Karel Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, is one of a cycle of British "Kitchen Sink" films dealing with everyday working-class life.

Federico Fellini's La dolce vita, Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura, and Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers spearhead the European art cinema's modern turn.

Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard's debut feature.

First ruby laser is built by Theodore Maiman.

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Michael Powell's Peeping Tom break new ground for representations of violence and criminal pathology.

First successful hologram is produced.

Tiros I satellite sends images of planet earth from space.

Nippon Kogaku Kogyo K.K., forerunner of Nikon, releases the Nikon S3M, their only 35mm half-frame camera.

Nippon Kogaku Kogyo K.K., forerunner of Nikon, releases their first Nikkorex (manufactured by Mamiya) SLR 35mm camera. The Nikkorex 35 which was designed for the non-professional.

The Polaroid Land 120 instant camera, manufactured by Yashica Co. under contract with Polaroid Corp., is introduced.

Commercial color film is perfected.

American drive-in theater attendance peaks, then begins to decline as a new exhibition trend makes its appearance in the latter half of the decade: the shopping mall multiplex.

Cinema, youth, and political cultures meet to produce several "new waves" around the world, most notably in Brazil, Britain, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Latin America, Poland, and Yugoslavia.

The Konica F camera has the fastest SLR shutter speed at 1/2000 sec. and the world's first focal-plane shutter with metal curtains.

Alain Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad, is a touchstone of reflexive, cerebral art cinema.

Nagao Yasushi of the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper becomes the first Japanese to win the Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of the October 1960 murder of Asanuma Inejiro, the Japan Socialist Party chairman.

Eastman Kodak introduces the faster Kodachrome II color film.

Chronicle of a Summer by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin, an experiment in collaborative ethnography and cinéma verité techniques.

New York premiere of John Cassavetes's Shadows, a gritty, improvisational film exploring the theme of "passing for white" against the backdrop of white racism.

In Hong Kong, the Shaw Brothers (Shaoshi) builds Movietown, a 46-acre complex of studios, sets, laboratory facilities, and dormitories.

Notable films include Blake Edwards's Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins’s West Side Story.

First manned space flight.

Eastman Kodak introduces its successful line of Kodak Carousel slide projectors which used a round tray for 80 slides.

Terence Young's Dr. No, the first 007 movie, stars Sean Connery as Cold War superspy James Bond.

Glauber Rocha's Barravento, is a foundation work for Brazil's Cinema Nôvo movement.

New York Filmmaker's Co-op is organized by Jonas Mekas to support the production, distribution, and exhibition of experimental and avant-garde film.

After a decade as Hollywood's reigning starlet, Marilyn Monroe dies of a drug overdose.

David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia stars Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif.

Japan displaces West Germany as the world's top producer of cameras.

Nippon Kogaku Kogyo K.K., forerunner of Nikon, releases the Nikkorex F and Nikkorex 35-II SLR 35mm cameras, which are manufactured by Mamiya.

Stan Brakhage's Dog Star Man, emblematic of a cycle of lyric films aiming to record the act of seeing, the flow of imagination, and the sensation of emotion.

The major Hollywood studios are bought by and become subsidiaries of American conglomerates.

The film director as superstar: Federico Fellini's 8½.

Senegalese writer/director Ousmane Sembene's Borom Sarret is the first indigenous black African film.

William Asher's Beach Party, is the first in a series of teen-oriented beach films starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.

Foundation of the Swedish Film Institute, revolutionary in its system of awards to quality films.

Alfred Hitchock’s The Birds.

Kodak 126 Cartridge / Instamatic Cameras are introduced.

Polaroid introduces instant color film.

President John F. Kennedy is shot to death in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald is arrested the same day.

Racial clashes, civil rights demonstrations, mass march in Washington.

Civil Right Demonstration, Birmingham by Charles Moore.

Nippon Kogaku Kogyo K.K., forerunner of Nikon, releases the Nikkorex Zoom 35 (manufactured by Mamiya) SLR 35mm camera and the Nikonos underwater camera. The Nikonos was developed in conjunction with the famous French diver Jacques Cousteau.

Police arrest theater owners on obscenity charges in Los Angeles and New York City for screening Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures and Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising, two scandalous works of the American underground.

Popular films: Robert Stevenson’s Mary Poppins, George Cukor’s My Fair Lady, Blake Edwards’s The Pink Panther.

Rock band Beetles Mania.

The Pentax SP is introduced, the first SLR camera with a through-the-lens exposure system.

Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville, is a stylized science-fiction adventure set in the future and shot entirely on location in Paris.

Introduction of Super 8, a new amateur format.

David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago.

Robert Wise’s The Sound of Music.

U.S. begins heavy involvement in the Vietnam War.

The first Japanese cameras incorporating electronic shutters are introduced. They include the Yashica Electro Half, Olympus 35 EM, and Olympus 35 LE.

Canon's Canonet QL 17 compact camera is the world's first camera with a Quick Loading feature for 35mm film.

Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up, emblematic of pop art cinema and of "Swinging London."

Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers relocates neorealism in Third World struggles.

Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls, a two-screen film with random reel order, is the first mainstream success of the American underground.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, the first American film released with a rating ("SM"–Suggested for Mature Audience).

Sawada Kyoichi wins the Pulitzer Prize for his "Escape to Safety" photos of the Vietnam War. He is later killed on the battlefield.

Canon U.S.A. Inc. is established in the U.S.

Mike Nichols's The Graduate and Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde garner huge ticket sales by appealing to young anti-establishment audiences.

Wavelength, a famous Structural film by Canadian Michael Snow.

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn star in the last of nine films they made together in Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.

Protests over Vietnam reach climax when 35,000 demonstrate outside the Pentagon.

European art films link social with sexual revolutions: Vilgot Sjöman's I Am Curious–Yellow, Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema, Dušan Makavejev's WR: Mysteries of the Organism.

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, is a science fiction film of great technical accomplishment and a visionary quality without precedent.

Japan's Gross National Product becomes the second largest in the world after the U.S.

Argentinean filmmakers Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino's Hour of the Furnaces and Cuban director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's Memories of Underdevelopment , key works of the New Latin American cinema.

The Motion Picture Producers of America (MPPA, formerly MPPDA) introduces a new four-point ratings system ranging from "G" to "X" to replace the now defunct Production Code.

Student demonstrations in Czechoslovakia, France, Japan, Spain, the United States, and West Germany generate a wave of politically engaged collective filmmaking.

Launching of the Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage, an important festival for Arab cinema held biennially in Tunis.

Vietnam Execution by Eddie Adams (Viet Cong officer killed).

Robert Kennedy Moments After He Was Shot by Bill Eppridge. Senator Robert Kennedy is killed after delivering a victory speech in a Los Angeles hotel following the California presidential primary.

Photograph of the Earth from the moon.

Assassination of Martin Luther King.

Tet offensive staggers Vietnam.

The Yashica Lynx 5000 E was the first camera to employ ICs (integrated circuits).

Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch and Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider criticize the American myth of individual freedom and appeal to a growing anti-Vietnam War protest movement; John Schlesinger's X-rated Midnight Cowboy wins the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Launching of the Pan-African Film and Television Festival (FESPACO) in Ougadougou, Burkina Faso.

Man’s First Moon Walk by Neil Armstrong.

The Woodstock Festival.

Canon Camera Company Inc. changes names to Canon Inc.

The Asahi Pentax 6x7 medium-format camera is introduced, the first 6x7cm format camera in the world to feature an eye-level pentaprism.

Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith invent the first successful imaging technology using a digital sensor, a CCD.