6 titles · in the order the archive depicts them. A series counts once, regardless of however many of its episodes carry the tag. 3 titles here come through the periods inside this one rather than its own tag, and are counted only because they are set inside these boundaries.
The Chronicle
The events and themes the archive follows through the Age of Discovery, in the order they happened, each with the titles that depict it. Press a name to read about it in the threads below.
The arrival of Christopher Columbus and his contingent of sailors in the New World in 1492 while trying to chart a new maritime route to Asia started one of the most significant…
The periods the archive counts as part of the Age of Discovery. Their titles are gathered on this page where they are set inside its boundaries. The number represents how many titles in these sub-periods are also directly attached to this period and how many are just inherited rather being directly tagged with the Age of Discovery.
Every title set during the Age of Discovery, by the decade it came out. A series is placed on the chart by its first season and counts as one title entity.
FilmsSerieseach bar is the titles released that decade
Cast of Characters
The historical people the archive’s titles put on screen in this period, grouped by what they are known for. The number is how many titles set here they appear in.
A thread follows one event or historical theme across the archive, wherever and whenever it appears. Pick a tab to read one; they are in the order they are filed on the timeline. Pulling a thread opens up a narrowed timeline view filtered to every year that thread touches.
The arrival of Christopher Columbus and his contingent of sailors in the New World in 1492 while trying to chart a new maritime route to Asia started one of the most significant periods of global transformation in human history. The exchange of goods, plants, and animals between continents alone, known as the Columbian Exchange, would bear dire consequences for the people of the Americas who faced immediate introduction to virulent Old World pathogens. Further, the meeting would trigger the start of a new era of European exploration, colonization, and exploitation off the back of the material wealth held by the Americas.
The establishment of the first permanent English colony in the New World in Virginia Colony. Early colonial living was hard for the settlers, with most failing to survive the winter of 1609. However, the successful cultivation of tobacco at the colony would ensure its ultimate long-term success.
Every place the archive’s titles set in this period name, with each one nested under the larger place it sits inside where that place is here too. The number is how many titles set here name it.
No title set here has been given a saltiness score yet. That is unrated, which is not the same as accurate.
Archive Density
9%3 of the 32 titles the archive sets between 1415 and 1650 carry the Age of Discovery tag.
19%With its sub-periods: 6 of the same 32 titles carry Age of Discovery or one of Spanish Colonization of the Americas.
This measure can help illustrate cinematic hotspots within a time period by comparing which years of the overarching, actual historical time period are backed up by a cinematic release.
62 years on the timeline fall inside the boundaries, 21 of them with nothing set there yet. The dark part of each bar is the share carrying this period; the lighter part beside it, the share carrying one of its sub-periods instead.
Share of the 19 genre taggings across 6 titles set in this period. A title filed under three genres is in three of these slices, so this is a share of taggings rather than of titles.
Films only. Co-directors are counted individually, so a director’s solo work and their collaborations are grouped together. Average saltiness ignores any title still unsalted.
Also on the Timeline
Part of and part of it are declared by the archive: one period counted as belonging to another, whatever their dates. Periods overlap freely so concurrent means the two spans share years, and the shared stretch is named. Bounded means it lies wholly inside this one, beginning and ending more than 10 years within its boundaries. Before and after are the nearest periods lying outside this one, with the gap in years shown instead. A shared thread is what the two have in common besides the calendar, and a period lying wholly outside this one can still share one.
Periods before, during, inside and after Age of Discovery, with their year ranges, the years they share with it, the threads they share with it, and how many titles the archive holds of each.
