I built StoryTerra, an interactive world map where you can explore movies, books, games, TV shows and YouTube videos based on where and when they take place, and see what real historical events were unfolding at the same time.
The platform brings together over 120,000 titles, all tagged with their narrative time periods and real-world (or closest fictional) locations. You can click on cities, regions, or countries, then use a time slider to browse across centuries, decades, or individual years.
Once you set a time, the entire map shifts to that era, letting you travel the world and see what stories and real history were happening everywhere at that moment.
Tabs you can explore:
- Home → Stories: Movies, books, TV shows, and games
- History: Real historical events
- Video: YouTube videos tagged by time and setting (over 1,600 videos currently)
- Lists: Curated lists of stories you can create and share
It’s a new way to discover how fiction and real history intersect.
Link: https://www.storyterra.com
Cool tool, bookmarked, had a wee nosey at Dracula since it was in your screenshot, I found the other day that I still have my cinema tickets from when I went to see it on original release lol, they brought back memories.
This is actually REALLY cool. If I had a TARDIS, I'd look to this for ideas on 'places and times to go' for sightseeing. Thank you for sharing and creating this!
Update: One comment: Vancouver, Washington is NOT one and the same as Vancouver, BC, so you might want to work on the algorithms to distinguish city+country better, I clicked on Vancouver, Washington and came up with a bunch of entries showing Vancouver, Canada