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| 9 | [[quoteright:300:[[Theatre/{{Macbeth}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/william_shakespeare_macbeth.png]]]] |
| 10 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[JustForFun/TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples Yup, the Bard did this one, too.]]]] |
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| 12 | ->''"Admitting that genius which has familiarized itself with all the relics of an ancient period can sometimes, by the force of its sympathetic divination, restore the missing notes in the "music of humanity," and reconstruct the fragments into a whole which will really bring the remote past nearer to us, and interpret it to our duller apprehension,–this form of imaginative power must always be among the very rarest, because it demands as much accurate and minute knowledge as creative vigour."'' |
| 13 | -->-- '''Creator/GeorgeEliot''', ''Literature/SillyNovelsByLadyNovelists'' |
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| 15 | This is fiction set in a distinctive historical period other than the one the author lives in, which brushes up against actual historical figures if it doesn't star them outright. Depending on the bent of said author, they may let their [[AuthorTract biases]] bleed through via HistoricalHeroUpgrade or HistoricalVillainUpgrade. A HistoricalBeautyUpdate will make the story more fun without making it much less accurate. Important historical events are at least mentioned in passing if they don't have a strong influence on the plot. DeliberateValuesDissonance will frequently happen in a Historical Fiction story unless the author embraces PoliticallyCorrectHistory. Often, the period predates a TropeBreaker (though sometimes the audience doesn't realize that). ForegoneConclusion is also a major aspect of Historical Fiction since the events in question will usually end in the same way they did in RealLife. |
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| 17 | This type of fiction is usually a {{Drama}}. Historical Fiction that's a comedy is extremely rare due to history being associated with serious storytelling, grand narratives, and emotional depth. Comedic storytelling thrives on simplicity and exaggeration, which may clash with the nuanced and complex nature of historical events. Dramas allow for a more in-depth exploration of historical contexts, characters, and themes without the pressure to simplify or exaggerate for comedic effect. |
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| 19 | This can overlap with AlternateHistory if the history is shown to play out differently and HistoricalFantasy if fantastic elements are present. Compare to PeriodPiece, which uses the past as a backdrop for the drama, while Historical Fiction is fiction in which historical events significantly affect the plot. HistoricalDetectiveFiction is a common subgenre. HistoricalAU is for when writers take an existing canon and place its characters/events in a historical fiction context. |
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| 21 | Usually it includes one or more {{Historical Domain Character}}s, and may commonly employ ArtisticLicense when the author feels the story is more important than accuracy. See also DocuDrama, which tends to aim for more adherence to the facts, but adds its own interpretation to the details, and TheAbridgedHistory, which parodies history. |
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| 23 | Compare and contrast FieldTripToThePast and AdventuresInTheBible, in which characters from the present day go back in time to experience history. |
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| 25 | !!Examples: |
| 26 | [[index]] |
| 27 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 28 | |
| 29 | [[folder:'''Categories''']] |
| 30 | [[AC:Works by medium]] |
| 31 | + [[HistoricalFictionLiterature Literature]] |
| 32 | + [[HistoricalSeries Live-Action TV]] |
| 33 | + [[HistoricalWebcomics Webcomics]] |
| 34 | \ |
| 35 | [[AC:Works by setting]] |
| 36 | + UsefulNotes/CommonHistoricalSettings |
| 37 | \ |
| 38 | [[AC:Works by subgenre]] |
| 39 | + AlternateHistory |
| 40 | + CostumeDrama |
| 41 | + HistoricalDetectiveFiction |
| 42 | + HistoricalFantasy |
| 43 | + HistoricalReCreation |
| 44 | + PeriodPiece |
| 45 | [[/folder]] |
| 46 | |
| 47 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 48 | * ''Anime/TheAdventuresOfChristopherColumbus'' |
| 49 | * ''Manga/{{Angolmois}}'' |
| 50 | * ''Manga/AnnaComnena'', set in UsefulNotes/TheByzantineEmpire. |
| 51 | * ''Manga/{{Aoi Horus no Hitomi}}'' |
| 52 | * ''Manga/{{Arte}}'': Set in UsefulNotes/{{Florence}}, UsefulNotes/{{Italy}} during UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance. |
| 53 | * ''Manga/BlackButler'', set in UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain. |
| 54 | * ''Manga/BlissfulLand'', set in 18th-century Tibet. |
| 55 | * ''Manga/ABridesStory'' |
| 56 | * ''Anime/TheBushBaby'' - 1960s Kenya/Kenyan independence |
| 57 | * ''Manga/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto'' is set in Renaissance Italy and focuses on the life of Cesare Borgia. |
| 58 | * ''Anime/LeChevalierDEon'', set in 18th-century Europe. |
| 59 | * ''Manga/{{Claudine}}'', set in France in the first decade of the 20th century. |
| 60 | * ''[[Manga/DivciValka Dívčí Válka]]'', set during the Hussite Wars. |
| 61 | * ''Manga/EvyioneOceanFantasy'', set in 18th-century Europe. |
| 62 | * ''Manga/HonooNoAlpenRose'', set in Switzerland during UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo and focuses on a group of children working with the anti-Nazi resistance. |
| 63 | * ''Manga/GoldenKamuy'', set in early [=1900s=] UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan in the aftermath of the UsefulNotes/RussoJapaneseWar, specifically the northern island of Hokkaido. |
| 64 | * ''Manga/HaikaraSanGaTooru'', set in UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan, in 1923. |
| 65 | * ''Manga/{{Historie}}'', set in the time of UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat. |
| 66 | * ''Manga/HoneyHoney'', set in Vienna, 1907. |
| 67 | * ''Manga/{{Innocent}}'' |
| 68 | * ''Manga/InnocentsShounenJuujigun'', set in 13th-century France and focusing on the Crusades. |
| 69 | * ''Anime/IsabelleOfParis'', set in 1870s France |
| 70 | * ''Anime/JeanieWithTheLightBrownHair'' set during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar |
| 71 | * ''Manga/KaseiYakyoku'', set in UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan of TheRoaringTwenties |
| 72 | * ''Anime/KatriGirlOfTheMeadows'' set in UsefulNotes/{{Finland}} during UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne |
| 73 | * ''Manga/KazeHikaru'', set in 1860s Japan during the Meiji Era, where main heroine Sei [[SweetPollyOliver disguises herself as a boy]], joins UsefulNotes/TheShinsengumi and has a budding romance with historical Shinsengumi captain Souji Okita. |
| 74 | * ''Anime/KazeNoShojoEmily'' set in an AmbiguousTimePeriod of Canada, but implied to be in the 1920s, just like the book it was based on (''Literature/EmilyOfNewMoon'' by Creator/LMMontgomery). |
| 75 | * ''Manga/KazeToKiNoUta'', set in 1880s France. |
| 76 | * ''Manga/{{Kemuri to Mitsu}}'' |
| 77 | * ''Manga/{{Kingdom}}'' set in China in the Warring States period (3rd century [=BC=]). |
| 78 | * ''Manga/{{Lady}}'' (AmbiguousTimePeriod England) |
| 79 | * ''Anime/LaSeineNoHoshi'', set during UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution |
| 80 | * ''Manga/LaSeineNoHoshi'' (manga; different continuity) |
| 81 | * ''Anime/LucyMayOfTheSouthernRainbow'', set in 1800s Australia |
| 82 | * ''Manga/MadamePetite'', set in UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan, in 1920. |
| 83 | * ''Manga/MademoiselleButterfly'', set in the 1930s with {{geisha}}s. |
| 84 | * ''Anime/MarsRed'', set in the Taisho era. |
| 85 | * ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'', set primarily in the UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain. |
| 86 | * ''[[Manga/NapoleonAgeOfTheLion Napoleon - Age Of The Lion]]'', set in the late 18th century France. |
| 87 | * ''[[Manga/NapoleonMilitaryRuleAdvances Napoleon - Military Rule Advances]]'', set in 1800 France. |
| 88 | * ''Anime/NightRaid1931'', set in the Showa era around 1931 prior to the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar. |
| 89 | * ''Anime/NijiNoKanataEShoujoDianaMonogatari'', a biopic of Princess Diana |
| 90 | * ''Manga/RedMudan'' |
| 91 | * ''Manga/RequiemOfTheRoseKing'', set during the UsefulNotes/WarsOfTheRoses but taking some inspiration from Creator/WilliamShakespeare's two own well-known Roses plays. |
| 92 | * ''Anime/{{Revenger}}'', set in 19th century Japan. |
| 93 | * ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'', set in pre-revolutionary France. |
| 94 | * ''Manga/SakuraGari'', set in the Taishou Era, more exactly in 1920. |
| 95 | * ''Manga/{{Sidooh}}'', set in the mid-to-late 1800s, during the chaos of the Bakumatsu Era. |
| 96 | * ''[[Manga/UtaeErinna Utae! Erinna]]'' |
| 97 | * ''Manga/VinlandSaga'', set in the 11th century during the Viking Age, and chronicling the adventures of famed explorer Thorfinn Karlsefni and the rise to power of Cnut the Great, among other things. |
| 98 | * ''[[Manga/VladDraculea Vlad Drăculea]]'' |
| 99 | * ''[[Manga/AWitchsLifeInMongol A Witch's Life in Mongol]]'', set in the Mongol Empire. |
| 100 | * ''Manga/{{Wolfsmund}}'', set in early 14th-century Switzerland and focusing on the Swiss war of independence against the Habsburgs. |
| 101 | * ''Manga/YumeNoShizukuKinNoTorikago'', set in the early 16th century and focusing on the history of the Ottoman Empire. |
| 102 | [[/folder]] |
| 103 | |
| 104 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 105 | * ''ComicBook/FiveRonin'': The seriesis set is 17th century Japan. |
| 106 | * ''ComicBook/{{Barracuda}}'' is set during the Golden Age of Piracy. |
| 107 | * ''ComicBook/{{Championess}}'' is a fictionalized account of the rise of Elizabeth Wilkinson, a pioneering female boxer in 1720s London. |
| 108 | * ''ComicBook/{{Cossacks|2022}}'', a French comic book about a young early 17th century Lithuanian Hussar from the UsefulNotes/PolishLithuanianCommonwealth who deserts the Polish army to join a group of UsefulNotes/{{Ukrain|e}}ian UsefulNotes/{{Cossacks}} and live among them. |
| 109 | * ''ComicBook/{{Democracy}}'' is a graphic novel about the formation of democracy in Ancient Athens. The story is told by a fictional character to boost his comrades' spirit before the Battle of Marathon and it features many [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Historical Domain Characters]]. |
| 110 | * ''ComicBook/TheEaglesOfRome'' is about the Battle of Teutoburg Forest where several Roman legions were destroyed by a Germanic uprising. Numerous characters really did exist (such as Arminius), while others are fictitious. |
| 111 | * ''ComicBook/FromHell'' by Creator/AlanMoore is an impeccably researched depiction of Victorian London during the UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper murders. It mixes historical fiction and accurate detail with ConspiracyKitchenSink. |
| 112 | * ''ComicBook/GustavVasa'' set in 16th-century Sweden. |
| 113 | * ''ComicBook/{{Koba}}'' a graphic novel set in the USSR at the end of the 1940s (with a few flashbacks to other periods) detailing Stalin and other characters' encounters with a mysterious group of vampires. |
| 114 | * ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'': The comic by Creator/DonRosa sets its main character in various decades from the 1870s to the 1940s, featuring such characters as Murdo Mac Kenzie, Wyatt Earp, and Theodore Roosevelt. |
| 115 | * ''ComicBook/MagnetoTestament'' takes place during the late interwar period and World War II, specifically the Holocaust. |
| 116 | * ''ComicBook/Marvel1602'': The series is set in early 17th century America and Europe. |
| 117 | * ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'' by Creator/ArtSpiegelman is more like non-fiction. It documents the experiences of Vladek Spiegelman, the author's father, during UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust. |
| 118 | * ''ComicBook/MendozaTheGreat'': Follows the story of legendary boxer Daniel Mendoza from the late 18th century to early 19th century. |
| 119 | * ''ComicBook/{{Origin|2001}}'': The series follows the formative years of ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, revealing him to have been born in the late 19th century. |
| 120 | * ''ComicBook/APeoplesHistoryOfTheAmericanEmpire'' uses a lecture by historian Howard Zinn as a framing device to tell about several controversial and often ignored parts of American history from the end of the Civil War to 9/11. |
| 121 | * ''ComicBook/TheScorpion'' takes place in Rome during the second half of the eighteenth century, but feature several deviations from known history, such as one of the main bad guys becoming Pope. |
| 122 | * The ''ComicBook/SunnySeries'' is a coming of age series set in The70s. |
| 123 | * ''ComicBook/{{Three}}'' is set in Sparta in the fourth century BC. It features some {{Historical Domain Character}}s, but the plot itself is fictional. |
| 124 | * ''ComicBook/{{Tomahawk}}'' is set in colonial America and during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution. The last issues jump ahead to the opening of the American Midwest (early 1800s) and focus on Tomahawk's son. |
| 125 | [[/folder]] |
| 126 | |
| 127 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 128 | * ''Fanfic/SisterFloriana'' is set right in the middle of the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar. |
| 129 | * ''Fanfic/SixesAndSevens'' is an ''Series/AgentCarter'' fanfic that also takes inspiration from ''ComicBook/{{The Invaders|MarvelComics}}'', so naturally it becomes this. Following Michael Carter and OC Emily as they try to track down an old colleague of Dr. Erskine's in UsefulNotes/{{Turkey}}, the author mixes actual historical fact and espionage procedure alongside the pulp elements. |
| 130 | * ''Fanfic/AThingOfVikings'' reimagines the characters of ''Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon'' as if they existed in the actual Middle Ages. The emergence of dragons from Berk causes numerous changes to world history from thereon. |
| 131 | * The ''Fanfic/{{Uplifted}}'' series is this. Especially the first trilogy, which takes place during World War II. |
| 132 | [[/folder]] |
| 133 | |
| 134 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 135 | * ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', though taking place in a MouseWorld, mirrors what life was like for immigrants in New York during the 1880s. |
| 136 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' |
| 137 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' |
| 138 | ** ''WesternAnimation/MulanII'' |
| 139 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' |
| 140 | [[/folder]] |
| 141 | |
| 142 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 143 | * ''Film/AceOfAces'' opens during World War I and is mainly set in Nazi Germany in 1936. |
| 144 | * ''Film/AdieuBonaparte'', set in 1798 during UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte's Egyptian campaign. |
| 145 | * ''Film/TheAdmiral2014'', set in Joseon-dynasty Korea. |
| 146 | * ''Film/AgainstAllFlags'', set in Madagascar in 1700. |
| 147 | * ''Film/AguirreTheWrathOfGod'', set in South America during the Age of Exploration. |
| 148 | * ''Film/Alatriste2006'', an adaptation of Creator/ArturoPerezReverte's novel series of same name that takes place in the second half of UsefulNotes/TheEightyYearsWar. |
| 149 | * ''Film/AnneOfTheIndies'', set in the Caribbean circa 1720. |
| 150 | * ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays1956'': Set during the Victorian era. |
| 151 | * ''Film/AroundTheWorldIn80Days2004'': Set in VictorianLondon. The movie has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Kelvin Lord Kelvin]] as BigBad with HistoricalVillainUpgrade. Cameos include Creator/VincentVanGogh, Creator/HenriDeToulouseLautrec, UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria, UsefulNotes/WongFeiHung, the Wright Brothers, and even the Art/StatueOfLiberty! |
| 152 | * ''[[Film/AssassinsCreed2016 Assassin's Creed]]''. The Animus segments are set at the very end of the UsefulNotes/SpanishReconquista during the fall of Granada in 1491-1492 and involve UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition. |
| 153 | * ''Film/BarryLyndon'' set during the UsefulNotes/SevenYearsWar and Georgian England. |
| 154 | * ''Film/Belle2013'', set in the mid-to-late 1700s. |
| 155 | * ''[[Film/BenHur1959 Ben-Hur]]'', set during Jesus' lifetime. |
| 156 | * ''Film/BertieAndElizabeth'' starts in the 1920s and ends in the 1950s. |
| 157 | * ''Film/{{Blonde}}'', set in TheThirties through TheSixties about the life of Creator/MarilynMonroe adapted from a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, containing so much ArtisticLicense it could not be called a {{biopic}}. |
| 158 | * ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'', set in the First War of Scottish Independence. |
| 159 | * ''Film/BrotherFuture'' involves an African-American teenager from the 1990s being transported to the year 1822 in the Antebellum South. |
| 160 | * ''Film/BrotherhoodOfTheWolf'', set in 1760s France. |
| 161 | * ''Film/CarryOnCleo'', set in 64 AD and starring UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar, UsefulNotes/MarkAntony and UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII. |
| 162 | * ''Film/CarryOnColumbus'', set during UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus' voyage to America. |
| 163 | * ''Film/CarryOnCowboy'', set in the time of the Wild West. |
| 164 | * ''Film/CarryOnDick'', set in England in 1750. |
| 165 | * ''Film/CarryOnEngland'', set in the darkest days of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. |
| 166 | * ''Film/CarryOnHenry'', set during the reign of UsefulNotes/HenryVIII. |
| 167 | * ''Film/CarryOnJack'', set at sea in the early 1800s. |
| 168 | * ''Film/CarryOnScreaming'', set in England in 1907. |
| 169 | * ''Film/CarryOnUpTheJungle'', set in Africa in 1900. |
| 170 | * ''Film/CarryOnUpTheKhyber'', set in India in 1895. |
| 171 | * ''Film/{{Cartouche}}'', about a famous French highwayman of the early 18th century. |
| 172 | * ''Film/{{Centurion}}'', depicts a possible fate of the Legio IX Hispania - the legendary Ninth Legion that [[LostRomanLegion mysteriously disappeared from Roman records in the early second century AD]]. |
| 173 | * ''The Children of An Lac'', a film depicting two American women assisting a courageous Vietnamese orphanage caretaker evacuate hundreds of orphaned children to the United States shortly before the fall of Saigon during the Vietnam War. |
| 174 | * ''Film/TheChorus'' (2004) is set primarily in 1949. |
| 175 | * ''Film/{{Corsage}}'', set in 1877-1878, about UsefulNotes/ElisabethOfAustria. |
| 176 | * ''Film/TheCourier2021'': Set primarily in the early 1960s during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar; a dramatization of the espionage work of Oleg Penkovsky and Greville Wynne. |
| 177 | * ''Film/{{Cromwell}}'' is about UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell and the UsefulNotes/EnglishCivilWar. |
| 178 | * ''Film/DadsArmy1971'', set in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. |
| 179 | * ''Film/DadsArmy2016'', set in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. |
| 180 | * ''Film/DontLoseYourHead'', set during the French Revolution. |
| 181 | * ''Film/Dumas2010'', based around Creator/AlexandreDumas and his {{Ghostwriter}}, Auguste Maquet. |
| 182 | * ''Film/{{Eiffel}}'' is a fictionalized tale around the construction of the Eiffel Tower in UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} in 1889. |
| 183 | * ''Literature/TheEmigrants'' and ''Film/TheNewLand'', depicting the story of a Swedish family's taking part in the beginning of the Swedish migration to the upper Midwest in the 1850s. |
| 184 | * ''Film/Emperor2012'', set during the post-World War II occupation of Japan. |
| 185 | * ''Film/EverAfter'', during the French Renaissance. Complete with Creator/LeonardoDaVinci (and ''Art/TheMonaLisa''). |
| 186 | * ''Film/TheFavourite'', set in England during the early 18th century, about Queen Anne's relationship with her {{Royal Favorite}}s Sarah Churchill and Abigail Masham. |
| 187 | * ''Film/FellinisCasanova'', Italy and France in the 18th century. |
| 188 | * ''Film/TheFleshAndTheFiends'', based on the true case of Burke and Hare, who murdered at least 16 people in 1828 Edinburgh, Scotland and sold their bodies for anatomical research. |
| 189 | * ''Film/FollowThatCamel'', set in North Africa in 1906. |
| 190 | * ''Film/ForrestGump'' inserts the title character at various points in American history from Elvis Presley to Hurricane Camille. |
| 191 | * ''Film/FourteenNinetyTwoConquestOfParadise'', about UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus and the discovery of America to the Europeans. |
| 192 | * ''Film/FromHell'': Adapted from the comic (see above). |
| 193 | * ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'', set just before the 1863 New York draft riots, which break out during the climax. |
| 194 | * ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', set during Commodus' reign. |
| 195 | * ''Film/GoebbelsAndGeduldig'', set in Nazi Germany in the 30s and World War II. |
| 196 | * ''Film/{{Golda}}'', Israel in The70s. |
| 197 | * ''Film/Gold2017'', set during the Spanish conquest of Latin America |
| 198 | * ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', set during the waning days of the Civil War and featuring an iconic burning of Atlanta. |
| 199 | * ''Film/HacksawRidge'', The famous story of a conscientious objector who served as a combat medic on Okinawa during World War II. |
| 200 | * ''Film/TheHandmaiden'', set during the Japanese occupation of Korea in the 1930s. |
| 201 | * ''Film/HowCzarPeterTheGreatMarriedOffHisMoor'', set in the Russian Empire in the 18th century. |
| 202 | * ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'', set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. |
| 203 | * ''Film/{{Invictus}}'', set in UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica, in the early years of Nelson Mandela's administration. |
| 204 | * ''Film/IronWill'', a young musher sets out on a quest to save his family farm by winning a sled dog race through the Minnesota wilderness during World War I. |
| 205 | * ''Film/JewSuss1934'', set in 18th century Duchy of Württemberg. |
| 206 | * ''Film/JewSuss1940'', set in 18th century Duchy of Württemberg. |
| 207 | * ''Film/JuliusCaesar1953'', set in the last days of UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic. |
| 208 | * ''Film/JuliusCaesar1970'', same as above. |
| 209 | * ''Film/TheKing'', set in the early 15th century. |
| 210 | * ''Film/TheKingAndTheClown'' is set in Joseon-dynasty Korea during the reign of UsefulNotes/YeonsangunOfJoseon. |
| 211 | * ''Film/{{Kundun}}'', set in UsefulNotes/{{Tibet}} in the youth of the Dalai Lama. |
| 212 | * ''Film/TheLastDuel'', set in late 14th century France. |
| 213 | * ''Film/TheLastEmperor'', a biography of the Emperor Pu Yi, chronicles Chinese history in the 20th century. |
| 214 | * ''Film/TheLastKingOfScotland'' is about Ugandan dictator UsefulNotes/IdiAmin during TheSeventies. |
| 215 | * ''Film/TheLastQueen'', set around the Ottoman capture of UsefulNotes/{{Alg|eria}}iers in 1516. |
| 216 | * ''Film/TheLeopard'', set during the UsefulNotes/WarsOfItalianIndependence. |
| 217 | * ''[[Film/Liberte2019 Liberté]]'', set in France in 1774. |
| 218 | * ''Film/{{Lincoln}}'', set during the final stages of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar and the final days of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln. |
| 219 | * ''Film/LouisTheChildKing'', about the youth of French king UsefulNotes/LouisXIV in the mid-17th century. |
| 220 | * ''Film/MarketaLazarova'', set during the HighMiddleAges, particularly towards the end of the 13th century. |
| 221 | * ''Film/TheMarriedCoupleOfTheYearTwo'', set during the ReignOfTerror phase of the French Revolution. |
| 222 | * ''Film/MaryQueenOfScots2018'', follows the life of UsefulNotes/MaryQueenOfScots from her arrival in Scotland (1561) until her death in England (1587). |
| 223 | * ''Film/MaryShelley'', follows the courtship of the titular character, her life with her husband and what inspired her to write ''Literature/Frankenstein''. |
| 224 | * ''Film/Masquerade2012'' is set in Joseon-dynasty Korea. |
| 225 | * ''Film/MasterAndCommander'', set during UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars. |
| 226 | * ''Film/TheMessengerTheStoryOfJoanOfArc'', dramatization of the life of UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc. |
| 227 | * ''Film/MississippiBurning'', two investigators descend on a racist-ridden Mississippi town investigating the murders of three Civil Rights activists. |
| 228 | * ''Film/TheMollyMaguires'', about a secret society of Irish-American coal miners in 1870s Pennsylvania. |
| 229 | * ''Film/TheMongols'', about the mid-13th century invasion of Poland by Mongol hordes. |
| 230 | * ''Film/MunichTheEdgeOfWar'', about the infamous Munich Agreement in 1938. |
| 231 | * ''Film/NefertitiQueenOfTheNile'', about various inhabitants of AncientEgypt. |
| 232 | * ''Film/NorthFace'', about the 1936 attempt to climb the [[TitleDrop north face]] of the Eiger, a mountain in Switzerland. |
| 233 | * ''Film/TheNorthman'', based off the medieval Scandinavian legend of Amleth. |
| 234 | * ''Film/NorthWestFrontier'', set in early 20th-century India. |
| 235 | * ''Film/NorthwestPassage'', dealing with "Rogers' Rangers" during the [[UsefulNotes/SevenYearsWar French and Indian War]]. |
| 236 | * ''Film/OutlawKing'', set in early 14th century UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}. |
| 237 | * ''Film/{{Padmaavat}}'', set in 13th-century India. |
| 238 | * ''Film/ThePatriot2000'', set in a [[AnachronismStew/ThePatriot2000 very anachronistic version]] of the American Revolutionary War in the South. |
| 239 | * ''Film/PearlHarbor''. Unlike other Pearl Harbor movies, you have to sit through DevelopingDoomedCharacters first. |
| 240 | * ''Film/PopeJoan'', set in 9th century Central Europe. |
| 241 | * ''Film/ThePromise2016'', set during the Ottoman Empire's involvement in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and the Armenian genocide. |
| 242 | * ''Literature/QuoVadis'', set during Nero's reign. |
| 243 | * ''Film/{{Rampant}}'', set in Joseon-dynasty Korea. |
| 244 | * ''Film/TheRavenTrilogy'' set in and around, Viking age UsefulNotes/{{Iceland}} |
| 245 | * ''Film/TheRipper1997'': a dramatization of the UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper murders of 1888. |
| 246 | * ''Film/TheRiseAndFallOfIdiAmin'', a biopic about the rise and fall of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 1970s. |
| 247 | * ''Film/TheRobe'', set during the reigns of Tiberius and Caligula. |
| 248 | * ''Film/RomasantaTheWerewolfHunt'' is set in the Galician countryside in Spain in 1851, and centres around the hunt for Spain's first documented SerialKiller. |
| 249 | * ''Film/Rosewood1997'': Set in Florida in 1923, it dramatises the true story of the Rosewood massacre, though some events are fictionalised and the protagonist played by Creator/VingRhames was created for the film. |
| 250 | * ''Film/ARoyalAffair'', set in 18th-century Denmark, following the love affair of Queen Caroline Matilda and Dr Johann Struensee, her husband's advisor |
| 251 | * ''Film/TheSecretGarden'', set in Edwardian England where a ten-year-old girl is sent to live with her bitterly widowed uncle at his manor in the country after her parents are killed in an earthquake. |
| 252 | * ''Film/Sissi1955'', about UsefulNotes/ElisabethOfAustria. |
| 253 | * ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'', a retelling of Spartacus' revolt. |
| 254 | * ''Film/{{Swashbuckler}}'', set in Jamaica in 1718. |
| 255 | * ''Film/SweatyBeards'', set in 10th-century Sweden. |
| 256 | * ''Film/ThreeKingdomsResurrectionOfTheDragon'', based on ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms'', much like the aforementioed ''Red Cliff''. |
| 257 | * ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', set during the 1912 sinking of the famous ship. |
| 258 | * ''Film/ThoseMagnificentMenInTheirFlyingMachines'', set in 1910 during the early days of aviation. |
| 259 | * ''Film/TowerOfLondon'', in the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. |
| 260 | * ''Film/TowerOfLondon1962'': On the death of his brother King Edward IV, Richard of Gloucester conspires to get the throne for himself. |
| 261 | * ''Film/{{U 571}}'', set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. |
| 262 | * ''Film/UpPompeii'', set right before the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius. |
| 263 | * ''Film/UpTheChastityBelt'', set during the time of the Crusades. |
| 264 | * ''Film/UpTheFront'', set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne. |
| 265 | * ''Film/VaincreOuMourir'', about a royalist insurgency figure during UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution. |
| 266 | * ''Film/ValhallaRising'', a group of Vikings and Christian crusaders accidentally end up in North America in 1000 AD. |
| 267 | * ''Film/TheVikings'', Viking raids in Northumbria in the 9th century. |
| 268 | * ''Film/LesVisiteurs'', a film series in which an early [[TheHighMiddleAges 12th century]] French knight and his squire TimeTravel to different eras by mistake, including TheNineties and UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution. |
| 269 | * ''Film/{{The War Lord|1965}}'', a 11th century Norman warlord has to rule and defend his fiefdom. |
| 270 | * ''Film/WangDeShengYan'' AKA The Last Supper, portraying the rise to power of Gaozu, the first Han emperor, and his last days. |
| 271 | * ''Film/WhenTheLastSwordIsDrawn'' (''Mibu Gishi Den''), set during the [[UsefulNotes/MeijiRestoration Boshin War]]). |
| 272 | * ''Film/WhereHandsTouch'': Set in Nazi Germany from the late 1930s through to the end of World War Two, about the struggles of an Afro-German girl duing the period. |
| 273 | * ''Film/TheWomanKing'', set in 1820s Western Africa. |
| 274 | * ''Film/YoungMrLincoln'', set during the early years of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln. |
| 275 | * ''Film/Youth2017'', set in China, mainly in the 1970s during and after the UsefulNotes/CulturalRevolution, with part of it set during the [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Sino-Vietnamese War]] of 1979. |
| 276 | * ''Film/{{Zodiac|2007}}'', a {{Docudrama}} about the unidentified SerialKiller, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer Zodiac Killer]]. Set from TheSixties to TheEighties, while the final single scene is set in an early [[TheNineties 90s]]. |
| 277 | [[/folder]] |
| 278 | |
| 279 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 280 | See HistoricalFictionLiterature. |
| 281 | [[/folder]] |
| 282 | |
| 283 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 284 | See HistoricalSeries. |
| 285 | [[/folder]] |
| 286 | |
| 287 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 288 | * ''Podcast/EighteenSixtyFive'' deals with the fallout from the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. |
| 289 | [[/folder]] |
| 290 | |
| 291 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 292 | * ''Theatre/{{Anastasia}}'' |
| 293 | * ''Theatre/{{Annie}}'': Set in Depression-era New York City, an orphan is taken in and eventually adopted by a millionaire. |
| 294 | * ''Theatre/{{Arcadia}}'' |
| 295 | * ''Theatre/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto'' |
| 296 | * ''Theatre/{{Dunsinane}}'' |
| 297 | * ''Theatre/{{Elisabeth}}'' |
| 298 | * ''Theatre/TheEmperorConstantine'' |
| 299 | * ''Theatre/GotzVonBerlichingen'' |
| 300 | * ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' |
| 301 | * ''Theatre/MaratSade'' |
| 302 | * ''Theatre/MarieAntoinetteMusical'' |
| 303 | * ''Theatre/{{Mozart}}'' |
| 304 | * ''Theatre/MozartLOperaRock'' |
| 305 | * ''Theatre/{{Rebecca}}'' |
| 306 | * ''Theatre/{{Sovereignty}}'' |
| 307 | * The Creator/TakarazukaRevue has performed many original musicals with historical settings. Shows set in ancient Japan are so common they have their own name: ''nihonmono'' (日本物), meaning literally "Japanese thing". |
| 308 | * Many of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's works, including: |
| 309 | ** ''Theatre/AntonyAndCleopatra'' |
| 310 | ** ''Theatre/HenryIV'' |
| 311 | ** ''Theatre/HenryV'' |
| 312 | ** ''Theatre/HenryVI'' |
| 313 | ** ''Theatre/HenryVIII'' |
| 314 | ** ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'' |
| 315 | ** ''Theatre/KingJohn'' |
| 316 | ** ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' |
| 317 | ** ''Theatre/RichardII'' |
| 318 | ** ''Theatre/RichardIII'' |
| 319 | [[/folder]] |
| 320 | |
| 321 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 322 | * The ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' franchise uses ConspiracyKitchenSink to indulge in recreations of actual historical events, places, and figures in the Animus parts of the games. |
| 323 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'' is set during the [[UsefulNotes/TheCrusades Third Crusade]]. |
| 324 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' takes place during the [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance Italian Renaissance]]. |
| 325 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' is also set during the Italian Renaissance, and adds the UsefulNotes/ItalianWars as context. |
| 326 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'' is set in early 16th century [[UsefulNotes/{{Turkey}} Ottoman Empire]], with memories set during the Third Crusade and Mongol conquest of Syria. |
| 327 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' is mostly set before and during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution. |
| 328 | *** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIIILiberation'' is also set during the American Revolution, but in the French colony of Louisiana this time around. |
| 329 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'' is set during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy. |
| 330 | *** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedFreedomCry'' is also set during the Golden Age of Piracy, but focuses more on the slavery aspect of the era. |
| 331 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue'' is set during the UsefulNotes/SevenYearsWar. |
| 332 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity'' is set during UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution. |
| 333 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedChronicles'' takes place in three different settings: ImperialChina, the First Anglo-Afghan War and UsefulNotes/TheRussianRevolution. |
| 334 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'' is primarily set in UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain. |
| 335 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'' is set in [[AncientEgypt Ptolemaic Egypt]] and AncientRome (the final days of UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic). |
| 336 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey'' is set in UsefulNotes/AncientGreece during UsefulNotes/ThePeloponnesianWar. |
| 337 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedValhalla'' is set in UsefulNotes/TheVikingAge and DarkAgeEurope. |
| 338 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedMirage'' is set in 9th Century Abbasid [[UsefulNotes/{{Iraq}} Baghdad]]. |
| 339 | * ''VideoGame/AviaryAttorney'' is set in Paris in 1848 (or at least a WorldOfFunnyAnimals version thereof), and includes some of the events of the February Revolution. |
| 340 | * ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'' is a fantastic steampunk recreation of America in the Presidency of William [=McKinley=]. |
| 341 | * Like many World War II games, ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' recreates actual battles of World War II, some with more accuracy than others. |
| 342 | * The ''VideoGame/{{Imperivm}}'' franchise recreates the old times of Rome. |
| 343 | * ''VideoGame/TheInvisibleHours'', an EnvironmentalNarrativeGame set in ChristieTime. |
| 344 | * ''VideoGame/KingdomComeDeliverance'' is set circa 1403 in the Kingdom of Bohemia as CivilWar breaks out. |
| 345 | * ''VideoGame/LANoire'' recreates Los Angeles in the 40s and involves actual historical figures and real-life events such as the Black Dahlia murder as part of its plot. |
| 346 | * ''VideoGame/MyChildLebensborn'': The plot is about a fictional Norwegian Lebensborn child and their adoptive parent in a mostly accurate post-UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Norway. |
| 347 | * ''VideoGame/NobunagasAmbition'': Set during UsefulNotes/SengokuJidai. |
| 348 | * The story of VideoGame/{{Pentiment}} is heavily defined by late-medieval Catholicism and the burgeoning Reformation as they affected the Holy Roman Empire. |
| 349 | * ''VideoGame/PhantomDoctrine'' is set during the late Cold War of the 1980s and touches upon things like sneaking across the Berlin Wall and the 1983 bombing in Beirut. |
| 350 | * ''VideoGame/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdomsKoei'': same as ''Dynasty Warriors'' except it's mostly a strategy game. |
| 351 | * ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'': Set during UsefulNotes/SengokuJidai. |
| 352 | * ''VideoGame/SniperElite'': Set during World War II's WorldWarII/WarInEuropeAndAfrica, detailing an Allied agent's hunt to stop Nazi wonder weapon projects. |
| 353 | ** ''VideoGame/SniperEliteV2'' |
| 354 | ** ''VideoGame/SniperEliteIII'' |
| 355 | ** ''VideoGame/SniperElite4'' |
| 356 | * ''VideoGame/TotalWar'' |
| 357 | ** ''VideoGame/ShogunTotalWar'' |
| 358 | ** ''VideoGame/MedievalTotalWar'' |
| 359 | ** ''VideoGame/RomeTotalWar'' |
| 360 | ** ''VideoGame/MedievalIITotalWar'' |
| 361 | ** ''VideoGame/EmpireTotalWar'' |
| 362 | ** ''VideoGame/NapoleonTotalWar'' |
| 363 | ** ''VideoGame/TotalWarShogun2'' |
| 364 | ** ''VideoGame/TotalWarRomeII'' |
| 365 | ** ''VideoGame/TotalWarAttila'' |
| 366 | ** ''VideoGame/ThronesOfBritanniaATotalWarSaga'' |
| 367 | ** ''VideoGame/TotalWarThreeKingdoms'' |
| 368 | [[/folder]] |
| 369 | |
| 370 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 371 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Hakuouki}}'' is another UsefulNotes/{{Shinsengumi}} tale, covering through the end of the Boshin War. |
| 372 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Heileen}}'' |
| 373 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Misericorde}}'' is set in England in 1483. |
| 374 | [[/folder]] |
| 375 | |
| 376 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 377 | See HistoricalWebcomics. |
| 378 | [[/folder]] |
| 379 | |
| 380 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 381 | * ''WebVideo/ConfessionsDHistoire'' |
| 382 | * ''Literature/TheHistoryOfArturiusAurelianus'' |
| 383 | [[/folder]] |
| 384 | |
| 385 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 386 | * ''WesternAnimation/LibertysKids'', set in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution. |
| 387 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Molierissimo}}'', French series set in the century of King UsefulNotes/LouisXIV and centered on Creator/{{Moliere}}'s theatre. The young protagonist meets quite a lot of important people of the era. |
| 388 | * ''WesternAnimation/PrincessSissi'', a German series that takes a ''lot'' of liberties with the life of Elizabeth of Bavaria. |
| 389 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheStorykeepers'', which doubles as ReligiousEdutainment. It tells the story of ancient Christians escaping persecution by the Roman emperor UsefulNotes/{{Nero}}. |
| 390 | [[/index]] |
| 391 | [[/folder]] |
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