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1990s English-language films

  • The Last Outlaw (1993 film)HBO broadcast the film on the 30th of October 1993. Director Geoff Murphy and writer Eric Red collaborated to create this Western television movie.
  • Toy StoryToy Story premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on the 19th of November 1995. It marked a turning point for animation history as the first fully…
  • Apollo 11 (1996 film)The year 1995 brought a massive box office hit with the film Apollo 13. Executive producer James Manos Jr. saw an opportunity to follow that success.
  • Fight ClubFox 2000 Pictures producer Laura Ziskin purchased the rights to Chuck Palahniuk's novel Fight Club for ten thousand dollars in 1996.
  • Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom MenaceGeorge Lucas returned to the Star Wars franchise in 1993 after a long hiatus that began with the release of Return of the Jedi in 1983.
  • Apollo 13 (film)On the third day of their journey to the Moon, an electrical short circuit caused a liquid oxygen tank to explode inside the Apollo 13 spacecraft.
  • Titanic (1997 film)James Cameron stared into the dark Atlantic in 1985 and saw a ghost. He had spent years studying shipwrecks, but the Titanic felt like Mount Everest to him.
  • Phantoms (film)In the quiet ski resort village of Snowfield, Colorado, a group of survivors finds only corpses scattered across the streets. Dr.
  • Jacob's Ladder (1990 film)Bruce Joel Rubin woke from a dream in 1980 where he found himself trapped inside a New York City subway station. He wrote the script for Jacob's Ladder that…
  • Groundhog Day (film)In 1990, screenwriter Danny Rubin sat in a theater lobby reading Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat. He began musing about vampiric immortality and what one…
  • The Shawshank RedemptionFrank Darabont purchased the film rights to Stephen King's novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption for five thousand dollars in 1987.
  • The 13th WarriorMichael Crichton published his novel Eaters of the Dead in 1976. This book merged two distinct historical threads into a single narrative.