Welcome. Yes, the coding is gleefully retro here - who knew that websites could look "so 1998". But here we focus our geekery elsewhere: on movies, and more specifically, on the chronology of all movies, pasted together in a big list. Keep your submissions coming in! You make this. The list runs on one simple premise: that everything you see in the movies is true - the real mixes with the fictitious, so long as it's reported in a movie somewhere. So do join in - the above left links should help you Submit the event from the film you'd like, although do a Search first - we may well have it already!

NEWS! We have a Twitter account. Follow @MovieTimeline. You'll then be treated to one 'event' a day from the world of movie history - some'll be real world stuff, some'll be the world of fiction.

I recently blogged about my personally handpicked journey through history in 100 movies. Do click and read. It's in 3 parts, so click on the links at the bottom after part 1.

1605: 5th November: Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up the Houses of Parliament. (London - V for Vendetta)

1699: 5th November: Gulliver encounters a storm and winds up in Lilliput. (Gulliver's Travels)

1916: Sunday 5th November: Dorian Gray visits his former sweetheart's grave, and is shot at by her brother. (Dorian Gray)

1937: Friday 5th November: High schooler Richard Samuels ditches school and hops a bus for New York City. There he impresses Orson Welles into casting him in the role of Lucius, Brutus' page, in his landmark modern-dress production of "Julius Caesar". (New York City, New York - Me Bleichert takes a dive in the 8th round. (Los Angeles, Ca - The Black Dahlia)

1955: Saturday 5th November: Marty McFly arrives in Hill Valley, from 1985; Doc Brown invents the flux capacitor when he slips off his toilet. (Back to the Future)

1965: Friday 5th November: "Maverick" Mitchell's father is shot down while flying a Navy F4 Phantom. (Top Gun)

1968: Tuesday 5th November: Richard Nixon elected U.S. President. (Nixon)

1973: Monday 5th November: Donald Segretti is sentenced to six months in prison. (All the President's Men)

1981: Thursday 5th November: Caroline Feller commits suicide by driving into a tree, leaving two daughters - Rose and Maggie - in the care of her husband. (In Her Shoes)

1991: Tuesday 5th November: Newcomer Cecil Porter and Detective Bill Tuggle are shot to death by newcomers. (Los Angeles, California - Alien Nation)

1995: Sunday 5th November: Bridget Jones falls down a fireman's pole onto a camera. (Lewisham, London - Bridget Jones's Diary)

1998: Thursday 5th November: DAILY NEWS headline: "NEW CONGRESSMAN CELEBRATES VICTORY... WITH BAR BRAWL." (New York City - The Adjustment Bureau)

1998: Thursday 5th November: After Zoe joins Eric, Linus, Hutch and Windows on their trip to Skywalker Ranch, Eric and Linus meet their contact while Hutch and Windows fall in with a pair of escorts and their pimp. (Las Vegas, Nevada - Fanboys)

2001: Monday 5th November: Johnny Damon, Ron Gant, Jason Giambi, Gil Heredia, Jason Isringhausen and Greg Myers granted Free Agency by the Oakland Athletics. (Moneyball)

2006: Sunday 5th November: Vince wins a gold star when he finds a lost boy in the store by wrestling him to the groun. (Super Club superstore - Employee of the Month)

2008: Wednesday 5th November: The media finds out that Bud Johnson has to vote in order to break a tie. (Texico, New Mexico - Swing Vote)

2014: Wednesday 5th November: The Old Bailey is blown up by V. (V for Vendetta)

2016: Saturday 5th November: V destroys Larkhill Detention Centre. (Larkhill Detention Centre - V for Vendetta)

2026: Thursday 5th November: CraveOnline article "Just the Bad Guys: Mexico's SuperMax Prison Trades Human Guards for Robots" is published. (RoboCop)

Here are a few recent films we've put in their chronological place...

Bridesmaids
Tintin
Captain America
Hugo
Moneyball
The Woman In Black
Sherlock Holmes
The King's Speech
Friends With Benefits
...as well as many others.

You can explore the dates on the left-hand bar to see discover...

When Harry Met Sally - that'll be 1977.
The Day The Bubble Burst - it was a Tuesday.
The Day The Earth Stood Still - that was a Wednesday.
Employee of the Month - that month was November 2006.
Hogwarts was founded just 61 years after King Arthur sought the Holy Grail by storming a castle with a large wooden rabbit.

Plus the coincidences, for instance...

- Gangs of New York's Amsterdam Vallon was killing Butcher Bill, down the road Abraham Lincoln was being kidnapped by Bill 2006 - 2021 Paul Kerensa