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1941 (film)

1941 is a 1979 Steven Spielberg comedy about Los Angeles invasion panic after Pearl Harbor, written by Zemeckis, Gale, and Milius, starring Belushi and Aykroyd, with three Oscar nominations and a $90 million worldwide gross.

1942: A Love Story

1942: A Love Story is a 1994 Hindi musical romantic drama by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, set during the Quit India Movement, starring Anil Kapoor and Manisha Koirala, with R.D. Burman's soundtrack and the first Indian film in Dolby sound.

1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture

1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture is a 2022 documentary by Sharon "Rocky" Roggio about the word "homosexual" entering the 1946 Revised Standard Version Bible in 1 Corinthians 6:9 and its aftermath.

1955 in film

1955 in film: the year's cinema, marked by the 27th Academy Awards honoring 1954 films, On the Waterfront's dominance, Ray's Pather Panchali debut, Ealing's sale to the BBC, and declining UK cinema attendance amid television competition.

1960–61 United States network television schedule

The 1960–61 United States network television schedule is the primetime lineup of ABC, CBS, and NBC for September 1960 through March 1961, when The Flintstones debuted as the first primetime cartoon.

1962: The War in the Hills

1962: The War in the Hills is a 2021 Hindi Disney+ Hotstar war series by Mahesh Manjrekar, starring Abhay Deol as Major Suraj Singh, fictionalizing the 1962 Sino-Indian War last stand of about 126 Indian soldiers against 3,000 Chinese troops.

1963–64 United States network television schedule

1963-64 United States network television schedule: the ABC, CBS, and NBC primetime lineups for the season beginning September 1963; CBS's comedy block led, ABC premiered a week early, the Beatles drew an estimated 73 million viewers on Ed Sullivan, and weekly boxing left network TV after September 11, 1964.

1964–65 United States network television schedule

The 1964–65 United States network television schedule covers prime time programming on ABC, CBS, and NBC, remembered for NBC's color expansion and fall 1964 debuts like Gilligan's Island and Bewitched.

1965–66 United States network television schedule

The 1965–66 United States network television schedule covers ABC, CBS, and NBC prime time beginning September 1965: first-ever one-week premieres, CBS's first mostly-color season, Bonanza as top-rated show.

1966 in film

1966 in film: year of A Man for All Seasons (Best Picture), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Persona, Andrei Rublev, and Blow-Up; Hays Code revisions, the M rating, New German Cinema prizes, and Sembène's Black Girl.

1966–67 United States network television schedule

The 1966–67 United States network television schedule lists ABC, CBS, and NBC prime time programs for the season, when new series included Star Trek and The Monkees.

1967–68 United States network television schedule

The 1967–68 United States network television schedule covers prime time and daytime programming on ABC, CBS, and NBC, opening just after The Fugitive's record finale in August 1967.

1968–69 United States network television schedule

The 1968–69 United States network television schedule covered ABC, CBS, and NBC prime time from September 1968 to August 1969, topped by Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.

1969 (film)

1969 (film) is a 1988 American drama directed by Ernest Thompson, starring Robert Downey Jr., Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce Dern, and Winona Ryder; two friends come of age during the Vietnam War era.

1969 in film

1969 in film: the transition year between the studio system and New Hollywood. Midnight Cowboy won Best Picture as the only X-rated film; Easy Rider, Butch Cassidy, The Wild Bunch, and Z defined the year.

1969–70 United States network television schedule

The 1969-70 US network TV schedule covers ABC, CBS, and NBC primetime from fall 1969, featuring Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Laugh-In, The Music Scene/The New People 45-minute experiment, and Nielsen ratings leaders.

1970 in film

1970 in film: the year's releases and industry, with M.A.S.H. winning Cannes' Grand Prix, Butch Cassidy winning a record nine BAFTAs, Love Story topping the 1970 box office, and US attendance near record lows.

1970s in manga

The 1970s in manga: the decade Japanese comics became a mass medium, with the shōjo manga innovation by the Year 24 Group, the rise of seinen manga and Weekly Shōnen Jump, and the 1975 founding of Comic Market.

1971 (2007 film)

1971 is a 2007 Hindi war drama directed by Amrit Sagar, starring Manoj Bajpayee, about six Indian soldiers escaping Pakistani POW camps after the 1971 war; it won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi and went viral online in 2020.

1971 in film

1971 in film: the New Hollywood high-water year of Two-Lane Blacktop, Klute, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Last Picture Show, and A Clockwork Orange; blaxploitation began with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and Shaft; The French Connection won five Oscars.

1971–72 United States network television schedule

1971–72 US network television schedule: ABC, CBS, and NBC primetime lineups, September 1971 to August 1972, first season under the FCC's Prime Time Access Rule, after the CBS rural purge, with All in the Family as the top-rated show.

1971: Beyond Borders

1971: Beyond Borders (2017) is a Malayalam war film by Major Ravi, fourth in the Major Mahadevan series, starring Mohanlal in a double role as Mahadevan and his father Sahadevan; a Kurukshetra prequel on the 1971 Indo-Pak war that flopped despite a 15-crore budget.

1972 in film

1972 in film: the cinema year of The Godfather, the year's top grosser and Best Picture winner, Cabaret's 8 Oscars, and hits from Deliverance, Cabaret, and The Poseidon Adventure.

1973 in film

1973 in film: the year of The Exorcist's $441.3M worldwide gross, The Sting's Best Picture Oscar sweep, Tatum O'Neal's record win, Cannes honors for Scarecrow and La Maman et la Putain, and Westworld's first movie CGI.

1973–74 United States network television schedule

1973–74 United States network television schedule: ABC, CBS, and NBC primetime lineups, September 1973 to August 1974; CBS Saturday's All in the Family-led comedy block topped the Nielsen ratings.

1974 in film

1974 in film: the year of The Godfather Part II, Chinatown, and The Conversation; Coppola won the Palme d'Or and Best Picture for two different films, and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre launched the slasher era.

1974–75 United States network television schedule

The 1974–75 United States network television schedule: ABC, CBS, and NBC prime-time grids for fall 1974, reshuffled by the Prime Time Access Rule, with All in the Family as the season's top-rated show and 24 new series.

1975 in film

1975 in film: the year of Jaws, the first modern summer blockbuster ($280M domestic, $490.7M worldwide), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Barry Lyndon, Nashville, Jeanne Dielman, Cannes Palme d'Or Chronicle of the Years of Fire, and the Betamax launch.

1975–76 United States network television schedule

The 1975–76 United States network television schedule covers ABC, CBS, and NBC primetime from September 1975 to August 1976: first 22-hour weekly schedule, ABC edging CBS in ratings, Rich Man Poor Man, and SNL's debut.

1976 in film

1976 in film: the year of Rocky's Best Picture win, Taxi Driver and Network, Lina Wertmuller's first female Best Director nomination, the Steadicam debut, Futureworld's 3D CGI, and JVC's first VHS releases.