Historical Fiction

See Category:Historical Fiction for the description that used to be here.

Anime & Manga
see also Jidai Geki


 * Mademoiselle Butterfly, set in the 1930s with geishas.
 * Peacemaker Kurogane, covering the pre-Meiji period from The Shinsengumi point of view.
 * Rose of Versailles, set in pre-revolutionary France.
 * Rurouni Kenshin, set in the early Meiji period.
 * Vinland Saga, chronicling the rise to power of Cnut the Great in the Viking Age, amongst other things.
 * Historie, set in the time of Alexander the Great.
 * Sakura Gari is set in the Taishou Era.
 * Shut Hell, set in the early 13th Century, during Genghis Khan's time.
 * Hakuouki is another Shinsengumi tale, this one casting the members of the group as Estrogen Brigade Bait.
 * Honey Honey no Suteki na Bouken is set in Vienna, 1907.
 * Le Chevalier d'Eon, set in 18th Century Europe.
 * Kaze to Ki no Uta set in 1880 in France.

Film
see Category:Historical Films and Category:Historical Animated Films
 * Arn the Knight Templar, dealing with the Crusades and the establishment of Sweden as a kingdom.
 * Ever After, during the French Renaissance. Complete with Leonardo da Vinci (and the Mona Lisa).
 * Ben-Hur, set during Jesus' lifetime.
 * The Robe, set during the reigns of Tiberius and Caligula.
 * Quo Vadis, set during Nero's reign
 * Spartacus, a retelling of Spartacus' revolt.
 * Gladiator, also set during Commodus' reign.
 * Forrest Gump inserts the title character at various points in American history from Elvis Presley to Hurricane Camille.
 * Gone with the Wind, set during the Civil War and featuring an iconic burning of Atlanta.
 * Master and Commander
 * Pearl Harbor - Unlike other Pearl Harbor movies, you have to sit through Developing Doomed Characters first.
 * Gangs of New York, set just before the Civil War draft riots, which break out during the climax.
 * Titanic is set during the 1912 sinking of the famous ship.
 * U-571, set during World War II

Literature
See Historical Fiction Literature.

Live Action TV
See Historical Series


 * I, Claudius, a biography of the Julian emperors up to Claudius based on a duology by Robert Graves.
 * North and South US, a three-part miniseries based upon the novels by John Jakes, set during and after The American Civil War.
 * The Roman Mysteries The Roman Mysteries is a historical Detective Drama series set in 1st Century AD of The Roman Empire.
 * Rome is the rise of the Julian dynasty from the perspective of Those Two Guys.
 * Doctor Who occasionally slips into this, and uses Time Travel to land in the periods of historical figures such as Winston Churchill, William Shakespeare, Agatha Christie and Vincent van Gogh. Of course, its not a straight Historical Fiction, considering the aliens, space-ships, and 'mythological' creatures, but then when was the show's genre ever easily defined?
 * Dong Yi is set in late 17th century Korea during the reign of King Sukjong.
 * Blackadder, with each of its four seasons taking place at a different time in British history.
 * My Place is probably the most ambitious example for Australian history. Starts in 2008 and travels back to pre-1788. Each episode is set in the same location, but a different decade, often with many of the same characters.

Theatre

 * Henry IV
 * Henry VI

Web comics
See Category:Historical Webcomics

Western Animation

 * Liberty's Kids, set in The American Revolution.
 * Princess Sissi, a German series that takes a lot of liberties with the story of Elizabeth of Bavaria's life.
 * Pocahontas
 * Mulan
 * Anastasia
 * An American Tail, though taking place in a Mouse World, mirrors what life was like for immigrants in New York during the 1880's.