This page indexes the individual ''year in film'' pages. Each year is annotated with its significant events. __NOTOC__ *

19th century in film Events * 1826 – Nicéphore Niépce takes the oldest known extant photograph, ''View from the Window at Le Gras''. * 1833 – Joseph Plateau (Belgium) introduces a scientific demonstration device that creates an optical illusion of movement b ...

* 20th century in film: **

1900s The 1900s may refer to: * 1900s (decade), the decade from 1900 to 1909 * The century from 1900 to 1999, almost synonymous with the 20th century The 20th (twentieth) century began on January 1, 1901 ( MCMI), and ended on December 31, 2000 ( MM ...

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1910s File:1910s montage.png, From left, clockwise: The Ford Model T is introduced and becomes widespread; The Sinking of the RMS Titanic, sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic, ''RMS Titanic'' causes the deaths of nearly 1,500 people and attracts global and h ...

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1920s File:1920s decade montage.png, From left, clockwise: Third Tipperary Brigade Flying Column No. 2 under Seán Hogan during the Irish War of Independence; Prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol in accordance to the 18th amendment, whic ...

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1930s File:1930s decade montage.png, From left, clockwise: Dorothea Lange's photo of the homeless Florence Thompson shows the effects of the Great Depression; due to extreme drought conditions, farms across the south-central United States become dry a ...

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1940s File:1940s decade montage.png, Above title bar: events during World War II (1939–1945): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching Omaha Beach on D-Day; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France; The Holoca ...

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1950s The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the "Fifties" or the " '50s") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. Throughout the decade, the world continued its re ...

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1960s File:1960s montage.png, Clockwise from top left: U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War; the Beatles led the British Invasion of the U.S. music market; a half-a-million people participate in the 1969 Woodstock Festival; Neil Armstrong and Buzz ...

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1970s File:1970s decade montage.jpg, Clockwise from top left: U.S. President Richard Nixon doing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office following the Watergate scandal in 1974; The United States was still involved in the Vietnam War i ...

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1980s File:1980s replacement montage02.PNG, 420px, From left, clockwise: The first Space Shuttle, ''Columbia'', lifts off in 1981; US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ease tensions between the two superpowers, leading to the ...

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1990s File:1990s decade montage.png, From top left, clockwise: The Hubble Space Telescope orbits the Earth after it was launched in 1990; American F-16s and F-15s fly over burning oil fields in Operation Desert Storm, also known as the 1991 Gulf War ...

* 21st century in film: **

2000s File:2000s decade montage3.png, From top left, clockwise: The World Trade Center on fire and the Statue of Liberty during the 9/11 attacks in 2001; the euro enters into European currency in 2002; a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled durin ...

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2010s File:2010s collage v21.png, From top left, clockwise: Anti-government protests called the Arab Spring arose in 2010–2011, and as a result, many governments were overthrown, including when Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was Death of Muammar Gadd ...

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2020s The 2020s (pronounced "twenty-twenties" shortened to "the '20s" and referred to as the twenties) is the current decade, which began on January 1, 2020, and will end on December 31, 2029. The 2020s began with the COVID-19 pandemic — the first ...

19th century in film

Before Muybridge's 1878 work, photo sequences were not recorded in real-time because light-sensitive emulsions needed a long exposure time. The sequences were basically made as time-lapse recordings. It is possible that people at the time actually viewed such photographs come to life with a phénakisticope or zoetrope (this certainly happened with Muybridge's work). *

1826 Events January–March * January 15 – The French newspaper ''Le Figaro'' begins publication in Paris, initially as a weekly. * January 30 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened between the island o ...

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View from the Window at Le Gras ''View from the Window at Le Gras'' is a heliographic image and the oldest surviving camera photograph. It was created by French inventor Nicéphore Niépce in 1827 in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France, and shows parts of the buildings and surroun ...

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Nicéphore Niépce Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (; 7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833), commonly known or referred to simply as Nicéphore Niépce, was a French inventor, usually credited with the invention of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he use ...

takes the oldest known extant photograph. *

1833 Events January–March * January 3 – Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (1833), Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. * February 6 – His Royal Highness Prince Otto ...

– Since 1833 onwards, 'animated films' or rather animated effects began to be made with the use of phénakisticopes,

zoetrope A zoetrope is one of several pre-film animation devices that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion. It was basically a cylindrical variation of the phénak ...

s and

praxinoscope The praxinoscope was an animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. The ...

s. *

1865 Events January–March * January 4 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at Broad Street (Manhattan), 10-12 Broad near Wall Street, in New York City. * January 13 – American Civil War : Sec ...

– ''Revolving'', self-portrait by French photographer

Nadar Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloon (aircraft), balloonist, and proponent of Aircraft#Heavier-than-air – aerodynes, h ...

. Around 1865 he produced this series of self-portraits consisting of 12

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s showing different angles of him sitting still in a chair. Except for a smile in 1 frame, not even a fold in his jacket or a single hair seems to change between the different angles. This could be regarded as a predecessor to the

chronophotography Chronophotography is a photographic technique from the Victorian era which captures a number of phases of movements. The best known chronophotography works were mostly intended for the scientific study of locomotion, to discover practical informa ...

which Marey and Muybridge started to experiment with more than 10 years later. As the sequence revolves around space rather than time it is even more related to the bullet-time effect popularized by ''

The Matrix ''The Matrix'' is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by the Wachowskis. It is the first installment in ''The Matrix'' film series, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantolia ...

'' about 135 years later. There's no clue if more than one camera was used in the shoot, but it's certainly well-executed.

1870s

1874 Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes The Bronx. * January 2 – Ignacio María González becomes head of state of the Dominican Republic for the first time. * January 3 – Third Carlist War &ndas ...

– ''

Passage de Vénus ''Passage de Vénus'' is a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun on 9 December 1874. They were purportedly taken in Japan by the French astronomer Jules Janssen and Brazilian engineer Francisco Antônio de Al ...

'', first precedent of a film. On December 9, 1874, french astronomer

Pierre Janssen Pierre Jules César Janssen (22 February 1824 – 23 December 1907), usually known as Jules Janssen, was a French astronomer who, along with English scientist Joseph Norman Lockyer, is credited with discovering the gaseous nature of the solar ...

and Brazilian engineer

Francisco Antônio de Almeida Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''. Nicknames In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father of ...

using Janssen's ' photographic revolver' photograph the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun. They were purportedly taken in

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. It is the oldest film on

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and

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. *

1878 Events January–March * January 5 – Russo-Turkish War – Battle of Shipka Pass IV: Russian and Bulgarian forces defeat the Ottoman Empire. * January 9 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy. * January 17 – Battle o ...

– ''

The Horse in Motion ''The Horse in Motion'' is a series of cabinet cards by Eadweard Muybridge, including six cards that each show a sequential series of six to twelve "automatic electro-photographs" depicting the movement of a horse. Muybridge shot the photogr ...

'', British photographer

Eadweard Muybridge Eadweard Muybridge (; 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. He adopted the first ...

take a series of "automatic electro-photographs" depicting the movement of a horse. Muybridge shot the photographs in June 1878. An additional card reprinted the single image of the horse "Occident" trotting at high speed, which had previously been published by Muybridge in 1877. The most famous of these electro-photographs is "Sallie Gardner" taken on June 19, 1878. Railroad tycoon

Leland Stanford Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824June 21, 1893) was an American industrialist and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 8th governor of California from 1862 to 1863 and represented California in the United States Se ...

hired Muybridge to settle the questions of whether a galloping horse ever had all four of its feet off the ground. Muybridge's photos showed the horse with all four feet off the ground. Muybridge went on a lecture tour showing his photographs on a moving-image device he called the

zoopraxiscope The zoopraxiscope (initially named ''zoographiscope'' and ''zoogyroscope'') is an early device for displaying moving images and is considered an important predecessor of the movie projector. It was conceived by photographic pioneer Eadweard Muy ...

1880s

1885 Events January–March * January 3– 4 – Sino-French War – Battle of Núi Bop: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing Chinese force, in northern Vietnam. * January 4 – ...

– American inventors

George Eastman George Eastman (July 12, 1854March 14, 1932) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Kodak, Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream. He was a major philanthropist, establishing the ...

and

Hannibal Goodwin Hannibal Williston Goodwin (April 21, 1822 – December 31, 1900), patented a method for making transparent, flexible roll film out of nitrocellulose film base, which was used in Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, an early machine for viewing mot ...

each invent a sensitized

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base roll

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to replace the glass plates then in use. *

1886 Events January–March * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange ...

–

Louis Le Prince Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (28 August 1841 – disappeared 16 September 1890, declared dead 16 September 1897) was a French artist and the inventor of an early motion-picture camera, possibly the first person to shoot a moving picture sequ ...

is granted an

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dual-patent on a 16-lens device that combines a

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with a

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. *

1887 Events January–March * January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher. * January 20 ** The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Har ...

– '' Man Walking Around a Corner'', directed by French inventor

. The oldest known film. Although according to David Wilkinson's 2015 documentary ''

The First Film ''The First Film'' is a 2015 British documentary film about cinema pioneer Louis Le Prince, made by David Nicholas Wilkinson. It argues the case that Le Prince, rather than the Lumière brothers, was the true inventor of moving pictures, making ...

'' it's not film, but a series of photographs, 16 in all, each taken from one of the lens from Le Prince's camera. Pictures from the film were sent in a letter dated 18 August 1887 to his wife. Le Prince went on to develop the one lens camera and on the 14th October 1888 he finally made the world's first moving image, ''

Roundhay Garden Scene ''Roundhay Garden Scene'' is a short silent motion picture filmed by French inventor Louis Le Prince at Oakwood Grange in Roundhay, Leeds, in the north of England on 14 October 1888. It is believed to be the oldest surviving film. The camera ...

''. *

1888 In Germany, 1888 is known as the Year of the Three Emperors. Currently, it is the year that, when written in Roman numerals, has the most digits (13). The next year that also has 13 digits is the year 2388. The record will be surpassed as late ...

– ''

'', the earliest surviving film by French inventor

, is shot in

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, through a groundbreaking 20 frames per second. Others short films made at the same time were ''Accordion Player'' and ''Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge''. *

1889 Events January–March * January 1 ** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada. ** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the ...

Eastman Kodak The Eastman Kodak Company (referred to simply as Kodak ) is an American public company that produces various products related to its historic basis in analogue photography. The company is headquartered in Rochester, New York, and is incorpor ...

is the first company to begin commercial production of film on a flexible transparent base,

1890s

1890 Events January–March * January 1 ** The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony, in the Horn of Africa. ** In Michigan, the wooden steamer ''Mackinaw'' burns in a fire on the Black River. * January 2 ** The steamship ...

- '' London's Trafalgar Square''; '' Monkeyshines'' *

1891 Events January–March * January 1 ** Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany. ** A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence. **Germany takes formal possession of its new Africa ...

- ''

Dickson Greeting ''Dickson Greeting'' is an 1891 American short silent film. Directed, produced by, and starring motion-picture pioneer William K. L. Dickson, it displays a 3-second clip of him passing a hat in front of himself, and reaching for it with his other ...

''; '' Men Boxing''; '' Newark Athlete'' *

1892 Events January–March * January 1 – Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States. * February 1 - The historic Enterprise Bar and Grill was established in Rico, Colorado. * February 27 – Rudolf Diesel applies for ...

– ''

Le Clown et ses chiens ''Le Clown et ses chiens'' (aka ''The Clown and His Dogs'') is an 1892 French short animated film hand-painted in colour by Émile Reynaud. It consists of 300 individually painted images and lasts about 10 minutes. It was the second film that Reyn ...

''; ''

Pauvre Pierrot ''Pauvre Pierrot'' (or ''Poor Pete'') is a French short animated film directed by Charles-Émile Reynaud in 1891 and released in 1892. It consists of 500 individually painted images and lasts about 15 minutes originally. It is one of the first ...

''; ''

Un bon bock ''Un bon bock'' (aka ''A Good Beer'') is an 1892 French short animated film directed by Émile Reynaud. Painted in 1888, it was first screened on 28 October 1892 using the Théâtre Optique process, which allowed him to project a hand-painted colo ...

'', first projected

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films released by

Émile Reynaud Charles-Émile Reynaud (8 December 1844 – 9 January 1918) was a French inventor, responsible for the praxinoscope (an animation device patented in 1877 that improved on the zoetrope) and was responsible for the first projected animated ...

. *

1893 Events January–March * January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America. * Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson. * January 6 – Th ...

– ''

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'', the first film shown publicly on the

Kinetoscope The Kinetoscope is an precursors of film, early motion picture exhibition device, designed for films to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole viewer window. The Kinetoscope was not a movie projector, but it introduced the basic ...

, a system given to Edison;

Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventio ...

creates "America's First Film Studio",

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1894 Events January–March * January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire. * January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United S ...

– **''

Carmencita Carmen Dauset Moreno, better known simply as Carmencita (1868 – 1910), was a Spanish-style dancer in American pre-vaudeville variety and music hall ballet. Biography Born in Almería, Andalusia, Spain, Carmencita took dancing lessons in Malag ...

,'' according to film historian

Charles Musser Charles John Musser (born 16 January 1951) is a film historian and documentary film maker. Since 1992 he has taught at Yale University, where he is currently a professor of Film and Media Studies as well as American Studies and Theater Studies. H ...

, directed and produced by William K.L. Dickson, the Scottish

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credited with the invention of the

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under the employ of

was the first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and may have been the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United States. **''

The Dickson Experimental Sound Film ''The Dickson Experimental Sound Film'' is a film made by William Dickson in late 1894 or early 1895. It is the first known film with live-recorded sound and appears to be the first motion picture made for the Kinetophone, the proto- sound-film sy ...

'' made by William Dickson in late 1894 or early 1895 is the first known film with live-recorded sound and appears to be the first motion picture made for the

Kinetophone The Kinetoscope is an precursors of film, early motion picture exhibition device, designed for films to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole viewer window. The Kinetoscope was not a movie projector, but it introduced the basic ...

, the proto- sound-film system developed by Dickson and

. It is also discussed whether it is considered as the first

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. Further in his book ''The Celluloid Closet'' (1981), film historian

Vito Russo Vito Russo (July 11, 1946 – November 7, 1990) was an American LGBT activist, film historian, and author. He is best remembered as the author of the book ''The Celluloid Closet'' (1981, revised edition 1987), described in ''The New York Time ...

discusses the film, claiming, without attribution, that it was titled ''The Gay Brothers''. Russo's unsupported naming of the film has been adopted widely online and in at least three books, and his unsubstantiated assertions that the film's content is homosexual are frequently echoed. In addition to there being no evidence for the title Russo gives the film, in fact, the word "gay" was not generally used as a synonym for "homosexual" at the time the film was made. A particularly relevant example of the way the word "gay" was actually used is provided by a later Edison Manufacturing Company film, directed by

Edwin S. Porter Edwin Stanton Porter (April 21, 1870 – April 30, 1941) was an American film pioneer, most famous as a producer, director, studio manager and cinematographer with the Edison Manufacturing Company and the Famous Players Film Company. Of over ...

. As described by scholar Linda Williams, ''The Gay Shoe Clerk'' (1903). *

1895 Events January–March * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. * January 12 – The National Trust for Places of Histor ...

– In Paris, France on December 28, 1895, the Lumière brothers screen ten films at the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris making the first commercial public screening ever made, marked traditionally as the birth date of the film;

Gaumont Film Company The Gaumont Film Company (, ), often shortened to Gaumont, is a French film studio headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946) in 1895, it is the oldest extant film company in ...

, the oldest ever

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, is founded by inventor

Léon Gaumont Léon Ernest Gaumont (; 10 May 1864 – 10 August 1946) was a French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry. He founded the world’s first and oldest film studio Gaumont Film Company, and worked in ...

. *

1896 Events January–March * January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end, as Jameson surrenders to the Boers. * January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. * January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wil ...

– ''

L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat ''L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat'' (translated from French into English as ''The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station'', ''Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat'' (US) and ''The Arrival of the Mail Train'', and in the United Kingdom as ' ...

'', one of the six more short films released by the Lumière brothers; Pathé-Frères is founded. *

1897 Events January–March * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a puniti ...

–

Vitagraph Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company. By 1907, ...

is founded in

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. *

1898 Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, B ...

–'' The Astronomer's Dream''; ''

The Cavalier's Dream ''The Cavalier's Dream'' is an 1898 United States, American black-and-white horror silent one minute short film directed by Edwin S. Porter in his directorial debut. Plot A cavalier sits asleep at a bare table; an old witch enters, raps three ...

''; ''

Photographing a Ghost ''Photographing a Ghost'' (1898) is a short film that was directed by George Albert Smith. It is about photographers A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", t ...

''; ''

Santa Claus Santa Claus, also known as Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Kris Kringle, or simply Santa, is a Legend, legendary figure originating in Western Christianity, Western Christian culture who is said to Christmas gift-bringer, bring ...

'' * 1899 – '' The Dreyfus Affair'' and ''

Cendrillon ''Cendrillon'' (''Cinderella'') is an opera—described as a "fairy tale"—in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Caïn based on Perrault's 1698 version of the Cinderella fairy tale. It had its premiere performance on 24 ...

'' (first screen adaptation of the traditional fairy tale ''

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'') released by

Georges Méliès Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (; ; 8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938) was a French illusionist, actor, and film director. He led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès was well known for the use of ...

; earliest known use of a colour motion picture film footage by

Edward Raymond Turner Edward Raymond Turner (1873 – 9 March 1903) was a pioneering British inventor and cinematographer. He produced the earliest known colour motion picture film footage. Biography Turner was born in 1873 in Clevedon, North Somerset, UK. In late ...

1900s

1900 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2 ...

– ''

Sherlock Holmes Baffled ''Sherlock Holmes Baffled'' is a very short American silent film created in 1900 with cinematography by Arthur Marvin. It is the earliest known film to feature Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character Sherlock Holmes, albeit in a form unlike th ...

'', ''

Joan of Arc Joan of Arc (french: link=yes, Jeanne d'Arc, translit= �an daʁk} ; 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronati ...

'', ''

The Enchanted Drawing ''The Enchanted Drawing'' is a 1900 silent film directed by J. Stuart Blackton. It is best known for containing the first animated sequences recorded on standard picture film, which has led Blackton to be considered the father of American animati ...

'' *

1901 Events January * January 1 – The Crown colony, British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria (Australia), Victoria and Western Australia Federation of Australia, federate as the Australia, ...

– ''

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'', ''

Stop Thief! ''Stop Thief!'' is a 1901 British short silent drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually q ...

'', ''

Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost ''Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost'' is a 1901 British short silent drama film, directed by Walter R. Booth, featuring the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge (played by Daniel Smith) confronted by Jacob Marley's ghost and given visions of Christmas past, p ...

'' *

1902 Events January * January 1 ** The Nurses Registration Act 1901 comes into effect in New Zealand, making it the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses. On January 10, Ellen Dougherty becomes the world's f ...

– ''

A Trip to the Moon ''A Trip to the Moon'' (french: Le Voyage dans la Lune) is a 1902 French adventure short film directed by Georges Méliès. Inspired by a wide variety of sources, including Jules Verne's 1865 novel ''From the Earth to the Moon'' and its 1870 s ...

'' *

1903 Events January * January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India. * January 19 – The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having been ...

– '' The Great Train Robbery'' *

1904 Events January * January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''. * January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. * ...

– ''

The Impossible Voyage ''The Impossible Voyage'' (french: Le Voyage à travers l'impossible), also known as ''An Impossible Voyage'' and ''Whirling the Worlds'', is a 1904 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. Inspired by Jules Verne's play '' Journey Thr ...

'';

Titanus Titanus is an Italian film production company, founded in 1904 by Gustavo Lombardo (1885–1951). The company's headquarters are located at 28 Via Sommacampagna, Rome and its studios on the Via Tiburtina, 13 km from the centre of Rome. Lomb ...

is founded *

1905 As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony i ...

– '' Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom'' *

1906 Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ...

– ''

The Story of the Kelly Gang ''The Story of the Kelly Gang'' is a 1906 Australian bushranger film that traces the exploits of 19th-century bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly and his gang. It was directed by Charles Tait and shot in and around the city of Melbourne. The origin ...

'', '' Dream of a Rarebit Fiend'', ''

Humorous Phases of Funny Faces ''Humorous Phases of Funny Faces'' is a 1906 short silent animated cartoon directed by James Stuart Blackton and generally regarded by film historians as the first animated film recorded on standard picture film.Magill's Survey of Silent Films, ...

'';

Nordisk Film Nordisk Film A/S (lit. "Nordic Film") is a Danish entertainment company established in 1906 in Copenhagen by filmmaker Ole Olsen. It is the fourth-oldest film studio in the world behind the Gaumont Film Company, Pathé, and Titanus ...

is founded *

1907 Events January * January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000. February * February 11 – The French warship ''Jean Bart'' sinks off the coast of Morocco. ...

– '' Ben-Hur'', '' L'Enfant prodigue'' *

1908 Events January * January 1 – The British ''Nimrod'' Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton sets sail from New Zealand on the ''Nimrod'' for Antarctica. * January 3 – A total solar eclipse is visible in the Pacific Ocean, and is the 46 ...

– '' Fantasmagorie'', ''

A Visit to the Seaside ''A Visit to the Seaside'' (1908) was the first successful motion picture filmed in Kinemacolor. It is an 8-minute short film directed by George Albert Smith of Brighton, showing people doing everyday activities. It is ranked of high historica ...

'', ''

The Taming of the Shrew ''The Taming of the Shrew'' is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken ...

'', ''

The Thieving Hand ''The Thieving Hand'' is a 1908 American silent short film. It is credited for its astounding trick photography and effects for its age. The film was shot on location in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City and released on February 1, 1908 in the ...

'', ''

The Assassination of the Duke of Guise ''The Assassination of the Duke of Guise'' ( 1908) (original French title: ''La Mort du duc de Guise''; often referred to as ''L'Assassinat du duc de Guise'') is a French historical film directed by Charles le Bargy and André Calmettes, adapte ...

''; first use of

Kinemacolor Kinemacolor was the first successful colour motion picture process, used commercially from 1908 to 1914. It was invented by George Albert Smith in 1906. He was influenced by the work of William Norman Lascelles Davidson and, more directly, Ed ...

;

Pathé News Pathé News was a producer of newsreels and documentaries from 1910 to 1970 in the United Kingdom. Its founder, Charles Pathé, was a pioneer of moving pictures in the silent era. The Pathé News archive is known today as British Pathé. Its coll ...

invents the

newsreel A newsreel is a form of short documentary film, containing news stories and items of topical interest, that was prevalent between the 1910s and the mid 1970s. Typically presented in a cinema, newsreels were a source of current affairs, informa ...

. *

1909 Events January–February * January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes. * January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. * Januar ...

– '' The Country Doctor'', ''

A Corner in Wheat ''A Corner in Wheat'' is a 1909 American short silent film which tells of a greedy tycoon who tries to corner the world market on wheat, destroying the lives of the people who can no longer afford to buy bread. It was directed by D. W. Griffith ...

'', '' Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy'', ''

Les Misérables ''Les Misérables'' ( , ) is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original ...

'';

35 mm film 35 mm may refer to: * 135 film, a type of still photography format commonly referred to as 35 mm film * 35 mm movie film 35 mm film is a film gauge used in filmmaking, and the film standard. In motion pictures that record on f ...

becomes a filmmaking standard across the world.

1910s

1910 Events January * January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...

– '' In Old California'', ''

In the Border States ''In the Border States'' is a 1910 American drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. Prints of the film survive in the film archives of the Museum of Modern Art and the Library of Congress. Cast * Charles West as Young Father * Charles Arling ...

'', ''

White Fawn's Devotion ''White Fawn's Devotion: A Play Acted by a Tribe of Red Indians in America'' is a 1910 Cinema of the United States, American short film, short drama film, dramatic silent film. Although a few writers believe the film features Young Deer's wife, L ...

'' *

1911 A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory ...

– ''

L'Inferno ''L'Inferno'' is a 1911 Italian silent film, loosely adapted from ''Inferno'', the first canticle of Dante Alighieri's ''Divine Comedy''. ''L'Inferno'' took over three years to make, and was the first full-length Italian feature film. Plot Da ...

'', '' Baron Munchausen's Dream'', ''

Defence of Sevastopol ''Defence of Sevastopol'' (russian: Оборона Севастополя, or Воскресший Севастополь) is a 1911 historical war film about the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War and one of the most important films in ...

'', ''

The Lonedale Operator ''The Lonedale Operator'' is a 1911 short American drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Blanche Sweet and written by Mack Sennett for the Biograph Company. The plot of the film involves a girl who takes over a telegraph station af ...

'' *

1912 Events January * January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established. * January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens. * January 6 ...

– '' Independenţa României'', ''

The Musketeers of Pig Alley ''The Musketeers of Pig Alley'' is a 1912 American short drama and a gangster film. It is directed by D. W. Griffith and written by Griffith and Anita Loos. It is also credited for its early use of follow focus, a fundamental tool in cinemat ...

'';

Universal Pictures Universal Pictures (legally Universal City Studios LLC, also known as Universal Studios, or simply Universal; common metonym: Uni, and formerly named Universal Film Manufacturing Company and Universal-International Pictures Inc.) is an Ameri ...

and

Paramount Pictures Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production company, production and Distribution (marketing), distribution company and the main namesake division of Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS). It is the fifth-oldes ...

, Hollywood's two oldest major film studios, are founded; the

British Board of Film Classification The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC, previously the British Board of Film Censors) is a non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of f ...

is established. *

1913 Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not ven ...

– ''

The Bangville Police ''The Bangville Police'' (also known as ''Bangville Police'') is a 1913 comedy short starring Fred Mace, Mabel Normand and the Keystone Cops (Mace, Raymond Hatton, Edgar Kennedy, Ford Sterling, and Al St. John). The one-reel film, generally re ...

'', ''

Fantômas Fantômas () is a fictional character created by French writers Marcel Allain (1885–1969) and Pierre Souvestre (1874–1914). One of the most popular characters in the history of French crime fiction, Fantômas was created in 1911 and appeared ...

'', '' Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life'', ''

Raja Harishchandra ''Raja Harishchandra'' () is a 1913 Indian silent film directed and produced by Dadasaheb Phalke. It is often considered the first full-length Indian feature film. ''Raja Harishchandra'' features Dattatraya Damodar Dabke, Anna Salunke, Bhalc ...

''; invention of the

film trailer A trailer (also known as a preview, coming attraction or attraction video) is a commercial advertisement, originally for a feature film that is going to be exhibited in the future at a movie theater/cinema. It is a product of creative and tech ...

1914 This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It als ...

– ''

Cabiria ''Cabiria'' is a 1914 Italian epic silent film, directed by Giovanni Pastrone and shot in Turin. The film is set in ancient Sicily, Carthage, and Cirta during the period of the Second Punic War (218–202 BC). It follows a melodramatic main p ...

'', '' The Perils of Pauline'', '' Tillie's Punctured Romance'', ''

Judith of Bethulia ''Judith of Bethulia'' (1914) is an American film starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall, and produced and directed by D. W. Griffith, based on the play "Judith and the Holofernes" (1896) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, which itself was an adapt ...

'' *

1915 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 ...

– ''

The Birth of a Nation ''The Birth of a Nation'', originally called ''The Clansman'', is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr.'s 1905 novel and play ''The Cla ...

'', ''

The Tramp The Tramp (''Charlot'' in several languages), also known as the Little Tramp, was English actor Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character and an icon in world cinema during the era of silent film. ''The Tramp'' is also the title of ...

'', ''

Les Vampires ''Les Vampires'' is a 1915–16 French silent crime serial film written and directed by Louis Feuillade. Set in Paris, it stars Édouard Mathé, Musidora and Marcel Lévesque. The main characters are a journalist and his friend who become involv ...

'', '' A Fool There Was'' *

1916 Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. * ...

– ''

Intolerance Intolerance may refer to: * Hypersensitivity Hypersensitivity (also called hypersensitivity reaction or intolerance) refers to undesirable reactions produced by the normal immune system, including allergies and autoimmunity. They are usual ...

'', ''

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'' (french: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne. The novel was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-J ...

'', ''

Gertie the Dinosaur ''Gertie the Dinosaur'' is a 1914 animated short film by American cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay. It is the earliest animated film to feature a dinosaur. McCay first used the film before live audiences as an interactive part of his vaude ...

'', '' The Queen of Spades''; invention of

Technicolor Technicolor is a series of Color motion picture film, color motion picture processes, the first version dating back to 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades. Definitive Technicolor movies using three black and white films ...

. *

1917 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's ...

– ''

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm ''Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm'' is a classic American 1903 children's novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that tells the story of Rebecca Rowena Randall and her aunts, one stern and one kind, in the fictional village of Riverboro, Maine. Rebecca's joy ...

'', '' A Man There Was'' *

1918 This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide. Events Below, the events ...

– '' Stella Maris'', ''

Mickey Mickey is a given name and nickname, almost always masculine and often a short form (hypocorism) of Michael (given name), Michael, and occasionally a surname. Notable people and characters with the name include: People Given name or nickname Men ...

'', ''

Shifting Sands Shifting Sands can refer to: *''The Shifting Sands'', a book in the ''Deltora Quest'' series * ''Shifting Sands'' (1918 film), a 1918 film * ''Shifting Sands'' (1922 film), a 1922 film *''Shifting Sands'', a 1957 episode of The Goon Show *Forms of ...

'' *

1919 Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the c ...

– ''

Blind Husbands ''Blind Husbands'' is a 1919 American drama film written and directed by Erich von Stroheim. The film is an adaptation of the story ''The Pinnacle'' by Stroheim. Plot A group of holiday-makers arrive at Cortina d'Ampezzo, an Alpine village in th ...

'', ''

Broken Blossoms ''Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl'', often referred to simply as ''Broken Blossoms'', is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. It was distributed by United Artists and premiered on May 13, 1919. It stars ...

'', ''

True Heart Susie ''True Heart Susie'' is a 1919 American drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. A print of the film survives in the film archive of the British Film Institute. The film has seen several VHS releases as well as a DVD iss ...

'', ''

Dalagang Bukid ''Dalagang Bukid'' (English: ''Country Maiden'') is a 1919 Filipino silent film. Directed by José Nepomuceno, it is recognized as the first full-length Filipino produced and directed feature film. An adaptation of the Tagalog sarsuwela of th ...

'', ''

Male and Female ''Male and Female'' is a 1919 American silent adventure/drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gloria Swanson and Thomas Meighan. Its main themes are gender relations and social class. The film is based on the 1902 J. M. Barrie ...

'';

United Artists United Artists Corporation (UA), currently doing business as United Artists Digital Studios, is an American digital production company. Founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, the studi ...

is founded.

1920s

1920 Events January * January 1 ** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20. ** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own ma ...

– '' The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'', ''

Way Down East ''Way Down East'' is a 1920 American silent romantic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. It is one of four film adaptations of the melodramatic 19th century play ''Way Down East'' by Lottie Blair Parker. There we ...

'', ''

The Flapper ''The Flapper'' is a 1920 American silent comedy film starring Olive Thomas. Directed by Alan Crosland, the film was the first in the United States to portray the "flapper" lifestyle, which became a cultural craze or fad in the 1920s. Plot Sixt ...

'', '' The Mark of Zorro'', ''

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Doctor is an academic title that originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning. The word is originally an agentive noun of the Latin verb 'to teach'. It has been used as an academic title in Europe since the 13th century, w ...

'', '' The Golem: How He Came into the World'', ''

Within Our Gates ''Within Our Gates'' is a 1920 American silent film by the director Oscar Micheaux that portrays the contemporary racial situation in the United States during the early twentieth century, the years of Jim Crow, the revival of the Ku Klux Kla ...

'' *

1921 Events January * January 2 ** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in First Brazilian Republic, Brazil. ** The Spanish lin ...

– '' The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse'', ''

The Kid The Kid or The Kids may refer to: Fictional characters * The kid (''Blood Meridian''), a character in Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel ''Blood Meridian'' * The Kid (''The Matrix''), a character in the ''Matrix'' film series * The Kid (''The Stand'' ...

'', ''

The Phantom Carriage ''The Phantom Carriage'' ( sv, Körkarlen, literally "The Wagoner") is a 1921 Swedish silent film directed by and starring Victor Sjöström, based on the 1912 novel '' Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness!'' (''Körkarlen'') by Swedish author Selma Lag ...

'', '' Fool's Paradise'', '' The Sheik'', ''

The Mechanical Man ''The Mechanical Man'' (Italian: ''L'uomo meccanico'') is a 1921 Italian science fiction film directed by André Deed (who also starred in the film as the comedic character Saltarello). It was produced in 1920 and released in November 1921. It ...

'' *

1922 Events January * January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes. * January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...

– ''

Nosferatu ''Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror'' (German: ''Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens'') is a 1922 silent German Expressionist horror film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife ...

'', ''

Häxan ''Häxan'' (, "The Witch"; Danish: ''Heksen''; English: ''The Witches''; released in the US in 1968 as ''Witchcraft Through the Ages'') is a 1922 silent film, silent horror film, horror essay film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. C ...

'', ''

Foolish Wives ''Foolish Wives'' is a 1922 American erotic silent drama film produced and distributed by Universal Pictures under their Super-Jewel banner and written and directed by Erich von Stroheim. The drama features von Stroheim, Rudolph Christians, ...

'', ''

The Little Rascals ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

'', ''

Blood and Sand Blood is a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells. Blood in the c ...

'', ''

Nanook of the North ''Nanook of the North'' is a 1922 American silent film which combines elements of documentary and docudrama, at a time when the concept of separating films into documentary and drama did not yet exist. In the tradition of what would later be c ...

'', '' Dr. Mabuse the Gambler'';

Motion Picture Association of America The Motion Picture Association (MPA) is an American trade association representing the five major film studios of the United States, as well as the video streaming service Netflix. Founded in 1922 as the Motion Picture Producers and Distribu ...

is established. *

1923 Events January–February * January 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory). * January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area, t ...

– ''

Safety Last! ''Safety Last!'' is a 1923 American silent romantic-comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. It includes one of the most famous images from the silent-film era: Lloyd clutching the hands of a large clock as he dangles from the outside of a skyscraper ...

'', ''

The Hunchback of Notre Dame ''The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'' (french: Notre-Dame de Paris, translation=''Our Lady of Paris'', originally titled ''Notre-Dame de Paris. 1482'') is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. It focuses on the unfortunate story o ...

'', ''

Our Hospitality ''Our Hospitality'' is a 1923 American silent comedy film directed by Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone. Starring Keaton, Joe Roberts, and Natalie Talmadge and distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation, it uses slapstick and situational comed ...

'', ''

The Ten Commandments The Ten Commandments (Biblical Hebrew עשרת הדברים \ עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים, ''aséret ha-dvarím'', lit. The Decalogue, The Ten Words, cf. Mishnaic Hebrew עשרת הדיברות \ עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדִּבְ� ...

'';

Warner Bros. Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures is an American film production and distribution company of the Warner Bros. Pictures Group division of Warner Bros. Entertainment (both ultimately owned by Warner Bros. Discovery). The studio is the flagship producer of liv ...

and

Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Pictures is an American film production company and subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company. The studio is the flagship producer of live-action feature films within the Walt Disney Studios uni ...

are founded;

16 mm film 16 mm film is a historically popular and economical gauge of film. 16 mm refers to the width of the film (about inch); other common film gauges include 8 and 35 mm. It is generally used for non-theatrical (e.g., industrial, educ ...

introduced. *

1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...

– ''

Sherlock Jr. ''Sherlock Jr.'' is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton and written by Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez, and Joseph A. Mitchell. It features Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, and Ward Crane. In 1991, ''Sherlock J ...

'', '' The Thief of Bagdad'', ''

Greed Greed (or avarice) is an uncontrolled longing for increase in the acquisition or use of material gain (be it food, money, land, or animate/inanimate possessions); or social value, such as Social status, status, or Power (social and politica ...

'', '' The Last Laugh'', ''

He Who Gets Slapped ''He Who Gets Slapped'' ( rus, Тот, кто получает пощёчины, links=no) is a play in four acts by Russian dramatist Leonid Andreyev; completed in August 1915 and first produced in that same year at the Moscow Art Theatre on ...

'';

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by amazon (company), Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded o ...

and

Columbia Pictures Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production studio that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the mu ...

are founded *

1925 Events January * January 1 ** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria. * January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italia ...

– ''

The Gold Rush ''The Gold Rush'' is a 1925 American silent comedy film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin. The film also stars Chaplin in his Little Tramp persona, Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman, and Malcolm Waite. Chapl ...

'', ''

The Battleship Potemkin '' Battleship Potemkin'' (russian: Бронено́сец «Потёмкин», ''Bronenosets Potyomkin''), sometimes rendered as ''Battleship Potyomkin'', is a 1925 Soviet silent drama film produced by Mosfilm. Directed and co-written by S ...

'', ''

The Big Parade ''The Big Parade'' is a 1925 American silent war drama film directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Tom O'Brien, and Karl Dane. Written by World War I veteran, Laurence Stallings, the film is about an ...

'', ''

The Phantom of the Opera ''The Phantom of the Opera'' (french: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is a novel by French author Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serial in from 23 September 1909 to 8 January 1910, and was released in volume form in late March 1910 by Pierr ...

'', '' Ben-Hur'' *

1926 Events January * January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece. * January 8 **Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz. ** Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of V ...

– '' The General'', ''

The Adventures of Prince Achmed ''The Adventures of Prince Achmed'' (known as ''Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed'' in German language, German) is a 1926 German Animation, animated Fairy tale, fairytale film by Lotte Reiniger. It is the oldest surviving animated feature film; ...

'', ''

Don Juan Don Juan (), also known as Don Giovanni (Italian), is a legendary, fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. Famous versions of the story include a 17th-century play, '' El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra'' ...

'' *

1927 Events January * January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith becomes the first Director-General. * January 7 * ...

– ''

The Jazz Singer ''The Jazz Singer'' is a 1927 American musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland. It is the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music score as well as lip-synchronous singing and speech (in several isolated ...

'', ''

Metropolis A metropolis () is a large city or conurbation which is a significant economic, political, and cultural center for a country or region, and an important hub for regional or international connections, commerce, and communications. A big c ...

'', ''

Laurel & Hardy Laurel and Hardy were a British-American comedy duo act during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema, consisting of Englishman Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and American Oliver Hardy (1892–1957). Starting their career as a duo in ...

'', ''

Wings A wing is a type of fin that produces lift while moving through air or some other fluid. Accordingly, wings have streamlined cross-sections that are subject to aerodynamic forces and act as airfoils. A wing's aerodynamic efficiency is expresse ...

'', '' Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans'', ''

Napoléon Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...

'', '' The King of Kings'' *

1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, J ...

– ''

The Passion of Joan of Arc ''The Passion of Joan of Arc'' (french: link=no, La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc) is a 1928 French silent historical film based on the actual record of the trial of Joan of Arc. The film was directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and stars Renée Jeanne F ...

'', ''

Steamboat Willie ''Steamboat Willie'' is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black and white by Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Studios and was released by Pat Powers, under the name of Celeb ...

'', ''

Un Chien Andalou ''Un Chien Andalou'' (, ''An Andalusian Dog'') is a 1929 French silent short film directed by Luis Buñuel, and written by Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. Buñuel's first film, it was initially released in a limited capacity at Studio des Ursuline ...

'', '' Lights of New York'', '' The Circus'', '' The Crowd'';

RKO Pictures RKO Radio Pictures Inc., commonly known as RKO Pictures or simply RKO, was an American film production and distribution company, one of the "Big Five" film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. The business was formed after the Keith-Albee-Orphe ...

is founded *

1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...

– ''

Blackmail Blackmail is an act of coercion using the threat of revealing or publicizing either substantially true or false information about a person or people unless certain demands are met. It is often damaging information, and it may be revealed to fa ...

'', ''

Pandora's Box Pandora's box is an artifact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod's c. 700 B.C. poem ''Works and Days''. Hesiod reported that curiosity led her to open a container left in the care of her husband, thus releasing phys ...

'', ''

Man with a Movie Camera ''Man with a Movie Camera'' (russian: Человек с киноаппаратом, translit=Chelovek s kinoapparatom) is an experimental 1929 Soviet silent documentary film, directed by Dziga Vertov, filmed by his brother Mikhail Kaufman, and ...

'', ''

The Broadway Melody ''The Broadway Melody'', also known as ''The Broadway Melody of 1929'', is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequen ...

'', ''

Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a centr ...

'', '' The Virginian'';

1st Academy Awards The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and hosted by AMPAS president Douglas Fairbanks, honored the best films from 1 August 1927 to 31 July 1928 and took place on May 1 ...

1930s

1930 Events January * January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, and the next one will be ...

– ''

Looney Tunes ''Looney Tunes'' is an American Animated cartoon, animated comedy short film series produced by Warner Bros. starting from 1930 to 1969, concurrently with its partner series ''Merrie Melodies'', during the golden age of American animation.

'', ''

All Quiet on the Western Front ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' (german: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit=Nothing New in the West) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental trauma du ...

'', ''

Earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. While large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water. About 71% of Earth's surfa ...

'', ''

Journey's End ''Journey's End'' is a 1928 dramatic play by English playwright R. C. Sherriff, set in the trenches near Saint-Quentin, Aisne, towards the end of the First World War. The story plays out in the officers' dugout of a British Army infantry comp ...

'', ''

The Blue Angel ''The Blue Angel'' (german: Der blaue Engel) is a 1930 German musical comedy-drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg, and starring Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings and Kurt Gerron. Written by Carl Zuckmayer, Karl Vollmöller and Robert Lie ...

'', '' Hell's Angels'', '' The Big House'' *

1931 Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir I ...

– ''

Frankenstein ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. ''Frankenstein'' tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific ex ...

'', ''

Dracula ''Dracula'' is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. As an epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking ...

'', '' The Champ'', ''

The Public Enemy ''The Public Enemy'' (''Enemies of the Public'' in the UK) is a 1931 American all-talking pre-Code gangster film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. The film was directed by William A. Wellman and stars James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward ...

'', '' Little Caesar'', '' Cimarron'', '' M'', ''

City Lights ''City Lights'' is a 1931 American silent romantic comedy film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. The story follows the misadventures of Chaplin's Tramp as he falls in love with a blind girl (Virginia Cherrill) and ...

'', ''

The Front Page ''The Front Page'' is a Broadway comedy about newspaper reporters on the police beat. Written by former Chicago reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, it was first produced in 1928 and has been adapted for the cinema several times. Plot The ...

'' *

1932 Events January * January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. * January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...

– '' Shanghai Express'', '' Scarface'', ''

Tarzan the Ape Man Tarzan, the Ape Man may refer to * Tarzan, a fictional character * ''Tarzan the Ape Man'' (1932 film), with Johnny Weissmuller * ''Tarzan, the Ape Man'' (1959 film) with Denny Miller * ''Tarzan, the Ape Man'' (1981 film) with Richard Harris and ...

'', ''

The Mummy A mummy is an unusually well preserved corpse. Mummy or The Mummy may also refer to: Places *Mummy Range, a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado in the United States *Mummy Cave, a rock shelter and archeological site in Par ...

'', ''

Betty Boop Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer, with help from animators including Grim Natwick.Pointer (2017) She originally appeared in the ''Talkartoon'' and ''Betty Boop'' film series, which were produced by Fleischer ...

'', ''

Freaks Freak has several meanings: a person who is physically deformed or suffers from an extraordinary disease and condition, a genetic mutation in a plant or animal, etc. Freak, freaks or The Freak may also refer to: Fictional characters * Freak (Ima ...

'', '' Trouble in Paradise'', '' The Sign of the Cross'', ''

Grand Hotel A grand hotel is a large and luxurious hotel, especially one housed in a building with traditional architectural style. It began to flourish in the 1800s in Europe and North America. Grand Hotel may refer to: Hotels Africa * Grande Hotel Beir ...

'';

8 mm film 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the ...

introduced. *

1933 Events January * January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ...

– ''

King Kong King Kong is a fictional giant monster resembling a gorilla, who has appeared in various media since 1933. He has been dubbed The Eighth Wonder of the World, a phrase commonly used within the franchise. His first appearance was in the novelizat ...

'', '' Fred & Ginger'', ''

The Invisible Man ''The Invisible Man'' is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in ''Pearson's Weekly'' in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man to whom the title refers is Griffin, a scientist who has devote ...

'', '' 42nd Street'', '' Duck Soup'', ''

The Three Stooges The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy team active from 1922 until 1970, best remembered for their 190 short subject films by Columbia Pictures. Their hallmark styles were physical farce and slapstick. Six Stooges appeared ...

'', ''

She Done Him Wrong ''She Done Him Wrong'' is a 1933 pre-Code American crime/comedy film starring Mae West and Cary Grant. The plot includes melodramatic and musical elements, with a supporting cast featuring Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland, Noah Beery Sr., Rochelle Hu ...

'' *

1934 Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...

– ''

L'Atalante ''L'Atalante'', also released as ''Le Chaland qui passe'' ("The Passing Barge"), is a 1934 French film written and directed by Jean Vigo, and starring Jean Dasté, Dita Parlo and Michel Simon. After the difficult release of his controversial sh ...

'', ''

It Happened One Night ''It Happened One Night'' is a 1934 pre-Code American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed and co-produced by Frank Capra, in collaboration with Harry Cohn, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries ...

'', ''

The Thin Man ''The Thin Man'' (1934) is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally published in a condensed version in the December 1933 issue of ''Redbook''. It appeared in book form the following month. A film series followed, featuring the main cha ...

'', ''

Cleopatra Cleopatra VII Philopator ( grc-gre, Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ}, "Cleopatra the father-beloved"; 69 BC10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler.She was also a ...

'', '' The Goddess'', ''

Manhattan Melodrama ''Manhattan Melodrama'' is a 1934 American pre-Code crime film, produced by MGM, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, and starring Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy. The movie also provided one of Mickey Rooney's earliest film roles. (Rooney pla ...

'', '' The Black Cat'' *

1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * ...

– '' A Night at the Opera'', ''

Bride of Frankenstein ''Bride of Frankenstein'' is a 1935 American science fiction horror film, and the first sequel to Universal Pictures' 1931 film ''Frankenstein''. As with the first film, ''Bride of Frankenstein'' was directed by James Whale starring Boris Karlo ...

'', '' The 39 Steps'', ''

Mutiny on the Bounty The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the ship from their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh, and set h ...

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20th Century Fox 20th Century Studios, Inc. (previously known as 20th Century Fox) is an American film production company headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles. As of 2019, it serves as a film production arm of Walt Dis ...

and

The Rank Organisation The Rank Organisation was a British entertainment conglomerate founded by industrialist J. Arthur Rank in April 1937. It quickly became the largest and most vertically integrated film company in the United Kingdom, owning production, distribut ...

are founded *

1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...

– '' Modern Times'', ''

Swing Time In music, the term ''swing'' has two main uses. Colloquially, it is used to describe the propulsive quality or "feel" of a rhythm, especially when the music prompts a visceral response such as foot-tapping or head-nodding (see pulse). This sens ...

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ''Mr. Deeds Goes to Town'' is a 1936 American comedy-drama romance film directed by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in her first featured role. Based on the 1935 short story "Opera Hat" by Clarence Budington Kelland, which ...

'', ''

Flash Gordon Flash Gordon is the protagonist of a space adventure comic strip created and originally drawn by Alex Raymond. First published January 7, 1934, the strip was inspired by, and created to compete with, the already established ''Buck Rogers'' adve ...

'', ''

My Man Godfrey ''My Man Godfrey'' is a 1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring William Powell and Carole Lombard, who had been briefly married years before appearing together in the film. The screenplay for ''My Man Godfre ...

'', ''

The Great Ziegfeld ''The Great Ziegfeld'' is a 1936 American musical drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and produced by Hunt Stromberg. It stars William Powell as the theatrical impresario Florenz "Flo" Ziegfeld Jr., Luise Rainer as Anna Held, and Myrna L ...

'', '' Come and Get It'' *

1937 Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Fe ...

– ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', ''The Life of Emile Zola'', ''La Grande Illusion'', ''Pépé le Moko'', ''The Prisoner of Zenda (1937 film), The Prisoner of Zenda'', ''Lost Horizon (1937 film), Lost Horizon'' * 1938 in film, 1938 – ''Bringing Up Baby'', ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'', ''Alexander Nevsky (film), Alexander Nevsky'', ''Jezebel (1938 film), Jezebel'', ''A Christmas Carol (1938 film), A Christmas Carol'', ''Boys Town (film), Boys Town'', ''Angels with Dirty Faces'' * 1939 in film, 1939 – ''Gone with the Wind (film), Gone with the Wind'', ''The Wizard of Oz (1939 film), The Wizard of Oz'', ''The Rules of the Game'', ''Sherlock Holmes (1939 film series), Sherlock Holmes'', ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939 film), The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', ''Of Mice and Men (1939 film), Of Mice and Men'', ''Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'', ''Stagecoach (1939 film), Stagecoach''

1940s

* 1940 in film, 1940 – ''His Girl Friday'', ''The Great Dictator'', ''Tom and Jerry'', Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, ''Rebecca (1940 film), Rebecca'', ''Pinocchio (1940 film), Pinocchio'', ''Fantasia (1940 film), Fantasia'', ''The Grapes of Wrath (film), The Grapes of Wrath'', ''The Philadelphia Story (film), The Philadelphia Story'', Road to..., ''Road to...'' series * 1941 in film, 1941 – ''Citizen Kane'', ''The Lady Eve'', ''Sergeant York'', ''Dumbo'', ''How Green Was My Valley (film), How Green Was My Valley'', ''Woody Woodpecker (film series), Woody Woodpecker'', ''The Maltese Falcon (1941 film), The Maltese Falcon'', ''The Wolf Man (1941 film), The Wolf Man'' * 1942 in film, 1942 – ''Casablanca (film), Casablanca'', ''Mrs. Miniver'', ''The Magnificent Ambersons (film), The Magnificent Ambersons'', ''To Be or Not to Be (1942 film), To Be or Not to Be'', ''Bambi'', ''Yankee Doodle Dandy'', ''Cat People (1942 film), Cat People'', ''Saludos Amigos'' * 1943 in film, 1943 – ''Ossessione'', ''The Song of Bernadette (film), The Song of Bernadette'', ''Heaven Can Wait (1943 film), Heaven Can Wait'', ''Phantom of the Opera (1943 film), Phantom of the Opera'', ''The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'', ''Lassie Come Home'', ''Shadow of a Doubt'', ''For Whom the Bell Tolls (film), For Whom the Bell Tolls'', ''The Ox-Bow Incident'' * 1944 in film, 1944 – ''Going My Way'', ''Double Indemnity'', ''Meet Me in St. Louis'', ''Ivan the Terrible (1944 film), Ivan the Terrible'', ''Laura (1944 film), Laura'', ''To Have and Have Not (film), To Have and Have Not'', ''Murder, My Sweet'', ''The Three Caballeros'', ''Gaslight (1944 film), Gaslight''; 1st Golden Globe Awards * 1945 in film, 1945 – ''Brief Encounter'', ''Children of Paradise'', ''Leave Her to Heaven'', ''The Lost Weekend (film), The Lost Weekend'', ''The Naughty Nineties'', ''Anchors Aweigh (film), Anchors Aweigh'', ''The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film), The Picture of Dorian Gray'', ''Rome, Open City'', ''Spellbound (1945 film), Spellbound'' * 1946 in film, 1946 – ''It's a Wonderful Life'', ''Notorious (1946 film), Notorious'', ''My Darling Clementine'', ''Great Expectations (1946 film), Great Expectations'', ''The Best Years of Our Lives'', ''Song of the South'', ''Make Mine Music'', ''Beauty and the Beast (1946 film), Beauty and the Beast'', ''The Big Sleep (1946 film), The Big Sleep'', ''Blue Skies (1946 film), Blue Skies''; 1946 Cannes Film Festival, First Cannes Film Festival * 1947 in film, 1947 – ''Miracle on 34th Street'', ''The Lady from Shanghai'', ''Fun and Fancy Free'', ''Monsieur Verdoux'', ''Out of the Past'', ''Odd Man Out'' * 1948 in film, 1948 – ''Bicycle Thieves'', ''The Red Shoes (1948 film), The Red Shoes'', ''Red River (1948 film), Red River'', ''Hamlet (1948 film), Hamlet'', ''Easter Parade (film), Easter Parade'', ''Melody Time'', ''The Paleface (1948 film), The Paleface'', ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre''; 1st British Academy Film Awards * 1949 in film, 1949 – ''The Third Man'', ''Late Spring'', ''All the King's Men (1949 film), All the King's Men'', ''White Heat'', ''Whisky Galore! (1949 film), Whisky Galore!'', ''Stray Dog (film), Stray Dog'', ''The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad'', ''The Heiress'', ''On the Town (film), On the Town''

1950s

* 1950 in film, 1950 – ''Rashomon'', ''Sunset Boulevard (film), Sunset Boulevard'', ''All About Eve'', ''Cinderella (1950 film), Cinderella'', ''Harvey (1950 film), Harvey'', ''Father of the Bride (1950 film), Father of the Bride'', ''Orpheus (film), Orphée'', ''Annie Get Your Gun (film), Annie Get Your Gun'', ''In a Lonely Place'', ''King Solomon's Mines (1950 film), King Solomon's Mines'', ''Born Yesterday (1950 film), Born Yesterday'' * 1951 in film, 1951 – ''A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film), A Streetcar Named Desire'', ''An American in Paris (film), An American in Paris'', ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'', ''Alice in Wonderland (1951 film), Alice in Wonderland'', ''Quo Vadis (1951 film), Quo Vadis'', ''The African Queen (film), The African Queen'', ''The Thing from Another World'', ''Ace in the Hole (1951 film), Ace in the Hole'', ''Strangers on a Train (film), Strangers on a Train'', ''A Place in the Sun (1951 film), A Place in the Sun'', ''Decision Before Dawn'' * 1952 in film, 1952 – ''Singin' in the Rain'', ''High Noon'', ''The Bad and the Beautiful'', ''The Quiet Man'', ''Limelight (1952 film), Limelight'', ''This Is Cinerama'', ''The Greatest Show on Earth (film), The Greatest Show on Earth''; first 3D film, 3D films * 1953 in film, 1953 – ''Peter Pan (1953 film), Peter Pan'', ''Tokyo Story'', ''From Here to Eternity'', ''Shane (film), Shane'', ''The War of the Worlds (1953 film), The War of the Worlds'', ''Ugetsu'', ''The Robe (1953 film), The Robe'', ''Trouble in Store'', ''Calamity Jane (1953 film), Calamity Jane'', ''The Earrings of Madame de...'', ''Salome (1953 film), Salome'', ''Roman Holiday'', ''The Band Wagon'', ''Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes''; first use of CinemaScope; British cinema advertisement company Pearl & Dean is founded. * 1954 in film, 1954 – ''Godzilla (1954 film), Godzilla'', ''Rear Window'', ''Seven Samurai'', ''Dial M for Murder'', ''White Christmas (film), White Christmas'', ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'', ''Creature from the Black Lagoon'', ''Sansho the Bailiff'', ''A Star Is Born (1954 film), A Star Is Born'', ''On the Waterfront'', ''La Strada'', ''Three Coins in the Fountain (film), Three Coins in the Fountain'', ''Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'' * 1955 in film, 1955 – ''Rebel Without a Cause'', ''The Night of the Hunter (film), The Night of the Hunter'', ''To Catch a Thief'', ''The Seven Year Itch'', ''Marty (film), Marty'', ''Ordet'', ''Pather Panchali'', ''All That Heaven Allows'', ''Smiles of a Summer Night'', ''Lady and the Tramp'', ''Oklahoma! (1955 film), Oklahoma!'', ''Mr. Arkadin'', ''The Court Jester'', ''Mister Roberts (1955 film), Mister Roberts'' * 1956 in film, 1956 – ''The Ten Commandments (1956 film), The Ten Commandments'', ''High Society (1956 film), High Society'', ''Carousel (film), Carousel'', ''The King and I (1956 film), The King and I'', ''Giant (1956 film), Giant'', ''The Searchers'', ''A Man Escaped'', ''Forbidden Planet'', ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers'', ''Night and Fog (1956 film), Night and Fog'', ''Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film), Around the World in 80 Days, Wakeful Eyes'' * 1957 in film, 1957 – ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'', ''12 Angry Men (1957 film), 12 Angry Men'', ''Sweet Smell of Success'', ''Old Yeller (film), Old Yeller'', ''The Seventh Seal'', ''Touch of Evil'', ''Jailhouse Rock (film), Jailhouse Rock'', ''Let's All Go to the Lobby'', ''Mother India'', ''The Snow Queen (1957 film), The Snow Queen'', ''Wild Strawberries (film), Wild Strawberries'', ''Paths of Glory'', ''Throne of Blood'', ''The Curse of Frankenstein, Back Again (film), Back Again'' * 1958 in film, 1958 – ''Vertigo (film), Vertigo'', ''Elevator to the Gallows, Ascenseur pour l'échafaud'', ''Gigi (1958 film), Gigi'', ''South Pacific (1958 film), South Pacific'', ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 film), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'', ''Carry On (franchise), Carry On'', ''Ashes and Diamonds (film), Ashes and Diamonds'', ''Jalsaghar'', ''The Fly (1958 film), The Fly'', ''The Blob'', ''Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Jamila, the Algerian'' * 1959 in film, 1959 – ''Ben-Hur (1959 film), Ben-Hur'', ''Some Like It Hot'', ''The 400 Blows'', ''Shake Hands with the Devil (1959 film), Shake Hands with the Devil'', ''North by Northwest'', ''Anatomy of a Murder'', ''Sleeping Beauty (1959 film), Sleeping Beauty'', ''Rio Bravo (film), Rio Bravo'', ''Pickpocket (film), Pickpocket'', ''Hiroshima mon amour'', ''Pillow Talk (film), Pillow Talk, Forbidden Women (1959 film), Forbidden Women, Among the Ruins, The Second Man (1959 film), The Second Man''

1960s

* 1960 in film, 1960 – ''Psycho (1960 film), Psycho'', ''Spartacus (film), Spartacus'', ''Breathless (1960 film), Breathless'', ''The Apartment'', ''Exodus (1960 film), Exodus'', ''The Magnificent Seven'', ''La Dolce Vita'', ''L'Avventura'', ''The Time Machine (1960 film), The Time Machine, Money and Women'' * 1961 in film, 1961 – ''West Side Story (1961 film), West Side Story'', ''Breakfast at Tiffany's (film), Breakfast at Tiffany's'', ''Divorce, Italian Style'', ''Judgment at Nuremberg'', ''Yojimbo (film), Yojimbo'', ''Last Year at Marienbad'', ''Rendezvous with the Past'', ''A Storm of Love'', ''One Hundred and One Dalmatians'', * 1962 in film, 1962 – ''Lawrence of Arabia (film), Lawrence of Arabia'', ''To Kill a Mockingbird (film), To Kill a Mockingbird'', ''The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'', ''Dr. No (film), Dr. No'', ''What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (film), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?'', ''Ivan's Childhood'', ''The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film), The Manchurian Candidate'', ''Lolita (1962 film), Lolita'', ''La Jetée'', ''Sundays and Cybele, Appointment at the Tower, The Cursed Palace'', ''Gay Purr-ee'' * 1963 in film, 1963 – ''The Birds (film), The Birds'', ''The Great Escape (film), The Great Escape'', ''The Pink Panther (1963 film), The Pink Panther'', ''Tom Jones (1963 film), Tom Jones'', ''Hud (1963 film), Hud'', ''Cleopatra (1963 film), Cleopatra'', ''Charade (1963 film), Charade'', ''8½'', ''Not on Your Life'', ''Lilies of the Field (1963 film), Lilies in the Field'', ''The Haunting (1963 film), The Haunting'', ''How the West Was Won (film), How the West Was Won'', ''The Nutty Professor (1963 film), The Nutty Professor'', ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'', ''The Sword in the Stone (1963 film), The Sword in the Stone'', ''Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow'', ''The Leopard (1963 film), The Leopard'', ''High and Low (1963 film), High and Low'', ''Irma la Douce, Saladin the Victorious'' * 1964 in film, 1964 – ''Mary Poppins (film), Mary Poppins'', ''A Hard Day's Night (film), A Hard Day's Night'', ''Dr. Strangelove'', ''A Fistful of Dollars'', ''Goldfinger (film), Goldfinger'', ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'', ''My Fair Lady (film), My Fair Lady'', ''Soft Hands (film), Soft Hands'' * 1965 in film, 1965 – ''The Sound of Music (film), The Sound of Music'', ''Doctor Zhivago (film), Doctor Zhivago'', ''The Great Race'', ''Cat Ballou'', ''For a Few Dollars More'', ''Aghla Min Hayati, Dearer than My Life'', ''Repulsion (film), Repulsion'' * 1966 in film, 1966 – ''Persona (1966 film), Persona'', ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'', ''Blowup'', ''Fantastic Voyage'', ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'', ''Au Hasard Balthazar'', ''The Battle of Algiers'', ''A Man for All Seasons (1966 film), A Man for All Seasons'', ''The Wild Angels'', ''Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree#Winnie the Pooh featurettes, Winnie the Pooh'', ''Alfie (1966 film), Alfie'', ''Born Free (film), Born Free, My Wife, the Director General, A Wife from Paris'', ''Andrei Rublev (film), Andrei Rublev'' * 1967 in film, 1967 – ''Bonnie and Clyde (film), Bonnie and Clyde'', ''The Graduate'', ''Playtime'', ''Belle de jour (film), Belle de jour'', ''Cool Hand Luke'', ''In the Heat of the Night (film), In the Heat of the Night'', ''The Jungle Book (1967 film), The Jungle Book'', ''Dont Look Back'', ''The Dirty Dozen'', ''The Producers (1967 film), The Producers'', ''Doctor Dolittle (1967 film), Doctor Dolittle'', ''Thoroughly Modern Millie, My Wife's Dignity'' * 1968 in film, 1968 – ''2001: A Space Odyssey (film), 2001: A Space Odyssey'', ''Rosemary's Baby (film), Rosemary's Baby'', ''Planet of the Apes (1968 film), Planet of the Apes'', ''Once Upon a Time in the West'', ''Night of the Living Dead'', ''Stolen Kisses'', ''Yellow Submarine (film), Yellow Submarine'', ''Oliver! (film), Oliver!'', ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'', ''The Love Bug'', ''Bullitt'', ''Funny Girl (film), Funny Girl'', ''Yours, Mine and Ours (1968 film), Yours, Mine and Ours, My Wife's Goblin'' * 1969 in film, 1969 – ''Midnight Cowboy'', ''True Grit (1969 film), True Grit'', ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'', ''Easy Rider'', ''The Wild Bunch'', ''Z (1969 film), Z'', ''The Color of Pomegranates'', ''The Italian Job (1969 film), The Italian Job'', ''A Boy Named Charlie Brown, Good Morning, My Dear Wife''

1970s

* 1970 in film, 1970 – ''Love Story (1970 film), Love Story'', ''The Conformist (1970 film), The Conformist'', ''Performance (film), Performance'', ''Patton (film), Patton'', ''M*A*S*H (film), M*A*S*H'', ''Woodstock (film), Woodstock'', ''The Aristocats'', ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'', ''My Husband's Wife'', ''Five Easy Pieces'', ''Airport (1970 film), Airport'', ''Let It Be (1970 film), Let It Be''; first IMAX films * 1971 in film, 1971 – ''The French Connection (film), The French Connection'', ''A Clockwork Orange (film), A Clockwork Orange'', ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'', ''Dirty Harry'', ''Get Carter'', ''The Last Picture Show'', ''Fiddler on the Roof (film), Fiddler on the Roof'', ''Harold and Maude'', ''Straw Dogs (1971 film), Straw Dogs'', ''Duel (1971 film), Duel'', ''Shaft (1971 film), Shaft, The Killers (1971 film), The Killers'' * 1972 in film, 1972 – ''The Godfather'', ''Aguirre, the Wrath of God'', ''The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film), The Poseidon Adventure'', ''Cries and Whispers'', ''Solaris (1972 film), Solaris'', ''Deep Throat (film), Deep Throat'', ''Pink Flamingos'', ''Snoopy Come Home'', ''Fritz the Cat (film), Fritz the Cat'', ''What's Up, Doc? (1972 film), What's Up, Doc?'', ''Last Tango in Paris'', ''Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie, Featureless Men, One day, the Nile'' * 1973 in film, 1973 – ''The Exorcist (film), The Exorcist'', ''Enter the Dragon'', ''Amarcord'', ''The Sting'', ''American Graffiti'', ''Paper Moon (film), Paper Moon'', ''Mean Streets'', ''The Wicker Man'', ''Belladonna of Sadness'', ''Fantastic Planet'', ''Robin Hood (1973 film), Robin Hood'', ''Charlotte's Web (1973 film), Charlotte's Web'', ''Distant Thunder (1973 film), Distant Thunder'', ''Day for Night (film), Day for Night'', ''The Other Man (1973 film), The Other Man'', ''Papillon (1973 film), Papillon'', ''Serpico'', ''Badlands (film), Badlands'', ''High Plains Drifter'' * 1974 in film, 1974 – ''A Woman Under the Influence'', ''The Godfather Part II'', ''Chinatown (1974 film), Chinatown'', ''Ali: Fear Eats the Soul'', ''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'', ''Phantom of the Paradise'', ''Young Frankenstein'', ''Blazing Saddles'', ''The Conversation'', ''That's Entertainment!'', ''Black Christmas (1974 film), Black Christmas'', ''The Towering Inferno, In Summer We Must Love'' * 1975 in film, 1975 – ''Jaws (film), Jaws'', ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'', ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show'', ''The Passenger (1975 film), The Passenger'', ''The Guilty (1975 film), The Guilty'', ''Karnak (film), Karnak'', ''Dog Day Afternoon'', ''Nashville (film), Nashville'', ''Barry Lyndon'', ''Mirror (1975 film), Mirror'', ''Monty Python and the Holy Grail'', ''Dersu Uzala (1975 film), Dersu Uzala'', ''Sholay''; videocassette recorders appear on mass markets. * 1976 in film, 1976 – ''Taxi Driver'', ''Rocky'', ''Network (1976 film), Network'', ''Carrie (1976 film), Carrie'', ''All the President's Men (film), All the President's Men'', ''In the Realm of the Senses'', ''1900 (film), 1900'', ''The Omen'', ''Logan's Run (film), Logan's Run'', ''Bugsy Malone'', ''The Outlaw Josey Wales'', ''The Smurfs and the Magic Flute'' * 1977 in film, 1977 – ''Star Wars (film), Star Wars'', ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'', ''The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh'', ''Annie Hall'', ''Wizards (film), Wizards'', ''Saturday Night Fever'', ''Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure'', ''A Bridge Too Far (film), A Bridge Too Far'', ''The Rescuers'', ''Providence (1977 film), Providence'', ''House (1977 film), House'', ''Suspiria'', ''Eraserhead'' * 1978 in film, 1978 – ''Superman (1978 film), Superman'', ''Grease (film), Grease'', ''Halloween (1978 film), Halloween'', ''The Deer Hunter'', ''Dawn of the Dead (1978 film), Dawn of the Dead'', ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film), Invasion of the Body Snatchers'', ''Midnight Express (film), Midnight Express'', ''Watership Down (film), Watership Down'', ''The Lord of the Rings (1978 film), The Lord of the Rings'', ''Days of Heaven'', ''Up in Smoke'', ''Animal House, National Lampoon's Animal House'' * 1979 in film, 1979 – ''Alien (film), Alien'', ''Apocalypse Now'', ''Mad Max (film), Mad Max'', ''Kramer vs. Kramer'', ''Monty Python's Life of Brian'', ''The Castle of Cagliostro'', ''Star Trek: The Motion Picture'', ''The Muppet Movie'', ''Stalker (1979 film), Stalker'', ''Manhattan (1979 film), Manhattan'', ''All That Jazz (film), All That Jazz''

1980s

* 1980 in film, 1980 – ''The Shining (film), The Shining'', ''Raging Bull'', ''The Empire Strikes Back'', ''Airplane!'', ''The Blues Brothers (film), The Blues Brothers'', ''Caddyshack'', ''Ordinary People'', ''Friday the 13th (1980 film), Friday the 13th'', ''Fame (1980 film), Fame'', ''Kagemusha'', ''The Elephant Man (film), The Elephant Man'', ''9 to 5 (film), 9 to 5'', ''Private Benjamin (1980 film), Private Benjamin'', ''Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears'', ''The Gods Must Be Crazy'' * 1981 in film, 1981 – ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' (first ''Indiana Jones'' film), ''Chariots of Fire'', ''Reds (film), Reds'', ''The Evil Dead'', ''On Golden Pond (1981 film), On Golden Pond'', ''Pennies from Heaven (1981 film), Pennies from Heaven'', ''The Fox and the Hound'', ''Das Boot'', ''American Pop'', ''Blow Out'', ''Heavy Metal (film), Heavy Metal'', ''Arthur (1981 film), Arthur'', ''Scanners'', ''Time Bandits'', ''Clash of the Titans (1981 film), Clash of the Titans'', ''An American Werewolf in London'', ''Escape from New York, I'm Not Lying But I'm Beautifying'' * 1982 in film, 1982 – ''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'', ''Poltergeist (1982 film), Poltergeist'', ''Blade Runner'', ''Tron'', ''Sophie's Choice (film), Sophie's Choice'', ''Tootsie'', ''Fanny and Alexander'', ''Fitzcarraldo'', ''Gandhi (film), Gandhi'', ''The Dark Crystal'', ''The Secret of NIMH'', ''Heidi's Song'', ''The Last Unicorn (film), The Last Unicorn'', ''Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan'', ''First Blood'', ''Annie (1982 film), Annie'', ''48 Hrs.'', ''Fast Times at Ridgemont High'', ''The Thing (1982 film), The Thing'', ''An Officer and a Gentleman, The Peacock (1982 film), The Peacock'', ''The Plague Dogs (film), The Plague Dogs'' * 1983 in film, 1983 – ''Michael Jackson's Thriller (music video), Michael Jackson's Thriller'', ''Return of the Jedi'', ''Terms of Endearment'', ''Risky Business'', ''Sans Soleil'', ''L'Argent (1983 film), L'Argent'', ''The King of Comedy (film), The King of Comedy'', ''The Right Stuff (film), The Right Stuff'', ''Strange Brew'', ''Monty Python's The Meaning of Life'', ''National Lampoon's Vacation'', ''Scarface (1983 film), Scarface'', ''Nostalghia'', ''Flashdance'', ''Trading Places'', ''Sleepaway Camp'', ''A Christmas Story''; THX sound system is developed. * 1984 in film, 1984 – ''Ghostbusters'', ''This Is Spinal Tap'', ''Amadeus (film), Amadeus'', ''The Terminator'', ''Gremlins'', ''Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film), Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind'', ''Romancing the Stone'', ''The Karate Kid'', ''Once Upon a Time in America'', ''Paris, Texas (film), Paris, Texas'', ''Footloose (1984 film), Footloose'', ''Splash (film), Splash'', ''Beverly Hills Cop'', ''A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984 film), A Nightmare on Elm Street'', ''Sixteen Candles'', ''The River (1984 film), The River'', ''The NeverEnding Story (film), The NeverEnding Story'' * 1985 in film, 1985 – ''Back to the Future'', ''The Breakfast Club'', ''Out of Africa (film), Out of Africa'', ''The Color Purple (film), The Color Purple'', ''Brazil (1985 film), Brazil'', ''Shoah (film), Shoah'', ''Ran (film), Ran'', ''Come and See'', ''The Goonies'', ''The Care Bears Movie'', ''Tony de Peltrie'', ''The Black Cauldron (film), The Black Cauldron'', ''Pee-wee's Big Adventure'', ''Fright Night (1985 film), Fright Night'', ''A Room with a View (1985 film), A Room with a View'' * 1986 in film, 1986 – ''Top Gun'', ''Aliens (film), Aliens'', ''Blue Velvet (film), Blue Velvet'', ''The Sacrifice (1986 film), The Sacrifice'', ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'', ''Platoon (film), Platoon'', ''Hannah and Her Sisters'', ''Stand By Me (film), Stand By Me'', ''An American Tail'', ''Castle in the Sky'', ''The Adventures of Milo and Otis'', ''The Transformers: The Movie'', ''Luxo Jr.'', ''Crocodile Dundee'', ''Three Amigos'', ''Labyrinth (1986 film), Labyrinth'', ''Flight of the Navigator'', ''Big Trouble in Little China'', ''Short Circuit (1986 film), Short Circuit'', ''GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords'', ''The Fly (1986 film), The Fly'', ''Little Shop of Horrors (1986 film), Little Shop of Horrors'', ''The Great Mouse Detective'' * 1987 in film, 1987 – ''Full Metal Jacket'', ''The Princess Bride (film), The Princess Bride'', ''RoboCop'', ''Fatal Attraction'', ''Dirty Dancing'', ''The Chipmunk Adventure'', ''The Brave Little Toaster'', ''Wings of Desire'', ''The Dead (1987 film), The Dead'', ''Evil Dead II'', ''The Last Emperor'', ''The Untouchables (film), The Untouchables'', ''Raising Arizona'', ''Wall Street (1987 film), Wall Street'', ''The Lost Boys'', ''Hellraiser'', ''Predator (1987 film), Predator'', ''Moonstruck'', ''Hope and Glory (film), Hope and Glory'', ''Planes, Trains and Automobiles'', ''Empire of the Sun (film), Empire of the Sun'', ''Lethal Weapon'', ''Mannequin (1987 film), Mannnequin'', ''Innerspace'', ''Spaceballs'', ''Good Morning, Vietnam'', ''Broadcast News (film), Broadcast News'', ''Babette's Feast''. ''Au revoir les enfants'' * 1988 in film, 1988 – ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'', ''Rain Man'', ''My Neighbor Totoro'', ''Die Hard'', ''Beetlejuice'', ''Akira (1988 film), Akira'', ''Cinema Paradiso'', ''Child's Play (1988 film), Child's Play'', ''The Accused (1988 film), The Accused'', ''Big (1988 film), Big'', ''Grave of the Fireflies'', ''Moonwalker'', ''Oliver & Company'', ''The Last Temptation of Christ (film), The Last Temptation of Christ'', ''Dead Ringers (1988 film), Dead Ringers'', ''Willow (film), Willow'', ''Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (film), Elvira: Mistress of the Dark'', ''Heathers'', ''The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!'', ''The Big Blue'', ''The Bear (1988 film), The Bear, Monsieur le Directeur'' * 1989 in film, 1989 – ''Batman (1989 film), Batman'', ''Do the Right Thing'', ''Driving Miss Daisy'', ''Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure'', ''A Fish Called Wanda'', ''The Abyss'', ''When Harry Met Sally...'', ''The Little Mermaid (1989 film), The Little Mermaid'' (first installment of the Disney Renaissance), ''Kiki's Delivery Service'', ''Say Anything...'', ''Crimes and Misdemeanors'', ''My Left Foot'', ''Dead Poets Society'', ''Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!'', ''Field of Dreams (film), Field of Dreams'', ''Born on the Fourth of July (film), Born on the Fourth of July'', ''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids''; first publication of ''Empire (film magazine), Empire''

1990s

* 1990 in film, 1990 – ''Home Alone'', ''Ghost (1990 film), Ghost'', ''Goodfellas'', ''Close-Up (1990 film), Close-Up'', ''Dances with Wolves'', ''Edward Scissorhands'', ''Wild at Heart (film), Wild at Heart'', ''Total Recall (1990 film), Total Recall'', ''Misery (film), Misery'', ''Pretty Woman'', Journey of Hope (film), ''Journey of Hope'', ''The Hunt for Red October (film), The Hunt for Red October'', ''Arachnophobia (film), Arachnophobia'', ''The Rescuers Down Under'' * 1991 in film, 1991 – ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'', ''The Silence of the Lambs (film), The Silence of the Lambs'', ''Beauty and the Beast (1991 film), Beauty and the Beast'', ''JFK (film), JFK'', ''Thelma & Louise'', ''A Brighter Summer Day'', ''Barton Fink'', ''The Addams Family (1991 film), The Addams Family'', ''My Girl (film), My Girl'', ''Point Break (1991 film), Point Break'', ''Boyz n the Hood'' * 1992 in film, 1992 – ''Unforgiven'', ''Reservoir Dogs'', ''Basic Instinct'', ''Aladdin (1992 Disney film), Aladdin'', ''A Few Good Men'', ''The Player (1992 film), The Player'', ''The Crying Game'', ''Wayne's World (film), Wayne's World'', ''Porco Rosso'', ''FernGully: The Last Rainforest'', ''Indochine (film), Indochine'', ''Candyman (1992 film), Candyman'', ''Death Becomes Her'', ''The Bodyguard (1992 film), The Bodyguard'', ''A League of Their Own'' * 1993 in film, 1993 – ''Schindler's List'', ''Jurassic Park (film), Jurassic Park'', ''The Piano'', ''Groundhog Day (film), Groundhog Day'', ''In the Name of the Father (film), In the Name of the Father'', ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'', ''Philadelphia (film), Philadelphia'', Three Colours trilogy, ''Three Colours'' trilogy, ''Free Willy'', ''Hocus Pocus (1993 film), Hocus Pocus'', ''Cliffhanger (film), Cliffhanger'', ''Ninja Scroll'', ''Batman: Mask of the Phantasm'', ''Sleepless in Seattle'', ''True Romance'', ''Dazed and Confused (film), Dazed and Confused'', ''Mrs. Doubtfire'' * 1994 in film, 1994 – ''The Lion King'', ''Pulp Fiction'', ''Forrest Gump'', ''The Shawshank Redemption'', ''Legends of the Fall'', ''Clerks (film), Clerks'', ''Sátántangó'', ''The Swan Princess'', ''Interview with the Vampire (film), Interview with the Vampire'', ''Speed (1994 film), Speed'', ''True Lies'', ''The Crow (1994 film), The Crow'', ''Maverick (film), Maverick'', ''Léon: The Professional'', ''Il Postino: The Postman'', ''Three Colours: Red'', ''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'', ''The Mask (1994 film), The Mask'', ''Dumb and Dumber'', ''Through the Olive Trees'', ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' * 1995 in film, 1995 – ''Toy Story'', ''Braveheart'', ''Seven (1995 film), Se7en'', ''Apollo 13 (film), Apollo 13'', ''Babe (film), Babe'', ''The Usual Suspects'', ''Heat (1995 film), Heat'', ''Bad Boys (1995 film) , Bad Boys'', ''12 Monkeys'', ''Clueless (film), Clueless'', ''Mortal Kombat (1995 film), Mortal Kombat'', ''Casper (film), Casper'', ''The City of Lost Children'', ''Ghost in the Shell (1995 film), Ghost in the Shell'', ''Balto (film), Balto'', ''Jumanji'', ''Leaving Las Vegas'', ''Casino (1995 film), Casino'', ''La Haine'', Before trilogy, ''Before'' trilogy, ''Sense and Sensibility (film), Sense and Sensibility'', ''Pocahontas (1995 film), Pocahontas'', first DVDs released. * 1996 in film, 1996 – ''Independence Day (1996 film), Independence Day'', ''Fargo (1996 film), Fargo'', ''Space Jam'', ''Trainspotting (film), Trainspotting'', ''Jerry Maguire'', ''Mission: Impossible (film), Mission: Impossible'', ''Scream (1996 film), Scream'', ''Mars Attacks!'', ''Harriet the Spy (film), Harriet the Spy'', ''That Thing You Do!'', ''Flirting with Disaster (film), Flirting with Disaster'', ''The English Patient (film), The English Patient'', ''Shall We Dance? (1996 film), Shall We Dance?'', ''Fly Away Home'', ''Shine (film), Shine'', ''Matilda (1996 film), Matilda'', ''Beavis and Butt-Head Do America'', ''James and the Giant Peach (film), James and the Giant Peach'' * 1997 in film, 1997 – ''Titanic (1997 film), Titanic'', ''Men in Black (1997 film), Men in Black'', ''Gattaca'', ''Good Will Hunting'', ''Boogie Nights'', ''Jackie Brown'', ''Austin Powers'', ''L.A. Confidential (film), L.A. Confidential'', Funny Games (1997 film), ''Funny Games'', ''Taste of Cherry'', ''Hana-bi'', ''The Full Monty'', ''Princess Mononoke'', ''Anastasia (1997 film), Anastasia'', ''Life is Beautiful'', ''The Fifth Element'', ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'', ''Contact (1997 American film), Contact'', ''Perfect Blue'', ''Cats Don't Dance'' * 1998 in film, 1998 – ''Saving Private Ryan'', ''American History X'', ''Shakespeare in Love'', ''The Big Lebowski'', ''Buffalo '66'', ''Little Voice (film), Little Voice'', ''The Thin Red Line (1998 film), The Thin Red Line'', ''Pleasantville (film), Pleasantville'', ''Blade (1998 film), Blade'', ''The Prince of Egypt'', ''Antz'', ''Pokémon: The First Movie'', ''Bulworth'', ''The Mask of Zorro'', ''The Truman Show'', ''The Wedding Singer'', ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'', ''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'', ''Rush Hour (1998 film), Rush Hour'', ''There's Something About Mary'', ''Run Lola Run'', ''Ring (film), Ring'', ''Waking Ned'' * 1999 in film, 1999 – ''

'', ''American Beauty (1999 film), American Beauty'', ''Girl, Interrupted (film), Girl, Interrupted'', ''The Iron Giant'', ''South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut'', ''The Sixth Sense'', ''Fight Club'', ''Magnolia (film), Magnolia'', ''Notting Hill (film), Notting Hill'', ''Stuart Little (film), Stuart Little'', ''The Blair Witch Project'', ''Eyes Wide Shut'', ''Beau Travail'', ''My Neighbors the Yamadas'', ''All About My Mother'', ''American Pie (film), American Pie'', ''The Green Mile (film), The Green Mile'', ''Election (1999 film), Election'', ''Boys Don't Cry (1999 film), Boys Don't Cry'', ''Office Space'', ''Galaxy Quest'', ''Being John Malkovich''

2000s

* 2000 in film, 2000 – ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'', ''In the Mood for Love'', ''Gladiator (2000 film), Gladiator'', ''Next Friday'', ''Titan A.E.'', ''Billy Elliot'', ''Cast Away'', ''Platform (2000 film), Platform'', ''Memento (film), Memento'', ''Chicken Run'', ''Erin Brockovich (film), Erin Brockovich'', ''Almost Famous'', ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'', ''High Fidelity (film), High Fidelity'', ''Meet the Parents'', ''Battle Royale (film), Battle Royale'', ''X-Men (film), X-Men'', ''The Emperor's New Groove'', ''Final Destination (film), Final Destination'', ''Unbreakable (film), Unbreakable'', ''American Psycho (film), American Psycho'', ''Before Night Falls (film), Before Night Falls'', ''The Road to El Dorado'', ''The Patriot (2000 film), The Patriot'', ''Requiem for a Dream''; first digital cinema in Europe by Phillippe Binant. * 2001 in film, 2001 – ''Shrek'', ''The Lord of the Rings (film series), The Lord of the Rings'', ''Harry Potter (film series), Harry Potter'', ''A Beautiful Mind (film), A Beautiful Mind'', ''The Royal Tenenbaums'', ''Spirited Away (film), Spirited Away'', ''The Fast and the Furious (2001 film), The Fast & the Furious'', ''Moulin Rouge!'', ''Mulholland Drive (film), Mulholland Drive'', ''Donnie Darko'', ''Zoolander'', ''Training Day'', ''Black Hawk Down (film), Black Hawk Down'', ''Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within'', ''Waking Life'', ''Monster's Ball'', ''Ocean's Eleven'', ''Amélie'', ''Bridget Jones's Diary (film), Bridget Jones's Diary'', ''Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius'', ''Monsters, Inc.'' * 2002 in film, 2002 – ''Spider-Man (2002 film), Spider-Man'', ''City of God (2002 film), City of God'', ''Talk to Her'', ''Chicago (2002 film), Chicago'', ''Ice Age (2002 film), Ice Age'', ''8 Mile (film), 8 Mile'', ''Minority Report (film), Minority Report'', ''The Pianist (2002 film), The Pianist'', ''Russian Ark'', ''The Hours (film), The Hours'', ''The Quiet American (2002 film), The Quiet American'', ''Gangs of New York'', ''Bowling for Columbine'', ''About a Boy (film), About a Boy'', ''Frida, Frieda'', ''28 Days Later'', ''Bend It Like Beckham'', ''My Big Fat Greek Wedding'', ''Punch-Drunk Love'', ''Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron'', ''The Cat Returns'', ''The Ring (2002 film), The Ring'', ''Better Luck Tomorrow'', ''Catch Me If You Can'', ''The Bourne Identity (2002 film), The Bourne Identity'', ''Adaptation (film), Adaptation'', ''Lilo & Stitch'', ''Treasure Planet'' * 2003 in film, 2003 – ''Oldboy (2003 film), Oldboy'', ''Kill Bill: Volume 1, Kill Bill'', ''Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl'', ''Finding Nemo'', ''Love Actually'', ''Elf (film), Elf'', ''The Room'', ''Lost in Translation (film), Lost in Translation'', ''Elephant (2003 film), Elephant'', ''A Tale of Two Sisters'', ''Good Bye Lenin!'', ''Monster (2003 film), Monster'', ''Big Fish (film), Big Fish'', ''Cold Mountain (film), Cold Mountain'', ''School of Rock'', ''Once Upon a Time in Mexico'', ''Mystic River (film), Mystic River'' * 2004 in film, 2004 – ''Dodgeball (film), Dodgeball'', ''Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'', ''Million Dollar Baby'', ''The Incredibles'', ''The Passion of the Christ'', ''Sideways'', ''Hotel Rwanda'', ''Downfall (2004 film), Downfall'', ''Friday Night Lights (film), Friday Night Lights'', ''The Aviator (2004 film), The Aviator'', ''Howl's Moving Castle (film), Howl's Moving Castle'', ''Ray (film), Ray'', ''Hellboy (2004 film), Hellboy'', ''Saw (2004 film), Saw'', ''Shaun of the Dead'', ''Team America: World Police'', ''Mean Girls'', ''Napoleon Dynamite'', ''A Series of Unfortunate Events (film), Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events'', ''Finding Neverland (film), Finding Neverland'', ''Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow'', ''The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'', ''Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy''; Anti-piracy campaign "Piracy. It's a crime", which features the first line You Wouldn't Steal a Car, first advertised. * 2005 in film, 2005 – ''Caché (film), Caché'', ''The New World (2005 film), The New World'', ''Brokeback Mountain'', ''Batman Begins'', ''The Death of Mr. Lazarescu'', ''A History of Violence'', ''Pride & Prejudice (2005 film), Pride & Prejudice'', ''Walk the Line'', ''March of the Penguins'', ''Madagascar (2005 film), Madagascar'', ''Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'', ''Corpse Bride'', ''Munich (2005 film), Munich'', ''Match Point'', ''Serenity (2005 film), Serenity'', ''Robots (2005 film), Robots'', ''Sin City (film), Sin City'', ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'', ''Good Night, and Good Luck'', ''V for Vendetta (film), V for Vendetta'', ''9 (2005 film), 9'', ''The 40 Year Old Virgin'', ''Capote (film), Capote'', ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', ''Crash (2005 film), Crash'' * 2006 in film, 2006 – ''300 (film), 300'', ''Pan's Labyrinth'', ''Happy Feet'', ''Children of Men'', ''The Departed'', ''Dreamgirls (film), Dreamgirls'', ''The Lives of Others'', ''The Prestige (film), The Prestige'', ''Paprika (2006 film), Paprika'', ''Apocalypto'', ''The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006 film), The Girl Who Leapt Through Time'', ''The Queen (2006 film), The Queen'', ''Borat'', ''Little Miss Sunshine (film), Little Miss Sunshine'', ''The Pursuit of Happyness'', ''The Devil Wears Prada (film), The Devil Wears Prada'', ''Casino Royale (2006 film), Casino Royale'', ''An Incovenient Truth'', ''Over the Hedge (film), Over the Hedge'', ''Flushed Away'', ''The Last King of Scotland (film), The Last King of Scotland'', ''Snakes on a Plane'', ''Babel (film), Babel'', ''United 93 (film), United 93''; First Blu-rays released * 2007 in film, 2007 – ''There Will Be Blood'', ''No Country for Old Men (film), No Country for Old Men'', ''The Simpsons Movie'', ''Enchanted (film), Enchanted'', ''I Am Legend (film), I Am Legend'', ''Persepolis (film), Persepolis'', ''Into the Wild (film), Into the Wild'', ''Juno (film), Juno'', ''Atonement (2007 film), Atonement'', ''Superbad (film), Superbad'', ''Hot Fuzz'', ''Grindhouse (film), Grindhouse'', ''Trick 'r Treat'', ''Once (film), Once'', ''Transformers (2007 film), Transformers'', ''Bee Movie'', ''Ratatouille (film), Ratatouille'', ''Surf's Up (film), Surf's Up'', ''La Vie En Rose (film), La Vie En Rose'', ''Knocked Up'', ''Son of Rambow'', ''Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'', ''4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days'' * 2008 in film, 2008 – ''Slumdog Millionaire'', ''The Dark Knight (film), The Dark Knight'', ''Iron Man (2008 film), Iron Man'', ''Mamma Mia! (film), Mamma Mia!'', ''Gran Torino'', ''The Wrestler (2008 film), The Wrestler'', ''Milk (2008 American film), Milk'', ''Vicky Cristina Barcelona'', ''Frost/Nixon (film), Frost/Nixon'', ''Cloverfield'', ''Ip Man (film series), Ip Man'', ''Tropic Thunder'', ''Kung Fu Panda (film), Kung Fu Panda'', ''Taken (film), Taken'', ''Ponyo'', ''Synecdoche, New York'', ''Waltz with Bashir'', ''Marley & Me (film), Marley & Me'', ''In Bruges'', ''Man on Wire'', ''Revolutionary Road (film), Revolutionary Road'', ''The Reader (2008 film), The Reader'', ''The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'', ''Hancock (film), Hancock'', ''WALL-E'' * 2009 in film, 2009 – ''Avatar (2009 film), Avatar'', ''Coraline (film), Coraline'', ''Inglourious Basterds'', ''500 Days of Summer, 500 Days Of Summer'', ''Fantastic Mr. Fox (film), Fantastic Mr. Fox'', ''A Serious Man'', ''The Hangover'', ''District 9'', ''Up in the Air (2009 film), Up In The Air'', ''The Hurt Locker'', Precious (film), Precious, ''The Princess and the Frog'', The Blind Side (film), The Blind Side, ''Star Trek (film), Star Trek'', An Education, ''In the Loop'', ''Zombieland'', ''Crazy Heart'', ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'', The Lovely Bones (film), ''The Lovely Bones'', ''Up (2009 film), Up, Moon (2009 film), Moon''

2010s

* 2010 in film, 2010 – ''The King's Speech'', ''The Social Network'', ''True Grit (2010 film), True Grit'', ''How to Train Your Dragon (film), How to Train Your Dragon'', ''Black Swan (film), Black Swan'', ''Winter's Bone'', ''127 Hours'', ''Scott Pilgrim vs. the World'', ''The Fighter'', ''Kick-Ass (film), Kick-Ass'', ''The Kids Are All Right (film), The Kids Are All Right'', ''Blue Valentine (film), Blue Valentine'', ''Arrietty'', ''Inception'', ''Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives'', ''Tangled'', ''Megamind'' * 2011 in film, 2011 – ''The Artist (film), The Artist'', ''Bridesmaids (2011 film), Bridesmaids'', ''Rango (2011 film), Rango'', ''The Adventures of Tintin (film), The Adventures of Tintin'', ''Hugo (film), Hugo'', ''Drive (2011 film), Drive'', ''The Intouchables'', ''A Separation'', ''The Tree of Life (film), The Tree of Life'', ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'', ''Midnight in Paris'', ''Arthur Christmas'', ''War Horse (film), War Horse'', ''Moneyball (film), Moneyball'', ''Crazy, Stupid, Love'', ''Cowboys & Aliens'', ''Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'', ''The Help (film), The Help'', ''The Cabin in the Woods'', ''Rise of the Planet of the Apes'', ''From Up on Poppy Hill'' * 2012 in film, 2012 – ''Life of Pi (film), Life of Pi'', ''Les Misérables (2012 film), Les Misérables'', ''Hotel Transylvania (film), Hotel Transylvania'', ''Argo (2012 film), Argo'', ''The Dark Knight Rises'', ''Lincoln (film), Lincoln'', ''Django Unchained'', ''Ted (film), Ted'', ''Silver Linings Playbook'', ''The Hunger Games (film), The Hunger Games'', ''Pitch Perfect'', ''21 Jump Street (film), 21 Jump Street'', ''Magic Mike'', ''Looper (film), Looper'', ''The Master (2012 film), The Master'', ''Beasts of the Southern Wild'', ''Frankenweenie (2012 film), Frankenweenie'', ''Ernest & Celestine'', ''Zero Dark Thirty'', ''Iron Sky'' * 2013 in film, 2013 – ''The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film), The Wolf of Wall Street'', ''Gravity (2013 film), Gravity'', ''Frozen (2013 film), Frozen'', ''12 Years a Slave (film), 12 Years a Slave'', ''Bhaag Milkha Bhaag'', ''The Great Beauty'', ''Rush (2013 film), Rush'', ''American Hustle'', ''Man of Steel (film), Man of Steel'', ''Dallas Buyers Club'', ''Inside Llewyn Davis'', ''Her (film), Her'', ''The Wind Rises'', ''The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (film), The Tale of the Princess Kaguya'', ''The Conjuring'', ''Nebraska (film), Nebraska'', ''Pacific Rim (film), Pacific Rim'', ''Philomena (film), Philomena'', ''The World's End (film), The World's End'', ''The Croods'', ''Blue Jasmine'', ''Blue is the Warmest Colour'', ''The Best Man Holiday'', ''Prisoners (2013 film), Prisoners'' * 2014 in film, 2014 – ''Interstellar (film), Interstellar'', ''Boyhood (2014 film), Boyhood'', ''Paddington (film), Paddington'', ''The Grand Budapest Hotel'', ''Birdman (film), Birdman'', ''The Maze Runner (film), The Maze Runner'', ''The Fault in Our Stars (film), The Fault in Our Stars'', ''Whiplash (2014 film), Whiplash'', ''Kingsman: The Secret Service'', ''The Babadook'', ''American Sniper'', ''Ex Machina (film), Ex Machina'', ''Selma (film), Selma'', ''Edge of Tomorrow'', ''John Wick (film), John Wick'', ''Gone Girl (film), Gone Girl'', ''Frank (film), Frank'', ''Foxcatcher'', ''Nightcrawler (film), Nightcrawler'', ''Wild (2014 film), Wild'', ''The Imitation Game (2014 film), The Imitation Game'', ''The Theory of Everything (2014 film), The Theory of Everything'', ''Leviathan (2014 film), Leviathan'', ''Still Alice'', ''Lucy (2014 film), Lucy'', ''The Book of Life (2014 film), The Book of Life'', ''Song of the Sea (2014 film), Song of the Sea'', ''When Marnie Was There'', ''Stand by Me Doraemon'', ''Maleficent (film), Maleficent'', ''Big Hero 6 (film), Big Hero 6'', ''The Lego Movie'', ''Mr. Peabody and Sherman'' * 2015 in film, 2015 – ''The Revenant (2015 film), The Revenant'', ''The Hateful Eight'', ''Spotlight (film), Spotlight'', ''The Peanuts Movie'', ''The Little Prince (2015 film), The Little Prince'', ''The Martian (film), The Martian'', ''Bridge of Spies (film), Bridge of Spies'', ''Monster Hunt'', ''Krampus (film), Krampus'', ''Anomalisa'', ''Son of Saul'', ''Baahubali: The Beginning'', ''The Big Short (film), The Big Short'', ''Room (2015 film), Room'', ''Spy (2015 film), Spy'', ''Carol (film), Carol'', ''Creed (film), Creed'', ''Amy (2015 film), Amy'', ''Straight Outta Compton (film), Straight Outta Compton'', ''Inside Out (2015 film), Inside Out'', ''The Good Dinosaur'', ''Home (2015 film), Home'', ''Goosebumps (2015 film), Goosebumps'', '' The Witch (2015 film), The Witch, Minions (film), Minions'' * 2016 in film, 2016 – ''La La Land'', ''Deadpool (film), Deadpool'', ''Your Name'', ''Dangal (film), Dangal'', ''Train To Busan'', ''Zootopia'', ''Kubo and the Two Strings'', ''Sing Street'', ''Arrival (2016 film), Arrival'', ''Manchester by the Sea (film), Manchester by the Sea'', ''Moonlight (2016 film), Moonlight'', ''Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice'', ''Trolls (film), Trolls'', ''Hacksaw Ridge'', ''Fences (film), Fences'', ''Lion (2016 film), Lion'', ''The Handmaiden'', ''The Mermaid (2016 film), The Mermaid'', ''Moana (2016 film), Moana'', ''Don't Breathe (2016 film), Don't Breathe'', ''In This Corner of the World (film), In This Corner of the World'', ''I, Daniel Blake'', ''Silence (2016 film), Silence'', ''Hell or High Water (2016 film), Hell or High Water'', ''Suicide Squad (film), Suicide Squad'', ''Sing (2016 American film), Sing'' * 2017 in film, 2017 – ''The Shape of Water'', ''Get Out'', ''It (2017 film), It'', ''Blade Runner 2049'', ''Dunkirk (2017 film), Dunkirk'', ''Logan (film), Logan'', ''The Disaster Artist (film), The Disaster Artist'', ''Baby Driver'', ''I, Tonya'', ''The Silent Child'', ''In a Heartbeat (film), In a Heartbeat'', ''Lady Bird (film), Lady Bird'', ''Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'', ''Call Me by Your Name (film), Call Me by Your Name'', ''Baahubali 2: The Conclusion'', ''Wonder Woman (2017 film), Wonder Woman'', ''Girls Trip'', ''Phantom Thread'', ''Darkest Hour (film), Darkest Hour'', ''Justice League (film), Justice League'', ''Mary and the Witch's Flower'', ''The Breadwinner (film), The Breadwinner'', ''Loving Vincent'', ''Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie'', Despicable Me 3 ''Coco (2017 film), , Coco''; The Harvey Weinstein scandal begins. * 2018 in film, 2018 – ''Bohemian Rhapsody (film), Bohemian Rhapsody'', ''Ready Player One (film), Ready Player One'', ''Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'', ''The Favourite'', ''Roma (2018 film), Roma'' (which is released on Netflix), ''Eighth Grade (film), Eighth Grade'', ''Isle of Dogs (film), Isle of Dogs'', ''A Quiet Place (film), A Quiet Place'', ''Hereditary (film), Hereditary'', ''Dragon Ball Super: Broly'', ''Aquaman (film), Aquaman'', ''Crazy Rich Asians (film), Crazy Rich Asians'', ''BlacKkKlansman'', ''First Man (film), First Man'', ''Green Book (film), Green Book'', ''The Grinch (film), The Grinch'', ''Free Solo'', ''Shoplifters (film), Shoplifters'', ''Peter Rabbit (2018 film), Peter Rabbit'' * 2019 in film, 2019 – ''John Wick Chapter 3'', ''Joker (2019 film), Joker'', ''1917 (2019 film), 1917'', ''Terminator: Dark Fate'', ''Parasite (2019 film), Parasite'', ''Rocketman (film), Rocketman'', ''Little Women (2019 film), Little Women'', ''The Irishman'', ''The Farewell (2019 film), The Farewell'', ''Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'', ''Shazam! (film), Shazam!'', ''Ne Zha (2019 film), Ne Zha'', ''Alita: Battle Angel'', ''Bombshell (2019 film), Bombshell'', ''Us (2019 film), Us'', ''Abominable (2019 film), Abominable'', ''Ready or Not (2019 film), Ready or Not'', ''The Lighthouse (2019 film), The Lighthouse'', ''Marriage Story (2019 film), Marriage Story'', ''Capernaum (film), Capernaum'', ''Knives Out (film), Knives Out'', ''Ford v Ferrari'', ''Hair Love'' (Animated Short film), ''Dolemite Is My Name'', ''Jojo Rabbit'', ''Booksmart (film), Booksmart'', ''Richard Jewell (film), Richard Jewell'', ''A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood'', ''Detective Pikachu (film), Pokémon Detective Pikachu'', ''Klaus (film), Klaus''

2020s

* 2020 in film, 2020 – ''Tenet (film), Tenet'', ''Nomadland (film), Nomadland'', ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train, Demon Slayer: Mugen Train'', ''Minari (film), Minari'', ''The Eight Hundred'', ''Birds of Prey (2020 film), Birds of Prey'', ''Hamilton (2020 film), Hamilton'', ''Mank'', ''The Invisible Man (2020 film), The Invisible Man'', ''Da 5 Bloods'', ''The Trial of the Chicago 7'', ''Another Round (film), Another Round'', ''Promising Young Woman'', ''The Father (2020 film), The Father'', ''The Willoughbys'', ''Wolfwalkers'', ''Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (film), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'', ''The Half of It '', ''Soul (2020 film), Soul''; ''Call of the Wild (2020 film), Call of the Wild'', due to the Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema, COVID-19 pandemic, a number of films shut down production, or are either removed from their originally scheduled releases and moved to new release dates or digital releases. * 2021 in film, 2021 – ''Dune (2021 film), Dune'', ''The Power of the Dog (film), The Power of the Dog'', ''Encanto'', ''Judas and the Black Messiah'', ''Belfast (film), Belfast'', ''The Suicide Squad (film), The Suicide Squad'', ''The French Dispatch'', ''Last Night in Soho'', ''The Mitchells vs. the Machines'', ''Licorice Pizza'', ''Don't Look Up'', ''The Last Duel (2021 film), The Last Duel'', ''Flee (film), Flee'', ''West Side Story (2021 film), West Side Story'', ''Free Guy'', ''House of Gucci'', ''CODA (2021 film), CODA'', ''King Richard (film), King Richard'', ''Tick, Tick... Boom! (film), Tick, Tick... Boom!'', ''The Lost Daughter'', ''No Time to Die, Spencer (film), Spencer'' * 2022 in film, 2022 – ''Top Gun: Maverick'', ''The Batman (film), The Batman'', ''The Northman'', ''Everything Everywhere All at Once'', ''Tár'', ''The Fabelmans'', ''X (2022 film), X'', ''Triangle of Sadness'', ''RRR (film), RRR'', ''Elvis (2022 film), Elvis'', ''Nope (film), Nope, Aftersun, The Banshees of Inisherin, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, All Quiet on the Western Front (2022 film), All Quiet on the Western Front, Pearl (2022 film), Pearl, She Said (film), She Said, Decision to Leave, Women Talking (film), Women Talking, Babylon (2022 film), Babylon, The Whale (2022 film), The Whale, Avatar: The Way of Water, Bullet Train (film), Bullet Train, Blonde (2022 film), Blonde, The Bad Guys (film), The Bad Guys,Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio'' * 2023 in film, 2023 – Upcoming release of ''Wish (2023 film), Wish''

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* ''The Silent Cinema Reader'' edited by Lee Grieveson and Peter Kramer * ''Movies of the 30s'', edited by Jürgen Müller, Taschen * ''The Magic of Méliès'', documentary by Jacques Mény, special collector's edition DVD, Spain {{Lists of years Culture-related timelines, Film Film by year, Films by decade, * Timelines by year, Film Lists of years by topic, Film

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