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, which ...

– 1930s –

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 ...

– 1950s –

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 Bu ...

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1970s File:1970s decade montage.jpg, Clockwise from top left: President of the United States, U.S. President Richard Nixon doing the V sign#The V for Victory campaign and the victory-freedom sign, V for Victory sign after his resignation from office fo ...

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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 t ...

– 1990s * 21st century in film: ** 2000s –

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 killed; Crimea is an ...

– 2020s

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 ...

– ''

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 ...

'',

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 us ...

takes the oldest known extant photograph. *

1833 Events January–March * January 3 – Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. * February 6 – His Royal Highness Prince Otto Friedrich Ludwig of Bavaria assumes the title His Majesty Othon t ...

– 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 praxinoscopes. * 1865 – ''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, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first perso ...

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

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'' 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 – ''

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 A ...

'', 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 o ...

using Janssen's '

photographic revolver The Janssen revolver (french: revolver photographique) was invented by the French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen in 1874. It was the instrument that originated chronophotography, a branch of photography based on capturing movement from ...

' photograph the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun. They were purportedly taken in Japan. It is the oldest film on

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and Letterboxd. * 1878 – ''

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 firs ...

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 Sen ...

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 Mu ...

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 &ndash ...

– American inventors

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

and Hannibal Goodwin each invent a sensitized

celluloid Celluloids are a class of materials produced by mixing nitrocellulose and camphor, often with added dyes and other agents. Once much more common for its use as photographic film before the advent of safer methods, celluloid's common contemporar ...

base roll photographic film 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 is granted an American dual-patent on a 16-lens device that combines a

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with a

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. * 1887 – ''

Man Walking Around a Corner ''Man Walking Around a Corner'' was an early British film, shot in Leeds, England by Louis Le Prince. According to David Wilkinson's 2015 documentary ''The First Film'' it is not film, but a series of photographs, 16 in all, each taken from one of ...

'', directed by French inventor Louis Le Prince. The oldest known film. Although according to David Wilkinson's 2015 documentary '' The First Film'' 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''. *

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 ...

– '' Roundhay Garden Scene'', the earliest surviving film by French inventor Louis Le Prince, is shot in

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, through a groundbreaking 20

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per second. Others short films made at the same time were ''Accordion Player'' and ''Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge''. * 1889 -

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 ''Monkeyshines'' is a series of experimental short silent films made to test the original cylinder format of the Kinetoscope, and are believed to be the first films shot in the United States. ''Monkeyshines, No. 1'' was shot by William K. L. Di ...

'' *

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 othe ...

''; ''

Men Boxing ''Men Boxing'' is an 1891 American short silent film, produced and directed by William K. L. Dickson and William Heise William Heise (1847–1910) was a German-born American film cinematographer and director, active in the 1890s and credited f ...

''; ''

Newark Athlete ''Newark Athlete'' is an 1891 American short silent film directed and produced by William Kennedy Dickson. The film, roughly ten seconds in length, displays a young athlete swinging Indian clubs. It was filmed in May or June 1891, in the Photogra ...

'' * 1892 – '' Le Clown et ses chiens''; '' Pauvre Pierrot''; '' Un bon bock'', first projected

animated Animation is a method by which still figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most ani ...

films released by Émile Reynaud. *

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 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 approach that woul ...

, 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 invent ...

creates "America's First Film Studio", Black Maria. *

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, directed and produced by

William K.L. Dickson William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a British people, British inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison. Early life William Kennedy Dickson was born on 3 ...

, the

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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'' 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 proto- sound-film system developed by Dickson and

. It is also discussed whether it is considered as the first LGBT film. Further in his book ''The Celluloid Closet'' (1981), film historian Vito Russo 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. As described by scholar Linda Williams, ''The Gay Shoe Clerk'' (1903). * 1895 – 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 oldest ever

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, is founded by inventor Léon Gaumont. * 1896 – ''

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 Astronomer's Dream, or the Man in the Moon'' (french: La Lune à un mètre, literally "The Moon from One Meter Off") is an 1898 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. Based on one of his stage magic acts, and starring Méliès himsel ...

''; '' The Cavalier's Dream''; '' Photographing a Ghost''; ''

Santa Claus Santa Claus, also known as Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Kris Kringle, or simply Santa, is a legendary figure originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring children gifts during the late evening and overnigh ...

'' *

1899 Events January 1899 * January 1 ** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. ** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City. * January 2 – **Bolivia sets up a c ...

– ''

The Dreyfus Affair The Dreyfus affair (french: affaire Dreyfus, ) was a political scandal that divided the French Third Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906. "L'Affaire", as it is known in French, has come to symbolise modern injustice in the Francop ...

'' 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 2 ...

'' (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 o ...

; earliest known use of a colour motion picture film footage by Edward Raymond Turner.

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), ...

– '' Sherlock Holmes Baffled'', ''

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 corona ...

'', '' The Enchanted Drawing'' * 1901 – '' Star Theatre'', '' Stop Thief!'', '' Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost'' *

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'' *

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''; Titanus is founded * 1905 – ''

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom ''Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom'' is a 1905 American silent film directed by J. Stuart Blackton for Vitagraph Studios. It was the second film based on Arthur Conan Doyle's '' Sherlock Holmes'' stories, following the 1900 Mut ...

'' * 1906 – '' The Story of the Kelly Gang'', '' Dream of a Rarebit Fiend'', '' Humorous Phases of Funny Faces'';

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 Titanu ...

is founded * 1907 – ''

Ben-Hur Ben-Hur or Ben Hur may refer to: Fiction *'' Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ'', an 1880 novel by American general and author Lew Wallace ** ''Ben-Hur'' (play), a play that debuted on Broadway in 1899 ** ''Ben Hur'' (1907 film), a one-reel silent ...

'', '' 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'', ''

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 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, adapted ...

''; first use of Kinemacolor;

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 co ...

invents the

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. *

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. * J ...

– '' 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. Griffit ...

'', ''

Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy ''Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy'' is a 1909 five-minute silent film directed by J. Stuart Blackton. In the film, a smoker (Paul Panzer) falls asleep and is visited by two fairies (one of which is played by Gladys Hulette). Audiences m ...

'', ''

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 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'', ''

White Fawn's Devotion ''White Fawn's Devotion: A Play Acted by a Tribe of Red Indians in America'' is a 1910 American short dramatic silent film. Although a few writers believe the film features Young Deer's wife, Lillian St. Cyr, otherwise known as Princess Red Wing ...

'' * 1911 – '' L'Inferno'', ''

Baron Munchausen's Dream ''Baron Munchausen's Dream'' (french: Les Hallucinations du baron de Münchausen), also known as ''Les Aventures de baron de Munchausen'' and ''Monsieur le Baron a trop bien dîné'', is a 1911 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès ...

'', '' Defence of Sevastopol'', '' The Lonedale Operator'' * 1912 – '' Independenţa României'', '' The Musketeers of Pig Alley'';

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and

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

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is established. *

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

– '' The Bangville Police'', '' Fantômas'', ''

Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life ''Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life'' is a 1913 silent comedy short, directed and produced by Mack Sennett and starring Sennett, Mabel Normand, and Barney Oldfield as himself. It is considered one of the earliest to include the plot of a villain ...

'', '' Raja Harishchandra''; invention of the film trailer * 1914 – '' Cabiria'', '' The Perils of Pauline'', '' Tillie's Punctured Romance'', '' Judith of Bethulia'' *

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 Clansm ...

'', ''

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 ...

'', '' Les Vampires'', ''

A Fool There Was A Fool There Was may refer to: * ''A Fool There Was'' (1914 film) or ''She Wanted a Car'', a comedy directed by Frank Griffin and featuring Oliver Hardy * ''A Fool There Was'' (1915 film), a melodrama directed by Frank Powell and starring Theda B ...

'' * 1916 – '' Intolerance'', ''

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-Ju ...

'', '' Gertie the Dinosaur'', '' The Queen of Spades''; invention of

Technicolor Technicolor is a series of 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 running through a special ...

. * 1917 – ''

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 ...

'', ''

A Man There Was ''A Man There Was'' ( sv, Terje Vigen) is a 1917 Swedish drama directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a poem of the same title by Henrik Ibsen. With a budget of SEK 60,000, it was the most expensive Swedish film made up to that point, marking ...

'' *

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'', '' Shifting Sands'' *

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 ...

– '' Blind Husbands'', ''

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 L ...

'', '' True Heart Susie'', ''

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 ...

'', ''

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 pl ...

'';

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 stu ...

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 m ...

– ''

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (german: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is a 1920 German silent horror film, directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, ...

'', '' Way Down East'', '' The Flapper'', '' The Mark of Zorro'', '' Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'', '' 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 Klan ...

'' * 1921 – '' The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse'', '' The Kid'', '' The Phantom Carriage'', '' Fool's Paradise'', '' The Sheik'', '' The Mechanical Man'' * 1922 – '' Nosferatu'', '' Häxan'', '' Foolish Wives'', '' The Little Rascals'', ''

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'', ''

Dr. Mabuse the Gambler ''Dr. Mabuse the Gambler'' (german: Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler) is the first film in the Dr. Mabuse series about the character Doctor Mabuse who featured in the novels of Norbert Jacques. It was directed by Fritz Lang and released in 1922. The film ...

'';

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 Distri ...

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!'', '' The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', '' Our Hospitality'', '' The Ten Commandments''; Warner Bros. Pictures and

Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Pictures is an American Film studio, film production company and subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios (division), Walt Disney Studios, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company. The studio is the flagship producer of live-action featur ...

are founded;

16 mm film 16 mm film is a historically popular and economical Film gauge, gauge of Photographic film, film. 16 mm refers to the width of the film (about inch); other common film gauges include 8 mm film, 8 and 35mm movie film, 35 mm. It is ...

introduced. * 1924 – '' Sherlock Jr.'', '' 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 status, or power. Greed has been identified as undes ...

'', '' The Last Laugh'', '' He Who Gets Slapped'';

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 through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924 ...

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 multi ...

are founded * 1925 – ''

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. Ch ...

'', '' The Battleship Potemkin'', '' The Big Parade'', ''

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 Pier ...

'', ''

'' * 1926 – '' The General'', '' The Adventures of Prince Achmed'', ''

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 isolate ...

'', ''

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'', ''

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 exp ...

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

The King of Kings King of Kings; grc-gre, Βασιλεὺς Βασιλέων, Basileùs Basiléōn; hy, արքայից արքա, ark'ayits ark'a; sa, महाराजाधिराज, Mahārājadhirāja; ka, მეფეთ მეფე, ''Mepet mepe'' ...

'' * 1928 – ''

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 Jeann ...

'', ''

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 Studios and was released by Pat Powers, under the name of Celebrity Productions. The cartoon ...

'', '' Un Chien Andalou'', '' 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-Orph ...

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 Catholi ...

– ''

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 f ...

'', ''

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 phy ...

'', ''

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, an ...

'', '' The Broadway Melody'', ''

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

'', '' 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 ...

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 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'', ''

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 surf ...

'', '' Journey's End'', '' The Blue Angel'', '' 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 exp ...

'', ''

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 taki ...

'', '' The Champ'', '' The Public Enemy'', ''

Little Caesar Little Caesar may refer to: People * Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor Caesar, nicknamed Caesarion ("Little Caesar"), last pharaoh of Egypt, son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra * Little Caesar (singer) (1928-1994; birth name Harry Caesar) U.S. sing ...

'', '' Cimarron'', '' M'', '' City Lights'', '' The Front Page'' * 1932 – '' Shanghai Express'', '' Scarface'', '' Tarzan the Ape Man'', '' The Mummy'', '' Betty Boop'', '' Freaks'', ''

Trouble in Paradise Trouble in Paradise is an idiom used to describe problems in supposedly positive situations. Trouble in Paradise may also refer to: Books * ''Trouble in Paradise'' (Parker novel), a 1998 crime novel by Robert B. Parker * ''Trouble in Paradise' ...

'', '' The Sign of the Cross'', '' Grand Hotel'';

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 t ...

introduced. * 1933 – ''

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 devo ...

'', '' 42nd Street'', ''

Duck Soup Duck soup may refer to: * ''Duck Soup'' (1933 film), starring the Marx Brothers * ''Duck Soup'' (1927 film), featuring Laurel and Hardy * Oritang, Korean duck soup * "Duck Soup", an episode of '' Even Stevens'' * "Duck Soup", a song by Baba Broo ...

'', ''

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 appear ...

'', ''

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 Hud ...

'' *

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 Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a max ...

– '' L'Atalante'', ''

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) tri ...

'', ''

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 ch ...

'', ''

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

'', '' The Goddess'', '' Manhattan Melodrama'', '' The Black Cat'' *

1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart bec ...

– '' 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 Karl ...

'', '' 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 se ...

'';

20th Century Fox 20th Century Studios, Inc. (previously known as 20th Century Fox) is an American film studio, 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 o ...

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'', '' Mr. Deeds Goes to Town'', ''

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'' ad ...

'', '' My Man Godfrey'', ''

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 Myrn ...

'', '' 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 Febr ...

– '' Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', ''

The Life of Emile Zola ''The Life of Emile Zola'' is a 1937 American biographical film about the 19th-century French author Émile Zola starring Paul Muni and directed by William Dieterle. It premiered at the Los Angeles Carthay Circle Theatre to great critical and ...

'', '' La Grande Illusion'', '' Pépé le Moko'', ''

The Prisoner of Zenda ''The Prisoner of Zenda'' is an 1894 adventure novel by Anthony Hope, in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces within the realm are such that, in or ...

'', ''

Lost Horizon ''Lost Horizon'' is a 1933 novel by English writer James Hilton. The book was turned into a film, also called '' Lost Horizon'', in 1937 by director Frank Capra. It is best remembered as the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lama ...

'' * 1938 – ''

Bringing Up Baby ''Bringing Up Baby'' is a 1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film tells the story of a paleontologist in a number of predicam ...

'', ''

The Adventures of Robin Hood ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' is a 1938 American Technicolor swashbuckler film from Warner Bros. Pictures. It was produced by Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke, directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley, and stars Errol Flynn, Olivia ...

'', ''

Alexander Nevsky Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky (russian: Александр Ярославич Невский; ; 13 May 1221 – 14 November 1263) served as Prince of Novgorod (1236–40, 1241–56 and 1258–1259), Grand Prince of Kiev (1236–52) and Grand ...

'', ''

Jezebel Jezebel (;"Jezebel"
(US) and ) was the daughte ...

'', '' A Christmas Carol'', '' Boys Town'', '' Angels with Dirty Faces'' *

1939 This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 ** Third Reich *** Jews are forbidde ...

– '' Gone with the Wind'', ''

The Wizard of Oz ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' or ''The Wizard of Oz'' most commonly refers to: *'' The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'', a 1900 American novel by L. Frank Baum often reprinted as ''The Wizard of Oz'' ** Wizard of Oz (character), from the Baum novel serie ...

'', ''

The Rules of the Game ''The Rules of the Game'' (original French title: ''La règle du jeu'') is a 1939 French satirical comedy-drama film directed by Jean Renoir. The ensemble cast includes Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély, Marcel Dalio, Julien Carette, ...

'', '' Sherlock Holmes'', '' The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', ''

Of Mice and Men ''Of Mice and Men'' is a novella written by John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it narrates the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job ...

'', ''

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ''Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'' is a 1939 American Political drama, political Comedy drama, comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra, starring Jean Arthur and James Stewart, and featuring Claude Rains and Edward Arnold (actor), Edward Arnold. ...

'', ''

Stagecoach A stagecoach is a four-wheeled public transport coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses. It is strongly sprung and generally drawn by four horses although some versions are draw ...

1940s

* 1940 – ''

His Girl Friday ''His Girl Friday'' is a 1940 American screwball comedy directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell and featuring Ralph Bellamy and Gene Lockhart. It was released by Columbia Pictures. The plot centers on a newspaper ed ...

'', ''

The Great Dictator ''The Great Dictator'' is a 1940 American anti-war political satire black comedy film written, directed, produced, scored by, and starring British comedian Charlie Chaplin, following the tradition of many of his other films. Having been the ...

'', ''

Tom and Jerry ''Tom and Jerry'' is an American animated media franchise and series of comedy short films created in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Best known for its 161 theatrical short films by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the series centers on the ...

'',

Bugs Bunny Bugs Bunny is an animated cartoon character created in the late 1930s by Leon Schlesinger Productions (later Warner Bros. Cartoons) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc. Bugs is best known for his starring roles in the ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Mer ...

and Elmer Fudd, ''

Rebecca Rebecca, ; Syriac: , ) from the Hebrew (lit., 'connection'), from Semitic root , 'to tie, couple or join', 'to secure', or 'to snare') () appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. According to biblical ...

'', ''

Pinocchio Pinocchio ( , ) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi of Florence, Tuscany. Pinocchio was carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a Tuscan vil ...

'', '' Fantasia'', ''

The Grapes of Wrath ''The Grapes of Wrath'' is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Priz ...

'', '' The Philadelphia Story'', ''Road to...'' series *

1941 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January– August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar E ...

– ''

Citizen Kane ''Citizen Kane'' is a 1941 American drama film produced by, directed by, and starring Orson Welles. He also co-wrote the screenplay with Herman J. Mankiewicz. The picture was Welles' first feature film. ''Citizen Kane'' is frequently cited ...

'', '' The Lady Eve'', ''

Sergeant York Alvin Cullum York (December 13, 1887 – September 2, 1964), also known as Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated United States Army soldiers of World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine ...

'', ''

Dumbo ''Dumbo'' is a 1941 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The fourth Disney animated feature film, it is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl, a ...

'', '' How Green Was My Valley'', ''

Woody Woodpecker Woody Woodpecker is an animated character that appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz Productions, Walter Lantz Studio and distributed by Universal Pictures, Universal Studios between 1940 and 1972. Woody, an anthropom ...

'', '' The Maltese Falcon'', '' The Wolf Man'' *

1942 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Declaration by United Nations is signed by China, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 22 other nations, in wh ...

– '' Casablanca'', '' Mrs. Miniver'', ''

The Magnificent Ambersons ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington, the second in his ''Growth'' trilogy after ''The Turmoil'' (1915) and before ''The Midlander'' (1923, retitled ''National Avenue'' in 1927). It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction ...

'', '' To Be or Not to Be'', ''

Bambi ''Bambi'' is a 1942 American animated drama film directed by David Hand (supervising a team of sequence directors), produced by Walt Disney and based on the 1923 book '' Bambi, a Life in the Woods'' by Austrian author and hunter Felix Sal ...

'', '' Yankee Doodle Dandy'', '' Cat People'', '' Saludos Amigos'' *

1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – ...

– '' Ossessione'', '' The Song of Bernadette'', ''

Heaven Can Wait Heaven Can Wait may refer to: * ''Heaven Can Wait'' (1943 film), a comedy based on the stage play ''Birthday'' by Leslie Bush-Fekete * ''Heaven Can Wait'' (1978 film), an American football comedy starring Warren Beatty; a remake of the 1941 film ...

'', '' Phantom of the Opera'', ''

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ''The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'' is a 1943 British romantic drama war film written, produced and directed by the British film making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. ...

'', '' Lassie Come Home'', ''

Shadow of a Doubt ''Shadow of a Doubt'' is a 1943 American psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten. Written by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, and Alma Reville, the film was nominated for an Ac ...

'', '' For Whom the Bell Tolls'', '' The Ox-Bow Incident'' *

1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in No ...

– '' Going My Way'', ''

Double Indemnity ''Double Indemnity'' is a 1944 American crime film noir directed by Billy Wilder, co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. The screenplay was based on James M. Cain's 1943 novel of the same t ...

'', '' Meet Me in St. Louis'', ''

Ivan the Terrible Ivan IV Vasilyevich (russian: Ива́н Васи́льевич; 25 August 1530 – ), commonly known in English as Ivan the Terrible, was the grand prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and the first Tsar of all Russia from 1547 to 1584. Iv ...

'', ''

Laura Laura may refer to: People * Laura (given name) * Laura, the British code name for the World War I Belgian spy Marthe Cnockaert Places Australia * Laura, Queensland, a town on the Cape York Peninsula * Laura, South Australia * Laura Bay, a bay on ...

'', ''

To Have and Have Not ''To Have and Have Not'' is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1937 by Charles Scribner's Sons. The book follows Harry Morgan, a fishing boat captain out of Key West, Florida. ''To Have and Have Not'' was Hemingway's second novel set in t ...

'', '' Murder, My Sweet'', ''

The Three Caballeros ''The Three Caballeros'' is a 1944 American live-action/animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film premiered in Mexico City on December 21, 1944. It was released in the United States on ...

'', '' Gaslight'';

1st Golden Globe Awards The 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, were held late on January 20, 1944 at the 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles, California. Winners Best Picture '' The Song of Bernadette'' Best Actor in a Lead ...

* 1945 – ''

Brief Encounter ''Brief Encounter'' is a 1945 British Romance film, romantic Drama (film and television), drama film directed by David Lean from a screenplay by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play ''Still Life (play), Still Life''. Starring Celia Jo ...

'', ''

Children of Paradise ''Children of Paradise'' (original French title: ''Les Enfants du Paradis'') is a two-part French romantic drama film by Marcel Carné, produced under war conditions in 1943, 1944, and early 1945 in both Vichy France and Occupied France. Set in ...

'', ''

Leave Her to Heaven ''Leave Her to Heaven'' is a 1945 American psychological thriller film noir melodrama directed by John M. Stahl and starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, and Vincent Price. It follows a socialite who marries a prominent novelist ...

'', ''

The Lost Weekend ''The Lost Weekend'' is a 1945 American drama film noir directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. It was based on Charles R. Jackson's The Lost Weekend (novel), 1944 novel about an Alcoholism, alcoholic writer. The film ...

'', '' The Naughty Nineties'', '' Anchors Aweigh'', ''

The Picture of Dorian Gray ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' is a philosophical fiction, philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical ''Lippincott's Monthly Magazine''.''Th ...

'', '' Rome, Open City'', '' Spellbound'' * 1946 – ''

It's a Wonderful Life ''It's a Wonderful Life'' is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story and booklet '' The Greatest Gift'', which Philip Van Doren Stern self-published in 1943 and is in turn loo ...

'', ''

Notorious Notorious means well known for a negative trait, characteristic, or action. It may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Notorious'' (1946 film), a thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock * ''Notorious'' (1992 film), a TV film re ...

'', '' My Darling Clementine'', ''

Great Expectations ''Great Expectations'' is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (Great Expectations), Pip (the book is a ''bildungsroman''; a coming-of-age story). It ...

'', ''

The Best Years of Our Lives ''The Best Years of Our Lives'' (also known as ''Glory for Me'' and ''Home Again'') is a 1946 American epic drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo and Harold Russe ...

'', ''

Song of the South ''Song of the South'' is a 1946 American live-action/animated musical drama film directed by Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson; produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is based on the Uncle Remus stories as adapted by J ...

'', '' Make Mine Music'', ''

Beauty and the Beast ''Beauty and the Beast'' (french: La Belle et la Bête) is a fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in ''La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins'' (''The Young American and Marine T ...

'', '' The Big Sleep'', '' Blue Skies''; First Cannes Film Festival *

1947 It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Events January * January– February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the count ...

– ''

Miracle on 34th Street ''Miracle on 34th Street'' (initially released as ''The Big Heart'' in the United Kingdom) is a 1947 American List of Christmas films, Christmas comedy-drama film released by 20th Century Fox, written and directed by George Seaton and based on ...

'', ''

The Lady from Shanghai ''The Lady from Shanghai'' is a 1947 American film noir directed by Orson Welles (uncredited) and starring Welles, his estranged wife Rita Hayworth, and Everett Sloane. It is based on the novel ''If I Die Before I Wake'' by Sherwood King. Alt ...

'', '' Fun and Fancy Free'', '' Monsieur Verdoux'', '' Out of the Past'', ''

Odd Man Out ''Odd Man Out'' is a 1947 British film noir directed by Carol Reed, and starring James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, and Kathleen Ryan. Set in Belfast, Northern Ireland, it follows a wounded Nationalist leader who attempts to evade poli ...

'' *

1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...

– '' Bicycle Thieves'', '' The Red Shoes'', '' Red River'', ''

Hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depi ...

'', '' Easter Parade'', '' Melody Time'', '' The Paleface'', ''

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' (originally titled ''Der Schatz der Sierra Madre'') is a 1927 adventure novel by German author B. Traven, whose identity remains unknown. In the book, two destitute American men in Mexico of the 1920s join a ...

'';

1st British Academy Film Awards The 1st British Film Academy Awards (retroactively known as the British Academy Film Awards), were handed out on 29 May 1949 at the Odeon Cinema, Leicester Square, in London, for films shown in the United Kingdom in 1947 and 1948. Reader must ...

1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – ...

– '' The Third Man'', '' Late Spring'', '' All the King's Men'', '' White Heat'', '' Whisky Galore!'', ''

Stray Dog A free-ranging dog is a dog that is not confined to a yard or house. Free-ranging dogs include street dogs, village dogs, stray dogs, feral dogs, etc., and may be owned or unowned. The global dog population is estimated to be 900 million, of w ...

'', ''

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad ''The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad'' is a 1949 American animated anthology film produced by Walt Disney Productions, released by RKO Radio Pictures and directed by Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney and James Algar with Ben Sharpsteen as production ...

'', '' The Heiress'', '' On the Town''

1950s

* 1950 – ''

Rashomon is a 1950 Jidaigeki psychological thriller/crime film directed and written by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura as va ...

'', '' Sunset Boulevard'', '' All About Eve'', ''

'', '' Harvey'', '' Father of the Bride'', '' Orphée'', '' Annie Get Your Gun'', '' In a Lonely Place'', ''

King Solomon's Mines ''King Solomon's Mines'' (1885) is a popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the ...

'', '' Born Yesterday'' *

1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the Uni ...

– ''

A Streetcar Named Desire ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' is a play written by Tennessee Williams and first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947. The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of pe ...

'', '' An American in Paris'', '' The Day the Earth Stood Still'', ''

Alice in Wonderland ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (commonly ''Alice in Wonderland'') is an 1865 English novel by Lewis Carroll. It details the story of a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creature ...

'', ''

Quo Vadis ''Quō vādis?'' (, ) is a Latin phrase meaning "Where are you marching?". It is also commonly translated as "Where are you going?" or, poetically, "Whither goest thou?" The phrase originates from the Christian tradition regarding Saint Pet ...

'', '' The African Queen'', '' The Thing from Another World'', '' Ace in the Hole'', '' Strangers on a Train'', '' A Place in the Sun'', '' Decision Before Dawn'' * 1952 – ''

Singin' in the Rain ''Singin' in the Rain'' is a 1952 American musical romantic comedy film directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds and featuring Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell and Cyd C ...

'', '' High Noon'', '' The Bad and the Beautiful'', '' The Quiet Man'', ''

Limelight Limelight (also known as Drummond light or calcium light)James R. Smith (2004). ''San Francisco's Lost Landmarks'', Quill Driver Books. is a type of stage lighting once used in theatres and music halls. An intense illumination is created w ...

'', ''

This Is Cinerama ''This Is Cinerama'' is a 1952 American documentary film directed by Mike Todd, Michael Todd, Jr., Walter A. Thompson and Fred Rickey and starring Lowell Thomas. It is designed to introduce the widescreen process Cinerama, which broadens the ...

'', '' The Greatest Show on Earth''; first 3D films * 1953 – ''

Peter Pan Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the mythi ...

'', '' Tokyo Story'', ''

From Here to Eternity ''From Here to Eternity'' is a 1953 American drama romance war film directed by Fred Zinnemann, and written by Daniel Taradash, based on the 1951 novel of the same name by James Jones. The picture deals with the tribulations of three U.S. ...

'', '' Shane'', ''

The War of the Worlds ''The War of the Worlds'' is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialised in 1897 by ''Pearson's Magazine'' in the UK and by '' Cosmopolitan'' magazine in the US. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was i ...

'', '' Ugetsu'', '' The Robe'', '' Trouble in Store'', ''

Calamity Jane Martha Jane Cannary (May 1, 1852 – August 1, 1903), better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman, sharpshooter, and storyteller. In addition to many exploits she was known for being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok. Late ...

'', '' The Earrings of Madame de...'', ''

Salome Salome (; he, שְלוֹמִית, Shlomit, related to , "peace"; el, Σαλώμη), also known as Salome III, was a Jewish princess, the daughter of Herod II, son of Herod the Great, and princess Herodias, granddaughter of Herod the Great, a ...

'', ''

Roman Holiday ''Roman Holiday'' is a 1953 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by William Wyler. It stars Audrey Hepburn as a princess out to see Rome on her own and Gregory Peck as a reporter. Hepburn won an Academy Award for Best Actress for ...

'', ''

The Band Wagon ''The Band Wagon'' is a 1953 American Musical film, musical romantic comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. It tells the story of an aging musical star who hopes a Broadway theatre, Broadway show will ...

'', '' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes''; first use of

CinemaScope CinemaScope is an anamorphic lens series used, from 1953 to 1967, and less often later, for shooting widescreen films that, crucially, could be screened in theatres using existing equipment, albeit with a lens adapter. Its creation in 1953 by ...

; British cinema advertisement company Pearl & Dean is founded. * 1954 – ''

Godzilla is a fictional monster, or '' kaiju'', originating from a series of Japanese films. The character first appeared in the 1954 film '' Godzilla'' and became a worldwide pop culture icon, appearing in various media, including 32 films produ ...

'', ''

Rear Window ''Rear Window'' is a 1954 American mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film ...

'', ''

Seven Samurai is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The story takes place in 1586 during the Sengoku period of Japanese history. It follows the story of a village of desperate farmers who hire seven ...

'', ''

Dial M for Murder ''Dial M for Murder'' is a 1954 American crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, Anthony Dawson, and John Williams. Both the screenplay and the successful stage play on which it wa ...

'', ''

White Christmas White Christmas most commonly refers to: * White Christmas (weather), snowfall or snow-covered ground on Christmas Day * "White Christmas" (song), a 1942 song written by Irving Berlin White Christmas may also refer to: Film, television, and the ...

'', ''

Creature from the Black Lagoon ''Creature from the Black Lagoon'' is a 1954 American black-and-white 3D monster horror film produced by William Alland and directed by Jack Arnold, from a screenplay by Harry Essex and Arthur Ross and a story by Maurice Zimm. It stars ...

'', '' Sansho the Bailiff'', '' A Star Is Born'', '' On the Waterfront'', '' La Strada'', '' Three Coins in the Fountain'', '' Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'' * 1955 – ''

Rebel Without a Cause ''Rebel Without a Cause'' is a 1955 American coming-of-age drama film about emotionally confused suburban A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area, which may include commercial and mixed-use, that ...

'', '' The Night of the Hunter'', ''

To Catch a Thief '' To Catch a Thief'' is a 1955 American romantic thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, from a screenplay by John Michael Hayes based on the 1952 novel of the same name by David Dodge. The film stars Cary Grant as a retired cat burglar w ...

'', '' The Seven Year Itch'', '' Marty'', '' Ordet'', '' Pather Panchali'', '' All That Heaven Allows'', '' Smiles of a Summer Night'', ''

Lady and the Tramp ''Lady and the Tramp'' is a 1955 American animated musical romance film produced by Walt Disney and released by Buena Vista Film Distribution. The 15th Disney animated feature film, it was directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Ha ...

'', ''

Oklahoma! ''Oklahoma!'' is the first musical written by the duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, ''Green Grow the Lilacs''. Set in farm country outside the town of Claremore, Indian Territory, in 1906, it tells ...

'', '' Mr. Arkadin'', '' The Court Jester'', '' Mister Roberts'' *

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are kille ...

– '' The Ten Commandments'', '' High Society'', ''

Carousel A carousel or carrousel (mainly North American English), merry-go-round (international), roundabout (British English), or hurdy-gurdy (an old term in Australian English, in SA) is a type of amusement ride consisting of a rotating circular pla ...

'', ''

The King and I ''The King and I'' is the fifth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein. It is based on Margaret Landon's novel '' Anna and the King of Siam'' (1944), which is in turn derived from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, governess to the child ...

'', ''

Giant In folklore, giants (from Ancient Greek: '' gigas'', cognate giga-) are beings of human-like appearance, but are at times prodigious in size and strength or bear an otherwise notable appearance. The word ''giant'' is first attested in 1297 fr ...

'', '' The Searchers'', '' A Man Escaped'', '' Forbidden Planet'', '' Invasion of the Body Snatchers'', '' Night and Fog'', ''

Around the World in 80 Days ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' (french: link=no, Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employ ...

Wakeful Eyes Wakeful Eyes (Egyptian Arabic: ''عيون'' ''سهرانة'' translit: ''Uyoon Sahranah'' aliases: Sleepless Night) is a 1956 Egyptian romantic drama directed by Ezz El-Dine Zulficar. The film stars Salah Zulfikar and Shadia. The film is Salah Zulf ...

'' *

1957 1957 (Roman numerals, MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday, common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, t ...

– ''

The Bridge on the River Kwai ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'' is a 1957 epic film, epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the The Bridge over the River Kwai, 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle. Although the film uses the historical setting of the construction of ...

'', ''

12 Angry Men ''Twelve Angry Men'' is an American courtroom drama written by Reginald Rose concerning the jury of a homicide trial. It was broadcast initially as a television play in 1954. The following year it was adapted for the stage. It was adapted for a ...

'', ''

Sweet Smell of Success ''Sweet Smell of Success'' is a 1957 American film noir drama film directed by Alexander Mackendrick, starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, and Martin Milner, and written by Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman, and Mackendrick from ...

'', '' Old Yeller'', ''

The Seventh Seal ''The Seventh Seal'' ( sv, Det sjunde inseglet) is a 1957 Swedish historical fantasy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Set in Sweden during the Black Death, it tells of the journey of a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) and a game of ch ...

'', ''

Touch of Evil ''Touch of Evil'' is a 1958 American film noir written and directed by Orson Welles, who also stars in the film. The screenplay was loosely based on the contemporary Whit Masterson novel '' Badge of Evil'' (1956). The cast included Charlton He ...

'', '' Jailhouse Rock'', ''

Let's All Go to the Lobby ''Let's All Go to the Lobby'' (officially known as ''Technicolor Refreshment Trailer No. 1'') is a 1957 animated musical advertisement played in theaters before the beginning of the main film or before intermission, featuring animated food items ...

'', ''

Mother India ''Mother India'' is a 1957 Indian epic drama film, directed by Mehboob Khan and starring Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar and Raaj Kumar. A remake of Khan's earlier film '' Aurat'' (1940), it is the story of a poverty-stricken village wo ...

'', '' The Snow Queen'', '' Wild Strawberries'', '' Paths of Glory'', '' Throne of Blood'', ''

The Curse of Frankenstein ''The Curse of Frankenstein'' is a 1957 British horror film by Hammer Film Productions, loosely based on the 1818 novel '' Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus '' by Mary Shelley. It was Hammer's first colour horror film, and the first of t ...

, Back Again'' * 1958 – ''

Vertigo Vertigo is a condition where a person has the sensation of movement or of surrounding objects moving when they are not. Often it feels like a spinning or swaying movement. This may be associated with nausea, vomiting, sweating, or difficulties ...

'', ''

Ascenseur pour l'échafaud ''Elevator to the Gallows'' (french: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud), also known as ''Frantic'' in the U.S. and ''Lift to the Scaffold'' in the U.K., is a 1958 French crime thriller film directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne Moreau and Maurice R ...

'', '' Gigi'', ''

South Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

'', '' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'', '' Carry On'', '' Ashes and Diamonds'', '' Jalsaghar'', '' The Fly'', '' The Blob'', '' Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Jamila, the Algerian'' * 1959 – ''

'', ''

Some Like It Hot ''Some Like It Hot'' is a 1959 American crime comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee, Grace Lee Whitne ...

'', ''

The 400 Blows ''The 400 Blows'' (french: Les Quatre Cents Coups) is a 1959 French coming-of-age drama film, and the directorial debut of François Truffaut. The film, shot in DyaliScope, stars Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, and Claire Maurier. One of ...

'', ''

Shake Hands with the Devil ''Shake Hands with the Devil'' may refer to: * ''Shake Hands with the Devil'' (1959 film), American drama set in 1921 Ireland * ''Shake Hands with the Devil'' (album), Kris Kristofferson 1979 release on Monument Records * ''Shake Hands with the ...

'', '' North by Northwest'', ''

Anatomy of a Murder ''Anatomy of a Murder'' is a 1959 American courtroom drama and crime film produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Wendell Mayes was based on the 1958 novel of the same name written by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. ...

'', ''

Sleeping Beauty ''Sleeping Beauty'' (french: La belle au bois dormant, or ''The Beauty in the Sleeping Forest''; german: Dornröschen, or ''Little Briar Rose''), also titled in English as ''The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods'', is a fairy tale about a princess ...

'', ''

Rio Bravo Rio or Río is the Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Maltese word for "river". When spoken on its own, the word often means Rio de Janeiro, a major city in Brazil. Rio or Río may also refer to: Geography Brazil * Rio de Janeiro * Rio do Sul, a ...

'', ''

Pickpocket Pickpocketing is a form of larceny that involves the stealing of money or other valuables from the person or a victim's pocket without them noticing the theft at the time. It may involve considerable dexterity and a knack for misdirection. A thi ...

'', '' Hiroshima mon amour'', '' Pillow Talk, Forbidden Women,

Among the Ruins Among the Ruins ( arz, بين الأطلال, translit. Bain El Atlal) is a 1959 Egyptian romance film directed by the Egyptian film director Ezz El-Dine Zulficar and produced by the Egyptian film producer Salah Zulfikar. The film is based on a n ...

, The Second Man''

1960s

* 1960 – ''

Psycho Psycho may refer to: Mind * Psychopath * Sociopath * Someone with a personality disorder * Someone with a psychological disorder People with the nickname * Karl Amoussou or Psycho, mixed martial artist * Peter Ebdon or Psycho, English snook ...

'', ''

Spartacus Spartacus ( el, Σπάρτακος '; la, Spartacus; c. 103–71 BC) was a Thracian gladiator who, along with Crixus, Gannicus, Castus, and Oenomaus, was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprisin ...

'', ''

Breathless Breathless may refer to: Aircraft *Paradelta Breathless, an Italian paraglider design Film and television * Breathless (1960 film), ''Breathless'' (1960 film) (''À bout de souffle''), a French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard * Breathless (1982 ...

'', ''

The Apartment ''The Apartment'' is a 1960 American romantic comedy-drama film directed and produced by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond. It stars Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, ...

'', ''

Exodus Exodus or the Exodus may refer to: Religion * Book of Exodus, second book of the Hebrew Torah and the Christian Bible * The Exodus, the biblical story of the migration of the ancient Israelites from Egypt into Canaan Historical events * Exo ...

'', ''

The Magnificent Seven ''The Magnificent Seven'' is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges. The screenplay by William Roberts is a remake – in an Old West–style – of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film '' Seven Samurai'' (itself initially ...

'', ''

La Dolce Vita ''La Dolce Vita'' (; Italian for "the sweet life" or "the good life"Kezich, 203) is a 1960 satirical comedy-drama film directed and co-written (with Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi) by Federico Fellini. The film stars Mar ...

'', ''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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