Our history through cinema
2004
The Social Network
Mark Zuckerberg launches TheFacebook.com
2001
World Trade Center
Two port authority officers, Will Jimeno and John McLoughlin, are trapped under the rubble of the World Trade Center.
1994
Hotel Rwanda
Paul Rusesabagina, himself a Hutu, shelters hundreds of Tutsis and Hutus during the Rwandan genocide, while the Western world ignore the situation.
1981
Argo
The Iranian hostage crisis ends when all the hostages are released.
1972
Munich
Palestinian terrorists storm the Olympic Village apartment of Israeli athletes killing two people and taking nine more hostages.
1969
Apollo 13
Apollo 11. Neil Armstrong walks on the moon.
1968
Bobby
Robert F Kennedy wins the presidential primary in California, and is shot dead after delivering his victory speech.
1965
We Were Soldiers
A battalion of the 1st Cavalry Division is ambushed by the 8th Battalion of the 66th North Vietnamese Regiment.
1963
JFK
John F. Kennedy murdered by … someone.
1962
Thirteen Days
Cuban Missile Crisis.
1959
La Bamba
A plane crash takes the life of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and J.D. Richardson.
1957
Nowhere Boy
John Lennon meets Paul McCartney.
1955
Walk The Line
Johnny Cash meets June Carter on tour.
1951
Raging Bull
Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta for the middleweight boxing championship after LaMotta refuses to fall; finally, in the 13th round, the referee stops the fight – Robinson wins.
1950
Ray
Ray Robinson becomes Ray Charles and starts recording songs.
1947
42
Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American player in Major League Baseball when he enters Ebbets Field to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1945
Downfall
Hitler commits suicide.
Flags of our Fathers
The invasion of Iwo Jima by the US Marines is launched.
1944
Schindler’s List
Oskar Schindler obtains the liberation of the women at Auschwitz and transfers them to his own camp at Brunnlitz.
Valkyrie
Operation Valkyrie, a conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler, fails when a bomb explodes but does not kill him.
The Longest Day
The Allies begin the largest amphibious invasion against the Third Reich. Normandy landing.
1943
A League of Their Own
The first year of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
1942
Fat Man and Little Boy
Enrico Fermi produces the first nuclear chain reaction.
The Diary of Anne Frank
Anne Frank receives a journal.
1941
Pearl Harbor
The naval and air forces of the Japanese Empire attack the United States of America.
1940
Casablanca
The Nazis invade Paris.
1939
The King’s Speech
King George VI delivers the royal Christmas message on the radio with a friend and teacher, Lionel Logue, who helps him through every moment.
1937
Empire of the Sun
China and Japan enter an undeclared state of war.
1934
Public Enemies
John Dillinger escapes from prison using a wooden pistol.
1932
Gandhi
Gandhi starts a hunger strike to protest the separation of castes.
The Aviator
Howard Hughes connects in aviation.
1931
Bonnie & Clyde
After a visit to a café, Bonnie Parker meets Clyde Barrow, who was trying to steal his mother’s car, starting her career in crime.
1930
The Untouchables
Eliot Ness joins forces with James Malone to face Al Capone.
1920
Lawrence of Arabia
T.E. Lawrence begins to help the Arabs lead a guerrilla war against the Ottoman Empire.
1919
Eight Men Out
The Chicago White Sox cheat during the World Series.
Michael Collins
The Irish war of independence is waged against the United Kingdom.
1918
Max
While the Great War ends in Germany, the art dealer Max Rothman befriends the art student Adolf Hitler.
1914
The Babe
Babe Ruth is contracted by the Boston Red Sox for over $ 25,000.
1913
Chaplin
Royaume-Uni
1912
Titanic
The Titanic sinks.
1908
The Last Emperor
Puyi becomes emperor at the age of two.
1888
Lust for Life
Vincent van Gogh suffers from severe depression.
1886
Geronimo
Geronimo surrenders to US government troops.
The Elephant Man
Dr. Frederick Treves takes under his wing John Merrick, “the elephant man”.
1881
Tombstone
Gunfight at OK Corral.
1877
Young Guns
Billy The Kid meets Pat Garrett for the first time.
1876
The Last Samurai
Captain Nathan Algren arrives in Japan.
1867
The Assassination of Jesse James
The James Gang begins.
1864
Cold Mountain
The siege of Petersburg.
1862
Anna and the King
The King of Siam falls in love with the widowed British teacher Anna Leonowens.