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https://whenever.world/

It's an explorable database of films, TV shows, books and board games based around their historical setting: where and when the thing is set. It's been incredibly complex and interesting getting the (messy) data, making sense of it and trying to design a UI to explore it.

https://stevebennett.me/2025/08/26/whenever-exploring-times-...



This is totally cool!

I will note that there are some Norfolk England things showing in Norfolk Virginia.


Thanks, yeah, it's a hard problem.

It would be interesting to see for movies and tv series where it’s set vs where it’s actually shot


This reminded me instantly of Every Frame a Painting's video "Vancouver never plays itself"[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojm74VGsZBU


Yeah, that's a whole different thing. I saw this map once that showed places in California and how they were used to film various locations around the world. Turns out LA is very well situated.


Great job! I just went down a rabbit-hole exploring some historical events




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