Dashed left edge = started before February 1991 ·
Dashed right edge = ongoing beyond February 1991
Events in February 1991 2
1988 – 1991James Brown in prisonCar chaseServes two years after a car chase across Georgia and South Carolina.
1991The Silence of the Lambs ReleasedThriller sweeps the following year's Academy AwardsJonathan Demme's psychological thriller The Silence of the Lambs, starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, opened in theaters. It went on to win all five major Academy Awards, including Best Picture, one of only three films to achieve the sweep. Hannibal Lecter became one of cinema's most enduring villains.