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* You don't get much Prehistory '''before the dinosaurs''', either. You'll never see an eccentric billionaire extracting fossil DNA from coal deposits to create Carboniferous Park.
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*** ''[[Ponyo On the Cliff By The Sea|Ponyo]]'' takes place in contemporary times, but much of the aquatic sealife present during the abnormal-seas portions of the film are intended to be from the [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Devonian |Devonian]] period (416–359.2mya), where most of the planet was submerged (which figures in a major plot point). [[Shown Their Work]] indeed.
*** The Nontolma, an undersea-dwelling precursor race from ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', seem to take the form of ''Anomalocaris'', an arthropod from the Cambrian period.
* '''The Ice Age''' itself is pretty thin as well.
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* '''The Hundred Years War'''
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*** There's ''[[A KnightsKnight's Tale]]'' - however, it's such a shameless [[Anachronism Stew]] that this doesn't have much bearing on anything.
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*** ''Force 10 from Navarone'' is set in wartime Yugoslavia.
* Many people forget the [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Greenland_during_World_War_II:History of Greenland during World War II|German presence in Greenland]], where a group of 15 Greenlanders were able to fend off the Germans [[Rock Beats Laser|on dogsled.]]
* Also forgotten is the fact that over 130,000 Japanese in America and Canada were persecuted and put into concentration camps because it was feared they were spies for the Japanese government after Pearl Harbor.
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*** ''[[Snow By Night]]'', sorta. It's a [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]], but Aradie is basically colonial Quebec.
* The Scottish Second Wars of Independence, the ''Armee Ecosse'' of the 15th century (pretty much the entire Scottish army is hired by the King of France) the Scots who fought in the Wars of the Roses, the battle of Flodden.... For some reason, there seems to be this belief that Scottish history goes straight from Bannockburn (1314) to the battle of Culloden (1746), which misses out the intervening 432 years)
* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congo_War:Second Congo War|The Congo War]] (aka "Africa's World War", aka the deadliest human conflict in post-WWII history) is surprisingly obscure both in fiction and in real life - it was hardly ever mentioned on the news, for [[Darkest Africa|some]] [[Throwaway Country|reason]], despite involving eight countries and killing 5 and a half million people.
* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune:Paris Commune|The Paris Commune of 1871]]. 72 days and a rather brutal ending. It would create a lovely backdrop for a story along the lines of the movie ''Gangs of New York''. Admittedly, there is ''The Voice of the People'' by Jean Vautrin, but there seriously needs to be a movie or more historical fiction about this little episode of history.
** ''The Prague Cemetery'' by [[Umberto Eco]] covers it extensively, albeit through an [[Unreliable Narrator]].
* There is disappointingly little on the Boxer Rebellion, given every great power in the world put aside their differences and united to save Europeans and Chinese Christians from persecution.
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