A map of historical movies by narrative location and time period
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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 :-) )
HN · launched Feb 1, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 62%) · 0 views
Niche: digital history and reference archives · 150 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -57% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Analytics & BI
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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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
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 255 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #124 of 256 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 95 days after the earliest competitor.
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