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Films & Shows Set during the Three Kingdoms

Runs from18428096 years wide

Shelfmark Liber XVIII

Classical World

2
titles
2 films
3.8/5
average rating
across 2 rated titles
100%
of the span is tagged
2 of 2 titles set inside it

See the Three Kingdoms on the timelineEvery year from 184 to 280 the archive holds, and what is set in them

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

Inside this Archive

2 titles · in the order the archive depicts them. A series counts once, regardless of however many of its episodes carry the tag.

Cinematic Introduction

Every title set during the Three Kingdoms, 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
Red Cliff2008
Most recent
Red Cliff II2009

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.

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.

Battle of Red Cliffspull it on the timeline

Event

The decisive naval engagement on the Yangtze river at the end of the Han Dynasty that halted Cao Cao’s advance south and set the stage for the Three Kingdoms Period of Chinese history that would persist for decades afterward.

2 titles set here · filed under 208

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

100%2 of the 2 titles the archive sets between 184 and 280 carry the Three Kingdoms 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. 2082 of 2 titles set in 208 carry this period
  2. 220nothing set here
  3. 248nothing set here

3 years on the timeline fall inside the boundaries, 2 of them with nothing set there yet. The filled part of each bar is the share carrying this period.

Share of the 6 genre taggings across 2 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

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

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 Three Kingdoms, 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.
RelationPeriodRunsShared yearsShared threadsTitles
BeforeMarcomannic Wars166–1804 years earliernone shared2 titles in the archive
BeforePax Romana27 BCE–1804 years earliernone shared9 titles in the archive
ConcurrentGothic Wars248–554248–280none shared2 titles in the archive
AfterLate Antiquity284–4764 years laternone shared2 titles in the archive