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Films & Shows Set during the French Revolution

Runs from1789179910 years wide

Shelfmark Liber XLIX

Revolutionary Era

6
titles
4 films · 2 series (3 eps)
3.4/5
average rating
across 6 rated titles
86%
of the span is tagged
6 of 7 titles set inside it

See the French Revolution on the timelineEvery year from 1789 to 1799 the archive holds, and what is set in them

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

The Chronicle

The events and themes the archive follows through the French Revolution, in the order they happened, each with the titles that depict it. Press a name to read about it in the threads below.

  1. 1525–1850
    Transatlantic Slave TradeEconomic
  2. 1799
    Coup of 18 BrumairePolitical
  3. 1805
    Battle of AusterlitzMilitary

    Napoleon's crowning victory over the forces of the Third Coalition in 1805.

  4. 1815
    Battle of WaterlooMilitary

    The culmination of Napoleon's Hundred Days Campaign to restore himself to power over the French Empire and resoundingly defeat the forces of the Seventh Coalition.

Cinematic Introduction

Every title set during the French Revolution, 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
La Marseillaise1938
Most recent
Napoleon2023

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

The median title about the French Revolution came out in 1997; the median across the rest of the archive, in 2004, so this period’s titles run 7 years earlier.

The gold dashes are how many of this period’s 6 titles each decade would hold if they had been released at the same pace as the other 285 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. 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.

Battle of Austerlitzpull it on the timeline

Event

Napoleon's crowning victory over the forces of the Third Coalition in 1805. Through careful selection of the terrain and swift movement of his forces, Napoleon was able to lure coalition forces into a fatal trap. Though the victory and the close of the War of the Third Coalition would not end fighting on the European continent for long, the resulting Peace of Pressburg would have a number of repercussions on the European political landscape, including, ultimately, the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire.

filed under 1805

Also runs throughNapoleonic Wars

Battle of Waterloopull it on the timeline

Event

The culmination of Napoleon's Hundred Days Campaign to restore himself to power over the French Empire and resoundingly defeat the forces of the Seventh Coalition. Facing off initially against British forces under the command of Arthur Wellesley, Napoleon's army ultimately failed to defeat the British before Prussian reinforcements under the command of Gebhard von Blücher arrived to firmly turn the tide of battle in the coalition's favor.

filed under 1815

Also runs throughNapoleonic Wars2

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

86%6 of the 7 titles the archive sets between 1789 and 1799 carry the French Revolution 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. 17892 of 2
  2. 1791nothing set here
  3. 17921 of 2
  4. 17931 of 1
  5. 17943 of 3
  6. 17951 of 1
  7. 17971 of 1
  8. 17981 of 1
  9. 17992 of 2

9 years on the timeline fall inside the boundaries, 1 of them with nothing set there yet. The filled part of each bar is the share carrying this period.

Share of the 12 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.

Credits

Directors

1Henry Koster1 title3.2/5unsalted2Jean Renoir1 title3.7/5unsalted3Ridley Scott1 title2.9/5unsalted4Sofia Coppola1 title3.6/5unsalted

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

1ABC1 title3.6/5unsalted2France 21 title3.5/5unsalted

Series only, counted once each however many episodes carry the period. 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.

RelationPeriodRunsShared yearsShared threadsTitles
Part ofAge of Revolutions1774–18491789–1799none shared19
BeforeAmerican Revolution1775–17836 years earliernone shared2
ConcurrentAge of Enlightenment1685–18151789–1799none shared8
ConcurrentAmerican Frontier1783–19121789–1799none shared17
ConcurrentFeudal Japan1185–18681789–1799none shared5
ConcurrentIndustrial Revolution1760–18701789–1799none shared3
ConcurrentPeshwa Era1713–18181789–1799none shared1
ConcurrentRusso-Turkish Wars1568–19181789–1799none shared1
ConcurrentHaitian Revolution1791–18041791–1799Transatlantic Slave Trade1
ConcurrentNapoleonic Wars1792–18151792–1799Battle of AusterlitzBattle of WaterlooCoup of 18 BrumaireTransatlantic Slave Trade11
AfterFilibuster Wars1803–18604 years laterTransatlantic Slave Trade1