There are many ways to group fiction. I’ve opted to create lists by approximate time periods based on a Timeline convention. You can find films in other ways on this site — by using Categories, Search, and Popular Tags in the sidebar — to find regions, genres, characters and other topics of interest.

You can click on any of the titles in the lists to read more it at Amazon, where most of the brief descriptions were taken from.

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• Prehistory (approximately before 3500 BC)
• Ancient History (approximately 3500 BC to 500 AD)
• Middle Ages (approximately 500 to 1500 AD)
• Early Modern (approximately 1500 to 1800 AD)
• Modern (approximately 1800 AD to the present)

Also, check out Sarah Johnson’s excellent reference books Historical Fiction: A Guide to the Genre, and Historical Fiction II.