List of 'years in film'
This page indexes the individual year in film pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point.
2000s - 1990s - 1980s - 1970s - 1960s - 1950s - 1940s - 1930s - 1920s - 1910s - 1900s - 19th century
2000s
- 2007 in film - films scheduled to be released in 2007
- 2006 in film - films scheduled to be released in 2006
- 2005 in film - films scheduled to be released in 2005
- 2004 in film - films scheduled to be released in 2004
- 2003 in film - Finding Nemo and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King are released
- 2002 in film - Signs, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and Men in Black II are released
- 2001 in film - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring are released
- 2000 in film - Gladiator and O Brother, Where Art Thou are released
1990s
- 1999 in film - The Sixth Sense (directed by M. Night Shyamalan), Star Wars, Episode I - The Phantom Menace and The Matrix are released
- 1998 in film - Tom Hanks stars in Saving Private Ryan
- 1997 in film - Titanic, As Good As It Gets and Men in Black are released
- 1996 in film - Fargo is released
- 1995 in film - Mel Gibson directs and stars in Braveheart
- 1994 in film - Tom Hanks stars in Forrest Gump; The Lion King become the highest grossing animated film of all-time, record hold until 2003.
- 1993 in film - Schindler's List and Jurassic Park are released
- 1992 in film - The second Home Alone is released
- 1991 in film - The Silence of the Lambs is released
- 1990 in film - The first Home Alone is released
1980s
- 1989 in film - Batman, directed by Tim Burton
- 1988 in film - Eddie Murphy's Coming to America is released
- 1987 in film - Rain Man starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise
- 1986 in film - Fatal Attraction premieres
- 1985 in film - Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple premieres
- 1984 in film - Ghost Busters and Amadeus are released
- 1983 in film - The Big Chill and The Right Stuff are released
- 1982 in film - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial premieres
- 1981 in film - The George Lucas/Steven Spielberg collaboration, Raiders of the Lost Ark, premieres
- 1980 in film - The first Caddyshack is released
1970s
- 1979 in film - Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now
- 1978 in film - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- 1977 in film - George Lucas' science fiction film Star Wars is released and The Bee Gees sing in Saturday Night Fever
- 1976 in film - Rocky premieres
- 1975 in film - Steven Spielberg's Jaws is released
- 1974 in film - Jesus Christ Superstar
- 1973 in film - The Sting and The Exorcist are released
- 1972 in film - The Godfather premieres
- 1971 in film - The French Connection premieres
- 1970 in film - Patton and M*A*S*H are released
1960s
- 1969 in film - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- 1968 in film - Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 1967 in film - The Graduate
- 1966 in film - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
- 1965 in film - The Sound of Music premieres
- 1964 in film - The Beatles star in A Hard Day's Night
- 1963 in film - Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds
- 1962 in film - Lawrence of Arabia and To Kill a Mockingbird premiere
- 1961 in film - West Side Story premieres
- 1960 in film - Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
1950s
- 1959 in film - Ben-Hur premieres
- 1958 in film - Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo
- 1957 in film - Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley
- 1956 in film - The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston
- 1955 in film - East of Eden, starring James Dean
- 1954 in film - On the Waterfront, A Star Is Born and Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window
- 1953 in film - Disney's Peter Pan
- 1952 in film - Cinerama-system is introduced
- 1951 in film - An American in Paris
- 1950 in film - Disney's CinderellaAlso, Laurel & Hardy's final film, "Atoll K" is made in Europe.
1940s
- 1949 in film - Sands of Iwo Jima, directed by Allan Dwan
- 1948 in film - Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman,Edgar Kennedy's final short for RKO.
- 1947 in film - Miracle on 34th Street
- 1946 in film - Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life premieres
- 1945 in film -
- 1944 in film - Last "Our Gang" shorts, produced by MGM.
- 1943 in film -
- 1942 in film - Bambi"Casablanca" starring Humprey Bogart & Ingrid Bergman released.
- 1941 in film - Citizen Kane, starring Orson Welles, premieres
- 1940 in film - Columbia releases Charley Chase's last film, "South of the Boudoir"
1930s
- 1939 in film - Gone With the Wind premiers in Atlanta
- 1938 in film - Casting begins on The Wizard of Oz
- 1937 in film - Snow White, first feature-length animated movie
- 1936 in film - Thelma Todd's final short subject "An All-American Toothache" co-starring Patsy Kelly and Mickey Daniels.
- 1935 in film - Laurel & Hardy's last short subject, "Thicker Than water".
- 1934 in film - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wizard of Oz from Frank J. Baum Also, the first Columbia Three Stooges short.
- 1933 in film - The film Ecstacy, which shows simulated sex, shocks audiences. Also, First Popeye cartoon, "Popeye the Sailor" debuts.
- 1932 in film - Shirley Temple's film career begins
- 1931 in film - Laurel & Hardy's first feature, "Pardon Us" is released by MGM.
- 1930 in film - The first Busby Berkely musical film, "Whoopee" starring Eddie Cantor, is released by Goldwyn in colour. Also, Max Fleischer's animated star "Betty Boop" debuts.
1920s
- 1929 in film - The first Academy Awards, or Oscars, are distributed. Also, Laurel & Hardy make their talkie debut in "Unaccustomed As we are" co-starring Thelma Todd at Hal Roach Studios. Rko-Radio studio is established.
- 1928 in film - First talkie cartoon,"Dinner Time" is produced by VanBuren Studios, the second talkie cartoon, "Steamboat Willie" by Walt Disney is released a month later.
- 1927 in film - Al Jolson movie The Jazz Singer popularizes sound motion pictures. First talkie newsreel,"Fox Movietone News".
- 1926 in film - First Vitaphone feature, "Don Juan" starring John Barrymore, released by Warner Brothers. Posthumously released, "The Son Of the Shiek" is Rudolph Valentino's biggest grossing film.
- 1925 in film - Lon Chaney's greatest film, "The Phantom Of The Opera" is released by Universal with colour sequences. Eric Von Stroheim's magnum opus, "Greed"
- 1924 in film - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio established.
- 1923 in film - Harold Lloyd's greatest movie "Safety Last" produced by Hal Roach, released by Pathe.
- 1922 in film - Nosferatu, first ever vampire film released. Also, "Our Gang" series begins at Hal Roach studios.
- 1921 in film - Laurel and Hardy's first film together is "A Lucky Dog".
- 1920 in filmBuster Keaton begins starring in shorts and his first feature, "The Saphead" at Metro. Erich Von Stroheim's "The Devil's Passkey" stars Mae Busch at Goldwyn.
1910s
- 1919 in film - United Artisted founded by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and D. W. Griffith.
- 1918 in film - "My Four Years in Germany" is the first Warner Brothers production. First National releases the first Tarzan film, starring Elmo Lincoln.
- 1917 in film - Technicolor is introduced
- 1916 in film - D. W. Griffith's second monumental production, "Intolerence" released.
- 1915 in film - The Country Girl, starring Florence LaBadie. The first great epic of American film, "The Birth of a Nation" is produced by D. W. Griffith.
- 1914 in film - "Tillie's Punctured Romance" produced by Mack Sennett, stars Marie Dressler, Charlie Chaplin, and Mabel Normand.
- 1913 in film - The first Charlie Chaplin movies are made
- 1912 in film - From the Manger To the Cross, directed by Sidney Olcott
- 1911 in film -
- 1910 in film - First filmed "Frankenstein" by Edison studios.
1900s
- 1909 in film -
- 1908 in film - Thomas Edison formed the Motion Picture Patents Company
- 1907 in film -
- 1906 in film - Ben-Hur, directed by Sidney OlcottAlso, The world's first feature film, "The Story of the Kelly Gang" released in Australia.
- 1905 in film -
- 1904 in film - The Great Train Robbery, remake by Siegmund Lubin
- 1903 in film - The Great Train Robbery, by Edwin S. Porter
- 1902 in film
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19th century
- 1899 in film - Cinderella
- 1898 in film
- 1897 in film
- 1896 in film
- 1895 in film
- 1894 in film
- See also: 19th century in film
