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Films & Shows Set during the Age of Enlightenment

Runs from16851815130 years wide

Shelfmark Liber XLIV

Early Modern Era 50% · Revolutionary Era 50%

8
titles
6 films · 2 series (8 eps)
3.9/5
average rating
across 7 rated titles
32%
of the span is tagged
8 of 25 titles set inside it

See the Age of Enlightenment on the timelineEvery year from 1685 to 1815 the archive holds, and what is set in them

Compare the titles of the Age of Enlightenment in the CanonsWhat every title on it shares, what two or three share, and what is proper to one

Cinematic Introduction

Every title set during the Age of Enlightenment, by the decade it came out. A series is placed on the chart by its first season and counts as one title entity.

First on screen
Catherine the Great1920
Most recent
The Great2020

FilmsSeriesAt the archive’s paceeach bar is the titles released that decade

The median title about the Age of Enlightenment came out in 2006; the median across the rest of the archive, in 2004, so this period’s titles run 2 years later.

The gold dashes are how many of this period’s 8 titles each decade would hold if they had been released at the same pace as the other 283 dated titles in the archive. That measures the archive’s own collecting, not the world’s film output, and at these sizes one title moves a bar by a whole step.

Historical Threads

A thread follows one event or historical theme across the archive, wherever and whenever it appears. Pulling a thread opens up a narrowed timeline view filtered to every year that thread touches.

Places Connected to this Period

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.

Saltiness Across the Period

No title set here has been given a saltiness score yet. That is unrated, which is not the same as accurate.

Archive Density

32%8 of the 25 titles the archive sets between 1685 and 1815 carry the Age of Enlightenment tag.

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.

  1. 1697nothing set here
  2. 1701nothing set here
  3. 17050 of 1
  4. 17080 of 1
  5. 1713nothing set here
  6. 1714nothing set here
  7. 17200 of 1
  8. 17300 of 1
  9. 1740nothing set here
  10. 17452 of 2
  11. 17501 of 1
  12. 17510 of 1
  13. 17541 of 1
  14. 1756nothing set here
  15. 17601 of 1
  16. 1762nothing set here
  17. 1763nothing set here
  18. 17702 of 2
  19. 17731 of 1
  20. 17741 of 1
  21. 1775nothing set here
  22. 17760 of 2
  23. 17781 of 1
  24. 17800 of 1
  25. 17811 of 2
Show all 53 yearsShow the first 25 only · 28 more years, from 1782 to 1815
  1. 1782nothing set here
  2. 1783nothing set here
  3. 17852 of 2
  4. 17881 of 1
  5. 17891 of 2
  6. 1791nothing set here
  7. 17921 of 2
  8. 17930 of 1
  9. 17940 of 3
  10. 17950 of 1
  11. 17970 of 1
  12. 17980 of 1
  13. 17990 of 2
  14. 18000 of 1
  15. 18010 of 1
  16. 18020 of 1
  17. 18030 of 1
  18. 18040 of 3
  19. 18050 of 2
  20. 18060 of 1
  21. 1807nothing set here
  22. 18081 of 3
  23. 18091 of 1
  24. 18100 of 2
  25. 1811nothing set here
  26. 18120 of 4
  27. 18140 of 3
  28. 18150 of 5

53 years on the timeline fall inside the boundaries, 14 of them with nothing set there yet. The filled part of each bar is the share carrying this period.

Share of the 15 genre taggings across 8 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.

Credits

Directors

1Miloš Forman2 titles3.8/5unsalted2Céline Sciamma1 title4.4/5unsalted3Reinhold Schünzel1 title—/5unsalted4Sofia Coppola1 title3.6/5unsalted5Stanley Kubrick1 title4.4/5unsalted

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.

Networks

1BBC Two1 title3.5/5unsalted2Hulu1 title4.1/5unsalted

Series only, counted once each however many episodes carry the period. Average saltiness ignores any title still unsalted.

Also on the Timeline

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.

RelationPeriodRunsShared yearsShared threadsTitles
BeforeSpanish Golden Age1492–165926 years earliernone shared2
ConcurrentFeudal Japan1185–18681685–1815none shared5
ConcurrentRusso-Turkish Wars1568–19181685–1815none shared1
ConcurrentSpanish Colonization of the Americas1493–16971685–1697none shared3
ConcurrentStuart England1603–17141685–1714none shared2
BoundedWar of the Spanish Succession1701–17141701–1714none shared1
ConcurrentPeshwa Era1713–18181713–1815none shared1
BoundedSeven Years' War1756–17631756–1763none shared1
ConcurrentIndustrial Revolution1760–18701760–1815none shared3
ConcurrentAge of Revolutions1774–18491774–1815none shared19
BoundedAmerican Revolution1775–17831775–1783none shared2
ConcurrentAmerican Frontier1783–19121783–1815none shared17
BoundedFrench Revolution1789–17991789–1799none shared6
BoundedHaitian Revolution1791–18041791–1804none shared1
ConcurrentNapoleonic Wars1792–18151792–1815none shared11
ConcurrentFilibuster Wars1803–18601803–1815none shared1
ConcurrentPeninsular War1807–18141807–1814Inquisition3
ConcurrentSpanish-American Wars of Independence1808–18301808–1815none shared1
ConcurrentRegency Era1811–18201811–1815none shared1
ConcurrentAntebellum South1812–18611812–1815none shared1
AfterVictorian Era1837–190122 years laternone shared8