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Films & Shows Set in the Byzantine Empire

Runs from30614531,147 years wide

Shelfmark Mansio CLXXIVOn the map Byzantine Empire in the Itinerarium

Classical World 8% · Medieval Era 92%

6
titles
5 films · 1 series (2 eps) · 4 through the places inside it
3.1/5
average rating
across 6 rated titles
6%
of the span is tagged
2 of 36 titles set inside it

See the Byzantine Empire on the timelineEvery year from 306 to 1453 the archive holds, and what is set in them

Compare the titles of the Byzantine Empire 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 Byzantine Empire, in the order they happened, each with the titles that depict it. Press a name to read about it in the threads below.

  1. 33–325
    Rise of ChristianityReligious
  2. 391
    Destruction of the SerapeumReligious

    The looting and ultimate end of the Temple of Serapis at Alexandria following the Roman Imperial transition toward Christianity as a state religion.

  3. 400–476
    Fall of the Western Roman EmpirePolitical
  4. 527–565
    Justinian's ReconquestsMilitary
  5. 532
    Nika RiotsSocial
  6. 1453
    Fall of ConstantinopleMilitary

Sub-Periods

The periods the archive places in the Byzantine Empire: named stretches of its history, such as a reign or an age. The number is how many of this page’s titles carry each.

Cinematic Introduction

Every title set during the Byzantine Empire, 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
Theodora, Slave Empress1954
Most recent
Fetih 14532012

FilmsSerieseach bar is the titles released that decade

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.

Destruction of the Serapeumpull it on the timeline

Event

The looting and ultimate end of the Temple of Serapis at Alexandria following the Roman Imperial transition toward Christianity as a state religion. The destruction of the temple and its library have often been described historically as symbolic of the wider conflict facing the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity between Christians and Pagans.

filed under 391

Also runs throughLate Antiquity

Places Connected to this Realm

Every place the archive’s titles set in this realm 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 Realm

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

Archive Density

6%2 of the 36 titles the archive sets between 306 and 1453 are tagged Byzantine Empire itself.

17%With the places inside it: 6 of the same 36 titles are tagged Byzantine Empire or a place inside it.

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. 306nothing set here
  2. 3910 of 1 · 1 with sub-periods
  3. 4150 of 1 · 1 with sub-periods
  4. 4341 of 1
  5. 4451 of 1
  6. 449nothing set here
  7. 4501 of 1
  8. 4511 of 1
  9. 4531 of 1
  10. 476nothing set here
  11. 5260 of 1 · 1 with sub-periods
  12. 5271 of 1
  13. 5321 of 1
  14. 535nothing set here
  15. 536nothing set here
  16. 540nothing set here
  17. 5520 of 1 · 1 with sub-periods
  18. 554nothing set here
  19. 565nothing set here
  20. 570nothing set here
  21. 600nothing set here
  22. 6100 of 1
  23. 6240 of 1
  24. 6250 of 1
  25. 6300 of 1
Show all 105 yearsShow the first 25 only · 80 more years, from 632 to 1453
  1. 632nothing set here
  2. 750nothing set here
  3. 786nothing set here
  4. 7930 of 1
  5. 8000 of 1
  6. 862nothing set here
  7. 8660 of 1
  8. 870nothing set here
  9. 880nothing set here
  10. 8950 of 1
  11. 9210 of 1
  12. 9220 of 1
  13. 9710 of 1
  14. 9720 of 1
  15. 1000nothing set here
  16. 10020 of 1
  17. 1050nothing set here
  18. 10600 of 1
  19. 10630 of 1
  20. 10650 of 1
  21. 1066nothing set here
  22. 10720 of 1
  23. 10860 of 1
  24. 10940 of 1
  25. 10990 of 1
  26. 11720 of 1
  27. 11840 of 1
  28. 1185nothing set here
  29. 11860 of 1
  30. 11870 of 2
  31. 1188nothing set here
  32. 1189nothing set here
  33. 11910 of 1
  34. 11920 of 2
  35. 11930 of 1
  36. 1195nothing set here
  37. 11960 of 1
  38. 12060 of 1
  39. 12270 of 1
  40. 1237nothing set here
  41. 12400 of 1
  42. 12410 of 1
  43. 12420 of 1
  44. 1250nothing set here
  45. 1258nothing set here
  46. 1265nothing set here
  47. 12750 of 1
  48. 12800 of 1
  49. 1292nothing set here
  50. 12970 of 1
  51. 12980 of 1
  52. 1300nothing set here
  53. 13040 of 1
  54. 13050 of 1
  55. 13060 of 1
  56. 13070 of 1
  57. 1309nothing set here
  58. 13140 of 1
  59. 13270 of 1
  60. 1337nothing set here
  61. 13500 of 1
  62. 1376nothing set here
  63. 13860 of 1
  64. 14000 of 1
  65. 14050 of 1
  66. 14060 of 1
  67. 14080 of 1
  68. 1409nothing set here
  69. 14100 of 1
  70. 1411nothing set here
  71. 14120 of 1
  72. 14150 of 1
  73. 14230 of 1
  74. 14240 of 1
  75. 14290 of 3
  76. 14300 of 1
  77. 14310 of 3
  78. 14510 of 1 · 1 with sub-periods
  79. 14520 of 1 · 1 with sub-periods
  80. 14530 of 1 · 1 with sub-periods

105 years on the timeline fall inside the boundaries, 34 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 17 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

1Andrew Marton2 titles2.6/5unsalted2Robert Siodmak2 titles2.6/5unsalted3Sergiu Nicolaescu2 titles2.6/5unsalted4Alejandro Amenábar1 title3.6/5unsalted5Faruk Aksoy1 title2.7/5unsalted6Riccardo Freda1 title3.4/5unsalted

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

1USA Network1 title4.0/5unsalted

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 of itAge of Justinian527–565527–565Justinian's ReconquestsNika Riots3
BeforeThree Kingdoms184–28026 years earliernone shared2
ConcurrentGothic Wars248–554306–554Justinian's Reconquests2
ConcurrentLate Antiquity284–476306–476Destruction of the SerapeumFall of the Western Roman EmpireRise of Christianity2
ConcurrentMigration Period300–600306–600Fall of the Western Roman Empire1
BoundedLife of Muhammad570–632570–632none shared1
BoundedIslamic Golden Age786–1258786–1258none shared2
BoundedViking Age793–1066793–1066none shared6
ConcurrentRurikid Dynasty862–1598862–1453none shared1
BoundedHigh Middle Ages1000–13001000–1300none shared6
BoundedThe Crusades1095–12911095–1291none shared6
ConcurrentFeudal Japan1185–18681185–1453none shared5
BoundedThird Crusade1189–11921189–1192none shared4
BoundedNorthern Crusades1195–14101195–1410none shared2
BoundedMongol Conquests1206–13371206–1337none shared2
ConcurrentTatar Yoke1237–14801237–1453none shared1
BoundedPax Mongolica1250–13501250–1350none shared1
ConcurrentByzantine–Ottoman Wars1265–14791265–1453Fall of Constantinople1
BoundedWars of Scottish Independence1296–13571296–1357none shared2
ConcurrentLate Middle Ages1300–15001300–1453Fall of Constantinople13
BoundedAvignon Papacy1309–13761309–1376none shared1
ConcurrentHundred Years’ War1337–14531337–1453none shared6
BoundedGreat Teutonic War1409–14111409–1411none shared1
ConcurrentAge of Discovery1415–16501415–1453none shared6
AfterItalian Renaissance1453–15271453none shared1