->'''British Soldier:''' Taste my sword, French person!\\
'''French Soldier:''' No! Wait! We are allies! This is UsefulNotes/WorldWarI!\\
'''British Soldier:''' I'm terribly sorry! I thought it was UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar! Does this mean I can kill Italians?\\
'''French Soldier:''' ''[consulting manual]'' No, I'm afraid not. Not until UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
-->-- '''Creator/DaveBarry''', "A Rash Proposal"

Pick a war. Any war. Then write a story about it; it doesn’t matter if the story is fictional or BasedOnATrueStory. It doesn’t matter if the war in question actually happened or not. The point is to write a story that is meant to entertain and, usually, to make a point. For obvious reasons, people from countries that participated in a war are more likely to write about them. Usually media will focus on one unit whether it's a regiment, a company, or something smaller, like a squad or platoon. If the media is live-action, then it is usually based on foot soldiers due the expensive nature of filming aerial, tank, and naval combat. There are exceptions that use CGI, models, and stock footage of course.

This trope is named for the catchphrase of Uncle Albert from ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses''. Note that the correct pronunciation is "[[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents JYEW-rin-na WAW-ah]]".

Contrast WarWasBeginning and GreatOffscreenWar. See also MilitaryAndWarfareTropes and UsefulNotes/WarsInHistory.
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[[foldercontrol]]

[[folder: Real-Life Wars ]]

* UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Achilles}}''
** ''Theatre/{{Ajax}}''
** ''Literature/TheIliad''
** ''Recap/DoctorWhoS3E3TheMythMakers''
** ''Theatre/{{Philoctetes}}''
** ''Literature/TheTrojanCycle''
** ''Film/{{Troy}}''
* UsefulNotes/GrecoPersianWars
** ''Film/ThreeHundred''
*** ''Film/ThreeHundredRiseOfAnEmpire''
** ''Film/The300Spartans''
** ''Literature/GatesOfFire''
** ''Literature/TheHistories''
* UsefulNotes/ThePeloponnesianWar
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey''
** ''Theatre/{{Lysistrata}}''
* UsefulNotes/MacedonianSuccessionWars
** ''Literature/OverTheWineDarkSea''
* UsefulNotes/PunicWars
** ''Literature/{{Salammbo}}''. Mostly deals with the consequences of the wars for Carthage.
* Gallic Wars and Roman Civil War
** ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}''
** ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}''
** ''Series/{{Rome}}''
* [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire Roman Empire Wars]]
** ''Series/{{Barbarians}}''
** ''Series/{{Britannia}}''
** ''Film/TheFallOfTheRomanEmpire''
** ''Film/{{Gladiator}}''
** ''Series/{{Kaamelott}}''
** ''Film/KingArthur2004''
** ''Series/{{Masada}}''
* [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfNormandy Norman Conquest]]
** ''Film/{{The War Lord|1965}}''
* UsefulNotes/TheCrusades
** ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI Assassin's Creed]]''
** ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven''
** ''Myth/RobinHood''
*** ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves''
** ''Film/TheSeventhSeal''
** ''[[VideoGame/{{Stronghold}} Stronghold Crusader]]''
* The Anarchy
** ''Literature/BrotherCadfael''
** ''Series/{{Cadfael}}''
** ''Literature/ThePillarsOfTheEarth'' (literature)
** ''Series/ThePillarsOfTheEarth'' (series)
* Wars of Scottish Independence
** ''Film/{{Braveheart}}''
** ''Film/OutlawKing''
* UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar
** ''Theatre/HenryV''
** ''Series/JoanOfArc''
** ''Film/TheMessengerTheStoryOfJoanOfArc''
** ''Film/ThePassionOfJoanOfArc''
** ''Series/ThierryLaFronde''
** ''Literature/WorldWithoutEnd''
** ''Literature/TheGrailQuest Series''
** ''Literature/{{Azincourt}}''
* UsefulNotes/WarsOfTheRoses
** ''Series/{{Blackadder}}''
** ''Theatre/HenryVI''
** ''Theatre/RichardIII''
* UsefulNotes/ItalianWars
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood''
** ''Series/{{Borgia}}''
** ''Series/TheBorgias''
* Sengoku Jidai
** JidaiGeki
* The Ottoman-Safavid Wars
** ''Literature/MyNameIsRed'' (Referenced several times)
* UsefulNotes/TheEightyYearsWar
** ''Literature/{{Alatriste}}''
* UsefulNotes/ThirtyYearsWar
** ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo''
** ''Film/TheLastValley''
** ''Film/QueenChristina''
** ''Literature/{{Simplicissimus}}''
* Frontier "Indian Wars" (so-called)
** ''Film/DancesWithWolves'' (Set during the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar, but mostly takes place on the Western frontier in Colorodo)
** ''Film/FortApache''
** ''Series/FTroop''
** ''Film/GeronimoAnAmericanLegend''
** ''Film/SonOfTheMorningStar''
** ''WesternAnimation/SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron''
* UsefulNotes/EnglishCivilWar
** ''Series/{{Blackadder}}: the Cavalier Years''
** ''Series/ByTheSwordDivided''
* Glorious Revolution
** ''Series/DoctorWho''
* UsefulNotes/HanoverStuartWars
** ''Film/{{Culloden}}''
** ''Literature/{{Waverley}}''
* UsefulNotes/WarOfTheAustrianSuccession
** ''Theatre/DerRosenkavalier''. Set during the war, though this is mostly used to explain why the protagonist's husband is absent. He is off fighting the war while his wife engages in an affair.
* UsefulNotes/SevenYearsWar
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' (The first segment of the game takes place in the American colonies where hostilities broke out between the British and French empires and the player actively fights in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Monongahela Battle of the Monongahela]]. The rest of the game takes place during the UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution.
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue'' (This game serves as a prequel to the above and explores the war in much more depth)
** ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresIII'' (''Ice'', John Black's segment)
** ''Film/BarryLyndon''
** ''[[Film/FanfanLaTulipe Fanfan la Tulipe (1952)]]''
** ''Film/FanfanLaTulipe2003''
** ''Film/TheLastOfTheMohicans''
** ''Film/LaTourPrendsGarde''
** ''Literature/TheLeatherstockingTales''
* UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution
** ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix''
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII''
** ''Film/TheCrossing''
** ''Theatre/TheDevilsDisciple''
** ''Webcomic/TheDreamer''
** ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}''
** ''Literature/JohnnyTremain''
** ''Film/ThePatriot2000''
** ''ComicBook/{{Tomahawk}}''
** ''{{Series/Turn}}''
* UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity''
** ''Film/TheMarriedCoupleOfTheYearTwo''
** ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities''
** ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles''
** ''VideoGame/WeTheRevolution''
* UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars
** ''Literature/AubreyMaturin''
** ''Literature/BloodyJack''
** ''Literature/TheCharterhouseOfParma''
** ''Film/TheDuellists''
** ''Literature/HoratioHornblower''
** ''Film/Napoleon1927''
** ''Film/Napoleon1955''
** ''Series/Napoleon2002''
** ''Film/Napoleon2023''
** ''Literature/PinkCarnation''
** ''Literature/SevenMenOfGascony''
** ''Literature/{{Sharpe}}''
** ''Literature/TheTalesOfEnsignStal''
** ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}''
** ''Literature/WarAndPeace''
** ''Film/{{Waterloo}}''
* UsefulNotes/WarOf1812
** ''Literature/DecadesOfDarkness''
** ''Literature/TrailOfGlory''
* UsefulNotes/TheCrimeanWar
** ''Film/TheChargeOfTheLightBrigade''
* UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar
** ''Film/{{The Birth of a Nation|1915}}''
** ''Literature/ColdMountain''
** ''Film/TheConspirator''
** ''Film/DancesWithWolves''
** ''Film/FreeStateOfJones''
** ''Film/GangsOfNewYork''
** ''Film/TheGeneral''
** ''Film/{{Gettysburg}}''
** ''Film/{{Glory}}''
** ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''
** ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''
** ''Film/{{Lincoln}}''
** ''Film/TheOutlawJoseyWales''
** ''Film/{{Shenandoah}}''
** ''VideoGame/HistoryCivilWarGames''
*** ''VideoGame/HistoryCivilWarSecretMissions ''
** ''Literature/AssassinsCreedLastDescendants'' (first book)
* UsefulNotes/AngloZuluWar
** ''Film/{{Zulu}}''
* UsefulNotes/TheRiverWar
** ''Film/TheFourFeathers''
* UsefulNotes/SpanishAmericanWar
** ''Film/CitizenKane''. The protagonists manipulates the public sentiment to incite the war.
** ''Series/TheRoughRiders''
* Philippine-American War & Moro Rebellion (in Muslim Mindanao, in the southern Philippines)
** ''Film/{{Amigo}}''
** ''Film/BalangigaHowlingWilderness''
** ''Literature/{{Heat}}''
** ''Film/HeneralLuna''
** ''Film/GoyoAngBatangHeneral''
** ''Literature/HotelOriente''
** ''Literature/PoOn''
** ''Theatre/TheSultanOfSulu''
** ''Literature/TemptingHymn''
* UsefulNotes/TheSecondBoerWar
** ''Film/BreakerMorant''
** ''Literature/TheDefenceOfDuffersDrift''
* UsefulNotes/RussoJapaneseWar
** ''Film/PortArthur''
* UsefulNotes/TheMexicanRevolution
** ''Film/AFistfulOfDynamite''
** ''Film/TheProfessionals''
** ''Film/ThreeAmigos''
** ''Film/TheWildBunch''
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI
** WorksSetInWorldWarI.
* [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Russian Civil War]]
** ''Film/TheElusiveAvengers''
** ''Film/WhiteSunOfTheDesert''
* [[UsefulNotes/TheIrishRevolution Irish War of Independence]]
** ''Film/MichaelCollins''
** ''Film/TheWindThatShakesTheBarley''
* UsefulNotes/TheChacoWar
** ''Recap/TintinTheBrokenEar''. Clearly based on the war, though the actual combatants were replaced by two fictional countries in the comic.
* UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar
** ''Film/TheDevilsBackbone''
** ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls''
** ''Film/TheLastCircus''
** ''Film/PansLabyrinth''. Set in the aftermath of the War, with the winners attempting to eliminate the last pockets of resistance.
** ''Film/TheSpiritOfTheBeehive''. Also set in the aftermath of the War, and serving as an inspiration for Creator/GuillermoDelToro's aforementioned works.
* UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar
** ''Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus''. Covers the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, a prelude to the war.
** ''Film/CityOfLifeAndDeath''
** ''Literature/TheGirlWhoPlayedGo''
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarII:
** WorksSetInWorldWarII.
* First Indochina War
** ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104105/ Diên Biên Phú]]''
** ''Literature/TheQuietAmerican''
** ''Literature/TheUglyAmerican''
* UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict
** ''Film/TheBubble2006''
** ''Film/{{Lebanon}}''
** ''Film/{{Munich}}''
** ''Film/YouDontMessWithTheZohan''
** ''Animation/WaltzWithBashir''
* UsefulNotes/KoreanWar
** ''Literature/TheManchurianCandidate'' (book and 1962 film)
** ''Series/{{Mash}}'' (which, oddly enough, lasted much longer than the active hostilities during the Korean War did!)
** ''Film/PorkChopHill''
* Algerian War of Independence
** ''Film/TheBattleOfAlgiers''
* UsefulNotes/VietnamWar
** ''Series/AmericanDreams''
** ''Film/ApocalypseNow''
** Series/TheATeam
** ''Film/{{Bat 21}}''
** ''Film/BornOnTheFourthOfJuly''
** ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}} Vietnam''
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps''
** ''Film/CasualtiesOfWar''
** ''Series/ChinaBeach''
** ''Film/TheDeerHunter''
** ''Film/FirstBlood''
** ''Film/FlightOfTheIntruder'' (both versions)
** ''Film/ForrestGump''
** ''Film/FullMetalJacket''
** ''Series/GomerPyleUSMC''
** ''Film/TheGreenBerets''
** ''Film/HamburgerHill''
** ''Film/MissingInAction''
** ''Film/TheOddAngryShot''
** ''Film/{{Platoon}}''
** ''ComicBook/ThePunisherBorn''
** ''ComicBook/PunisherThePlatoon''
** ''Purple Hearts''
** ''Film/{{Tigerland}}''
** ''Series/TourOfDuty''
** ''Film/TunnelRats''
** ''Film/UncommonValor''
** ''VideoGame/{{Vietcong}}''
** ''Film/WeWereSoldiers''
* [[UsefulNotes/TheIndoPakistanConflict Indian-Pakistani Wars]] (including [[UsefulNotes/TheKashmirQuestion Kashmir Conflict]])
** ''Film/BayaluDaari''
** ''Film/Border1997''
* UsefulNotes/SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan
** ''Film/TheBeastOfWar''
** ''Film/CharlieWilsonsWar''
** ''Literature/TheKiteRunner''
** ''Film/TheLivingDaylights''
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''
** ''Film/NinthCompany''
** ''Film/RamboIII''
** ''Film/SpiesLikeUs''
* UsefulNotes/IranIraqWar
** ''ComicBook/{{Persepolis}}''
* UsefulNotes/OperationUrgentFury
** ''Film/HeartbreakRidge''
* UsefulNotes/GulfWar
** ''Bravo Two Zero''
** ''Film/CourageUnderFire''
** ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' (One chapter is set in the aftermath of the war as Michael Edwards leads a firefighting team to extinguish burning oil fields.)
** ''Film/{{Jarhead}}''
** ''Literature/TheManchurianCandidate'' (2004 film)
** ''Film/ThreeKings''
* UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars
** ''Film/BehindEnemyLines''
** ''Film/NoMansLand''
* Sierra Leone Civil War
** ''Film/BeastsOfNoNation''
** ''Film/BloodDiamond''
* [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror Afghanistan War]]
** ''Film/IronMan'' (the movie)
** ''Series/BombPatrolAfghanistan''
** ''Film/TheOutpost''
* [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror Iraq War]]
** ''Film/AmericanSniper''
** ''Series/GenerationKill''
** ''Film/GreenZone''
** ''Film/TheHurtLocker''
** ''Over There''

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Fictional Types of War ]]

* AlienInvasion
** ''Literature/BattlefieldEarth''
** ''VideoGame/DawnOfTheMonsters''
** ''Series/DoctorWho''
** ''Literature/{{Footfall}}''
** ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''
** ''Film/IndependenceDay''
** ''Literature/LegacyOfTheAldenata''
** ''Film/PacificRim''
** ''Franchise/PowerRangers''
** ''Von Neuman's War''
** ''Literature/TheWarAgainstTheChtorr''
** ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds''
** ''Film/WarCraft2016''
** ''Literature/TheLostFleet'' (Hinted at in book 1 through 4 and then explicitly from book 5 onwards)
* BugWar
** ''Anime/BlueGender''
** ''Series/DoctorWho''
** ''Ender's Game'' (First book and ''Ender's Shadow'')
** ''Anime/MacrossFrontier''
** ''VisualNovel/MuvLuv''
** ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' (several episodes)
** ''Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond''
** ''VideoGame/StarCraft''
** ''Literature/StarshipTroopers''
** ''Anime/TekkamanBlade''
** ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' (Tyranids)
** ''VideoGame/WingCommander Prophecy''
* DemonicInvaders
** ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''
** ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''
** ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' (Chaos)
** ''Franchise/PowerRangers''
* DividedStatesOfAmerica Wars
** ''Podcast/ItCouldHappenHere''
** ''VideoGame/DeusEx''
** ''VideoGame/ShatteredUnion''
** ''Series/Jericho2006''
** ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale''
* Interstellar Civil War
** ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' (only just barely "interstellar", as it all takes place in a single multiple star system, and the series starts ''after'' the war proper except for one battle shown as a flashback at the beginning of the pilot).
** ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' has ''two'' going on at once: The [[TheWarOfEarthlyAggression Insurrection]] and the [[EnemyCivilWar Great Schism]].
** ''Franchise/StarWars''
** ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}''
** ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' (Chaos again)
** ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' (Kilrathi, post-war)
** ''Literature/HonorHarrington''
* TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar
** ''Literature/AmericanGods''
** ''VideoGame/TheLongestJourney''
** ''Anime/PrincessMononoke''
** ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats 2011}} [=ThunderCats (2011)=]]]''
** ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' (Anyone else vs. Necrons or Tau)
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}''
** ''Anime/WolfsRain''
** ''Literature/ImagerPortfolio'' has elements of this.
** ''Literautre/TheCoreanChronicles'' has elements of this.
* RobotWar
** ''Franchise/BattlestarGalactica'' (Both versions)
** ''Series/DoctorWho''
** ''Franchise/MassEffect''
** ''Franchise/TheMatrix''
** ''Franchise/PowerRangers''
** ''Second Variety''
** ''Film/{{Screamers}}''
** ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''
** ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' (Not a war with robots, but a war ''between'' robots, although humans sometimes get involved)
** ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' (Iron Men and the Necrons)
** ''Literature/TheLostFleet'' (Beyond the Frontier end arc)
* WorldWarIII
** ''Videogame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'' (a FantasyConflictCounterpart version)
** ''Literature/AlasBabylon''
** ''Series/{{Amerika}}''
** ''Film/DamnationAlley''
** ''Film/TheDayAfter''
** ''VideoGame/EndWar''
** ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 2''
** ''Film/RedDawn1984''
** ''Literature/RedStormRising''
** ''Franchise/StarTrek'' (backstory)
** ''Team Yankee''
** ''Literature/TheThirdWorldWar: August 1985''
** ''Film/{{Threads}}''
** ''VideoGame/WorldInConflict''
* Various others
** ''Series/BabylonFive'' gives us the Earth-Minbari War, which finished ten years before the series started, is what people usually refer to when they say "during the war...". There's also the Dilgar War, referred to in one episode but very important to the series' backstory (as it proved the Earth Alliance's status as a major galactic power). The series itself, however, is set during no less than ''six'' concurrent, interrelated wars:
*** The Shadow War
*** The Earth Alliance Civil War
*** The Minbari Civil War
*** The Second Centauri-Narn War
*** The Drakh War
*** The Telepath War
** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam''
*** '''The''' war is typically The One Year War, during which a [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0080WarInThePocket huge]] [[Manga/MobileSuitGundamThunderbolt number]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamThe08thMSTeam of side]] [[VideoGame/MobileSuitGundamSideStory0079RiseFromTheAshes stories]] are set.
*** [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam The Gryps Conflict]]
*** [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ The First Neo-Zeon War]]
*** [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack The Second Neo-Zeon War]]
*** [[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam The Zanscare Insurrection]]
** ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': The war in Ishval...
** ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': The war with the Fire Nation, which began during the reign of Fire Lord Sozin a hundred years before the start of the story proper.
** ''Webcomic/BasketsOfGuts'' is set in the multiracial country of United Kingdoms. The [[MushroomMan myconid]] state of Alnia seems to be one of the few who still persist Kingdoms' expansion. Since myconids are shown to be sentient and mostly comprehensible, it doesn't fit into the BugWar type.
** ''Comicbook/{{Fables}}'' is set during a war of conquest, with the Adversary's EvilEmpire encroaching on various storybook lands. The heroes are refugees from many different worlds stuck together in [[RealLife New]] [[BigApplesauce York]].
** ''Series/{{Pennyworth}}'': A second CivilWar in an {{alternate|History}} 1960s England.
** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' has the first five seasons build up to the Dominion War, which openly begins in the season five finale and continues for the remaining two series.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' takes place during the eponymous Oblivion Crisis. Due to the assassination of Emperor Uriel Septim VII and his legitimate heirs, the metaphysical barrier between [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds Oblivion]] and Mundus (the mortal world) maintained by their lineage is lost, allowing BigBad [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] [[DestroyerDeity Mehrunes]] [[OmnicidalManiac Dagon]] and his LegionsOfHell to invade. The PlayerCharacter must first rescue and then team up with the Emperor's [[HiddenBackupPrince bastard son]] to save the world.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' takes place during the Skyrim CivilWar, a clash between the secessionist Stormcloak rebels and the Imperial Loyalists, which itself is an aftershock of the [[GreatOffscreenWar Great War]] between the [[VestigialEmpire vestigial]] Cyrodiilic Empire and the reformed [[AntiHumanAlliance Aldmeri Dominion]]. The PlayerCharacter can choose a side to support and lead to victory, all against the backdrop of the reappearance of the thought-extinct Dragons.
** ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsAdventuresRedguard'' is an ActionAdventure GaidenGame prequel which takes place some 400 years prior to the main series of games. Following the Redguard Civil War which weakened their kingdom enough to be absorbed by the [[RisingEmpire rising]] Septim Empire, the game is set against the backdrop of the Stros M'Kai Revolt (of which the main character, Cyrus, accidentally becomes the leader).
** ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline'', a prequel [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineGame MMO]] taking place roughly 500 years before the main series, takes place during two related wars: the Alliance War (which pits three alliances made up of former provinces of the Second Empire) and the Planemeld (an attempted invasion of Mundus by the Daedric Prince [[GodOfEvil Molag]] [[TheCorrupter Bal]]).
* ''Series/TheCallOfWarr'' takes place during the warr described in ''Cry Of Mann'', with a focus on soldiers and civilians trying to survive.
* ''Series/{{Mahabharata}}'' is set in ancient northern India around circa 8000 BC. It chronicles the events leading upto and the events of the Kurukshetra War between cousins for control of the Kingdom of Hastinapur (present day Varanasi) and Indraprasth (present day Delhi). The historical significance of this war is questionable.
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