The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Thursday 20th July: Operation Valkyrie, a conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler, fails when a bomb detonates but does not kill him. (Rastenburg, East Prussia - Valkyrie)
Friday 21st July: Claus von Stauffenberg and his team are executed hastily by General Fromm to cover up Fromm's own part in the attempted coup on Hitler. (Germany - Valkyrie)
Friday 4th August: Anne Frank captured. (Amsterdam - The Diary of Anne Frank)
Sunday 6th August: Nicole Young is born. (New York City, New York - Kick-Ass 2)
Tuesday 8th August: Erwin von Witzleben executed for his part in the assassination attempt on Hitler. (Germany - Valkyrie)
Sunday 13th August: David Kammerer dies in Riverside Park. (New York City, New York - Kill Your Darlings)
Tuesday 15th August: Police Chief Wolf-Heinrich von Helldorfq executed for his part in the assassination attempt on Hitler. (Germany - Valkyrie)
September: Women imprisoned in Plaszow are transferred to Auschwitz. (Schindler's List)
Monday 4th September: General Erich Fellgiebel executed for his part in the assassination attempt on Hitler. (Germany - Valkyrie)
Sunday 17th September: Operation Market-Garden begins, the Anglo-American operation to take Nijmeagan Bridge. (A Bridge Too Far)
Saturday 23rd September: Hans Akkermans performs an operation on young Max Stein as an emergency before he and his family escape for Belgium. (Holland - Black Book)
Sunday 24th September: Rachel Stein's hiding-place is bombed, and she escapes to a greenhouse with a local Dutch sailor. (Holland - Black Book)
Monday 25th September: The Stein family and many other rich Jewish families try to attempt on a boat to Belgium, but are intercepted by a Nazi boat - only Rachel Stein survives. (Holland - Black Book)
Monday 25th September: Operation Market-Garden ends, the Anglo-American operation to take Nijmeagan Bridge. (A Bridge Too Far)
Monday 25th September: Gordon Gekko is born. (New Brunswick, New Jersey - Wall Street)
Monday 9th October: The Nazis attempt to open a portal and let out the 7 Gods of Chaos; a baby demon comes through and US soldiers adopt it. (Hellboy)
Thursday 12th October: Lucien Lacombe is arrested as a Nazi collaborator; he is tried by a military court of the Resistance, sentenced to death and executed. (France - Lacombe Lucien)
Saturday 14th October: Erwin Rommel commits suicide by taking cyanide. (The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel)
November: City ordered to be re-taken by Hitler, with an all-out offensive on the Ardennes region. (Antwerp, Belgium - Battle of the Bulge)
November: Oskar Schindler secures the release of the women at Auschwitz and has them transferred to his own camp at Brunnlitz. (Schindler's List)
November: 2 secret agents (one British and one American) slip behind German lines on a mission to find a German double agent. (German Alps, Germany - Where Eagles Dare)
Thursday 2nd November: Mr. Miyagi's wife and son die due to complications during childbirth. (Manzanar, CA - The Karate Kid)
Friday 1st December: John Densmore, future drummer of The Doors, is born. (Maine - The Doors)
Tuesday 12th December: There is a fire in a church where Nazis are keeping various prisoners. (The Reader)
Wednesday 13th December: Wassily Kandinsky dies. (France - Six Degrees of Separation)
Thursday 14th December: The Battle of the Bulge starts in the forests of the Ardennes. (Belgium - Patton)
Saturday 16th December: Lt Hart uses a court-martial to escape from a POW camp so he can blow up an ammunition dump. (Hart's War)
Wednesday 20th December: Dwight D Eisenhower promoted to General of the Army. (Ike)
Sunday 24th December: Captain Bob Wallace and Private Phil Davis perform for the 151st Division. Learning that their beloved commanding officer, Major General Thomas F. Waverly, is being relieved of command, they give him a rousing send-off in song. (somewhere in Europe - White Christmas)
Tuesday 26th December: General George S. Patton employs an audacious strategy to relieve the besieged Allied defenders during the brutal Battle of the Bulge. (Bastogne, Belgium - Patton)
Jerry Mulligan stays after serving as a G.I. to become a painter. (Paris - An American in Paris)
Olympic athlete Eric Liddell dies in occupied territory while serving as a missionary. (China - Chariots of Fire)
Planes go missing mysteriously. (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
Fredericka S. Freund gets her medical degree at Baylor University. (Waco, Texas - Drag Me To Hell)
Iona Hildebrandt crowned Mount Rose American Teen Princess, before her tiara's turned into scrap to help fight Japan. (Mount Rose - Drop Dead Gorgeous)
15 yr old Pamela Voorhees is impregnated by Elias Voorhees. (Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter)
Don Corleone shot while shopping for oranges; Connie Corleone marries Carlo Rizzi; Santino Corleone Jr born to Sonny. (The Godfather)
Alec Trevelyan's parents survive the Betrayal of the Cossacks, but later commit suicide. (Goldeneye)
Gene Kelly 1945. (United States - I Love You, Beth Cooper)
Hitler and several high ranking members of the Third Riech die in a fire when Shosanna burns down her own cinema during the screening of a Nazi propaganda film (Paris - Inglourious Basterds)
Lt Raine carves a swastika on Landa's forehead so that he will be marked as a Nazi for the rest of his life. (France - Inglourious Basterds)
Benjamin Lockwood is born (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom)
Gil James is actually born in this year. (New York City, New York - Kick-Ass 2)
'Accentuate The Positive' recorded. (LA Confidential)
Puyi captured by the Soviets while fleeing Japan, put on trial for co-operating with Japan, and spends the next few years in a Chinese re-education camp. (The Last Emperor)
Grace Stewart and her children are apparently spooked by ghosts. (An island off the British mainland - The Others)
Nazis conduct experiments in psychic warfare. (Berlin, Germany - Push)
Wine is made. (Red 2)
Eric Johnston becomes president of the MPAA. (This Film is Not Yet Rated)
Smalls Gas Station, somewhere off the Interstate, is established. (Vacancy)
January: Ezra Cobb digs up his mother's corpse and treats it as if it was alive. (Deranged)
Sunday 7th January: British Gen. Bernard Montgomery gives a press conference in which he all but claims complete credit for saving the Allied cause in the Battle of the Bulge. (Patton)
Friday 26th January: Audie Murphy wounded. (France - To Hell and Back)
Tuesday 30th January: After nearly three years in captivity, 511 allied POWs are rescued from the Cabanatuan Prison Camp by a joint effort of Filipino guerillas and Army Rangers led by Capt Robert Prince under the command of Lt Col Henry Mucci. (The Philippines - The Great Raid)
February: Rachel Stein becomes Ellis de Vries and works for the resistance as a spy in Gestapo HQ. (Holland - Black Book)
Friday 2nd February: Dr Carl Goerdeler executed for his part in the assassination attempt on Hitler. (Germany - Valkyrie)
Tuesday 6th February: Bob Marley is born. (Nine Mile, Saint Ann, Jamaica - We Bought a Zoo)
Monday 19th February: Operation Detachment, the U.S. Marines' invasion of Iwo Jima, is launched. (Flags of Our Fathers)
Monday 19th February: Dick Lewiston lands in Iwo Jima. (Iwo Jima, Japan - The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard)
Friday 23rd February: U.S. Marines raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, the highest point on the island and a key strategic point. (Iwo Jima - Flags of Our Fathers)