# books, movies etc. that play with history

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 30, 2005, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-movies-etc-that-play-with-history/333330 "2005-11-30T04:30:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-movies-etc-that-play-with-history/333330/21 "2005-12-01T12:42:34Z")

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'Little Big Man" and “Return of Little Big Man”

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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-movies-etc-that-play-with-history/333330/22 "2005-12-01T13:29:02Z")

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Everything by Alexander Dumas. (The Three Musketeers has already been mentioned.)

“It is permitted to rape history, as long as you make her beautiful children…”

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-movies-etc-that-play-with-history/333330/23 "2005-12-01T14:21:26Z")

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There are just too many of these – virtually all Time Travel stories during known history (kin addition to the above, consider L. Sprague de Camp’s **Lest Darkness Fall** and Robert Silberberg’s **Up the Line** and Michael Moorcock’s **Behold the Man** , among a great many others) and Alternate History novels (Many of these beside s Harry Turtledove’s books – and he’s practically a one-man industry)  
One particularly cute example is James Hogan’s **The Proteus Incident**. It’s the only time-travel novel I know of where the author actually got permission from the surviving individuals to use them as characters in his story.

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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-movies-etc-that-play-with-history/333330/24 "2005-12-01T15:12:43Z")

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[Slaps forehead] Disney’s **Pocahontas**.

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