what is an example of historical fiction?

Answer 1

shakespeare's henry plays

Answer 2

This paragraph will give you everything you need:

"A historical novel is a novel in which the story is set among historical events, or more generally, in which the time of the action predates the lifetime of the author. As such, the historical novel is distinguished from the alternate-history genre. The historical novel was popularized in the 19th century by artists classified as Romantics. Many regard Sir Walter Scott as the first to have used this technique, in his novels of Scottish history such as Waverley (1814) and Rob Roy (1818). His Ivanhoe (1820) gains credit for renewing interest in the Middle Ages. Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) furnishes another early example of the historical novel.

Historical fiction may center on historical or on fictional characters, but usually represents an honest attempt based on considerable research (or at least serious reading) to tell a story set in the historical past as understood by the author's contemporaries. Those historical settings may not stand up to the enhanced knowledge of later historians."

But anyway, here's a link to a bunch of different lists on Amazon.com of well-known modern historical fiction books:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/community-content-search/results/ref=cm_srch_q_rplic/?query=historical+fiction&index=rp-listmania&resultPerPage=10&excrepts=true&excreptsSize=512&x=0&y=0

And here's where that info from above came from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_novel

Here's another long list of historical fiction books (scroll down)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_novels

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

The movie "Pearl Harbor" is one. It uses fictional characters to tell a story about a historical moment. It adds the human relationships and love interests to entertain while it informs.
A documentary is strictly fact based and generally pretty boring.

Answer 4

Any speech by Bush.

But seriously...the novel "Lincoln" by Gore Vidal would qualify - it's meant to explain history by telling a story with some fictional elements.

The movie "Nixon" would qualify, or even something like "Shindler's List." History told in terms of a story.

Answer 5

Paul Reveres ride. There is evidence to support he never made ride and was wrong about it it was be sea or land. Further evidence also says Revere was captured by Brits and held. The actual person making famous ride name eludes me but it was not very poetic and when poem was written Revere was put in his place

Answer 6

The Tale of Two Cities. It tells of the French Revolution, but has a story that winds around it.

Answer 7

The Bible. - No that is wrong. The Bible is not historical at all. That is Hysterical Ficton!

Answer 8

i'd say the Da Vinci Code