912 Titanic 1913 The Wild Bunch 1914 The African Queen 1915 Gallipoli 1916 Paths of Glory 1917 Lawrence of Arabia 1918 War Horse 1919 Eight Men Out 1920 Matewan 1921 Sunrise at Campobello 1922 The Great Gatsby 1924 Chariots of Fire 1925 Inherit the Wind 1926 The Sand Pebbles 1927 Singin’ in the Rain 1928 The Artist 1929 Some Like It Hot 1931 Cabaret 1932 King Kong (2005) 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 / The Longest Day 1945 Schindler’s List 1946 The Godfather 1947 42 1950 Men in War 1951 The Last Picture Show 1952 Hoosiers 1953 L.A. Confidential 1954 Snow Falling on Cedars / **My Favorite Year** 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 1978 Lords of Dogtown 1979 Argo / Super 8 1980 No Country for Old Men 1981 Wet Hot American Summer 1982 Waltz with Bashir 1983 Heartbreak Ridge 1984 1984 1985 Back to the Future II 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 / World Trade Center / Flight 93 2002 Moneyball 2004 The Hurt Locker 2005 Transformers: the Movie (1986) 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty **2012 I Am Legend** 2013 The Postman 2019 Blade Runner 2022 Soylent Green 2026 Metropolis 2027 Children of Men 2032 Demolition Man 2035 I, Robot **2044 Looper** 2057 Sunshine 2074 Looper 2084 Total Recall (the original) 2093 Prometheus 2122 Alien 2150 Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. 2160 Avatar 2173 Sleeper 2179 Aliens 2199 The Matrix 2214 The Fifth Element 2274 Logan’s Run 2293 Zardoz 2491 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2500 Waterworld 2505 Idiocracy 2517 Serenity 2805 Wall-E 3978 Planet of the Apes (1968) 5021 Planet of the Apes (2001) 12090 Vampire Hunter D 40000 Barbarella 802,701 The Time Machine (2002) _I Am Legend_ - made in 2007, set in 2012 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/171 "2013-05-17T21:45:36Z")
> [@tbook](#): > > I would recommend that Snow Falling on Cedars replace Men in War for 1950. While men in war is a decent film it covers only the actions of few men on one day. Snow Falling on Cedars is comprehensive in covering a story that evolves over time and ends in 1950. But it does a decent job of capturing the events of 1950 in small town. > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > If _Snow Falling on Cedars_ is moved, I have a good replacement for 1954: _My Favorite Year_. My mistake. The movie is listed as taking place in 1950, while the book is listed as 1954. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/172 "2013-05-18T00:01:55Z")
859 House of Flying Daggers 1779 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 1787 Robinson Crusoe 1828 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Every Man for Himself and God Against All) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/173 "2013-05-18T00:22:47Z")
1911 _[1911](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772230/)_ ---
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> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > If _Snow Falling on Cedars_ is moved, I have a good replacement for 1954: _My Favorite Year_. Indeed! I came here to suggest that one. I won’t fight it out but [Local Hero](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Hero) was made in 1983 and it sure seems like 1983 to me. Yes, most of it is set in an impossibly quaint Scottish seaside village. But it begins and ends in Houston. Every time I pass what’s now [JP Morgan Chase Tower](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPMorgan_Chase_Tower_(Houston)), I remember it provided the exterior & lobby for Knox Oil. But Mr Happer’s office was in one of the top floors of [Pennzoil Place](http://www.pennzoilplace.com/). On our hero’s bulletin board is a flyer for Captan John’s–an Art Deco seafood restaurant & oyster bar restored beautifully for the excessive 80’s. (It’s been demolished.) And when he opens his door to the Houston night, I know that feeling of a hot, wet, none too clean washcloth plastered over the face–with traffic noise & a siren in the distance. So far from that Scottish dream… > [@](#): > > The asteroid 7345 Happer is named after Lancaster’s character in the film and his quest to have a comet named after him. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/175 "2013-05-18T01:38:58Z")
Another obvious one. If we eliminate _Tora! Tora! Tora!_ there’s _[1941](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941_(film))_. ---
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Or [Hong Kong 1941](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087137/combined), which is a much better movie. (But I see no reason to scrap _Tora! Tora! Tora!_) ---
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1889 Mayerling 1895 The Four Feathers ---
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Latest update: BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman BC 1,000,000 One Million BC BC 1200 Troy BC 480 300 BC 326 Sikandar (1941) BC 72 Spartacus BC 44 Julius Caesar 33 Life of Brian / The Passion of the Christ 40 Caligula 180 Gladiator 208 Red Cliff 460 The Last Legion 528 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court **859 House of Flying Daggers** 922 The Thirteenth Warrior 1183 The Lion in Winter 1187 Kingdom of Heaven 1199 Robin Hood (2010) 1242 Alexander Nevsky 1298 Braveheart 1327 The Name of the Rose 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1482 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1492 1492: Conquest of Paradise 1533 The Royal Hunt of the Sun 1535 A Man for All Seasons 1547 Crossed Swords 1558 Elizabeth 1560 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1607 The New World 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1634 Black Robe / The Devils 1665 Girl with a Pearl Earring 1667 The Scarlet Letter 1692 The Crucible 1712 Rob Roy 1756 The Mission 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1776 1776 **1779 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 1787 Robinson Crusoe** 1788 The Madness of King George 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty 1791 That Night in Varennes 1794 Danton 1798 The Wild Child 1799 The Marquise of O / Sleepy Hollow 1805 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 1808 The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade 1815 Waterloo 1816 Gothic 1827 Children of Paradise **1828 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser** 1832 Les Miserables 1836 The Alamo 1841 Amistad 1854 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1857 Mangal Pandey: The Rising 1858 Django Unchained 1860 The Pony Express 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg / Glory 1864 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1865 Lincoln 1872 Around the World in 80 Days 1874 Blazing Saddles 1876 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon / The Molly Maguires 1877 The Last Samurai 1878 Cheyenne Autumn 1879 Zulu 1880 Stagecoach / \*_True Grit (2012) \*\* 1881 Tombstone 1882 The Man Who Would Be King 1884 3:10 to Yuma 1885 Topsy Turvy / Back to the Future III / The Oxbow Incident 1886 Geronimo: An American Legend 1888 From Hell **1889 Mayerling** **1890 - Hello, Dolly!** 1891 Sherlock Holmes (2009) 1893 Far and Away / Lagaan **1895 The Four Feathers** **1896 - The Far Country** 1897 The Gold Rush 1898 A Message to Garcia **1899 The Prestige / Newsies** 1900 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1901 The Shootist 1902 Breaker Morant 1903 Tom Horn 1904 Meet Me in St. Louis 1905 Battleship Potemkin 1906 Ragtime 1910 Mary Poppins **1911 1911** 1912 Titanic 1913 The Wild Bunch 1914 The African Queen 1915 Gallipoli 1916 Paths of Glory 1917 Lawrence of Arabia 1918 War Horse 1919 Eight Men Out 1920 Matewan 1921 Sunrise at Campobello 1922 The Great Gatsby 1924 Chariots of Fire 1925 Inherit the Wind 1926 The Sand Pebbles 1927 Singin’ in the Rain 1928 The Artist 1929 Some Like It Hot 1931 Cabaret 1932 King Kong (2005) 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 / The Longest Day 1945 Schindler’s List 1946 The Godfather 1947 42 **1949 - The Man Who Wasn’t There** 1950 Men in War / Snow Falling on Cedars 1951 The Last Picture Show 1952 Hoosiers 1953 L.A. Confidential 1954 My Favorite Year 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 1978 Lords of Dogtown 1979 Argo / Super 8 1980 No Country for Old Men 1981 Wet Hot American Summer 1982 Waltz with Bashir 1983 Heartbreak Ridge 1984 1984 1986 The Squid and the Whale 1987 Fargo 1988 Donnie Darko **1989 Buffalo Soldiers 1990 Rent** 1991 The Big Lebowski 1992 Primary Colors 1993 Black Hawk Down **1994 Hotel Rwanda 1995 Invictus 1996 12 Monkeys** 1997 Amélie 1998 Escape from New York 1999 Strange Days 2000 Escape from Los Angeles 2001 2001: A Space Odyssey / World Trade Center / Flight 93 2002 Moneyball 2004 The Hurt Locker 2005 Transformers: the Movie (1986) 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2012 I Am Legend 2013 The Postman 2019 Blade Runner 2022 Soylent Green 2026 Metropolis 2027 Children of Men 2032 Demolition Man 2035 I, Robot 2044 Looper 2057 Sunshine 2074 Looper 2084 Total Recall (the original) 2093 Prometheus 2122 Alien 2150 Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. 2160 Avatar 2173 Sleeper 2179 Aliens 2199 The Matrix 2214 The Fifth Element 2274 Logan’s Run 2293 Zardoz 2491 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2500 Waterworld 2505 Idiocracy 2517 Serenity 2805 Wall-E 3978 Planet of the Apes (1968) 5021 Planet of the Apes (2001) 12090 Vampire Hunter D 40000 Barbarella 802,701 The Time Machine (2002) 1985 is back open. (Sorry BttF II.) 1910’s, 1960’s & 1990’s are all complete. All other decades in the 20th century are missing just one year each. ---
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BC One Zillion BC, October 9th - Caveman BC 1,000,000 One Million BC BC 1200 Troy BC 480 300 BC 326 Sikandar (1941) BC 72 Spartacus BC 44 Julius Caesar 33 Life of Brian / The Passion of the Christ 40 Caligula 180 Gladiator 208 Red Cliff 460 The Last Legion 528 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 859 House of Flying Daggers 922 The Thirteenth Warrior 1183 The Lion in Winter 1187 Kingdom of Heaven 1199 Robin Hood (2010) 1242 Alexander Nevsky 1298 Braveheart 1327 The Name of the Rose 1415 Henry V 1424 Andrei Rublev 1431 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1482 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1492 1492: Conquest of Paradise 1533 The Royal Hunt of the Sun 1535 A Man for All Seasons 1547 Crossed Swords 1558 Elizabeth 1560 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1597 Shakespeare in Love 1607 The New World 1625 The Three Musketeers 1630 Hara-kiri 1634 Black Robe / The Devils 1665 Girl with a Pearl Earring 1667 The Scarlet Letter 1692 The Crucible 1712 Rob Roy 1756 The Mission 1757 The Last of the Mohicans 1776 1776 1779 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 1787 Robinson Crusoe 1788 The Madness of King George 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty 1791 That Night in Varennes 1794 Danton 1798 The Wild Child 1799 The Marquise of O / Sleepy Hollow 1805 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 1808 The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade 1815 Waterloo 1816 Gothic 1827 Children of Paradise 1828 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1832 Les Miserables 1836 The Alamo 1841 Amistad 1854 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1857 Mangal Pandey: The Rising 1858 Django Unchained 1860 The Pony Express 1862 The General 1863 Gettysburg / Glory 1864 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1865 Lincoln 1872 Around the World in 80 Days 1874 Blazing Saddles 1876 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon / The Molly Maguires 1877 The Last Samurai 1878 Cheyenne Autumn 1879 Zulu 1880 Stagecoach / True Grit (2012) 1881 Tombstone 1882 The Man Who Would Be King 1884 3:10 to Yuma 1885 Topsy Turvy / Back to the Future III / The Oxbow Incident 1886 Geronimo: An American Legend 1888 From Hell 1889 Mayerling 1890 - Hello, Dolly! 1891 Sherlock Holmes (2009) 1893 Far and Away / Lagaan 1895 The Four Feathers 1896 - The Far Country 1897 The Gold Rush 1898 A Message to Garcia 1899 The Prestige / Newsies 1900 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1901 The Shootist 1902 Breaker Morant 1903 Tom Horn 1904 Meet Me in St. Louis 1905 Battleship Potemkin 1906 Ragtime 1910 Mary Poppins 1911 1911 1912 Titanic 1913 The Wild Bunch 1914 The African Queen 1915 Gallipoli 1916 Paths of Glory 1917 Lawrence of Arabia 1918 War Horse 1919 Eight Men Out 1920 Matewan 1921 Sunrise at Campobello 1922 The Great Gatsby 1924 Chariots of Fire 1925 Inherit the Wind 1926 The Sand Pebbles 1927 Singin’ in the Rain 1928 The Artist 1929 Some Like It Hot 1931 Cabaret 1932 King Kong (2005) 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 / The Longest Day 1945 Schindler’s List 1946 The Godfather 1947 42 \*_1948 Devil in a Blue Dress \*\* 1949 - The Man Who Wasn’t There 1950 Men in War / Snow Falling on Cedars 1951 The Last Picture Show 1952 Hoosiers 1953 L.A. Confidential 1954 My Favorite Year 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 **1971 Remember the Titans** 1972 All the President’s Men 1973 Ratcatcher **1974 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy** 1975 The Deer Hunter 1976 Dazed and Confused 1977 Summer of Sam 1978 Lords of Dogtown 1979 Argo / Super 8 1980 No Country for Old Men 1981 Wet Hot American Summer 1982 Waltz with Bashir 1983 Heartbreak Ridge 1984 1984 1986 The Squid and the Whale 1987 Fargo 1988 Donnie Darko 1989 Buffalo Soldiers 1990 Rent 1991 The Big Lebowski 1992 Primary Colors 1993 Black Hawk Down 1994 Hotel Rwanda 1995 Invictus 1996 12 Monkeys 1997 Amélie 1998 Escape from New York 1999 Strange Days 2000 Escape from Los Angeles 2001 2001: A Space Odyssey / World Trade Center / Flight 93 2002 Moneyball 2004 The Hurt Locker 2005 Transformers: the Movie (1986) 2010 2010: The Year We Make Contact 2011 Zero Dark Thirty 2012 I Am Legend 2013 The Postman 2019 Blade Runner 2022 Soylent Green 2026 Metropolis 2027 Children of Men 2032 Demolition Man 2035 I, Robot 2044 Looper 2057 Sunshine 2074 Looper 2084 Total Recall (the original) 2093 Prometheus 2122 Alien 2150 Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. 2160 Avatar 2173 Sleeper 2179 Aliens 2199 The Matrix 2214 The Fifth Element 2274 Logan’s Run 2293 Zardoz 2491 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2500 Waterworld 2505 Idiocracy 2517 Serenity 2805 Wall-E 3978 Planet of the Apes (1968) 5021 Planet of the Apes (2001) 12090 Vampire Hunter D 40000 Barbarella 802,701 The Time Machine (2002) ---
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