| 1000: | Atanarjuat's incredible run [The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) (2001)] |
| 1492: | Columbus "discovers" America [1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)] |
| 1520: | The Mother Goddess meets the Virgin of Guadalupe [La Otra Conquista (The Other Conquest) (1998)] |
| 1528: | Cabeza de Vaca goes native [Cabeza de Vaca (1991)] |
| 1552: | Hans Staden meets the cannibals [How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês) (1971)] |
| 1560: | The Search for El Dorado [Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) (1972)] |
| 1607: | Pocahontas rescues John Smith [The New World (2005)] |
| 1620: | Mayflower voyage [Plymouth Adventure (1952)] |
| 1634: | Converting the Indians [Black Robe (1991)] |
| 1692: | The Devil in Massachusetts [The Crucible (1996)] |
| 1694: | Sor Juana capitulates [Yo, La Peor De Todas (I, The Worst of All) (1990)] |
| 1757: | The French and Indian War [The Last of the Mohicans (1920)] |
| 1769: | Daniel Boone heads for Kentucky [With Daniel Boone Through the Wilderness (1926)] [Daniel Boone (1960)] |
| 1787: | Hemings and Jefferson [Jefferson in Paris (1995)] [Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (2000)] |
| 1790: | The "good" slavemaster [La Ultima Cena (The Last Supper) (1976)] |
| 1809: | Abraham Lincoln is born [Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)] |
| 1841: | Solomon Northup sold into slavery [12 Years a Slave (2013)] |
| 1860: | Molly Maguires active [The Molly Maguires (1970)] |
| 1863: | Blacks fight for freedom [Glory (1989)] |
| 1863: | Furor in Five Points [Gangs of New York (2002)] |
| 1867: | The Reconstruction Era [Birth of a Nation (1915)] |
| 1876: | Custer's Last Stand [They Died with Their Boots On (1941)] |
| 1881: | Showdown at the O.K. Corral [Wyatt Earp (1994)] |
| 1892: | The Johnson County War [Heaven's Gate (1980)] |
| 1918: | When pacifists fight [Sergeant York (1941)] |
| 1919: | Black Sox scandal [Field of Dreams (1989)] |
| 1923: | War against African Americans [Rosewood (1997)] |
| 1932: | The Crime of the Century [The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976)] |
| 1933: | Gangster heroes [Bonnie and Clyde (1967)] |
| 1935: | Dust Bowl depression [Grapes of Wrath (1940)] |
| 1941: | A day that will live in infamy [Pearl Harbor (2001)] |
| 1942: | Japanese-Americans rounded up [Come See the Paradise (1990)] |
| 1944: | The Tuskegee Airmen fly into battle [Red Tails (2012)] |
| 1947: | Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier [42 (2013)] |
| 1954: | Murrow v. McCarthy [Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)] |
| 1963: | A young president is assassinated [JFK (1991)] |
| 1964: | Freedom Summer [Mississippi Burning (1988)] |
| 1964: | Cassius Clay becomes Muhammad Ali [Ali (2001)] |
| 1965: | Malcolm X is assassinated [Malcolm X (1992)] |
| 1965: | Ia Drang Valley, the Vietnam War begins [We Were Soldiers (2002)] |
| 1968: | Fighting (against) the war [Born on the Fourth of July (1989)] |
| 1969: | Three days of peace and music [Woodstock (1970)] |
| 1969: | Manson family murders [Helter Skelter (1976)] |
| 1970: | Janis Joplin dies [The Rose (1979)] |
| 1970: | Houston, we have a problem. [Apollo 13 (1995)] |
| 1973: | The CIA in Chile [Missing (1982)] |
| 1973: | Roe v. Wade [Cider House Rules, The (1999)] |
| 1974: | Radiation kills Karen Silkwood [Silkwood (1983)] |
| 1974: | President Nixon resigns [Nixon (1995)] |
| 1975: | Fall of Phnom Penh [The Killing Fields (1984)] |
| 1975: | Murder at Pine Ridge [Incident at Oglala (1992)] |
| 1977: | Son of Sam murders [Summer of Sam (1999)] |
| 1977: | First openly gay man elected [Milk (2008)] |
| 1979: | The Iran hostage crisis [Argo (2012)] |
| 1980: | Archbishop Romero assassinated [Romero (1989)] |
| 1983: | AIDS identified [And the Band Played On (1993)] |
| 1988: | The Supreme Court backs Hustler [The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)] |
| 1989: | The secret war in Afghanistan [Charlie Wilson's War (2007)] |
| 1993: | Defeat in Mogadishu [Black Hawk Down (2001)] |
| 1994: | Blowing the whistle on "Big Tobacco" [The Insider (1999)] |
| 1994: | Genocide in Rwanda [Hotel Rwanda (2004)] |
| 2001: | "Let's roll!" [United 93 (2006)] |
| 2002: | Daniel Pearl beheaded [Mighty Heart, A (2007)] |
| 2003: | Weapons of mass destruction [W. (2008)] |
