The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
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Welcome. Yes, the coding is gleefully retro here - who knew that websites could look "so 1998". But here we focus our geekery elsewhere: on movies, and more specifically, on the chronology of all movies, pasted together in a big list. Keep your submissions coming in! You make this. The list runs on one simple premise: that everything you see in the movies is true - the real mixes with the fictitious, so long as it's reported in a movie somewhere. So do join in - the above left links should help you Submit the event from the film you'd like, although do a Search first - we may well have it already!
NEWS! We have a Twitter account. Follow @MovieTimeline. You'll then be treated to one 'event' a day from the world of movie history - some'll be real world stuff, some'll be the world of fiction.
I recently blogged about my personally handpicked journey through history in 100 movies. Do click and read. It's in 3 parts, so click on the links at the bottom after part 1.
Today in movie history...
1554: 12th February: Lady Jane Grey beheaded. (London - Lady Jane)
1809: 12th February: Abraham Lincoln, future vampire hunter, is born. (Hodgenville, Kentucky - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)
1809: 12th February: Abraham Lincoln is born. (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
1939: Sunday 12th February: Ray Manzarek, future keyboardist of The Doors, is born. (Chicago, Illinois - The Doors)
1968: Monday 12th February: Christopher Johnson McCandless born. (El Segundo, California - Into the Wild)
1981: Thursday 12th February: Wally Weaver dies from cancer. (New York, New York - Watchmen)
1988: Friday 12th February: Donny Berger appears in the news. (That's My Boy)
2004: Thursday 12th February: Julie Bougie Boyer's driver's license is issued. (Brichwood Valley, Illinois - Source Code)
2006: Sunday 12th February: The legendary (in wedding circles) Fisher wedding, when members of the family returned from fighting overseas to attend. (27 Dresses)
2006: Sunday 12th February: Machete Cortez is involved in an assault and battery. (Austin, Texas - Machete Kills)
2007: Monday 12th February: Fai Li's passport is issued. (China - Contagion)
2009: Thursday 12th February: Julie Bougie Boyer's driver's license is issued. (Brichwood Valley, Illinois - Source Code)
2011: Saturday 12th February: Opening night of the production Swan Lake. Nina arrives ready to perform as The Swan Queen, only to find out Thomas has given her role to Lily. (New York City, New York - Black Swan)
2011: Saturday 12th February: Opening night of the production Swan Lake. Nina arrives ready to perform as The Swan Queen, only to find out Thomas has given her role to Lily. (New York City, New York - Black Swan)
2012: Sunday 12th February: Linda Petersen's medicine expires. (New York, New York - Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)
2013: Tuesday 12th February: Marybeth Dunston defeats Victor Crowley and shoots him in the face. (New Orleans, Louisiana - Hatchet II)
2013: Tuesday 12th February: Marybeth Dunston survives Victor Crowley as his body is chainsawed. She is put in a jail cell and meets Victor Crowley expert Amanda, ex-wife of Sheriff Fowler. (New Orleans, Louisiana - Hatchet III)
2013: Tuesday 12th February: Fat Tuesday. (New Orleans, Louisiana - Hatchet III)
2014: Wednesday 12th February: The blue Spix's macaws defeat loggers. (Brazil - Rio 2)
2014: Wednesday 12th February: Julie Bougie Boyer's driver's license expires. (Illinois - Source Code)
Here are a few recent films we've put in their chronological place...
Bridesmaids
Tintin
Captain America
Hugo
Moneyball
The Woman In Black
Sherlock Holmes
The King's Speech
Friends With Benefits
...as well as many others.
You can explore the dates on the left-hand bar to see discover...
When Harry Met Sally - that'll be 1977.
The Day The Bubble Burst - it was a Tuesday.
The Day The Earth Stood Still - that was a Wednesday.
Employee of the Month - that month was November 2006.
Hogwarts was founded just 61 years after King Arthur sought the Holy Grail by storming a castle with a large wooden rabbit.
Plus the coincidences, for instance...
- Gangs of New York's Amsterdam Vallon was killing Butcher Bill, down the road Abraham Lincoln was being kidnapped by Bill & Ted...
- Lucky Al Capone - he was sent to Alcatraz by Eliot Ness just in time to miss King Kong rampaging around New York...
- Andy Dufresne was wrongly sentenced to Shawshank a few short months before someone else was framed - Roger Rabbit...
Submit your own historical event from a movie (not TV - yet) by clicking here. It can be a real event (eg. the sinking of the Titanic) or a far-from-real event (eg. Marty McFly attending his parents' school dance) - so long as it's found in a film. It must be a verifiable date - whether a year subtitled at the start ("1941, France..."), a visible clue in the film (character picks up a newspaper), or some historical backdrop (From Hell's Jack The Ripper). If you know what year a movie is set in, let me know.
Thanks for linking to us and please continue to plug us on your journeys round the net. For now please ignore the crappy straightforward appearance - explore the information and trivia, have some fun with it - it really is a very simple idea. But it needs your help!
In the beginning... God created the heavens and the earth (The Bible)
Shortly after the beginning... God subcontracts the fjords to Slartibartfast, a planetary construction engineer from Magrathea (The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy)
26,000,000,000BC Los Angeles (and everywhere else) - The Earth's crust begins to harden (Adaptation)
A long time ago... Luke Skywalker and Han Solo lead a rebellion against the evil empire(Star Wars)
1 zillion BC October 9: Cavemen discover fire, and the joys of eating dinosaur egg (Caveman, 1981)
From this point on the dates get more sensible - begin the timeline...
Some other sites you may like...
The Movie Timeline twitter feed. Do follow.
Movie Banter - our podcast 'n' blog
My site as a stand-up, with gig guides, cv, etc
Ruined Endings (plots and endings of all the best films. And some bad ones.)
And unaffiliated, but friendly sites...