Period Films to help you visual each era.
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The Agony and the Ecstasy - set 1500’s Italy
Ever After - set 14th Century France (probably not a stickler for historical accuracy)
Elizabeth - set 1560’s England
Elizabeth: The Golden Age set - 1570’s 80’s
Shakespeare in Love - set 1580’s 90’s
Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead - set 1580’s
(Both SiL and RGAD are Tom Stoppard creations. He’s a genius!)
Girl with The Pearl Earing - set 1660’s 70’s The Netherlands
Dangerous Beauty - set 16th Century Italy
The Three Musketeers - set 17th Century France
Man in the Iron Mask - set late 1600’s - early 1700’s
1776 (musical) - set in...don’t make me say it.
The Patriot (‘00) - set in 1770’s 80’s Colonial America
Maire Antionette (‘06) - set in 1750’s - 1790’s France
Amadeus - set in 1760's Europe
Dangerous Liaisons - set in 1780's France
Amadeus - set in 1760's Europe
Dangerous Liaisons - set in 1780's France
Pride and Prejudice (‘05) - set early 1800’s England
Sense and Sensibility
Emma
Persuasion
Persuasion
...anything Jane Austen, really.
Bright Star (not Austen, but set in that time period)
The Young Victoria - set late 1830’s (this is pre-classic Victorian era, more antebellum)
Jane Eyre (‘06 BBC) set in late 1840’s England
Nicholas Nickelby - set in 1840’s England
Sweeney Todd - set in 1840’s 50’s London (Tim Burton film has costumes of later Victorian fashion)
Gone With the Wind - set in 1850’s 60’s
Gangs of New York - set in 1850’s 60’s
Cold Mountain - set in 1860’s
The Age of Innocence - set in 1870’s New York
Little Women - set in 1870’s America
Gaslight - set in 1880’s Europe
From Hell - set in 1880’s London
Lust for Life - set in late 1880’s 90’s France
Moulin Rouge - set in late 1890’s Paris
Newsies - set in 1899 New York
Wings of The Dove - set in 1900ish Venice
The Little Princess - set in 1904 - New York
The Phantom of the Opera (musical) - set in early 1900’s Paris
Upstairs Downstairs - set between 1903 - 1930 England (TV series)
Ragtime (musical) - set in early 1900’s
Anne of Green Gables - set in early 1910’s
Iron Jawed Angels - set in 1910’s (woman’s sufferage)
Marry Poppins - set in 1910’s London
Titantic - set in 1912 Atlantic Ocean (snort)
Singing in the Rain - set in 1920’s
Little Ashes - set in 1920’s Spain
While we’re on the whole Dali thing...
The Great Gatsby - set in 1920’s America
Chicago (musical) - set in 1920’s
Chaplin - set in 1920’s
Thoroughly Modern Millie - set in 1920’s
