* Crackerjack – a 2002 Australian comedy film about a wisecracking layabout who joins a lawn bowls club in order to be allowed to use a free parking spot but is forced to play bowls with the much older crowd when the club enters financial difficulty.

The December 2002 issue of Gear magazine featured a story about technologies and trends that could violate personal privacy moving society closer to a " Big Brother " state and utilised a recreation of the movie poster from the film version of 1984 created by Dallmeierart. com.

* Bug ( 2002 film ), a comedy-drama about a chain of events begun by a boy squashing a bug

* Bloody Sunday ( TV film ), a 2002 film depicting a version of events of Bloody Sunday 1972

It can be heard in the gun show scene from the 2002 film Showtime, and in the film Jesus ' Son, in a scene that features a hitch-hiking Jack Black.

* Bloody Mary ( TV movie ), a 2002 horror television film

She followed with another leading part in the thriller film Trapped ( 2002 ), alongside Kevin Bacon and Charlize Theron.

The film was re-released in the US in 2002.

* Company ( film ), a 2002 Hindi film directed by Ram Gopal Varma

* 1922 – George Roy Hill, American film director ( d. 2002 )

In 2002, Morris was commissioned to make a short film for the 75th Academy Awards.

In the director's commentary on the DVD edition of the film ( released in 2002 ), Coppola states that this film was the first major motion picture to use " Part II " in its title.

Roger Ebert considers it to be the finest film on the Vietnam war and included it on his list for the 2002 Sight and Sound poll for the greatest movie of all time.

* 1930 – John Frankenheimer, American film director ( d. 2002 )

* 2002 – George Nader, American film and TV actor ( b. 1921 )

Ackerman amassed an extremely large and complete collection of science fiction, fantasy and horror film memorabilia, which, until 2002, he maintained in a remarkable 18-room home and museum known as the " Son of Ackermansion.

The Resident Evil video game franchise was adapted into a film released in March 2002.

The British film 28 Days Later ( 2002 ) featured an update on the genre with The Return of the Living Dead ( 1985 ) style of aggressive zombie.

* Heaven, a 2002 film that implies heaven can be reached the higher up one goes ( in the film's case, in a helicopter ).

Shearer directed the 2002 film Teddy Bears ' Picnic and appeared in several films, including A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, The Simpsons Movie, The Truman Show, and Godzilla among many others.

Brown also made a cameo appearance in the 2002 Jackie Chan film The Tuxedo, in which Chan was required to finish Brown's act after Brown was accidentally knocked out by Chan.

* In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Colin Powell on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

* 1931 – Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher ( d. 2002 )

* In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante named Frederick Douglass to his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

* 2002 – Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher ( b. 1931 )

In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante included Harriet Tubman on his list of the 100 Greatest African Americans.

In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Duke Ellington on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

* In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Nat Turner as one of the 100 Greatest African Americans.

In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Jack Johnson on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante included Marian Anderson in his book, 100 Greatest African Americans.

Only one scholar, Georges Declerq ( Declerq, 2002 ), thinks that Dionysius placed the Incarnation and Nativity in AD 1, basing his conclusion on the structure of Dionysius's Easter tables.

In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Joe Louis on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy: A Life Basic Books: 2002 online edition, by a leading conservative scholar

* 2002, the Afrocentrist scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Crispus Attucks as among the 100 Greatest African Americans.

It was discovered in 2002 by the Canadian scholar Reginald Hamel, who was researching in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante included him in his book, the 100 Greatest African Americans.

* John Stevens ( literary scholar ) ( 1921 – 2002 ), Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English, Cambridge University

In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed James Baldwin on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

* 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Drew as one of the 100 Greatest African Americans.

* 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante included Oscar Micheaux on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

* Benz, Ernst, Emanuel Swedenborg: Visionary Savant in the Age of Reason ( Swedenborg Foundation, 2002 ) ISBN 0-87785-195-6, a translation of the thorough German language study on life and work of Swedenborg, Emanuel Swedenborg: Naturforscher und Seher by the noted religious scholar Ernst Benz, published in Munich in 1948.

In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Edward Brooke on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Stokely Carmichael on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Elijah Muhammad on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

The historicity of the Sacred Band was challenged in 2002 by the classical scholar David D. Leitao who believes that it " rests on the most precarious of foundations ".

In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante included Morgan on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.