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This page indexes the individual year in film pages. Each year is annotated with its significant events.
- 19th century in film
- 20th century in film:
- 21st century in film:
19th century in film[edit]
- 1888 – French inventor Louis Le Prince shoots the Roundhay Garden Scene, the lost and earliest surviving film, in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, through a groundbreaking 20 frames per second.
- 1893 – Thomas Edison creates "America's First Film Studio", Black Maria; The first film shown publicly on the Kinetoscope, a system given to Edison, is Blacksmiths.
- 1895 – In France, the Lumière brothers screen ten films at the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris; Gaumont Film Company, the oldest ever film studio, is founded by inventor Léon Gaumont.
- 1896 – Pathé-Frères is founded. The Lumière brothers release six more short films, one of which is L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat.
- 1897 – Vitagraph is founded in New York City
- 1899 – Georges Méliès releases The Dreyfus Affair and Cendrillon (first screen adaptation of the traditional fairy tale Cinderella); earliest known use of a colour motion picture film footage by Edward Raymond Turner[1].
1900s[edit]
- 1900 – Sherlock Holmes Baffled, Joan of Arc, The Enchanted Drawing
- 1901 – Star Theatre, Stop Thief!, Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost
- 1902 – A Trip to the Moon
- 1903 – The Great Train Robbery
- 1904 – The Impossible Voyage; Titanus is founded
- 1905 – Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom
- 1906 – The Story of the Kelly Gang, Dream of a Rarebit Fiend, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces; Nordisk Film is founded
- 1907 – Ben-Hur, L'Enfant prodigue
- 1908 – Fantasmagorie, A Visit to the Seaside, The Taming of the Shrew, The Thieving Hand, The Assassination of the Duke of Guise; first use of Kinemacolor; Pathé News invents the newsreel.
- 1909 – The Country Doctor, A Corner in Wheat, Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy, Les Misérables; 35 mm film becomes a filmmaking standard across the world.
1910s[edit]
- 1910 – In Old California, In the Border States, White Fawn's Devotion
- 1911 – L'Inferno, Baron Munchausen's Dream, Defence of Sevastopol, The Lonedale Operator
- 1912 – Independenţa României, The Musketeers of Pig Alley; Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures, Hollywood's two oldest major film studios, are founded; British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is established
- 1913 – The Bangville Police, Fantômas, Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life, Raja Harishchandra; invention of the film trailer
- 1914 – The Perils of Pauline, Tillie's Punctured Romance, Judith of Bethulia
- 1915 – The Birth of a Nation, The Tramp, Les Vampires, A Fool There Was
- 1916 – Intolerance, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Gertie the Dinosaur, The Queen of Spades; invention of Technicolor
- 1917 – Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, A Man There Was
- 1918 – Stella Maris, Mickey, Shifting Sands
- 1919 – Blind Husbands, Broken Blossoms, True Heart Susie, Dalagang Bukid, Male and Female; United Artists is founded
1920s[edit]
- 1920 – Way Down East, The Flapper, The Mark of Zorro, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Within Our Gates
- 1921 – Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Kid, The Phantom Carriage, Fool's Paradise, The Sheik, The Mechanical Man
- 1922 – Nosferatu, Foolish Wives, The Little Rascals, Blood and Sand, Nanook of the North, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler; Motion Picture Association (MPA) is established
- 1923 – Safety Last!, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Ten Commandments; Warner Bros. Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures are founded; 16 mm film introduced
- 1924 – Sherlock Jr., Greed, The Last Laugh, He Who Gets Slapped; Metro Goldwyn Mayer and Columbia Pictures are founded
- 1925 – The Gold Rush, The Battleship Potemkin, The Big Parade, The Phantom of the Opera, Ben-Hur
- 1926 – The General, Don Juan
- 1927 – The Jazz Singer, Metropolis, Wings, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Napoléon, The King of Kings
- 1928 – The Passion of Joan of Arc, Steamboat Willie (the first Mickey Mouse cartoon), Lights of New York, The Circus, The Crowd; RKO Pictures is founded
- 1929 – Blackmail, Pandora's Box, Man with a Movie Camera, The Broadway Melody, Disraeli, The Virginian; 1st Academy Awards
1930s[edit]
- 1930 – Looney Tunes, All Quiet on the Western Front, Journey's End, The Blue Angel, Hell's Angels, The Big House
- 1931 – Frankenstein, Dracula, The Champ, The Public Enemy, Little Caesar, Cimarron, M, City Lights, The Front Page
- 1932 – Shanghai Express, Tarzan the Ape Man, The Mummy, Scarface, Freaks, The Sign of the Cross, Grand Hotel; 8 mm film introduced
- 1933 – King Kong, The Invisible Man, 42nd Street, Duck Soup, The Three Stooges, Sons of the Desert, She Done Him Wrong
- 1934 – It Happened One Night, The Thin Man, Cleopatra, The Goddess, Manhattan Melodrama, The Black Cat
- 1935 – A Night at the Opera, Top Hat, Bride of Frankenstein, The 39 Steps, Mutiny on the Bounty; 20th Century Fox and The Rank Organisation are founded
- 1936 – Modern Times, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Flash Gordon, My Man Godfrey, The Great Ziegfeld, Come and Get It
- 1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Life of Emile Zola, La Grande Illusion, Pépé le Moko, The Prisoner of Zenda, Lost Horizon
- 1938 – Bringing Up Baby, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Alexander Nevsky, Jezebel, Boys Town, Angels with Dirty Faces
- 1939 – Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Sherlock Holmes film series, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Stagecoach
1940s[edit]
- 1940 – His Girl Friday, The Great Dictator, Tom and Jerry, Rebecca, Pinocchio, Fantasia, The Grapes of Wrath, The Philadelphia Story, Road to... series
- 1941 – Citizen Kane, The Lady Eve, Sergeant York, Dumbo, The Maltese Falcon, The Wolf Man
- 1942 – Casablanca, Mrs. Miniver, The Magnificent Ambersons, To Be or Not to Be, Bambi, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Cat People
- 1943 – The Song of Bernadette, Heaven Can Wait, Phantom of the Opera, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Lassie Come Home, Shadow of a Doubt, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Ox-Bow Incident
- 1944 – Going My Way, Double Indemnity, Meet Me in St. Louis, Ivan the Terrible, Laura, To Have and Have Not, Murder, My Sweet, Gaslight; 1st Golden Globe Awards
- 1945 – Brief Encounter, Leave Her to Heaven, The Lost Weekend, The Naughty Nineties, Anchors Aweigh, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Rome, Open City, Spellbound
- 1946 – It's a Wonderful Life, Notorious, My Darling Clementine, Great Expectations, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Big Sleep, Blue Skies; First Cannes Film Festival
- 1947 – Miracle on 34th Street, The Lady from Shanghai, Monsieur Verdoux, Out of the Past, Odd Man Out
- 1948 – Bicycle Thieves, The Red Shoes, Red River, Hamlet, Easter Parade, The Paleface, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; 1st British Academy Film Awards
- 1949 – The Third Man, All the King's Men, White Heat, Whisky Galore!, Stray Dog, The Heiress, On the Town
1950s[edit]
- 1950 – Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve, Cinderella, Harvey, Father of the Bride, Orphée, Annie Get Your Gun, In a Lonely Place, King Solomon's Mines, Born Yesterday
- 1951 – A Streetcar Named Desire, An American in Paris, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Alice in Wonderland, Quo Vadis, The African Queen, Ace in the Hole, Strangers on a Train, A Place in the Sun, Decision Before Dawn
- 1952 – Singin' in the Rain, High Noon, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Quiet Man, Limelight, This Is Cinerama, The Greatest Show on Earth; first 3-D films
- 1953 – Peter Pan, Tokyo Story, From Here to Eternity, Shane, Ugetsu, The Robe, Trouble in Store, Calamity Jane, The Earrings of Madame de..., Salome, Roman Holiday, The Band Wagon, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; first use of CinemaScope; British cinema advertisement company Pearl & Dean is founded
- 1954 – Godzilla, The Seven Samurai, Rear Window, Animal Farm, Dial M for Murder, La Strada, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, White Christmas, Sansho the Bailiff, On the Waterfront, A Star Is Born, Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy, Voyage in Italy, The Caine Mutiny, The Country Girl, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Three Coins in the Fountain
- 1955 – Rebel Without a Cause, To Catch a Thief, The Night of the Hunter, Ordet, Pather Panchali, Mister Roberts, Lady and the Tramp, Marty, The Court Jester, Oklahoma!, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, The Seven Year Itch, Picnic, The Rose Tattoo
- 1956 – The Ten Commandments, Carousel, The King and I, Giant, High Society, The Searchers, Written on the Wind, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Forbidden Planet, Around the World in 80 Days, Friendly Persuasion, The Twelve Months
- 1957 – 12 Angry Men, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Mother India, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Sweet Smell of Success, Let's All Go to the Lobby, The Snow Queen, Paths of Glory, Throne of Blood, The Curse of Frankenstein, Old Yeller, Peyton Place, Sayonara, Witness for the Prosecution
- 1958 – Vertigo, Gigi, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, South Pacific, Touch of Evil, Ashes and Diamonds, Jalsaghar, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, The Fly, The Blob, The Trollenberg Terror, Mon Oncle, The Cranes Are Flying, The Defiant Ones, Panda and the Magic Serpent, Auntie Mame, Separate Tables, Carry On series
- 1959 – Ben-Hur, Some Like It Hot, Shake Hands with the Devil, North by Northwest, Anatomy of a Murder, Sleeping Beauty, Rio Bravo, Pickpocket, Pillow Talk, The Mouse That Roared, 1001 Arabian Nights, Moonbird, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Nun's Story, Room at the Top
1960s[edit]
- 1960 – Psycho, Breathless, Exodus, Spartacus, The Apartment, The Alamo, La Dolce Vita, L'Avventura, Ocean's 11, The Magnificent Seven, The Time Machine, Pollyanna, Eyes Without a Face, Swiss Family Robinson, Elmer Gantry, Sons and Lovers, The Sundowners, Alakazam the Great
- 1961 – West Side Story, Judgment at Nuremberg, Divorce, Italian Style, Yojimbo, Breakfast at Tiffany's, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Havoc in Heaven, The Guns of Navarone, Mothra, A Majority of One, Pocketful of Miracles
- 1962 – Lawrence of Arabia, To Kill a Mockingbird, James Bond film series, The Manchurian Candidate, Ivan's Childhood, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Lolita, Sundays and Cybele, Gay Purr-ee
- 1963 – The Birds, Hud, Not on Your Life, The Haunting, The Great Escape, Lilies of the Field, 8½, Cleopatra, How the West Was Won, The Leopard, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Pink Panther, The Nutty Professor, The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon, Jason and the Argonauts
- 1964 – Mary Poppins, A Hard Day's Night, A Fistful of Dollars, My Fair Lady, Dr. Strangelove, The Pink Panther cartoon series, Woman in the Dunes, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!, Up series
- 1965 – The Sound of Music, Doctor Zhivago, For a Few Dollars More, The Great Race, Tokyo Olympiad, Cat Ballou, Repulsion, West and Soda
- 1966 – Persona, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Sand Pebbles, A Man for All Seasons, The Battle of Algiers, Fantastic Voyage, Born Free, Alfie, The Wild Angels, The Man Called Flintstone,
- 1967 – Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Cool Hand Luke, In the Heat of the Night, Dont Look Back, The Jungle Book, The Dirty Dozen, The Producers, Mad Monster Party?, Doctor Dolittle, Thoroughly Modern Millie
- 1968 – 2001: A Space Odyssey, Once Upon a Time in the West, Rosemary's Baby, Night of the Living Dead, Planet of the Apes, Yellow Submarine, The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun, Oliver!, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Love Bug, Bullitt, Yours, Mine and Ours, Funny Girl, VIP my Brother Superman
- 1969 – Midnight Cowboy, True Grit, Easy Rider, Z, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Wild Bunch, Sweet Charity, A Boy Named Charlie Brown, The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots, Hello, Dolly!, The Italian Job, A Thousand and One Nights
1970s[edit]
- 1970 – Love Story, Performance, The Aristocats, Five Easy Pieces, Patton, M*A*S*H, The Conformist, Woodstock, Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Phantom Tollbooth, Airport, Let It Be, Two Mules for Sister Sara; first IMAX films
- 1971 – The French Connection, A Clockwork Orange, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Dirty Harry, The Last Picture Show, Fiddler on the Roof, Billy Jack, Shaft, Duel, Get Carter, Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- 1972 – The Godfather, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Solaris, Cries and Whispers, Deep Throat, Last Tango in Paris, What's Up, Doc?, Fritz the Cat, Cabaret, The Poseidon Adventure
- 1973 – The Exorcist, Enter the Dragon, Don't Look Now, Badlands, Amarcord, The Sting, Enter the Dragon, Charlotte's Web, Mean Streets, American Graffiti, Paper Moon, The Wicker Man, Heavy Traffic, Papillon, Fantastic Planet
- 1974 – A Woman Under the Influence, The Godfather Part II, Chinatown, The Conversation, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Black Christmas, The Towering Inferno, That's Entertainment!, The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
- 1975 – Jaws, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Barry Lyndon, Coonskin, Hedgehog in the Fog, Dog Day Afternoon, Nashville, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid; videocassette recorders appear on mass market
- 1976 – Taxi Driver, Rocky, Network, Carrie, All the President's Men, The Smurfs and the Magic Flute, In the Realm of the Senses, 1900, A Star is Born, Allegro Non Troppo, Logan's Run, The Omen, Bugsy Malone, The Outlaw Josey Wales
- 1977 – Star Wars, Annie Hall, A Bridge Too Far, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Saturday Night Fever, Providence, Pete's Dragon, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Wizards, The Rescuers, The Hills Have Eyes, Suspiria, Eraserhead, House, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, Dot and the Kangaroo, Hum Kisise Kum Naheen
- 1978 – Halloween, Dawn of the Dead, Grease, Midnight Express, Watership Down, The Lords of the Rings, Days of Heaven, The Deer Hunter, Drunken Master, Superman, Up In Smoke, National Lampoon's Animal House, Ringing Bell
- 1979 – Apocalypse Now, Mad Max, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Alien, Kramer vs. Kramer, The Castle of Cagliostro, Manhattan, Stalker, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Tale of Tales, The Muppet Movie, Banjo the Woodpile Cat, Nutcracker Fantasy, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
1980s[edit]
- 1980 – The Shining, Raging Bull, Ordinary People, Kagemusha, Airplane!, Caddyshack, The Blues Brothers, Flash Gordon, Friday the 13th, Fame, 9 to 5, Coal Miner's Daughter, The Elephant Man, Gloria, Private Benjamin, City of Women, Heaven's Gate
- 1981 – Raiders of the Lost Ark, On Golden Pond, Chariots of Fire, Pennies from Heaven, Das Boot, Reds, Blow Out, The Evil Dead, Arthur, Cannonball Run, Scanners, Time Bandits, Heavy Metal, Clash of the Titans, An American Werewolf in London, Escape From New York
- 1982 – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Blade Runner, The Secret of NIMH, Sophie's Choice, Poltergeist, Fitzcarraldo, Fanny and Alexander, Tootsie, Gandhi, Tron, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, 48 Hrs., Annie, First Blood, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Thing, The Dark Crystal, The Last Unicorn, The Plague Dogs, An Officer and a Gentleman
- 1983 – Michael Jackson's Thriller, Sans Soleil, L'Argent, Terms of Endearment, The King of Comedy, The Right Stuff, Risky Business, Nostalghia, Flashdance, Trading Places, A Christmas Story, Sudden Impact, Golgo 13: The Professional, Sleepaway Camp, Scarface, Antarctica, Rock & Rule, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, National Lampoon's Vacation, The Outsiders; THX sound system is developed
- 1984 – This Is Spinal Tap, Amadeus, The Karate Kid, The Terminator, Once Upon a Time in America, Ghostbusters, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Paris, Texas, Gremlins, Footloose, Police Academy, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Red Dawn, Beverly Hills Cop, The NeverEnding Story, Sixteen Candles
- 1985 – Back to the Future, Come and See, Ran, Brazil, Shoah, Out of Africa, The Breakfast Club, The Color Purple, Cocoon, The Care Bears Movie, Zimniy Vecher v Ghagra, The Goonies, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, A Room with a View, Clue, The Stuff, Pulgasari
- 1986 – Blue Velvet, Aliens, Castle in the Sky, The Sacrifice, An American Tail, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Stand by Me, Howard the Duck, Hannah and Her Sisters, Platoon, Top Gun, Crocodile Dundee, Transformers: The Movie, Luxo Jr., Three Amigos, The Great Mouse Detective, The Adventures of Milo and Otis, Labyrinth, The Fly, Short Circuit, Little Shop of Horrors, When the Wind Blows, Pretty in Pink
- 1987 – RoboCop, Fatal Attraction, Wings of Desire, The Dead, Dirty Dancing, The Princess Bride, Evil Dead II, Full Metal Jacket, The Last Emperor, Wall Street, Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise, The Brave Little Toaster, Moonstruck, Hope and Glory, Raising Arizona, Sid & Nancy, Mannequin, Spaceballs, Predator, Good Morning, Vietnam, Innerspace, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, The Lost Boys, The Chipmunk Adventure, Gandahar
- 1988 – My Neighbor Totoro, Rain Man, The Last Temptation of Christ, Akira, Midnight Run, Dead Ringers, Cinema Paradiso, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Grave of the Fireflies, Die Hard, Beetlejuice, The Accused, The Land Before Time, Child's Play, Heathers, Big, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
- 1989 – Wallace and Gromit, Batman, Do the Right Thing, Driving Miss Daisy, Kiki's Delivery Service, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Little Mermaid (starting off the Disney Renaissance), All Dogs Go To Heaven, The Abyss, A Fish Called Wanda, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, Born on the Fourth of July, Dead Poets Society, Field of Dreams, Creature Comforts, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, When Harry Met Sally..., The BFG; first publication of Empire
1990s[edit]
- 1990 – Home Alone, Goodfellas, Ghost, Wild at Heart, Edward Scissorhands, Miller's Crossing, Dances with Wolves, House Party, Total Recall, Kindergarten Cop, Pretty Woman, Troll 2, Misery, Journey of Hope, Tremors, The Hunt for Red October, Cry-Baby, Joe Versus the Volcano, Mind's Eye series, Postcards from the Edge, Close-Up, Awakenings, Paris Is Burning, Jetsons: The Movie
- 1991 – The Silence of the Lambs, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Hook, Beauty and the Beast, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, JFK, A Brighter Summer Day, Thelma & Louise, The Addams Family, Only Yesterday, My Girl, Hot Shots!, Boyz n the Hood, Point Break, Rock-A-Doodle
- 1992 – Unforgiven, Aladdin, Reservoir Dogs, The Player, Porco Rosso, Basic Instinct, The Crying Game, A Few Good Men, Indochine, The Bodyguard, League of Their Own, Sister Act, Pure Country, Wayne's World, Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, Cool World, Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama
- 1993 – Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, The Piano, In the Name of the Father, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Groundhog Day, Philadelphia, Three Colors trilogy, Mrs. Doubtfire, Hocus Pocus, Cliffhanger, The Firm, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Sleepless in Seattle, Ninja Scroll, Army of Darkness, Dazed and Confused, True Romance, Free Willy, The Thief and the Cobbler, Once Upon a Forest, Super Mario Bros., Patlabor 2: The Movie
- 1994 – The Lion King, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie, The Swan Princess, The Shawshank Redemption, Pom Poko, Legends of the Fall, Clerks, Interview with the Vampire, True Lies, Speed, Thumbelina, Maverick, Felidae, Léon: The Professional, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, Dumb and Dumber, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Pagemaster
- 1995 – Toy Story, Braveheart, Se7en, Heat, Ghost in the Shell, A Moment of Innocence, 12 Monkeys, The Usual Suspects, Apollo 13, Babe, Casper, Jumanji, Leaving Las Vegas, Sense and Sensibility, Whisper of the Heart, Bad Boys, Clueless, Casino, Before trilogy, The Pebble and the Penguin; first DVDs released
- 1996 – Independence Day, Fargo, Breaking the Waves, Trainspotting, Space Jam, Jerry Maguire, The English Patient, Flirting with Disaster, Shall We Dance?, That Thing You Do!, Happy Gilmore, Scream, Fly Away Home, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, Mars Attacks!, Matilda, 101 Dalmatians, Dragonheart, James and the Giant Peach, Cassiopeia, Mission: Impossible, La Freccia Azzurra
- 1997 – Titanic, Men in Black, Princess Mononoke, Boogie Nights, Anastasia, Taste of Cherry, Hana-bi, The End of Evangelion, L.A. Confidential, Good Will Hunting, Life is Beautiful, Jackie Brown, The Fifth Element, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Geri's Game, Kundun, Cure, The Full Monty, Perfect Blue, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Cats Don't Dance
- 1998 – Saving Private Ryan, The Prince of Egypt, Antz, Pokémon film series, American History X, The Thin Red Line, Kirikou and the Sorceress, Shakespeare in Love, The Big Lebowski, Rush Hour, The Truman Show, Buffalo 66, Rushmore, The Mask of Zorro, Bulworth, Blade, You've Got Mail, The Wedding Singer, Gods and Monsters, The Rugrats Movie, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, There's Something About Mary, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- 1999 – American Beauty, The Matrix, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, The Iron Giant, The Sixth Sense, Fight Club, Magnolia, The Blair Witch Project, Eyes Wide Shut, Stuart Little, All About My Mother, Girl, Interrupted, My Neighbors the Yamadas, American Pie, 10 Things I Hate About You, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Notting Hill, Shiri, Topsy-Turvy, Office Space, Galaxy Quest, The Green Mile, Being John Malkovich, Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, The King and I
2000s[edit]
- 2000 – Chicken Run, In the Mood for Love, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Platform, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Memento, Titan A.E., The Road to El Dorado, Erin Brockovich, Cast Away, Gladiator, X-Men, Remember the Titans, Billy Elliot, Bring It On, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, American Psycho, Meet the Parents, Traffic, High Fidelity, Eastrail 177 trilogy, Final Destination, Before Night Falls, Almost Famous, Requiem for a Dream, The Patriot, For The Birds, The Emperor's New Groove, Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, Battlefield Earth, Digimon: The Movie, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Help! I'm a Fish; first digital cinema projection in Europe by Philippe Binant
- 2001 – Spirited Away, Shrek, Mulholland Drive, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Harry Potter film series, A Beautiful Mind, Donnie Darko, The Fast and the Furious, Moulin Rouge!, Monster's Ball, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Legally Blonde, Zoolander, Training Day, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Black Hawk Down, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Spy Kids, Super Troopers, Millennium Actress, Amélie, Bridget Jones's Diary, Ocean's Eleven, Waking Life
- 2002 – Spider-Man, City of God, Talk to Her, Minority Report, The Pianist, Chicago, Russian Ark, Ice Age, The Cat Returns, Stuart Little 2, The Hours, The Quiet American, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Lilo & Stitch, Gangs of New York, Bowling for Columbine, About a Boy, Frieda, In America, Panic Room, 28 Days Later, Punch-Drunk Love, The Ring, Signs, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Better Luck Tomorrow, Catch Me If You Can, The Bourne Identity, Adaptation, Bend It Like Beckham, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, Pinocchio, 8 Mile, The Wild Thornberrys Movie, Eight Crazy Nights
- 2003 – Finding Nemo, Oldboy, Kill Bill, Elephant, Monster, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Triplets of Belleville, Love Actually, Lost in Translation, Johnny English, Big Fish, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, The Last Samurai, Peter Pan, A Tale of Two Sisters, The Room, Cold Mountain, Elf, Tokyo Godfathers, School of Rock, Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem
- 2004 – The Passion of the Christ, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Incredibles, Million Dollar Baby, The Polar Express, Sideways, Hotel Rwanda, Downfall, Friday Night Lights, Howl's Moving Castle, The Aviator, Spider-Man 2, Saw, Ray, Mean Girls, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Napoleon Dynamite, Garden State, The Notebook, Finding Neverland, Team America: World Police, Shaun of the Dead, Hellboy, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Home on the Range, Appleseed, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; Anti-piracy campaign "Piracy. It's a crime", featuring the now iconic first line "You Wouldn't Steal a Car", first advertised.
- 2005 – Caché, The New World, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Madagascar, Brokeback Mountain, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The Chronicles of Narnia, A History of Violence, Pride & Prejudice, Corpse Bride, Walk the Line, Batman Begins, March of the Penguins, Munich, Serenity, Sin City, Good Night, and Good Luck, Crash, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Capote, Hoodwinked!, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, The Great Yokai War, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- 2006 – Pan's Labyrinth, Happy Feet, Children of Men, The Departed, Dreamgirls, The Lives of Others, The Prestige, The Queen, Borat, Apocalypto, Little Miss Sunshine, Night at the Museum, The Pursuit of Happyness, Inside Man, An Incovenient Truth, The Last King of Scotland, Monster House, Cars, Flushed Away, Tales from Earthsea, Snakes on a Plane, Babel, Sinking of Japan, United 93; First Blu-rays released
- 2007 – 300, I Am Legend, The Simpsons Movie, Ratatouille, There Will Be Blood, Into the Wild, No Country for Old Men, Atonement, Persepolis, Juno, Michael Clayton, Superbad, Hot Fuzz, Enchanted, American Gangster, Grindhouse, Once, Transformers, La Vie En Rose, Knocked Up, Beowulf, Surf's Up, The Darjeeling Limited, Bee Movie, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- 2008 – The Dark Knight, The Marvel Cinematic Universe, Kung Fu Panda, Gran Torino, Ponyo, Mamma Mia!, Slumdog Millionaire, The Wrestler, Milk, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Frost/Nixon, Cloverfield, Son of Rambow, Changeling, Ip Man, Tropic Thunder, Big Buck Bunny, Sita Sings the Blues, Taken, Twilight, Marley & Me, Step Brothers, In Bruges, Bronson, Horton Hears a Who!, The Tale of Despereaux, Man on Wire, Revoultionary Road, The Reader, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Waltz with Bashir, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Die Welle
- 2009 – Avatar, Michael Jackson's This Is It, Inglourious Basterds, Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Secret in Their Eyes, Mary and Max, District 9, The Princess and the Frog, Up, Star Trek, The Hangover, Up in the Air, In the Loop, Zombieland, Sherlock Holmes, A Christmas Carol, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Crazy Heart, Precious, The Hurt Locker, The Secret of Kells, 9, Astro Boy
2010s[edit]
- 2010 – How to Train Your Dragon, Despicable Me, Inception, Black Swan, The King's Speech, The Social Network, Winter's Bone, 127 Hours, 13 Assassins, Alice in Wonderland, The Town, Arrietty, True Grit, The Fighter, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Kick-Ass, The Kids Are All Right, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, Megamind, The Illusionist, Machete, Easy A, Red, Blue Valentine, The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, Chico and Rita
- 2011 – The Adventures of Tintin, The Intouchables, The Artist, Rango, Hugo, Drive, A Separation, The Tree of Life, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Midnight in Paris, Bridesmaids, The Descendants, War Horse, Moneyball, Crazy, Stupid, Love, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Help, Leafie, A Hen into the Wild, The Cabin in the Woods, From Up on Poppy Hill, Super 8, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Magic Tree House, Rio, Arthur Christmas, Winnie the Pooh
- 2012 – Life of Pi, Argo, Lincoln, Les Misérables, Hotel Transylvania, Django Unchained, Ted, Silver Linings Playbook, Pitch Perfect, 21 Jump Street (film), Magic Mike, Moonrise Kingdom, Looper, End of Watch, The Master, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Zero Dark Thirty, Wolf Children, Wreck-It Ralph, Amour, Frankenweenie, The Hunger Games, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Dark Knight Rises
- 2013 – Frozen, The DC Extended Universe, The Wolf of Wall Street, 12 Years a Slave, Gravity, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, The Great Beauty, Rush, The Wind Rises, American Hustle, Dallas Buyers Club, Captain Phillips, Her, Blue is the Warmest Colour, Prisoners, The Eternal Zero, The Conjuring, Boy and the World, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, Inside Llewyn Davis, Frances Ha, Nebraska, Pacific Rim, World War Z, Philomena, The World's End, This is the End, Blue Jasmine
- 2014 – Interstellar, Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Book of Life, Song of the Sea, Birdman, Whiplash, Paddington, American Sniper, Selma, Edge of Tomorrow, Stand by Me Doraemon, Big Hero 6, The Lego Movie, Godzilla, Gone Girl, Frank, Foxcatcher, Nightcrawler, John Wick, Wild, The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything
- 2015 – Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant, The Good Dinosaur, Shaun the Sheep Movie, The Peanuts Movie, The Hateful Eight, Spotlight, The Martian, Inside Out, The Little Prince, Ex Machina, Bridge of Spies, Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Big Short, Room, Carol, Creed, Furious 7, Wolf Warrior, Amy, Sicario, Monkey King: Hero Is Back, Straight Outta Compton, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, Anomalisa
- 2016 – La La Land, Dangal, Deadpool, Your Name, Kubo and the Two Strings, Sing, Zootopia, Sing Street, Arrival, Manchester by the Sea, Moonlight, Moana, Hacksaw Ridge, Fences, Lion, The Jungle Book, The Red Turtle, The Handmaiden, Don't Breathe, Sausage Party, In This Corner of the World, I, Daniel Blake, Shin Godzilla, Silence, Hidden Figures, Hell or High Water, My Life as a Courgette, The Secret Life of Pets, A Silent Voice
- 2017 – The Shape of Water, Get Out, It, Coco, The Breadwinner, Dunkirk, Logan, The Disaster Artist, Paddington 2, Baby Driver, The Post, I, Tonya, Blade Runner 2049, The Silent Child, The Big Sick, Call Me by Your Name, Phantom Thread, The Lego Batman Movie, Lady Bird, Loving Vincent, Ayla: The Daughter of War, In a Heartbeat, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, The Florida Project, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Darkest Hour, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, The Greatest Showman, The Emoji Movie, The Son of Bigfoot; The Harvey Weinstein scandal begins.
- 2018 – Bohemian Rhapsody, Ready Player One, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, A Star Is Born, Isle of Dogs, The Favourite, Capernaum, Roma, Eighth Grade, Deadpool 2, Bumblebee, Mary Poppins Returns, A Quiet Place, Hereditary, Crazy Rich Asians, Dragon Ball Super: Broly, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Stan & Ollie, BlacKkKlansman, Annihilation, Mirai, First Man, Green Book, Next Gen, Free Solo, One Small Step, Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, Shoplifters
- 2019 – Joker, The Irishman, Parasite, The Lion King, Ne Zha, 1917, Little Women, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Rocketman, The Farewell, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Pokémon Detective Pikachu, The Peanut Butter Falcon, Bombshell, Us, Ready or Not, Dragon Quest: Your Story, The Lighthouse, Ford v. Ferrari, Alita: Battle Angel, Missing Link, Marriage Story, Knives Out, Dolemite Is My Name, Jojo Rabbit, Hair Love, Klaus, Booksmart, Richard Jewell, Dark Phoenix, Pavarotti, Kingdom, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily
2020s[edit]
- 2020 – Last Night in Soho, Birds of Prey, Godzilla vs. Kong, Scoob!, Onward, Soul, Mank, The French Dispatch, Tenet, Sonic the Hedgehog, The New Mutants, The Many Saints of Newark, Jungle Cruise, La liga de los 5, The One and Only Ivan
- 2021 – Avatar 2, Cruella, Mortal Kombat, Wicked, Bob's Burgers: The Movie
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "World's first colour film footage viewed for first time". BBC News England. 12 September 2012. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
- 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