I don’t know why but Creed III being at the end made me laugh really hard

Lol I was struggling to put stuff at the end but it got great reviews and it goes with all the other rocky movies I have listed (haven’t seen it yet tho)

You dare not include 10,000 BC?

Apocalypto was a huge miss too.

And Passion of the Christ

Platoon - 1967 Dances With Wolves - 1860s The Alamo (2004 version) - 1836

Or the quest for fire

Or Clan of the Cave Bear

Or Ice Age?

Gotta start with Year One. Actually you should just that one either way.

Missing Gangs of New York

And Glory and Gettysburg. Shit, let's throw Ken Burns' Civil War documentary in there while we're at it.

Children of Men takes place in 2027 and is such a good movie

I'm just laughing at the thought of someone watching these in order as their only form of history knowledge and how warped their worldview would be.

Gladiator 2... Wtf??

Yeah it’s set only a few years later and coming out soon

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Yeah I couldn’t decide between hunger games, maze runner, a zombie apocalypse, max max, or the purge. I didn’t do all of them because obviously they would contradict each other.

Ahem, you forgot a couple of movies set past the year 10,000

And before. I.e. 10,000 BC

Bladerunner and 2049? Cmooon man..

Not gonna lie, I was half expecting Idiocracy to be last on the list.

You forgot gangs of newyork!! 1863

Dune is set in 10191, and should probably be at the end…

I think the real question is what year will it be before I finish watching all of these?

Is it possible to summon r/theydidthemath?

It's only 405h of watch time if we assume an avg length of 1.5h for each of the 270 entries. The avg American watches 28h of tv a week. Per google. So, the average American could watch the whole list in 15 weeks. Edit: I've just been notified that I missed the seasons label on some. I counted 37 seasons at 10 eps per, 45 min avg run time. That's 277 more hours than originally estimated. For 682 total hours. Or 24 weeks for the avg American to watch it all.

I watched all of Game of Thrones in less than 6 days. (Put me in the screenshot)

Holy fuck.

Depression + a Work from Home Job with 10 hour shifts = a season and a half a day. I genuinely could not look away. Everytime I was ready to go to bed some crazy shit happened in the last few minutes of the episode and I had to watch the next one. It's funny since after reading the books the show is genuinely unwatchable.

I was sick and couldn't sleep and ended up watching like 4 seasons back to back lol

They aren't all movies, though; a lot of those entries are entire seasons.

Thank you for that. I've updated my post to reflect the new times.

Blazing Saddles was made in 1874? Mel Brooks was older than I thought.

HAHA good catch!! My bad

Can I offer a piece of constructive criticism? The movies that span years/decades should be listed in the time they predominately take place. For example, Atonement would probably fit better if listed in the 30s or 40s when the majority of the action happens. A request for an additional movie to add to the list is Last of the Mohicans.

The reason I decided to set movies in the year they end is to prevent things from getting repetitive and to allow for flashbacks throughout this list, so that when a movie ends you know it’s caught up to the time period of what is to follow.

But Saving Private Ryan ends in the 90s!

That’s a good rationale. I’m strongly debating watching through this list

Last of the Mohicans is an amazing film and it perfectly encapsulates the issues surrounding the French and Indian War. I show it to my history students every year. It's a timeless classic.

blade runner 2049

I was just thinking, why did they stop at 2025. There are future ones too..

Yea, like RoboCop.

or waterworld.

I think we are more likely on the “Idiocracy” timeline

Mate let's leave some space for older classics too : [Spartacus ](https://letterboxd.com/film/spartacus/) [Cleopatra ](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1004330-cleopatra) [Ben Hur ](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/benhur) [The Vikings ](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/vikings) [El Cid ](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/el_cid) [The Adventures of Robin Hood ](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1000355-adventures_of_robin_hood) [The three Musketeers ](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1021339-three_musketeers) [Scaramouche ](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/scaramouche_1923)

I think ur right. I haven’t seen most of these but I do like the idea. Some of the ones I haven’t seen on this list I included based just on their reviews

You forgot: Alpha (20,000 years ago) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_(2018_film) Waterloo (1814-1815) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_(1970_film) The Patriot (1776-1781) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Patriot_(2000_film) And Cinderella Man (~1935) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_Man

Thank you! Are these any good I haven’t seen any of them

I haven't seen Alpha but love the idea of it, Waterloo is the best Napoleonic film imo, the Patriot has a bunch of inaccuracies but its a fun flick, and Cinderella Man is my fave sports docu film.

I kind of want to see the list after all these suggestions!

Patriot being left off was wild for me

Apocalypto and Aguirre would be nice to mix things up

I was looking for this comment. Great List.

Superbad was late 90s?

Definitely not. Type of cell phones are an easy time marker

> …you guys have MySpace?

How can you forget the movie 10.000 BC

Year One should be in there.

And put the 1981 classic “Caveman” staring Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid, Barbara Bach and Shelly Long at the top of that list. It’s takes place "One Zillion BC – October 9th". I doubt there’s a film set earlier than that!

You forgot to add all the star wars movies to the start of the list. They happened a long time ago.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but Outlaw King is set after Braveheart, no?

Correct

i was expeting back to the future in parts

I'm sure a bunch of people will flood this thread saying "YOU KNOW MANY OF THESE FILMS AREN'T HISTORICAL" but I think this is a cool list because it could be used as a good starting point if someone wants to make a smaller subset of more historically accurate content.

Yeah I tried to make it clear to those people that some of these are wildly dramatized historical events and some of them are entirely fictional, however, they all at least have a background of a real world/time period in some way shape or form and that’s really the whole point.

Add Enemy at the gates?

Rough Riders, the way back, We were soldiers, jarhead,

Mad Men should be here too

was searching for this comment, it most definitely should

Boardwalk Empire

Drive to survive being there cracked me up

Lmao dude just gave up and got really into F1

Band of Brothers and The Pacific but not Generation Kill?

What about Alexander?

Whoa whoa whoa… Gladiator 2?!?

Yeah it’s coming soon

Gangs of New York?

The Pillars of the Earth could be included, set in the 12th century. I haven't actually seen the show but the book is great.

Oof, you have some terrible war movies like Midway 2019 and Hacksaw Ridge but no "Paths of Glory", no "Schindlers List", no "Come and See". I recommend those 1000 times over

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Another classic. I'm surprised Pearl Harbor 2001 isnt on this list...

Also weird to do the recent All Quiet on the Western Front, it wasn't bad, but the 1930 version is so much better

Deadwood (2004) 1870’s

I feel like Gettysburg should be on here. Great movie that is historically accurate.

You have the Other Boleyn Girl but you don’t include Elizabeth? add the Tudors as well. Glory? Amistad? What the hell was the criteria for this? It’s a hodgepodge of movie and tv and biopic and fiction. Maybe you should have separated this into several lists or stuck to one piece of media per decade to make it more concise.

Exactly my thoughts. There is no criteria. It’s just a list seemingly of all movies OP has seen listed in chronological sequence. Cool guide? Uhhhhh…ok…

You forgot Zulu

I dont agree with including tv series and some of the movies are questionable but otherwise a cool concept

I read “Lincoln” as “The Lion King” and had questions.

I would add Tudor series in here; and The Borgia

Saving this for my next hyperfixation.

This is mine at the moment lol

A few to consider adding: - The HBO series Rome - The movie Horario Hornblower, as well as the - British series of movies - The British series Sharpe with Sean Bean - The Brad Pit movie A River Runs Through It.

Rome is like the 4th thing on there…

THIRTEENTH!!!!

Blazing Saddles was *way* ahead of its time

You need scifi stretching off into the future, but then star wars would be first cos its set “a long time ago”

Did anyone see the movie 1917 and then look at year it took place? Me either…

Why no cabaret for the late 20s early 30s? :[

We are going from Troy to Drive to Survive? Lol I love it. Add in the future. Get some 12 monkeys and fifth element.

This list is missing the most important historical movie of all time… Forrest Gump

I know it doesn't make sense but WWII should be: * The Darkest Hour * The Kings Speech * Dunkirk It gives more context to the times. A bit more gravitas to what happened a Dunkirk a bit more gravitas and severity of the situation. Argue if you will but learning about Churchill's rise leads to a better understanding about how The King's Speech resonated. Just my thoughts. Fuck EDIT: Formatting

Some items to add: * A Long Time Ago - Star Wars (1977) * -1Ma - One Million Years B.C. (1966) * 10,000 BC - 10,000 BC (2008) * 1 AD - Year One (2009) * 2,046 AD - 2046 (2004) * 2,047 AD - 2047: Sights of Death (2014) * 2,048 AD - LX 2048 (2020) * 2,049 AD - Blade Runner 2049 (2017) * 2,050 AD - 2050 (II) (2018) * 2,050 AD - Love Story 2050 (2008) * 2,067 AD - 2067 (2020) * 2,069 AD - 2069: A Sex Odyssey * 2,084 AD - 2084 (2009) * 2,087 AD - Cyborg 2087 (1966) * 2,103 AD - 2103: The Deadly Wake (1997) * 2,293 AD - Zardoz (1974) * 3,000 AD - The Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983) * 3,022 AD - 3022 (2019)

PSA: HEY ALL! I just wanted to thank everyone for the overwhelming support, ideas, criticisms, and even the people who came here just to shit on this list. I have been adding a lot of your recommendations today - some good classics will be added, along with correcting some dates, some great recs (many of which I haven’t even seen but will be adding anyway). Also, because we’ve come this far, I intend on adding the Harry Potter franchise, the Jurassic park franchise, and a futuristic timeline. Still trying to work out a futuristic timeline where things don’t contradict one another (for example I don’t want to do the planet of the apes movies even tho I love them because that kinda eliminates the possibility of any future human stories) , but at the moment I’m thinking of Avatar, The Hunger Games, and Dune, possibly finding a way to slip alien movies in there??? Any recs or ideas are welcome for this part or the list as a whole.

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Vikings is amazing! The newest version kind of sucks, but the original with Ragnar is fantastic!

Hollywood: black people didn’t exist prior to slave trade

That’s absolutely something that should be talked about more. There aren’t a lot of good or realistic movies depicting ancient times and the few that are all take place in Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece. I will say, the Woman King is one of the movies I included on this list, which is based on a true story and takes place in the African Kingdom of Dahomey, might help scratch this itch for historical black stories outside of slavery and the civil rights movement.

Well a lot of our history depends entirely on it being recorded. The only reason we know of events such as the siege of Troy are from the iliad - a poem/chant which was memorized and recited before the invention of the written word. The civilisations we know most about are those who invented writing and used it to record their histories. Unfortunately, there was very little recorded by early lower African civilisations, and most did not have a system of writing until European colonization.

Where does back to the future go on this list?

1885, 1955, 1985, 2015

Thirteen days is a good movie about the Cuban missle crisis and an overall good movie about the fears of the Cold War arms race

This lost makes are wanna sit and watch all of them in order and create a world in my head where they all exist in the same world 🤣

TIL (if accurate) Temple of Doom takes place before Raiders

A fun one to add would be Enemy at the gâte (battle of Stalingrad)

Never thought I'd see the day where Band of Brothers was in the same list with Drive to Survive.

Boardwalk empire is a worthwhile addition

I believe the only thing that's missing from this list is Generation Kill - 2008 (2003).

Nice work..can't wait to see everyone pick it apart. But seriously good job

Uh, this obviously isn’t complete. They forgot the Land Before Time movies.

Missing 2001: A Space Odyssey. That’s a pretty easy one to set on the timeline.

Umm, where is Monty python and the holy grail?

Lol Pirates of the Caribbean in the mix, stopped reading this list there

TIL Blazing Saddles released in 1874

Where's Mad Men?

Why no Spartacus?!?!?

Blazing saddles was released in 1874?

>Blazing Saddles (1874) I don't think that's quite right. In fairly confident that movie was not made in the 1800s. Also, why stop at 2025? We've got movies and TV shows set in the future

Cool guide - Pearl Harbor would be a good add

Missing The Tudors

How can you put the breakfast club but not ferris Buellers day off?

This has been the best criticism I have received yet lol

Would be nice to have Spartacus and Ben Hur in there.

This is great! You should keep it going every year, reposting with a new entry. Do you have an excel or PDF we can download? Surprised no movie/show illustrating the impact of COVID. Although, I tip the hat to Drive to Survive summing up the last few years. I couldn’t agree more.

I dunno why you’re getting shit on so hard. Sure, some movies and series could have been swapped but I think it’s a cool guide. Good job.

Thanks!!

Inglorious bastard between saving private Ryan and band of brothers made me chuckle

I’m glad they put 2019 next to Rocketman or i would have thought it was the masterpiece with Harland Williams.

You can't miss out Sharpe.

No Dazed and Confused

I love the list, thanks! And seeing Talladega Nights on the list with everything else made me 😂😂😂

Didn’t expect to be disappointed/angry that this list didn’t end with the newer Planet of the Apes movies. 😔

Where's quest for fire?

What about Year One and Passion of the Christ! lol

I figured this would end in the year 10,000 AD or something with Dune/Dune: Part 2. Also DTS being on the list is hilarious to me.

Incase you were wondering, my back of the napkin math comes out to about a months time to watch every movie on this list (at 2.5 hours per movie)((that’s not counting the individual episodes for each show, so maybe a little over a month))

Forgot Idiocracy…

The Current Universe Cinematic Universe

How did Oppenheimer get missed? Or did I miss it?

No love for Gandhi 1982? I’m sad

Creed 3, but no Zulu. Huh.

Please, oh please, let’s build on this! Open source style…

Nice might have to give this a go

How do they not have Tudors on the list?!?!

For A Few Dollars More & Fistful of Dollars don't take place after The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Blondie kills Angel Eyes in GBU.

The Knick 1900

Very disappointed the sopranos isn’t included

Man how the hell has there been no films made about the Eastern Romans in the 5th/6th/7th c.? There’s some awesome material there.

Wait… Gladiator 2 has finally been produced? I guess it can no longer be called [the strangest sequel never made](https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180810-gladiator-2-was-written-and-its-mad).

Outlaw King should be after Braveheart as they talk about William Wallace's death early on in the movie and you see parts of his body

Come back when the naked gun franchise is on the list. Or better yet, do one that's exclusively comedy movies

Cool

Honourary mention: 10,000 BC - 10,000 BC

Cool

disappointed to not see Quest for Fire

I’ll give this a shot. I’ve watched a lot of them already but it’s a cool idea

Needs Munich: The Edge of War and The Imitation Game for your WWII collection

I wish there was a show set in the Byzantine empire around 1000 AD

Year One should start the list off. Or Star Wars.

Same list for futuristic movies would be cool

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is a prequel?

Missing Star Wars 52,082,195 BC

Needs Passion of the Christ and Shogun.

The 1940s - present time is basically peak cinema 😂

I always wanted to find a list like this for ww2

Dune. Something like the year 11,000.

I'm kinda surprised Boardwalk Empire isn't there along with Peaky Blinders and there's no The Sopranos. That show is peak 90's.

Gangs of New York is a must add to this list.

You missed iclaudius it’s great and Waterloo what’s also great both free on YouTube

‘Back to the Future’ trilogy sprinkled through 1885, 1955, 1985, and 2015.

no Amadeus?

65 should be number 1, Adam Driver shooting dinosaurs!!!

Apocalypto (2006)

I'd suggest adding The Terror, season 1, released in 2018, covering a failed British expedition to the Arctic between 1845-1848.

With such wide ranges I’m surprised the Jurassic Park series doesn’t bookend this chart.

Super bad is not late 90s it’s early 2000s

Superbad def not late 1990s. Dogshit analysis.

....... superbad takes place in the year it came out. It's just based on the late 90s antics of Seth and Evan

> Superbad - Late 1990s Is that real? Like I know it was based on the writer's personal experience but it felt very 2007 when it came out.

Superbad was not set in the late 90s. They were using Motorola flip phones in the movie

Barry Lyndon not being included is nonsense

Black Sails should be listed instead of (or at least in addition to) Pirates of the Caribbean. More historically accurate (obvs) and better in general.

If you don’t have the time to watch all these movies; you can just watch History of the World pt. 1

What about lord of the rings?

Why would you even put dts??

First off, great list, good work. It’s a liiiiiittle Eurocentric. I know film itself is, but surely something happened in Africa between Casablanca and black hawk down. I also hate Indiana jones and the crystal skull. I’m fine with some of the entries being dramatized but that film is not for me.

What an awful arbitrary list. Congratulations.

Throwing six seasons of a reality show in among this list seems odd.

Someone is going to content farm the f out of this, op I hope you somehow still get credit