A map of historical movies by narrative location and time period
Details
- External ID
- 46847393
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- A map of historical movies by narrative location and time period
- Website domain
- inneuro.ai
- Launched
- Feb. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.38207547169811323
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
A year ago I watched The Count of Monte Cristo, got curious about post-revolution France, and wondered which other movies depicted France in the same period.I was disappointed to find no easy way to answer that question - the only information of this kind I could find was scattered on Wikipedia, unstructured and hard to find.I thought that this would be a perfect use for LLMs. One year and a lot of tinkering later I'm proud to present to you the results - hoping you'll find it as entertaining as I do to wade through time, geography, and stories.(P.S.: If you find me a more creative, evocative name I will instantly change the domain name and credit you for it :-) )
Enrichment
- Theme
- media discovery and streaming tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- movie database by location and time period
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The author used Claude Code and Codex to build the map frontend alongside an LLM scraping and geocoding pipeline from Wikipedia/Wikidata.
Discussion
6 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Font sizes too small, difficult for users with vision issues, Map container doesn't use full screen real estate, Unclear filtering logic between historical and contemporary-set movies, Data limited to movies explicitly made as historical films, missing contemporary-period films
Feature requests: Search/filter movies by specific locations or sets of locations, Include movies set across multiple countries/borders, Expand to include contemporary-period movies, not just historical dramas, Improve UX and visual design
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Launched 95 days after the earliest competitor.
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