2019 Movie Calendar

[VinegarBob]

Christmas is coming, and that means there'll be lots of people watching the likes of It's A Wonderful Life and other hardy perennials. I like the idea of watching a movie that has some significance on the day I watch it, so I thought I'd extend the idea to the rest of the year. These are the movies I'm going to re-watch in 2019. Any suggestions for more to add are welcome.


January 3rd (J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday)
Lord of The Rings trilogy

January 30th (Start of the Tet Offensive, Vietnam 1968)
Full Metal Jacket

February 2nd (Groundhog Day)
Groundhog Day / Groundhog Day / Groundhog Day

February 10th (Gary Powers exchanged for Rudolf Abel, 1962)
Bridge of Spies

February 14th (Valentine's Day)
True Romance

March 4th (Watergate Seven formally indicted, 1974)
All The President's Men

March 17th (St. Patrick's Day)
The Boondock Saints

April 8th (Buddha's birthday)
Kundun

April 26th (Chernobyl disaster, 1986)
The China Syndrome

May 13th (Mother's Day)
Secrets And Lies

May 15th (Arthur Bremer shoots George Wallace, 1972)
Taxi Driver

June 6th (Normandy Landings, 1944)
Saving Private Ryan

June 17th (Father's Day)
The Shining (1980)

July 4th (US Independence Day)
Jaws

July 20th (Moon Landing, 1969)
Capricorn One

August 1st (The Warsaw Uprising, 1944)
The Pianist

August 31st
Oslo, August 31st

September 5th (Munich Olympics massacre)
One Day In September / Munich

September 11th (World Trade Center attacks, 2001)
The 25th Hour

September 30th (Battle of Algiers commences, 1956)
The Battle of Algiers

October 1st (Final verdicts delivered at the Nuremberg Trials, 1946)
Judgment At Nuremberg

October 31st (Halloween)
Halloween

November 22nd (Assassination of JFK, 1963)
JFK

November - Last Thursday (Thanksgiving)
Hannah & Her Sisters / Planes, Trains & Automobiles

December 25th (Christmas)
Die Hard / Scrooged

December 31st (New Year's Eve)
The Poseidon Adventure

[Paxton]

I mean, Buddha OR Rex Manning.

[livelove]

I mean, Buddha OR Rex Manning.

To everyone: Please, as a general rule: Write stuff in a manner that dumb people like me are likely to understand ...

[CosmicMonkey]

Damn, this is a really cool idea. I would love to start some sort of film club around this idea.

There are so many you could do:

January 21 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)
Selma

January 27 (Birthday of Mozart)
Amadeus

February 18 (President's Day/Lincoln's Birthday)
Lincoln

February 19 (Beginning of Gallipoli Campaign)
Gallipoli

March 4 (Mass Escape of Prisoners from Stalag Luft III)
The Great Escape

April 11 (Launch of Apollo 13)
Apollo 13

April 15 (Sinking of the Titanic)
Titanic/A Night to Remember

April 17 (End of the Cambodian Civil War and ascension of the Khmer Rouge to power)
The Killing Fields

April 28 (Mutiny on the Bounty)
Mutiny on the Bounty

April 30 (Death of Hitler)
Downfall

May 2 (Death of Osama Bin Laden)
Zero Dark Thirty

May 4 (Beginning of the Dunkirk Evacuation)
Dunkirk

May 19 (Malcom X Day)
Malcolm X

May 22 (Harvey Milk Day)
Milk

May 27 (Assassination of Grigoris Lambrakis)
Z

June 23 (Alan Turing's birthday)
The Imitation Game

June 24 (Beginning of Napoleonic invasion of Russia)
War and Peace

June 27 (Mutiny on the Potemkin)
Battleship Potemkin

June 28 (Battle of Nagashino)
Kagemusha

July 6 (Battle of Aqaba)
Lawrence of Arabia

July 13 (Anniversary of New York Draft Riots)
Gangs of New York

August 5 (Birthday of Joseph Merrick)
The Elephant Man

August 11 (Anniversary of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville)
BlackkKlansman

August 15 (First day of Woodstock Festival)
Woodstock

September 7 (Start of the London Blitz)
Hope and Glory

September 10 (Declaration of war by Britain against Germany)
The King's Speech

September 13th (Apollo 11 Moon Landing)
First Man/The Right Stuff

September 30 (Beginning of Battle of Algiers)
Battle of Algiers

October 2 (Gandhi's Birthday)
Gandhi

October 10 (Xinhai Revolution)
The Last Emperor

October 25 (Battle of Agincourt)
Henry V

November 5 (Guy Fawkes Night)
V for Vendetta

November 7 (October Revolution)
Reds

December 6 (Anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the United States)
12 Years a Slave

December 15 (Start of the Battle of Mount Austen)
The Thin Red Line


I have to go to work now, but there's likely even more that I missed.

[TimeCapsule]

I love this idea, and always wanted to try it out one year. I mapped out something similar with just holidays. There are all sorts of minor holidays to try and find movies to pair with, which can be kind of fun.

January 2019

Jan. 4th - National Trivia Day
"Quiz Show"(1994)

Jan. 5th - National Bird Day
"The Birds"(1963)

Jan. 9th - Law Enforcement Appreciation Day
"Let's Be Cops"(2014)

Jan. 26th - Australia Day
"Crocodile Dundee"(1986)

February 2019

Feb. 3rd - Super Bowl
"Ace Ventura: Pet Detective"(1994)

Feb. 4th - World Cancer Day
"50/50"(2011)

Feb. 12th - Abraham Lincoln's Bday
"Lincoln"(2012), "Young Mr. Lincoln"(1939), "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter"(2012)

Feb. 20th - National Love Your Pet Day
"Love on a Leash"(2011)

March 2019

Mar. 2nd - Texas Independence Day
"The Alamo"(1960)

Mar. 14th - Pie Day
"Pi"(1998)

April 2019

Apr. 1st - April's Fools Day
"April Fool's Day"(1986)

Apr. 18th - Holy Thursday + National High Five Day
"Dogma"(1999)

Apr. 20th - Passover + 420
"Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle"(2004)

Apr. 22nd - Earth Day
"Bio-Dome"(1996)

May 2019

May 4th - Star Wars Day + Kentucky Derby
"Star Wars: The Last Jedi"(2017)

May 7th - National Teacher Day
"High School High"(1996)

May 24th - National Brother Day + Red Nose Day
"Santa with Muscles"(1996)

May 28th - National Burger Day
"Good Burger"(1997)

June 2019

June 7th - National Doughnut Day
"Attack of the Killer Donuts"(2016)

June 14th - Flag Day
"Flags of Our Fathers"(2006)

July 2019

July 1st - Canada Day
"Strange Brew"(1983), "Canadian Bacon"(1995)

July 2nd - World UFO Day
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind"(1977)

July 17th - National Emoji Day
"The Emoji Movie"(2017)

July 27th - National New Jersey Day
"Clerks"(1994), "Garden State"(2004)

July 29th - National Lasagna Day
"Garfield: The Movie"(2004), "Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties"(2006)

August 2019

Aug. 2nd - International Beer Day
"Beerfest"(2006)

Aug. 2nd-4th - National Twin Day
"Twins"(1998), "Stuck on You"(2003)

Aug. 20th - National Radio Day
"Private Parts"(1997)

Aug. 22nd - National Tooth Fairy Day
"Tooth Fairy"(2010), "Tooth Fairy 2"(2012)

September 2019

Sept. 15th - Batman Day
"Batman"(1989)

Sept. 19th - Talk Like a Pirate Day
"DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story"(2004)

Sept. 22nd - World Rhino Day
"Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls"(1995)

Sept. 27th - World Tourism Day
"Hostel"(2005)

October 2019

Oct. 31st - Halloween
"Halloween III: Season of the Witch"(1982)

November 2019

Nov. 5th - Election Day
"Election"(1999), "Man of the Year"(2006), "The Campaign"(2012)

Nov. 12th - National Pizza Day
*[Apr. 5th - Deep Dish Pizza Day/ Sept. 5th - National Cheese Pizza Day/ Sept. 20th - National Pepperoni Pizza Day]
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze"(1991)

Nov. 17th - National UnFriend Day
"Unfriended"(2014)

Nov. 19th - World Toilet Day
"Joe's Apartment"(1996)

December 2019

Dec. 1st - World AIDS Day
"Philadelphia"(1993), "Dallas Buyers Club"(2013)

Dec. 24th - Christmas Eve
"The Nightmare Before Christmas"(1993)