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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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One thing I've noticed is that at some point they stopped making TV shows and movies set in the past and went to making everything science fiction and fantasy.

I didn't learn about vaudeville or butter churns or knights in school, I saw them in media.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

There's still a ton of historical media too. From my past three months of watching:

  • Gladiator II
  • John Adams
  • Taboo
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
  • Beneath Hill 60
  • When Evil Lurks
  • Life is Beautiful
  • A Haunting in Venice
  • Wolf Hall
  • The Terror
[–] PoastRotato@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Gonna add The Last Kingdom to this list. Super cool show about the Viking invasion of England in the ~~11th~~ 9th century, it's got like 5 seasons and a movie to cap it off. Highly recommended.

Edit: I'm a dummy 🤪

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

At the risk of being cliché, I recommend the original books by Bernard Cornwell!

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee -4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't say there was none, I said that it had gone from being ubiquitous to being rare.

Also, none of that is aimed at children.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

This is a silly argument, but:

at some point they stopped making TV shows and movies set in the past and went to making everything science fiction

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

Reminds me of https://archive.org/details/banned-cartoons

It could be that making kids' content with historical settings could be too fraught to bother with: either you include the problematic stuff and people get mad at you for exposing kids to it, or you exclude it and people get mad at you for whitewashing history.

Or (perhaps more likely) such shows are still being made and you just haven't noticed. "Peabody's Improbable History" may no longer be around, but kids today have "Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum" instead, for instance.