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* The {{Disneyesque}} ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' shows the Tsars as benevolent, white-hat rulers and their rule as a time of peace and prosperity. Their downfall was caused not by injustices setting off an uprising, but by a "spark of unhappiness" sent across Russia by the evil magician Rasputin. This is played in contrast to how terrible and cold Russia became under the Soviets, with the citizens of St. Petersburg singing, "Oh, since the Revolution, our lives have been so grey!" This is what made ''Anastasia'' so infamous in Russia, where people know very well what really caused the February 1917 coup/abdication: the lackluster war effort and near-starvation in the urban centres over the winter of 1916-17, caused in turn by the Romanovs' 'light touch'/'hands-off' approach to government (ironically done for fear of antagonising the people), though in fairness the Romanovs ''were'' decent people overall, just incompetent at government.

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* One of Creator/DCComics's many {{Elseworlds}} storylines has the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica back in [[TheWildWest Wild West times]]. Franchise/WonderWoman was a sheriff and shows a heck of a lot of chest, as in her modern day outfit (though she wears pants). Sure, the town she was sheriff of ''was'' indicated to be progressive, but she spent a lot of time wandering through other towns and didn't get hassled for being a woman with guns with half her boobs hanging out.
* Deliberately averted in ''ComicBook/SupermanSmashesTheKlan''. Racism is prevalent everywhere in the comic, between the blatant examples (i.e. the Klan of the Fiery Kross) to the more subtle microaggressions (i.e. a girl being thankful that Roberta is Chinese and not a "Jap"). Roberta's father also tries to shoo away three African-American men who stopped to help him put out the fires around the Lees' house, only to realize his error when one of them pulls out a police badge. Even Superman is afraid of his alien heritage and hides his origins from the world.
* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'': Discussed when [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Hob Gadling]] criticizes everything while accompanying his current girlfriend to a Renaissance Fair. However, he also points out one aspect that ''isn't'' an example, telling his black girlfriend that ideas about racial supremacy and racial purity are a lot more recent that most people assume. Hob also [[MyGreatestFailure still regrets]], two centuries on, that he made his fortune in the slave trade.
* ''Comicbook/GoldieVance'' is set in 1960s Florida, but the subjects of racism and homophobia almost never come up. This is particularly notable in the way that Goldie, an African-American girl, openly pursues a relationship with a Japanese-American girl named Diane, and nobody bats an eye.
* Both ComicBook/NickFury's [[ComicBook/SgtFuryAndHisHowlingCommandos Howling Commandos]] and ComicBook/SgtRock's Easy Company included [[TokenMinority one]] African-American soldier. In RealLife the US armed forces weren't racially integrated until 1948. Eventually justified, at least in the Howling Commandos; they're a special unit hand-picked by Fury himself. If he thinks an African-American soldier is a good addition to his line-up, the military isn't going to tell him no. Per WordOfGod, one of the intentions when creating the Howling Commandos was to include as many minorities as possible, so readers could confront any prejudices they might have against any of those ethnicities. Creator/StanLee even threw in a CampStraight. Partly an example of RealityIsUnrealistic. Black soldiers actually served in integrated rifle companies as early as 1945. Still the entire US military was not integrated until 1948. Heck, Gen. UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower selectively integrated some black soldiers into his forces in 1944 in real life (he was running low on men, but even then, his aides advised strongly against it), so a small force with a leader as respected as Rock or Fury should have been able to do the same.
* ComicBook/CaptainAmerica is often subject to this in recent history among fans.
** People often express amazement that in his UsefulNotes/WorldWarII years, Cap is depicted as a man with none of the prejudices that a typical American at that time would consider perfectly reasonable unspoken assumptions like racism, sexism or homophobia. The alternate universe series ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'' attempts to address this, and Cap here is significantly more reactionary and prejudiced than most any other incarnation, including the Captain America actually published in the 1940s. This led some fans to claim that this version of Captain America is an aversion of politically-correct history showing that such a man would be out of place in 21st Century post-Civil Rights America. Others argue that the Cap is more a projection of {{Eagleland}} type II in the wake of UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror, (eg. the infamous "Do you think this A stands for France?") than anything else.
** In any case this rests on a fundamental misreading of TheThirties and TheForties, the era of the New Deal and anti-fascism, that Creator/JackKirby and Joe Simon had generally progressive views, and that Captain America wanting to fight Nazis ''before'' America's entry into the war was a powerful anti-fascist statement. [[http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2013/10/steven-attewell-steve-rogers-isnt-just-any-hero Steve Rogers was an educated artist]] from liberal New York before he enlisted, so he probably wouldn't be that mainstream in his views. The vision of America as {{Eagleland}}-II comes from the Eisenhower fifties which was in many ways a conservative cultural backlash to TheThirties.
* The members of the actual [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]] were all white and mostly male, with Franchise/WonderWoman acting as the [[TheSmurfettePrinciple token female secretary]]. Modern depictions of that period in DC history have more women involved in groups like the Comicbook/AllStarSquadron, and even a few minority characters like Amazing-Man and Tiger.
* Explicitly invoked by Creator/MargueriteBennett in ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells''. The series takes place in an AlternateHistory version of UsefulNotes/WorldWar2, where according to WordOfGod, segregation has already been done away with and parts of the women's lib movement have already occurred. While some attitudes that might be more expected of the time are still around, women in that universe are able to do things like attend West Point, hold high military positions, compete in sports like boxing and Olympic track and field events, and run major companies without such things being thought of as that odd. Racism and homophobia are also far less prevalent. Bennett has pointed out that thanks to HollywoodHistory, the contributions of black and Asian-American soldiers in [=WW2=] have already been thoroughly ignored, which is part of the reason she wanted to work with a diverse cast in the first place.
-->'''Bennett:''' Another issue [we have] as Americans, especially, is we have this tendency to accept the media that's discussed the war more than the [actual] history. We have these White actors in these movies, and we have this idea that it was a White war. That completely glosses over the contributions of people of color except in these very specific and again, often brutalized and downtrodden circumstances, so I wanted to get rid of that. It's just so funny because folk have this reaction because, "Well that's not historically accurate" because they're getting other media that is in itself not historically accurate.
* One of supporting characters from the 2018 volume of ''Comicbook/{{Exiles}}'' is a {{Gender Flip}}ped, lesbian version of Comicbook/BuckyBarnes, who openly flirts with women. Despite living in the 1940s, none of the soldiers she fights alongside comment on her sexuality or behavior.
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' is not very politically correct at all, but lapses into this occasionally (possibly to indicate how weird the Gauls are compared to the Gallo-Romans and Romans, but also possibly as part of PurelyAestheticEra). For instance, ''How Obelix Fell Into The Magic Potion When He Was A Little Boy'' (which shows the education in the Gaul village) and ''The Big Fight'' (which shows the Roman-style education in a village run by a chief with a huge ForeignCultureFetish for all things Roman) show little girls being educated alongside little boys, being taught things like language and Maths - and young adult Panacea is said to have returned from studying in the city with the implication it was at something like a university. We don't know very much about how the Brittanic tribes educated their children, but we do know that the Romans very rarely educated girls.
** The Gauls mostly fit the popular description from Cicero - that the only two things they care about are getting drunk and fighting - but the more unsavory descriptions of their culture from the same accounts are omitted, since some of it includes cannibalism and human sacrifice that would make them much less likeable heroes, not to mention hard-to-draw behaviour like wearing complicated tattoos.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderManLifeStory'' by Creator/ChipZdarsky touches on this:
** Since the comics are written in a decade where the Vietnam War is generally seen as a mistake, Zdarsky's reinterpretation of scenes that cover the conflict in the Lee-Romita decade are different. Peter is shown having doubts about signing up and joining the war effort and serving the draft, and gets into a tussle with Flash's decision to enlist (though he admits to Gwen that this is him venting at his high school bully and using a political issue as an excuse). In the actual comics, Lee showed the Vietnam War as non-controversial, with Peter and others willingly supporting and encouraging Flash joining in. This is because the Vietnam War during the '60s was quite popular and the protest movement in 1966 was very much a fringe movement, only growing in the years after that.
** Having Captain America [[spoiler:openly fight and defend Vietnamese against American soldiers at the end, or have him voice doubts about the rightness of the Vietnam War]], would have been unthinkable to do in the actual '60s and even when Marvel re-tooled Cap as someone "loyal only to the dream", it took Watergate and even then a disguised version of it, to have Cap take a political stance like that. But when one considers that Steve probably saw numerous war crimes during his time in Vietnam, his change in political stance makes sense.
* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'': The Holiday Girls seem to be a perfectly accepted and universally loved group despite consisting of three white women, one black woman and one brown woman in a period when the United States was highly segregated and hate crimes against African Americans were common. As a matter of fact, while Lawrence is obviously serving with an all black unit (the Tuskegee Airmen), segregation and racial inequality and violence is treated as non-existent despite the time period and setting.
* Averted in ''ComicBook/CodeNameGravedigger''. This was of the few mainstream comics set in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII to acknowledge that the American military of the time was segregated, and that blacks were not allowed to serve in combat units. Hazard faces plenty of prejudice on both sides of the conflict. WordOfGod from creator David Michelinie was that he wanted to do a book that could touch on these issues while still telling an entertaining war story.
* ''ComicBook/AdamLegendOfTheBlueMarvel'': Averted. The moment it was revealed that the Blue Marvel was Dr. Adam Brashear, a black man, President John F. Kennedy summoned him, gave him a Presidential Medal of Freedom for his many actions that saved the world, and then asked (with reluctance) if he could please stop doing superheroics. Brashear accepted, [[RememberTheNewGuy which is why very few people had ever heard of him until the time he took up the cape again.]]
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* Whether ''Film/TheBirthOfANation1915'' qualifies as politically-correct history or merely Jim Crow propaganda is something of a MindScrew. The film did reflect the Dunning Thesis of Reconstruction, which claimed that the South were victims of the Northern Republicans and dangerous ''egalitarian'' sentiment to which the heroic(!) UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan was a tragically necessary corrective. This view of Reconstruction was the political orthodoxy of the time. Especially striking to modern viewers is the scene where the Klansmen and Northern whites who have settled in the South join forces to, as the title card puts it, "defend their Aryan birthright."
* ''Film/DontWorryDarling'': Unusually for a midcentury America setting, there are several people of color in Victory, CA in longterm interracial marriages.[[note]]Such marriages would have been legal in some states, including the state of California since 1948, but the couples have moved there from all over.[[/note]] [[spoiler:Subverted, as the film is actually set in the modern day, and Victory is a nostalgic simulation of midcentury America that kept out the racism but kept in the patriarchal aspects.]]
* ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' is more politically correct than ''Birth of a Nation'' in terms of building consensus. It avoids the controversial racism of Griffith's film via avoidance of blackface, and changing a Klan meeting in Margaret Mitchell's novel into a more "innocent" night of gentlemen getting drunk, which makes the film's basic internalization of the Dunning thesis more palatable to the mainstream audience. More dubious is its portrayal of the relationship between Scarlett and her slaves as one of friendship rather than one of master and slave.
* ''Film/SongOfTheSouth'' features a sanitized version of the post-[[UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar Civil War]] Deep South, something that people often criticize.
* ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'' is essentially the tale of a bunch of 12th-century secular humanists fighting for peace and tolerance, opposed by [[KnightTemplar Templars]] both literal and figurative. Appropriately enough, one historical figure's name was changed from "Barisan" to "Godfrey", a homonym for his anachronistic stance on religion. Near the end of the film, Orlando Bloom's character gives a speech to the defenders of Jerusalem, in which he argues that the Christians have no special claim to the city above the claims of the Jews and Muslims. The population is shockingly open-minded about this statement. Just to make sure viewers got the point, all the priests are self-serving jerks, and the villains are turned into Templars (which is itself an issue; the real life Knights Templar were ''monks'' and by definition renounced all noble titles, therefore ''couldn't'' have held the positions of power many do in this movie), despite them having been secular nobles in RealLife. At one point a monk of UsefulNotes/TheKnightsHospitallers, heavily implied to be a case of an AngelUnaware to boot, straight-up tells the protagonist that God prefers "right action" to religion.
* The 1972 musical ''[[Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix 1776]]'' originally featured a musical number in which the "conservatives" of the Continental Congress express their unwillingness to jeopardize their personal positions and wealth by supporting American independence. Though the song was historically accurate, producer Jack Warner's good friend [[HilariousInHindsight President Richard Nixon objected to the scene on the basis that it depicted "conservatives" in a negative light]], in spite of the difference in meaning between the term then and now. In an instance of [[ExecutiveMeddling Chief Executive Meddling]], Warner had the sequence removed from the film at Nixon's behest, though copies of it survived, and the most recent Blu-Ray release has the sequence restored to the film.
* Mel Gibson's ''Film/ThePatriot'' exaggerates British atrocities during the American Revolutionary War whilst downplaying similar actions from the American side to non-existence. It also conveniently makes all of our hero's African-American farm laborers freedmen.
* In ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'', Rachel [=McAdams=] plays Irene Adler. Adler has no problem running around London in very tight pants, and is depicted as something of a Victorian era Catwoman. In the original story "[[Literature/SherlockHolmes A Scandal in Bohemia]]", she goes out disguised as a boy, in male dress, and her impressive talent is carrying this off well enough to fool Holmes. The story praises Adler as the only ''woman'' able to outwit Holmes (three unnamed men are also mentioned); in the film, she's the only ''person'' who does it.
* Some viewers [[RealityIsUnrealistic mistakenly accuse]] ''Film/{{Hollywoodland}}'' of this trope, due to the presence of black patrons in an upper-class Hollywood restaurant in the 1950s. On the commentary, however, the director defends this, saying that in the 50s many of these restaurants were not segregated, and a number of popular Jazz musicians did frequent them.
* A weird in-universe example occurs in the movie ''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica'', where [[AlternateHistory the South won the]] UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar. After the war ends, there's a strong effort to repaint the North as honorable but misguided, with the issue of slavery swept under the rug. As the announcer put it, "The Civil War became civil". This is meant to parallel real-life whitewashing of the horrors of the Antebellum South - to the extent that the film highlights a fictional novel and subsequent musical production called "[[Film/GoneWithTheWind A Northern Wind]]."
* In ''Film/AnnieGetYourGun'', Annie gives up her sharp-shooting career to marry Frank Butler. In [[RealLife reality]], the opposite was true: Butler began courting Annie Oakley ''after'' losing a sharp-shooting contest to her, and their marriage helped ''launch'' Oakley's public career. Considering it was made in the 50s, the film was politically correct history -- [[ValuesDissonance for its time]].
* Played with in ''Film/WildWildWest''. Jim West is treated pretty much exactly as you'd expect a black man to be treated in the late 19th century... even though he's a commissioned officer in the Army, prior to when the first black man actually held such a rank at the time.
* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': The film was criticized for including Gabe Jones as part of the Howling Commandos, due to the fact that the army was still segregated at that point in history. However it's largely moot anyway since the Howling Commandos were handpicked by ComicBook/CaptainAmerica in the first place: strike forces assembled from different army units are "temporary" and don't have to adhere to certain regimental regulations, so Cap may have found a good use for LoopholeAbuse. Otherwise, the film does a good job of averting this. Dum Dum is suspicious of Jim Morita since the latter is a Japanese-American and the lyrics to Cap's USO show song call the Germans "krauts". And we should probably consider that the Marvel Universe is a separate timeline to ours in any case so military segregation might well have been ended there prior to WW2.
* The live-action ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'' has a racially diverse French village, with the priest himself being black. While that may be theoretically possible (though unlikely) in 18th Century France, the large number of black courtiers dancing in the prince's palace is not really possible. Then there's the interracial marriages among the French elite, Belle's two-centuries-out-of-place feminism, and commoners at the castle.
** Inverted when the citizens criticize Belle for teaching a little girl how to read. By that point in history, discrimination against female literacy was scarcely true; magazines for women and girls were quite common. Ironically, the original ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast'' story itself was at one point published in such a magazine.
* In ''Film/KingDavid'', starring Richard Gere, King David falls in love with Bathsheba and sends her husband, Uriah, to the [[UriahGambit front lines of an army to die]]. In the movie, Bathsheba claims that Uriah whips her to make David more sympathetic. In the actual story from Literature/TheBible, there is no mention of Uriah beating his wife, and even that wouldn't have been used to justify David's actions. The whole point of the story was that even King David was a flawed person. The film keeps a scene from the Bible in which the prophet Nathan chastises David for his sins, which leads to a BrokenAesop.
** Ironically, the original biblical account actually emphasizes that Uriah was a morally upright person.
* In the Chinese martial arts biopic ''Film/IpMan'', there are several changes to history to make the film more PRC-friendly. In the film, the title character is a bourgeois martial arts teacher who is forced to join the working class during the Japanese invasion. He then leaves the mainland for Hong Kong to escape the Japanese. In reality, Ip Man had a day job as a police officer and never worked as a laborer. Also, he was a supporter of the Kuomintang, the enemies of the Communists. He fled to Hong Kong to escape the Communists, not the Japanese.
* ''Film/FiftyFiveDaysAtPeking'' shows the ordeal of foreigners in China during the Boxers' 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Peking before the [[TheCavalry armies of the Eight-Nation Alliance]] show up and put down the Boxer Rebellion. There's no mention of [[RapePillageAndBurn what happens next]].
* The Shirley Temple movie, ''Film/TheLittlestRebel'', has Shirley being friends with the slaves that work on her father's plantation. When someone questions why the slaves would want to be freed, Shirley says, "Makes you think, doesn't it?" As if there's no problem with slavery. To be fair, they may have been going for DeliberateValuesDissonance here.
* ''Theatre/AManForAllSeasons'': Sir Thomas More is shown as a calm and rational judge who politely but firmly discusses his views with others. In reality, he was a KnightTemplar who ruthlessly supported the suppression of "heretics," which included all Protestants. It also leaves out the [[SophisticatedAsHell scatological language]] he and his contemporaries used on both sides of the religious debate.
* The titular character in Tim Burton's ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' is rebellious in ways which wouldn't even have occurred to girls of her day. She holds attitudes which would have shocked and offended proto-feminists of the era. Her father's former business partner [[spoiler: offers her (an unmarried 19-year-old girl) a 50/50 partnership in a fledgling business]] as if it were no big deal and only a little strange.
* To some extent in ''Film/XMenFirstClass''. Sexism is still present, but the racism of the era is glossed over.
* The film ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' has Emperor Marcus Aurelius attempting to prevent his son Commodus from becoming emperor, stating his wish to end the Empire and return Rome to being a Republic, before being murdered by Commodus. In reality, none of this happened; Marcus specifically set up his son as his successor, and certainly no Roman emperor at this time would ever have considered returning to the Republic, nor was there ever a great deal of nostalgia for the Republic. After all, UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar was far more popular and well liked than the Senate.
* ''Film/{{Annie 1999}}'' features an interracial couple during a time period where it may not have been illegal there in New York City, but it certainly would have been frowned upon. Daddy Warbucks was a chairman on many boards and worked with the president. An interracial marriage could have caused him political and financial ruin.
* Creator/KennethBranagh's ''Film/AsYouLikeIt'' (set in a British Colony in late 19th century Japan) ends with two interracial marriages. Being based on a Shakespeare script with ethnically ambiguous characters, this is never commented on.
* ''Film/HauntedMansion2023'': Despite being a wealthy landowner in the American South in the 19th century, Master Gracey married a biracial woman (who he clearly loved very much, as his attempts to contact her via Madame Leota is what led to all of the ghosts being in the mansion in the first place). He also seems to have no problem helping Ben in his mission to end the mansion's curse.
* If the movie ''Xica da Silva'' (released as ''Xica'' in the United States) is to be believed, at least some 18th-century Brazilians were well versed in Marxist-Leninist theory.
* ''Film/{{Hostiles}}'': While the film has plenty of DeliberateValuesDissonance in regards to the treatment of Native Americans in 19th century America, it completely avoids the subject of racism toward African Americans. The film portrays an army detachment with a black corporal whose race is never directly addressed. None of the white soldiers bat an eyelash at serving with or taking orders from a black man. While "buffalo soldiers" did serve in the Indian Wars, they were always in segregated units. The United Stated military did not begin desegregation until ''1948''. Rosalie also has no reaction to a black man presiding over the funeral of her family.
* ''Film/WarmSprings'':
** Tom Loyless, manager of Warm Springs inn, was forced out of the newspaper business because he had "offended the sensibilities of a [[TheKlan local civic group]]." In Real Life, Tom Loyless had been one of the few newspaper editors in Georgia to support Leo Frank, whose trial and lynching led to the rebirth of the KKK.
** One of the black employees in the Warm Springs inn is surprised when a polio victim from New York wants to shake his hand.
* In ''Film/TheManWhoKilledDonQuixote'', the title don once reprimands the main character for sounding religiously intolerant towards what he believes to be some praying Moors. The literary Don Quixote would have never defended any kind of religious tolerance, however, as his medieval Christian ideals would have effectively set him against Islam by definition (in fact, he does occasionally speak against "pagan" Muslims in the actual text). Possibly an in-universe example, though, given that the one from the film is not the real Don Quixote, but a modern man who believes himself to be him, and who might be not familiar enough with the book (not many Spaniards are in real life, actually) to know how would have Quixote reacted to the Moors in his place. Miguel de Cervantes, who wrote the original book, would likely be ever ''more'' hostile toward Muslims than usual, as he had been tortured while imprisoned by them, and thus quite unlikely to have characters show tolerance.
* The movie ''Film/Overlord2018'' is a World War II movie about a secret mission to destroy a radar tower the night before D-Day, featuring a paratrooper unit where not only is the main character black in an otherwise all white unit, but their commanding officer is black too, in a time when units weren't integrated and African-Americans would never have authority over white people.
* ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'' uses this as a joke in the beginning of the movie.
--> '''Rizzo''': ''(about [[StarterVillain Blind Pew]])'' It's some kind of a blind fiend.\\
'''Gonzo''': I think they prefer "visually challenged fiend."
* ''Film/LadyMacbeth'': The film generally doesn't gloss over classism and racism of the time period. In the case of Teddy however, no one reacts at all to the fact that his mother was black. Though it's not impossible, the reaction would far more likely be negative, with his existence considered a scandal that had to be hushed up, rather than having his white father Alexander's family openly care for him.
* ''Film/FearStreet'':
** {{Zigzagged}}. The 1666 Puritans have a very low (period appropriate) opinion of same-gender relationships, but don't seem to have any racial bias, as Black people are living among them without any notable signs of discrimination. However, since the entire 1666 segment of the story is framed as a vision by Deena imagining herself in the role of Sarah Fier, and the real Sarah shown later in the film is played by a white actress, it is implied that the cast are just playing parts assigned to them by Deena's vision. Additionally, racial attitudes towards Black people hadn't really solidified yet, with the majority view the White colonists had at the time being one of ambivalence.
** Solomon is shown treating Sarah as an equal and a friend. And although he lacks the vocabulary for it, he shows a 21st century view of homosexuality. [[spoiler:This is a BaitAndSwitch to the viewer (who probably until then assumed they would be like him if they lived back then) for when he is revealed to be the BigBad]].
* ''Film/TheWomanKing'': The Agojie are portrayed as being anti-slavery despite the reality being the opposite, and the Dahomey's practices in general are heavily toned down to keep them sympathetic. One notable example is Nanisca pressuring King Ghezo into ending the slave trade in favor of trading palm oil, which is portrayed as the more moral route. In reality, King Ghezo was pressured by the British government, which was trying to end the transatlantic slave trade, and went back to selling slaves once trading palm oil proved to be less profitable.
* ''Film/GodsAndGenerals'' has this all over the place, not for nothing has it been denounced as Confederate propaganda. Stonewall Jackson is portrayed as being privately against slavery despite being a Confederate general, of which there is no historical evidence; the only two black characters support the Southern cause, and one of them, Jackson's cook, is portrayed as a freedman when he was actually a slave. The Confederates also discuss the possibility of freeing the slaves and arming them to fight the war; in real life, only arming the slaves was suggested, much later in the war as a desperate measure, and it was shut down as madness.

[[folder:Literature]]
* Parodied in George Orwell's ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', where history and logic are rewritten, often to polar opposites of what they had been, based on the whims and imperatives of the Party (a party orator switches "We have always been at war with Eurasia" to "Eastasia" in ''mid-sentence''). The protagonist is employed in the department where outdated history and contradictory facts are consigned to the "memory hole."
* As a genre, historical mystery fiction (and to an extent historical fiction in general) often has some amount of this in order to keep the character sympathetic. There is definitely a continuum of this though. On one end, the title character of the ''Literature/BrotherCadfael'' series is one of [[AllLovingHero the most kind and humane characters imaginable]] and in one book/episode reacts tolerantly toward a couple who had sex in a church. On the other end, Literature/JudgeDee is a polygamist, who (in keeping with the justice system of the time) uses beatings and torture in interrogation and sentences people to horrific forms of death. However, he is notably pragmatic about using these methods and the author likely understood that any more descriptions of torture would lose the Judge the reader's sympathy. In all fairness, medieval secular mores were rather more relaxed than those preached by the Church, and Cadfael came late to his vocation. Moreover, Judge Dee hates having to watch the executions, which makes it simple to avoid too much description; it also helps that the people he sentences to horrible deaths almost always ''really'' [[KarmicDeath deserve it]].
* Parodied in ''Literature/DaveBarrySleptHere''. A couple pages into Chapter Four: The Colonies Develop A Life-style, the {{Lemony Narrator}}s interrupt the action to notify the readers that "a review committee... has determined that, so far, this history book is not making enough of an effort to include the contributions of women and minority groups. Unless some effort is undertaken to correct this situation, this book will not be approved for purchase by public school systems in absolutely vast quantities." Whereupon the narrators/authors "just now remembered... that during the colonial era women and minority groups were making many contributions, which we are certain that they will continue to do at regularly spaced intervals throughout the course of this book." [[spoiler: They do... whenever the narrative remembers to mention it, anyway.]]
* Subverted and lampshaded in Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{It}}''. The town of Derry, Maine, has a chapter of "The Legion of White Decency", a Northern counterpart to the KKK, which the residents of Derry (and Northerners in general) like to forget about.
* In the young adult book ''Literature/After2003'' by Francine Prose, the school slowly starts to try to brainwash the students. One of the protagonist's friends points out that the documentary playing on the bus that day is on World War II, and was stating that the atom bombs were dropped on Japanese ''wilderness areas''. He says, "Dude, Listen to that. I don't think that's true." followed by another friend asking, "How stupid ''were'' we?"
* Discussed throughout the ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'' series by Creator/EricFlint, in regards to the commonly held perceptions of history by the citizens of a 20th century town transported into the middle of the UsefulNotes/ThirtyYearsWar, compared to the real historical facts.
** One example is a discussion between a modern man and a 17th century Russian noble about the possibility of abolishing slavery in Russia. The modern man is shocked to find that most of the upper nobility are quite indifferent to slavery, but the petty nobles and non-noble farmers are violently opposed to slavery abolition. The Russian explains that the real reason for this divide is that the cash-rich upper nobility can afford to go without slaves, but for the land-rich and cash-poor, having a major part of your property taken away along with your ability to get the crops in at harvest time for some vaguely defined moral principle with no foundation in legal or religious precedent is highly unpalatable. He then takes a dig at the American belief in the AristocratsAreEvil trope.
** Ironically, at the described time while there was indeed legal slavery in Russia, it wasn't practiced as much as serfdom, which was discussed above, but which was much more relaxed in the early 17 century (in fact, until exactly the times of the novels, the serfs in Russia had the right to change their employer twice a year) was more economically efficient. It was the Peter the Great reform that ostensibly banned slavery which was responsible for the worsening of the serfs' lot. It was not well thought out, and instead of abolition of chattel slavery [[RulesLawyer its provisions allowed the landowners to reduce the serfs' rights]], turning ''all'' of them essentially into slaves.
** The discussion described above was essentially taking place verbatim in the Russian high circles in the UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat's reign. Catherine and some of her advisers were hoping to abolish serfdom, but were unable because of the pressure from the lesser nobility — who comprised much of the army and the civil service, and whose livelihood depended not on the wages from the Crown (which in Russia was just as land-rich and cash-poor as its subjects), but on the rents from their estates in the country. The poor soils, unreliable climate and underdeveloped agricultural technologies of the time pretty much precluded any deviation from the old-timey manorial system if they wanted any semblance of reliability.
* The German kids edutainment series ''Viel Spaß mit...'' (Have fun with... <insert people from history here>) doesn't gloss over the fact that the Romans had slaves, or that pigs would run around in medieval cities, but the characters (typically from a NuclearFamily, with focus on the kids) act more like modern people, so the ValuesDissonance doesn't take over and make the protagonists unrelatable. For example, the daughter of the Roman family is married off at the age of 16 instead of 12 - the latter is mentioned as being standard then, but the family does it differently. And of course, they always treat their slaves / servants well.
* Recent editions of Creator/MarkTwain's works that remove offensive language ([[NWordPrivileges one word that seems to offend]] above all others). This is so much the case that it's spawned [[http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Huckleberry-Finn-Illustrated-ebook/dp/B004U2DFGU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324077473&sr=8-1 uncensored versions]] of Twain's works.
* Creator/JTEdson's ''The Hooded Riders'' had a similar premise to ''Film/{{The Birth of a Nation|1915}}'' above. Scheming, thieving carpet-bagging scum were out to shoot practically every good Southern cowboy stone dead (even taking ex-slaves along, who fortunately couldn't shoot straight, nossir) and steal their farms in a dastardly plan to take over the United States. Dusty Fogg and his companions (one of whom is a half-Commanche dog soldier who rides a horse with no bridle and can smell your shadow a mile away) borrow the concept of wearing white hoods from the Ku Klux Klan, intimidate the sheriff's assistants and pay off the loans of every put-upon, hapless smallholder in the tri-county area. And then the President of the United States shows up, and the carpetbaggers try to murder him too! But he's saved by Dusty Fogg, the intrepid Texas Ranger! After which, the Hooded Riders renounce their KKK regalia, even though they appreciate the need for folks to protect their womenfolk from AFateWorseThanDeath, because they don't need to operate in darkness any more. The president has seen the light and now everyone knows that Reconstruction is a con. This would be almost in SoBadItsGood territory but for a fairground fight between Dusty Fogg (who just happened to have learned Jujutsu from his uncle's Japanese manservant, improbably enough) and an angry, drunk strongman who happens to be black. The strongman loses the fight, loses his temper, tries to knife the intrepid Texas Ranger and gets killed stone dead. Then everyone tells Dusty Fogg to run and hide because those new law enforcement types from the North just won't understand, and will definitely try and convict him for murder! Add in a Southern Belle who knows how to talk to "colored folks" to get information out of them, by banging her fist on the table and using the right imperious tone, and you really wish J.T. Edson had stuck to his ''Son of Tarzan'' series. They remain among his most controversial work, and the aforementioned killing of a black man was apparently based on one by the real criminal John Wesley Hardin, who also claimed it was self-defense.
* ''Literature/TheHelp'' has received [[http://aalbc.com/reviews/the_help_historical_context.html criticism]] for this. The book is about a woman writing a book about African-American maids in TheSixties. While it does show some of the indignities they had to face, it doesn't emphasize the things such as sexual assault and other horrors that occurred, referring to them only briefly.
* ''Brother Eagle, Sister Sky'' by Susan Jeffers, according to Publishers Weekly review on Amazon, "is an [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory adaptation]] of a speech delivered by Chief Seattle at treaty negotiations in the 1850s". There are only three little problems. It's "not well served by images that ignore the rich diversity of Amerindian cultures (''even Seeathl's own Northwest people'') in favor of [[BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins cigar-store redskins in feathers and fringe]]", as a review in School Library Journal put this -- i.e. TheThemeParkVersion. The author insists that "an ancient people were a part of the land that we love and call America", that is long gone, while 1854 is hardly "ancient" and Seeathl's people are still living and kicking -- [[http://books.google.com/books?id=7HTrr5656G0C&pg=PA312 specifically, as it turns out, her book]]. And scavenging of New Age gold material from this speech is plain cherry-picking -- since, quoth the linked review, "make a 'beautiful environmental statement' out of ''that'', if you can":
--> ... And when the last red man shall have perished... the streets of your cities and villages... will throng with the returning hosts that once filled and still love this beautiful land. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not altogether powerless.
* L. Neil Smith's ''The North American Confederacy'' series.
** There is a ''major'' inconsistency between the special emphasis on the property rights of individual citizens that differentiates The North American Confederacy from the present timeline and the fact that slavery is abolished entirely in 1820 C.E., with no apparent backlash at all. The author, being a libertarian, probably thought that better economic systems make better people. Never mind that back then, only white people were considered to be citizens and the African-descended slaves were considered to be the property of their masters. If the individual property rights of citizens were given especial protection all along, especially with the attitudes of most white people in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, slavery would most likely have been abolished ''later'' than in our timeline, if it was abolished at all.
** In ''The Gallatin Divergence'', he has 18th century characters talking about discrimination over "sexual preference". Although he clearly considers some sexual preferences preferable to others.
* In the Christian MiddleAges, legends and epics about old-time heroes often recast their protagonists as Christians, even if in their time and place they clearly would have been pagan. ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'', for example, has Beowulf and Hrothgar invoke the Christian God, while 6th century Scandinavia was then still untouched by Christianity. At one point in the poem, the Norse from desperation pray to the old "stone" pagan gods, but this is clearly portrayed disapprovingly. As the poem may have been written (or at least copied down) by a monk (as was much literature at the time) it's not surprising. Norse legends that were written down in general have been shown as having Christian elements into them and it's unclear how much they differed from the originals.
* In Creator/OrsonScottCard's ''[[Literature/TheTalesOfAlvinMaker Alvin Maker]]'' series, the title character is a thinly veiled portrait of Joseph Smith, founder of the LDS, Card's faith. He's portrayed as TheParagon and the issue of polygamy is dealt with by stating that any women claiming to be married to him other than his first wife are either deluded or being put up to it by his enemies (in actual fact his plural marriages to women, along with theological sanction for them, are well recorded).
* Strongly discouraged in ''Literature/HowNotToWriteANovel''. The authors note that having a historical character who possesses socialist/neo-conservative/etc viewpoints which did not even exist at the time the novel is set in, or a rebellious protagonist who questions the never-before questioned values of a historical society (from the perspective of the author's never-questioned Western values), will tend to violate a reader's WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief.
* {{Defied}} and arguably {{Lampshaded}} in Creator/HarryTurtledove's career-making novel ''Literature/TheGunsOfTheSouth''. Members of the AWB (standing for Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging-Afrikaner Resistance Movement, or basically white South African [[{{ThoseWackyNazis}} Neo-Nazis]]) travel from ([[{{SanDimasTime}} initially]]) [[{{TheNewTens}} 2014]] to 1864 in order to help the Confederacy win the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar with the expectation that Apartheid Era South Africa will gain a useful (and racist) ally on the global stage and last well into the 21st Century in the resulting AlternateTimeline. They instead find out that a vast majority of the Confederates are only racist because their whole world is for the most part, and (with only a couple exceptions) are in fact even better than most with regards to said issue. Their actions eventually result in (presumably) a new timeline with [[{{NiceJobFixingItVillain}} better race relations than the "Prime" timeline]]. Turtledove actually backed away from this book later on in his ''Literature/Timeline191'' timeline where his views of the Confederacy, if it survived, would have become the setting's equivalent of the ''Nazis'', although that's because they turn into TheScapegoat when the Confederates lose [=WW1=], which is blamed by Hitler-like figure Jake Featherstone on having Black revolts during the war (it appears that although slavery was abolished, their status was ''de facto'' serfs instead, and some rebelled due to this).
* ''Literature/DearAmerica'': While most of the series is an aversion, a couple of the books try to soften up difficult subjects:
** ''My Heart Is On The Ground'' is the most blatant example, where the notorious BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Carlisle Indian School is portrayed as a relatively nice school run by well meaning but misguided missionaries and its director is a CoolOldGuy. In RealLife, the teachers abused the students and the director in particular was a bully. To make matters worse, it attempts to portray the forced assimilation of indigenous children into white society as a ''good thing''; where the children will thrive. [[https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2011/03/review-of-ann-rinaldis-my-heart-is-on.html Needless to say, the book was hated by Native American readers.]]
** ''When Will This Cruel War Be Over?'' tackles the issue of the Civil War written by a girl in the South by going out of its way to portray Emma and her family as kind and compassionate to their slaves, to the point of running a school for the children. In RealLife, education for slaves of any age was illegal and both the slaves and owners would be punished. However, as the book goes on, it’s clear that Emma is ignorant of the truths about slavery and [[spoiler: almost all of slaves flee North anyway, averting HappinessInSlavery.]]

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/HogansHeroes'' showed anachronistic ethnic equality views by characters, with the only major implication of Kinchloe's blackness being that he can't impersonate Germans in person (although he's great at it over the phone). This may be excused by the idea that being in prison together forces them to ignore such issues to fight the larger enemy, and that the group has very strong unity. The Germans also never have much reaction to his race, though Nazi antipathy toward Africans was far more downplayed than that against their favored targets (however, Germans of mixed ancestry were forcibly sterilized by the regime, and they planned to colonize Africa again). African-American soldiers were not even in the same units as white ones at the time (although they would be held in the same [=POW=] camps), and this didn't change until 1948, after the war was over. A lot of films and TV shows at the time ignore this, or the other racism prevalent against them.
* Though ''Franchise/StarTrek'' is usually pretty good at pointing out the errors of our past, this is played straight in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E26S6E1TimesArrow Time's Arrow]]", where Guinan (a HumanAlien who is played by Creator/WhoopiGoldberg and thus is indistinguishable from a human of African descent) is depicted as a wealthy socialite in 1893 who goes to parties with white people who don't seem to have a single problem with her. In fact in the episode she's extremely well-liked and respected by pretty much the entire town. Probably helps that Guinan is a highly-empathetic, centuries-old alien with experience to match, so she might just be that good at making friends. It doesn't hurt that she's best buddies with Creator/MarkTwain, who was a huge backer of Civil Rights for women ''and'' African Americans. In addition, San Francisco was more tolerant than the rest of the United States... of everyone except Asians.
* Discussed in-universe in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E15BaddaBingBaddaBang Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang]]", in which Sisko, who is black, is annoyed at the popularity of Vic's holosuite program, which gives a politically-correct depiction of 1962 Las Vegas which leaves out the 1960s USA's racial segregation. Sisko points out that in real 1962 Vegas, neither he nor his also-black girlfriend Kasidy would have been allowed into the casino except as performers or menial staff members. Kasidy argues however that it's defensible as being how that era ''should'' have been in reality. It's also somewhat justified, as Vic is a blatant expy of Music/FrankSinatra, who was way ahead of his time when it came to race relations. His entire group would boycott hotels who didn't desegregate.
* The CBC {{Mockumentary}} ''Jimmy [=MacDonald=]'s Canada'', despite being about a 1960s-era conservative pundit with pseudo-fascist views on children's hockey, never has him make any ethnic slurs, beyond a dismissive reference to Italians. The character probably ''is'' a monstrous racist, but it wouldn't be very funny to present.
* [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] in ''Series/{{MASH}}''. Black people are referred to by the historically correct term "Negroes" on the show, even by the good guys (this was rather less politically incorrect when the show premiered, in the early 1970s, than it is now, the shift from "Negro" to "black" having taken place in the late sixties). However, later episodes gave Major Houlihan second-wave feminist views, even though the show is set more than ten years before ''The Feminine Mystique'' was first published. You could chalk this up to Houlihan being ahead of her time, except that the episode "Inga", written by Alan Alda as [[WriterOnBoard a love letter to the feminist movement]], seems to have all the characters acting as though the 1970s women’s movement already happened, breaking any illusion that the show is really set in the early 1950s. (That episode won an Emmy, of course.) There's also the black Dr. Jones, who was [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Brother Chucked]] halfway through the first season, supposedly because the producers discovered that no black doctors served in the Korean War (they were wrong: the real M*A*S*H unit that was the basis of the original novel and by proxy the series itself had a black surgeon among its medical staff). However, it was played as a joke that he was nicknamed "Spearchucker" because he threw the javelin in college. Of course, it was also tongue in cheek, in that everyone knew it also had racial connotations. In another episode, Hawkeye permanently turns down imminent sex with a beautiful woman, because she complains about "those gooks (Koreans) marrying our (white) people." He gives her a speech as well. In another episode, Hawkeye "schools" a redneck soldier who complains about getting a transfusion of "black blood," by painting him brown and claiming that he ordered watermelon for dinner, ''etc''. Not to mention repeating the urban legend that Dr. Charles Drew, the African-American surgeon who started the US blood bank, was refused care at a Southern hospital after being in a car accident and thus died from his injuries (false, though he ''did'' protest against segregation of the blood supply).
* The BBC's ''Series/RobinHood''
** Tuck & the Abbess of Rutherford can seem like this, but Black people have lived in England since the Roman Conquest. While Black members of monastic orders and nunneries would have been quite rare, it's not impossible.
** And then we have Djaq, who is at least given a reason why an Arab Muslim woman would be in Medieval England. However, after her introductory episode almost no one remarks upon the fact that a) she's obviously not English, b) she's a Muslim in a time and place where that would be intolerable, c) she's a woman who dresses and acts like a man, and d) she's from a nation who the King of England is currently fighting for Palestine.
* In an episode of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', Kimberly travels back in time to Angel Grove of the 1800s. At the local saloon, the [[IdenticalGrandson Identical Ancestors]] of her fellow Rangers, who are white, Latino, black woman, and Korean, respectively, are casually sharing drinks with one another. In another episode, Tommy's clone was also casually accepted in 1700's Angel Grove after the morphed White Ranger uses a magic artifact to put him in ye olde clothing.
** In the later season ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'', the character of Katie (a black woman) ends up going back in time [[note]]further, as she is originally from the year 3000, having already traveled to the year 2001[[/note]] to an undefined period roughly two hundred years prior. At no point is there any reference to her skin, or the fact that slavery even exists, and she's able to sit in a bar and have an arm wrestling contest with men with no particular problem.
* ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' has some examples. Filmed in the 1970s and set in the 1800s, some of the characters are anachronistic:
** When Charles finds out a local boy is beaten by his father, he takes action to help the boy. Social attitudes in the 1800s regarding parental discipline were much different from those in the 1970s.
** In "The Long Road Home", Charles and Mr. Edwards get a job hauling explosives with Henry (played by Lou Gossett, Jr.). In the episode, only one person shows any form of racism against Henry, although later in the episode, Henry is told he can't ride in a passenger car with the other passengers because of his color. It's not clear whether the porter is racist or is just enforcing the rules. The same porter was just as mean to Charles and Mr. Edwards in the beginning of the episode when they tried to ride in the same passenger car, but were railroad employees, not paying customers. In the end of the episode, the one racist has a change of heart and jokingly claims he was kicked out of the passenger car because he was Irish.
** In "The Fighter," black boxer Joe Kegan goes up against local white men in almost every fight. The only time race is mentioned is when he explains to Charles that the reason he got into boxing is so he could punch white men without getting "hung." No one ever mentions his race, not even when he and his manager are renting a room.
* An episode of ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' which involved a dream wherein the characters lived in the Revolutionary War era involved the African-American character Moseby being the proprietor of an inn, which would be unusual but not impossible in the late 1700s. The Asian-American (a racial group which ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_American_history#Chronology did not exist]]'' in the colonies at that time) London Tipton was also shown as some sort of rich heiress. It can be excused by the fact that the character having the dream [[CloudCuckoolander is not the smartest]] [[BookDumb character on the show]] to begin with, and the fact that it was AllJustADream in the first place, though.
** Esteban blatantly points out how they would make a democracy (America), but how Carey and Maddie (women) or Zack and Cody (children) would not receive a vote. However, he does ''not'' anticipate that he (Hispanic) or Arwin (the hotel engineer whose salary would not have allowed sufficent land ownership) were to be similarly disenfranchised.
* Zig-zagged in ''Series/DoctorWho'' with RealityIsUnrealistic:
** The show regularly has black characters in historical settings, but these are often either based on real life (such as black Secret Service agents in the 1970s) or due to episodes being set in fairly cosmopolitan places (e.g. Renaissance Venice) where one might actually have seen races mixing together. In one episode, Martha asks if she should be worried about being a black woman in old-time London, but the Doctor points out that there are other black people walking around unmolested (which was TruthInTelevision, as Elizabeth I's unsuccessful attempts to expel the "Moors" from London indicates the presence of substantial numbers of black Londoners).
** Played straight in "The Fires of Pompeii", where Caecilius' family has a mysterious lack of slaves. The episode also avoids characterizing the city's loose sexual mores, without any erotic artwork or references to brothels. Also, the wife and children in the family are much less subservient to their ''paterfamilias'' than would have generally been tolerated by Romans in that era.
** Played straight in "The Eaters of Light", in which Classical Roman concepts of sexual orientations and attitudes to same-gender sexual activities are somewhat simplified and idealised to make them more palatable to modern viewers. (The episode depicts Roman soldiers as completely unfazed by Bill being a lesbian, and having an EveryoneIsBi attitude within their unit. In reality, Romans defined two basic sexual orientations: "male top" and "everyone else", with the latter being viewed as ''significantly'' inferior.)
** There is some evidence to suggest that The Doctor and/or the TARDIS creates a WeirdnessCensor in their vicinity. They only rarely don period appropriate clothing, but it's usually only mentioned in passing by the locals and The Doctor's ability to simply step in and take over any situation with little or no identification or authority are hints at this. It wasn't until a [[TheNthDoctor Fourth Doctor]] story where one of his own companion realizes she's hearing the Italians speaking English. Her noticing is used as a sign that her mind has been tampered with.
* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr'' takes place in a [[SteamPunk steampunkish]], deliberately anachronistic [[WildWest Old West]] where we see very little evidence of racism. The part-black, part-Cherokee Lord Bowler is treated respectfully by most of the characters (only in the pilot does one character call him a "half-breed"), and various episodes feature nonwhite characters who are treated more or less as equals to the whites, including a black woman set to become the mayor of a town.
* ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' has several flashbacks to the American South during the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar. Though black servants are shown, they are never referred to as slaves and are never shown being mistreated. This is discussed in detail [[http://www.racialicious.com/2011/02/21/white-vamps-black-witches-race-politics-and-vampire-pop-culture/ here]] and [[http://www.racialicious.com/2012/01/20/table-for-two-kendra-and-jordan-break-down-the-vampire-diaries/ here]].
* ''{{Series/Merlin|2008}}'':
** The show has a black Guinevere, along with her brother Elyan, as well as the black knight, Pellinore. While there may have been Africans in Arthurian Britain, and 13th century romances have the Saracen (Arab) Sir Palamedes and the Moorish (North African) Sir Morien, it's unlikely that there were many Afro-British knights or queens.
** All the angsting over Arthur being in love with a servant girl. Love marriage only became very common beginning in the 19th century, especially for royalty. A true prince of that (or most) ages would marry for politics and have Gwen on the side for romance. This is brought up in the show itself by the ghost of Uther, who's outraged at Arthur for marrying her after he died.
** Merlin reveals to Arthur that his parents weren't married (he doesn't meet his father until much later in life). Neither is at all perturbed by this, but though attitudes varied being a "bastard" was generally ''not'' viewed as good (certain positions were barred to you, for instance, along with social stigma).
* ''Series/SleepyHollow'':
** The show stars a Revolutionary War-era British soldier who had a change of heart and joined the American side, and fully supported an end to slavery, as if having [[InnocentBigot an anti-American racist]] for a main character was deemed too challenging for their audience.
** While there were people opposed to slavery back then, Icabod's remarkably progressive attitudes do seem a little convenient.
** He also doesn't bat an eye at homosexuality. He mentions that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_von_Steuben von Steuben]] was homosexual, which is accurate, but that doesn't mean most people would be completely unfazed by it (the general view being same-sex relations were a sin and crime, with the law reflecting this-it was punishable by death then).
** Perhaps in an attempt to counterbalance this, [[InnocentlyInsensitive he makes a remark about women wearing pants]].
** He is also entirely unfazed by Abbie as the sheriff, an unheard of thing for any woman then (even white ones), assuming she's a former slave (free black people weren't unknown though) and holds no racist views (although even abolitionists usually viewed other races as being inferior, just not to the point that they supported slavery).
* ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' zig-zags its handling of politically sensitive issues. It would seem that whilst the series' creators are prepared to present attitudes towards pre-marital sex in a realistic way, they are ''not'' quite brave enough to depict their characters having a realistic, period-correct attitude towards sexuality and race -- most likely for fear of offending a contemporary audience's sensitivities, and to ensure the series' hero characters remain likeable. We can all cluck our tongues in guilty amusement at Violet's out-dated, ultra-conservative views, but to show her as an actual "racist" would kill her character, no matter how realistic that may be. Examples follow:
** Jack Ross, a black jazz singer. When Jack comes to Downton, Carson is rather awkward around him and makes rather innocently insensitive comments, but the Crawley family is accepting and enjoys his singing at Lord Grantham's party in a manner that is unrealistically blasé. Only Edith and Rosamund voice any kind of realistic (for the period) concern about his presence, but both Robert and Violet are unfazed, in spite of Violet's established patrician ideals.
** Jack has a romantic relationship with Lady Rose, and frequently goes out in public with her, which would be a ''major'' scandal in the 1920s. Rose doesn't care about his race and doesn't think other people should. Mary, who was horrified of a (white) Irishman dating her sister, appears to be okay with it on a moral level, if not on a practical one:
-->Jack: If we lived in even a slightly better world, I wouldn't give in.
-->Mary: It may surprise you, Mr. Ross, but if we lived in a better world, I wouldn't want you to.
* In ''{{Series/Atlantis}}'', the world with Atlantis in it is based mostly on Greek Mythology and culture. However, many of the characters seem to find public violent games, tournaments, public executions, etc. horrible. In ancient Greece, people would pay to see these. Why else would they exist? Generally this is sometimes subverted though, as said violent games and such are always shown drawing huge crowds who often cheer and clap when someone kills another. Even hero Hercules talks happily about all the food available during one such tournament, usually when the heroes voice concern about them its more out of somebody they care about might die or the methods of execution are legitimately incredibly cruel even for the time period (most famously the brazen bull that cooks people alive).
* Zig-zagged in the Canadian period crime drama ''Series/MurdochMysteries'', set in late-Victorian/early-Edwardian Toronto. While the racial and sexual biases of the era are prominent in the background, and often inform the cases being investigated, the central characters seldom espouse them, and if so only during subplots that require introspection and are resolved by learning the corresponding 21st-century value:
** Murdoch, a Catholic, initially receives some stick from Brackenreed for being a "Papist", but this is dropped relatively early.
** Murdoch also must come to terms with Dr. Ogden's abortion, both as a moral dilemma and because she's his OneTrueLove.
** In one episode, Brackenreed worries that his son might be gay because he wants to play a female part in a play. This leads to the boy getting hurt badly in rugby trying to impress his dad. While the boy's ultimate reasoning for wanting the female role (she had more lines) is later revealed and accepted, it doesn't come before Dr. Ogden has to talk Brackenreed into accepting his son's possible sexuality. In an episode set nearly ''seventy years'' before the decriminalization of homosexuality in Canada.
** Justified in the cases of Dr. Ogden and Dr. Grace, as two rare female physicians and pathologists during that period. Indeed, Dr. Ogden's unabashed statements of progressive views led to marital strain during her first marriage to Dr. Garland. In later seasons, we see her start an underground women's health clinic teaching birth control (which she was briefly arrested for), and vehemently object to the MaritalRapeLicense of the period. Dr. Grace, meanwhile, engaged in a same-sex relationships. Both were involved in the nascent suffrage movement of the early 1900s.
* ''Series/{{Timeless}}'':
** Very much subverted, as Rufus is quick to point out that as a black guy, "There is literally no time in American history that would be awesome for me." In the bar, several of the patrons appear ready to jump and lynch him right there, and at the police station he nearly gets beaten with batons for protesting being called "Boy".
** Traveling to 1865, Rufus notes how "my people's history sucks" and has to put up with being looked down on even when he's posing as a soldier. Rufus ends up saving Andrew Johnson's life, and when he returns to the present, he is disappointed but unsurprised that his actions were credited to a white soldier who just happened to be wounded in the struggle.
** Rufus uses this in a trip to 1962 Las Vegas, able to get some information as no one looks at a black waiter. "I'm invisible. It's like my superpower."
** In "Space Race," Rufus shines a light on the plight of Katherine Johnson, a black woman who was the linchpin of the Apollo 13 project, but was relegated to the basement and ignored by history. She's happily surprised when Rufus calls her his hero, but utterly gobsmacked when an elderly white man (who is another time traveler) says the same thing.
** Lucy has less pronounced problems, but they are still present. Rufus reacts to the constant racism with little more than weary resignation, but Lucy is always surprised when she is reminded of the rampant and unquestioned sexism of the past. In "Space Race" she poses as a secretary and given drink orders with casual sexual harassment, and in "Last Ride of Bonnie & Clyde" she tries to open an account at a bank and is asked if she has the permission of her husband or father.
* ''Series/DeadOfSummer'', which ostensibly takes place in [[TheEighties 1989]], has the openly, [[CampGay flamboyantly gay]] Blair working as a counselor at Camp Stillwater, and facing little real issue over it. While this wouldn't be at all unusual in 2016, in 1989 gay people were still AcceptableTargets in the popular consciousness, and the idea of a summer camp hiring a gay man to work with children would've been met with complaints from parents furious that the camp was [[AllGaysArePedophiles "endangering" their sons]], to say nothing of the attitudes he would've faced from his fellow counselors (especially Alex, a walking '80s JerkJock archetype). The fact that Drew has [[TransTribulations difficulty coming out]] as UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} to his family and peers, whose reactions are far more mixed than they are towards Blair being gay (even Blair himself, who'd been [[UnsettlingGenderReveal attracted to him]], gets [[{{Hypocrite}} squicked out upon learning that Drew is biologically female]]), is more believable, but even then, this reflects the time in which the show was made, when trans rights had replaced homosexuality as the controversial, hot-button sexual issue of the day.
* Parodied in a sketch from the first episode of ''Series/WithBobAndDavid'', in which a white filmmaker creates an extremely sanitized movie about American slavery, where black slaves (or "[[InsistentTerminology helpers]]") are treated with respect and compassion by their white masters.
* ''Series/{{Vegas 2012}}'' featured one half of a lesbian couple as a BodyOfTheWeek in a PeriodDrama set in 1950s Las Vegas. On the one hand, the victim was disowned by her father, but Sheriff Lamb exhibits no problem at all with this relationship, regarding the decedent's partner no less sympathetically than he would any other grieving widow.
* The 2008 miniseries adaptation of ''Series/SenseAndSensibility'' emphasizes that Eliza Williams, the girl that Willoughby impregnated and abandoned, was just fifteen; Brandon and Elinor are outraged by it and it makes Willoughby's later attempt to [[NeverMyFault deny any fault]] especially reprehensible. This is due to the modern understanding of the age of consent; a 25-year-old having sex with a 15-year-old is rape even if either party claims it was consensual (the 1995 film dealt with it by aging Eliza up to 20). In Austen's time it was ''uncommon'' to marry so young, but not considered immoral or illegal.
* Similarly, in the 1995 ''Series/PrideAndPrejudice'', Wickham trying to elope with Darcy's sister Georgiana. In his explanatory letter, Darcy's voice over is a somber "she was then but fifteen years old," compounding Wickham's offense. In the book, Darcy's letter reads "she was then but fifteen years old, ''which must be her excuse,''" because she would have been considered responsible for such a disgraceful marriage but she wasn't experienced enough to know better. That said, Wickham pursuing young ladies who are just barely out in society still reflects badly on his character, much like older guys who exclusively date 18 to 20 year old women.
* Zig-zagged in ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', depending on how serious a given episode wants to be. For example, when traveling to the mid-20th century, the only one who finds himself at home is Martin Stein. The others quickly point out that it only happens because he's a straight white male. Similarly, when they end up in the South during the Civil War, Jax and Amaya have to deal with being treated as someone's property. Played straight in season four, when Mona (Asian), Charlie (black), and Zari (Middle-Eastern) have no trouble walking around in RegencyEngland.
* ''Series/EverybodyHatesChris'': Oh so averted. The massive racial tensions that existed in New York City are front and center. Chris has to deal with the virulent racism from both his classmates and teachers alike.
* One episode of ''{{Series/Bunkd}}'' has Destiny, Mateo and Fin sent back in time to the 17th Century and encountering lookalikes of their counselors. The Zuri lookalike holds a position of power in the town despite being a black woman and the Ravi lookalike, as an Indian, even ''being part'' of their society, much less running a business, stretches belief. While it's briefly suggested it's AllJustADream, the ending seems to suggest it actually happened, meaning Old Moose Rump must have been very progressive for its day.
* ''{{Series/Dickinson}}'': It's mostly averted, but East Asian people are shown as friends and fellow students of the majority white young people on the series, which wouldn't have happened.
* ''Series/WhyWomenKill'': Nobody bats an eye at Dee and Vern being together, or saying that they are. In reality, at the time in California attitudes were so violently racist toward interracial couples that even Creator/SammyDavisJr, a popular celebrity, had to marry a Black woman to protect himself from mob violence for having a White girlfriend. That said, Vern does deal with street harassment for his race and Alma condescends to him on her meeting with him, asking him if he works in blue-collar jobs.
* ''Series/MiracleWorkers'': No one bats an eye at interracial marriage, adoption and White people happily follow a Black man who claims he's a prophet, while in the real US of the 1840s these things would be highly controversial at best (along with very rare). Of course, the series isn't really claiming to be accurate, more parodying Western films and TV shows.
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': The Enchanted Forest appears to be somewhat medieval, although the lands of story exist parallel to the Land Without Magic, allowing for example several residents of Camelot to be played by people of colour.
* ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'': [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since, according to WordOfGod, Alice's Victorian London is a separate "land of story" that exists in parallel with our world rather than the actual historical Victorian London. This allows Jafar, played by an Indian actor, to pose as "Dr. Sheffield" without anyone batting an eyelash.
* The ''Series/QuantumLeap2022'' episode "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E5SalvationOrBust Salvation or Bust]]" takes place in the Old West town of Salvation, which is seen to be a melting pot of several different races and backgrounds who all seem to treat one another with respect. It's {{discussed|Trope}} several times in dialogue that main reason the town is so important to everyone there is because they don't face the same prejudices there as they would in the rest of the country.
* ''Series/JohnAdams'': The trial of the Boston Massacre soldiers hinges on Adams' belief that mob rule cannot be allowed to ignore the facts of the case, and his defense hinges on the eyewitness testimony of a black freedman. In reality, Adams' defense relied heavily on [[ValuesDissonance race-baiting]], arguing that the mob was composed of "saucy boys, negroes, and molattoes, Irish teagues[[note]]An old slur for the Irish, based on the Irish name Tadhg[[/note]] and outlandish Jack Tarrs[[note]]Sailors, with "outlandish" having the connotation of [[HelloSailor ''gay'' sailors]][[/note]]." He also characterizes Crispus Attucks, a man of black and American Indian ancestry who was one of the five dead, as a ScaryBlackMan who incited the mob and was only shot after he physically assaulted the soldiers. Prosecution witnesses claimed that Attucks was fifteen feet away from the soldiers when they opened fire.

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* ''Music/{{Skyclad|Band}}'' "[[DiscussedTrope discussed]]" (if using a bloody axe counts) attempts to gloss over less-than-pretty moments in a song aptly named "Think Back And Lie Of England".
* The Rastafarian reggae song "Rivers of Babylon" is based on Psalm 137 but leaves out the infamous passage about smashing Babylonian infants against rocks.
* The video of "Karma Chameleon" by Music/CultureClub is set in Missisippi in the 1800's, but features black and white people equally on the steamboat party.
* Parodied in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3fP15F6szA "I Was Not A Nazi Polka"]] by the Chad Mitchell Trio (written less than twenty years after World War II), where a group of Germans loudly proclaim that all Germans hated Hitler and that the amount of Nazis numbered "two or three at most." This was an actual attitude held by some Germans at the time.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' takes place in an alternate history version of the Old West. In this version, the South freed its slaves and the Civil War's drain on manpower allowed females to gain greater social status. The rulebook stipulates that only villains be racist.
* {{Handwave}}d in ''TabletopGame/ClockworkAndChivalry.'' So much has changed so fast, including the introduction of clockwork automation and alchemy to warfare (leading to the Battle of Naseby ending in an incredibly bloody stalemate which saw more people die more swiftly than anyone thought possible beforehand) and the unexpected mid-war capture, trial, and execution of King Charles, that it's shaken faith in the traditional order and allowed women and other disenfranchised groups an opportunity to grab for greater rights and recognition.

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* Although what was "politically correct" was considered different back then (and entirely mandated by censorship), Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''King Theatre/HenryVIII'' falls squarely into this trope, carefully avoiding the more morally ambiguous things he did, such as beheading his second wife, Anne Boleyn.
* His ''Theatre/RichardIII'' is a perennial bone of contention for historians, since its based entirely on official propaganda, framed Richard III and his friends as "evil" or "manipulated" and everyone else as "good". When since this was the UsefulNotes/WarsOfTheRoses there was plenty of good and evil to spread around. For instance, Shakespeare's play makes George of Clarence into a noble victim killed by Richard III when he was actually a corrupt backstabbing Prince who King Edward IV finally killed. The marriage to Anne Neville is portrayed as a seduction when all reports indicate that it was a love marriage. It also portrays Richard III as a tyrant and ObviouslyEvil when he was indeed a progressive monarch and highly popular in the North and his main enemies were the Woodville-Yorkist nobility.
* On a similar note, ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' goes a little out of its way to show Banquo as a victim and a cool dude in general, as, by that time, [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseofStuart King James]] was on the throne and he was supposedly descended from the historical Banquo. Note in particular the scene of the kings begotten by Banquo appearing before Macbeth -- the last one is supposed to be James himself.
* ''Theatre/HenryV'' has another interesting historical example.
** The scenes in France prominently depict the soldiers at Agincourt as a diverse (for the UK) group from England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland. The real army was only English and Welsh. In fact, Scotland was allied with ''France'' during the Hundred Years War.
** The fact that the (vastly outnumbered) English Army had put the [=PoWs=] to the sword is downplayed as a purely retaliatory measure because the French did it first, mentioned in a throwaway comment from good ole' Hal.

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* Several attractions at Ride/DisneyThemeParks are like this, most notably ''Ride/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', which was actually {{bowdlerized}} into being more politically correct, with aspects like pirates chasing women and the Wench Auction being altered or removed [[note]] While Tokyo Disneyland remains intact.[[/note]]. This is probably justified, as one attraction that isn't, ''The American Adventure'', was loaded with UnfortunateImplications.
* Ride/SixFlags Over Texas in Arlington, Texas was laid out with six sections representing the six flags that have flown over the state: Spain, France, Mexico, The Republic of Texas, The Confederacy and The United States. In the 1990s, the park renamed the Confederacy section to "Old South" [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar for obvious reasons]].
** Six Flags Over Georgia had a similar layout (except with the United Kingdom and Georgia itself in place of Mexico and the Republic of Texas); over time it diversified into a grand total of 15 sections, with the USA and Georgia being the only names retained from the original concept.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
** Inverted in the first ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', where Master Miller identifies Naomi Hunter as a fraud because of her family's inconsistent history: Naomi claims her Japanese-born uncle was a member of the FBI in the fifties, but Miller later points out that the head of the FBI at the time, J. Edgar Hoover, was a well-known racist and wouldn't have allowed him in the bureau. In reality, Hoover being racist is a misconception stemmed from his liberal usage of a certain N-Word (which was just the norm at the time) and his feud with UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr (Hoover viewed him as a radical and feared the Civil Rights Movement had been [[RedScare infiltrated by Communists]]): in reality the FBI hired non-Whites under Hoover's tutelage as early as the 1920's and even admitted them into the ranks of Special Agent, including James Wormley Jones, James Amos, Earl F. Titus, Arthur Lowell Brent, and Thomas Leon Jefferson ([[UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson not that one]]).
** Played straight in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''. The Boss was a woman who led a group of specialists during the invasion of Normandy in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Women were allowed in the army as nurses or other kinds of logistic support, but almost never as armed forces and certainly not in a command position. She presumably got to do more than that out of a combination of being just ''that'' good and [[spoiler:being a descendant of one of the original Philosophers]]. It's also mentioned through later details about her past in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Peace Walker]]'' that not everyone was entirely happy with a woman having a non-logistical role, which was in part the reason why [[NeverMyFault she was blamed]] for a mishandled space mission that allowed the Soviets to beat America to space in the first place, and later for why she was [[spoiler: set up as the fall-guy for the Virtuous Mission and Operation Snake Eater]] during the events of ''[=MGS3=]''.
* In ''VideoGame/OperationDarkness'', K Company, 1st Platoon, or the "Wolf Pack", allows women into front line roles -- which is wildly anachronistic for the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII setting of the game. Somewhat justified by the unusual nature of K Company, 1st Platoon -- the British Army doesn't traditionally allow [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]] or {{Mad Scientist}}s to act in front line roles, either -- and {{lampshade|Hanging}}d when Jude assumes that because he's being transferred to a unit containing a woman, he's thus being moved off the front lines.
* ''VideoGame/PiratesOfTheBurningSea'' provides equal male and female options for all factions. There's absolutely ''no'' way a woman would have been able to openly serve in the French, British, or Spanish navies of the time -- women have long been considered unlucky to have aboard ships, and would have been considered too timid, flighty, and incompetent to serve in the military. Pirates were less traditionalist, and there were indeed some female pirates known to history... but they tended to try to pass as male. In addition to the issue with "women are bad luck", female clothes of the period were highly impractical, and it was generally not a good idea to be visibly the only woman in a crew full of rowdy sailors who have been on the sea too long.
* The ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' series is set in the 1920s, but seems to show many more opportunities for and much less discrimination against women (and, in the New York-based ''VideoGame/SakuraWarsSoLongMyLove'', non-Europeans) than would be expected in that time period. Of course, this is a setting with demons and HumongousMecha, ''not'' historical fiction.
* ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresIII'' is notable for completely glossing over slavery and the genocide/relocation, though much of the times and places the game takes place (the colonial east coast mere years after the first British colonies, the Great Lakes and Rocky Mountains just before the American Revolution, and the western frontier at the dawn of railroads, respectively) wouldn't have featured any of that in the first place. The first ExpansionPack, ''The [=WarChiefs=]'', slightly rectifies the latter by showing the Red Cloud's War and the Battle of Little Bighorn.
* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' has tended to appeal to RealityIsUnrealistic and historical revisionism. But even then, it does feature huge dollops of politically correct history:
** While ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'' was considered daring in its time for having an Arab protagonist and portraying a revisionist view of UsefulNotes/TheHashshashin, many noted that it ended up making UsefulNotes/TheCrusades a backdrop to a ''secular'' dispute between two secret societies, when this was a major conflict professed to be driven by religion. Most Assassins likewise tend to be [[SecularHero Secular Heroes]] with the brotherhood featuring "liberated nuns" like Sister Theodora in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' or harmless and theologically suspect priests like the one on Connor's homestead in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII''.
** Patrice Desilets mentioned that in ''Assassin's Creed II'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syV2-ZuaxC8 he wanted to make Leonardo da Vinci's homosexuality explicit]] and mention the fact that the real-life Leonardo faced charges for sodomy in Florence, but the producers insisted they remove it. While Leonardo's homosexuality is hinted at in the vanilla game of both ''II'' and ''Brotherhood'', only the optional DLC for ''Brotherhood'' features a direct acknowledgement.
** Despite the fact that the games are set in events central to Jewish history -- the Crusades, the Renaissance, the French Revolution -- none of the major games feature Jewish [=NPCs=] or supporting characters in any of the playable main and side missions, with barely any mention to the institutional and systemic anti-semitism operating in this time[[note]]The exceptions are the presence of the wooden synagogue and the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem in the first game and some of the missions in Assassin's Den in ''Brotherhood'' and ''Revelations'', none of which are playable by the main character[[/note]]. Likewise, the depiction of Rome in ''Assassin's Creed Brotherhood'' does not have the famous Jewish quarter, filled with refugees from Spain and France, patronized by the Borgia's support. It took until ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'' for the series to feature major Jewish [=NPC=]s -- Creator/KarlMarx and UsefulNotes/BenjaminDisraeli.
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'' features VictorianLondon gangs which are remarkably gender diverse. Every gang in London not only has female members, they all have an equal number of females members who wear men's clothes and are treated on an equal level as the male members. This in an era which treated its working class women so poorly it gave rise to UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. On another note, one of the Frye Twin's friends is Ned Wynert, a transgender man who successfully runs a criminal enterprise without, from what we see, anyone having any problem with him being transgender.
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'' is set in Ptolemaic-Era Egypt during the reign of UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII. A lot of the plot is set in Siwa oasis but makes no mention of that region's historically renowned and documented traditions of same-sex relations and homosexual marriages dating to the ancient world. Similar to the erasure of Jewish history in early games, the Hellenistic Judean community of Alexandria is missing. The presence of slavery in the Ptolemaic-era is neglected and not referred to, and the game's portrayal of politics in UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic falls squarely in the GoodRepublicEvilEmpire dichotomy.
*** The game's Discovery Tour, essentially a guided educational tour through the game's world, makes mention of this fact. Near the Library of Alexandria, a class group of both genders can be seen learning. The narrator says that they know this isn't historically accurate, but they decided they'd rather be politically correct than historically accurate. The fact that this rather defeats the point of the mode's educational nature isn't mentioned.
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey'' does this in spades.
*** When you play as Kassandra, the game more or less ignores the strictly enforced gender roles of Ancient Greece, especially Athens; by modern standards these would be considered nothing less than misogynistic. A woman was seen as more or less property of her “oikos” (family unit), and wouldn’t have been able to make any decisions for herself. Notably, there's also no difference between interacting with men in Athenian controlled regions vs Spartan controlled regions, even though the two city-state cultures differed significantly in their treatment of women. Sparta came the closest to modern standards of gender equality, with women being able to own land, receive an education, and run businesses. However, Spartan society placed the heaviest importance on women bearing strong offspring, and aren't known to have ever sent them into battle. Similarly, both Alexios and Kassandra would have been maligned in Athens as foreigners, and would've had their movement and social standing heavily restricted.
*** The game is pretty cavalier about women soldiers in general. Half the bounty hunters are females, and while neither of the Spartan or Athenian armies employ women, women are frequent among bandits and pirates. Keep in mind that to the Ancient Greek, the idea of women soldiers (who they may have seen in Scythian societies to the Eurasian east) was so fantastical and unbelievable that it literally became the stuff of myth in the Amazons.
*** The practice of pederasty, common among Greeks of the time, goes obviously unmentioned.
*** The Greek practices regarding prostitution ''are'' included in the game, but the game glosses them over by using the ancient Greek terms and never defining them for the audience. It will often use the term "hetaera(e)" for various female character of high societal standing - in particular for Aspasia (Who was one in real life), but the game never goes into detail explaining that the term means to avoid offending audiences (Or raising that ESRB rating). [[note]]Hetaerae were concubines/prostitute, generally dedicated to a single or small number of clients. As opposed a ''pornai'' who was seen as lower class and would take any client.[[/note]] The closest the game gets is noting that Corinth is known for its prostitution, and mentioning how there are a lot of Hetaerae running the town, letting the player add 2 and 2 together.
* A major facet of ''VideoGame/EmpireTotalWar'' is your faction's participation in the 18th century's colonial/maritime economy, but Creative Assembly really tries their damnedest to ignore the fact that African slavery was arguably the most vital cog in that economy. Two of the "trade theaters" in the game are West Africa and East Africa/Madagascar, and they exclusively produce...''ivory''. Slavery is also glossed over on the flavor texts for the plantations; the most mention that the practice gets is the late-game "Abolition of Slavery" technology... Though Revolutionary France abolished the practice in 1789, it was reinstated by Napoleon. The long game's ending year of 1799 was long before any American/European nation permanently abolished slavery. This is especially weird since the game just prior, ''Medieval II'', did feature slaves as a tradable resource.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfTanks'' includes the following:
** Black and white people in the same tank crew during World War II.
** Female tank crews for various nations even though only the Soviets used them in real life.
** NoSwastikas.
** Adding the ability to give Soviet and Chinese troops better rations although this could just be GameplayAndStorySegregation since every nation has a food related consumable [[note]] Chocolate for Germany, Cola for the US, Tea and Pudding for the Brits, Onigiri for Japan and Strong Coffee for France [[/note]] with the same effect (improving crew performance).
* Interestingly, ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarships'' zig-zags this. US Navy commanders, for example, are strictly white this time around, though there are still NoSwastikas for the Germans.
* In ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAcePatrol'', the player can have both male and female pilots, despite the games taking place during the UsefulNotes/{{World|WarI}} UsefulNotes/{{W|orldWarII}}ars, and only the Soviet Union had female combat pilots during WWII (and, of course, the USSR is absent in the WWII-set ''Pacific Skies''). The second game, at least, does give you the option to disable female pilots in order to be more historically accurate.
* In ''VideoGame/SilentStorm'', both sides of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII has men and women of all races serving together in all branches of the military. This would only be true for the USSR.
* Most of the games in the ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' franchise gloss over slavery. The Call To Power series explicitly has a ''Slaver'' unit (as well as an ''Abolitionist'' unit), but beyond that slavery is largely abstracted. Civs I through III basically ignore it completely; III has a different graphic for "workers" you "capture", and they work at half the normal rate but don't cost upkeep. In IV, you have the option of ''Slavery'' for your Labor civic, but all it does is lets you rush a project at the cost of population. It's mostly gone from Civ V as well, although you can demand "workers" from City States.
** ''Videogame/{{Colonization}}'' only does two parts of the Rum trade triangle - the third were slaves. However, the game allows the player to massacre Native Americans if they wish to, which leads to a mild WhatTheHellHero towards Creator/SidMeier in the Prima guide.
** However, slavery wasn't completely glossed over in Colonization. While slaves are not used as a trade good, they are present as actual colonists - they are as productive as regular colonists at producing raw resources, but almost useless for manufactured goods. Indentured servants, essentially people who have sold themselves into slavery for a certain time until paid off by their labour, fall between slaves and free colonists in productivity. So while the slave trade itself is not depicted (and would be difficult to include sensibly since Africa is not present at all), slavery as a source of cheap labour for the fields is.
* Played with in the ''VideoGame/BioShock'' franchise:
** Rapture, the setting of the [[VideoGame/{{Bioshock|1}} first]] and [[VideoGame/BioShock2 second games]], was constructed after the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and lasted into the end of the 1950s, [[CrapsackWorld when it all went to hell]]. Nonetheless, it is presented as being racially integrated and openly accepting towards homosexuality, transexuality, and pornography. This is [[JustifiedTrope justified]], however, as Rapture was envisioned as a libertarian utopia that was not to be constrained by the social, political, and religious mores of its day. Although this is not to say period appropriate prejudices don't exist. Both games do contain racial and sexual prejudice that lingers in some of its citizens. "Changing your race" or sex is treated in the manner of improving negative features, some of the splicers are overtly racist or sexist in their dialogue, and one of the main characters in the second game is a black woman who happens to live in the poorest part of the city...
** ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'', which takes place in 1912 in the SteamPunk sky city of Columbia, averts this for the most part. The game doesn't hold a single punch when it comes to depicting the extreme levels of racism, xenophobia, and ultra-nationalism that permeated American culture in the early 20th century. In fact, Columbia is actually canonically extremist even for its day, which is part of the reason it seceded from the United States. The only social aspect of Columbia that is incongruous for the time period is the equality experienced by women, who can be seen serving on the front-lines of Columbia's police force, military, and rebellion. This is again [[JustifiedTrope justified]], since one of Columbia's architects was a brilliant, independent female scientist and it's implied that the leader of Columbia, Zachary Hale Comstock, has been making an active effort to rid Columbia of sexism since he was grooming [[spoiler: his "daughter" Elizabeth]] to lead Columbia as a messiah-like figure.
*** Strangely enough, though, you'll never hear any actual racial slurs uttered. There's one instance of a sign that's been vandalized with "HEEB" (in Finkton's slums, which means it was likely scrawled by one of the city's oppressed minorities), and Fink's pronunciation of "negro" in one voxophone is very clearly skirting close to the line, but the line is there.
* ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'' is set in the Victorian era and concerned with Victorian values like scandalous manners, but the game treats men and women equally for the most part, with exceptions being mostly for flavour and comedy. Apparently women can't vote in Fallen London, but it's not as if it would do much even if they could. Both male and female characters are treated respectfully by others and EveryoneIsBi by default (although the player can choose to only pursue one gender or no-one if they choose).
** Although you can see things that would have never occurred in the era (Same-Sex marriage, female police officers) there's still plenty of the problems that ''did''. Namely colonialism, imperialism, corruption, poverty, PoliceBrutality and terrible working conditions.
** It should be noted that the game is set in an AlternateUniverse, several decades after the city of UsefulNotes/{{London}} was ''literally'' stolen by AlienSpaceBats, and has demons, golems, and sentient mushrooms wandering around in it. There's also another justification in-universe: [[spoiler: the heart of the city is [[GeniusLoci sentient]] and desires love stories (including the kind with pictures), so it would want to increase their supply.]]
* The titular Order in ''VideoGame/TheOrder1886'', which is a continuation of Arthur's Knights of the Round Table, has no qualms letting women into their ranks to fight for them, as evidenced by Isabeau/Lady Igraine as well as the other female knights seen throughout the game. Of course, the game takes place in an AlternateHistory with SteamPunk technology and a centuries-old war against lycans (ahem, [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent "half-breeds"]]), so obviously some aspects of the Victorian era would be different.
* Only three professions are forbidden to women in ''VideoGame/{{Darklands}}'', specifically friar, priest and bishop (and most male [=PCs=] will never get those jobs either). Women can become knights, soldiers or students as easily as males. Also, the Jewish population is completely absent from the game, even in large cities, and nobody ever mentions them. The only exception are the few names in German, like ''Judenmarkt'' (Jewish Market).
* In-universe in ''VideoGame/AfterTheEndAPostApocalypticAmerica'', which takes place in a post-apocalyptic FutureImperfect FeudalFuture. The great power of the Southeast is the Holy Columbian Confederacy, but the average peasant is entirely unaware what the last nation-state in the area to call itself a "confederacy" was -- it bears more resemblance to the Holy Roman Empire than anything else, and the cultures there are disproportionately likely to generate mixed-race [=NPCs=]. Invoked in that the HCC's founder, the African-American Emperor Leonidas I, [[MonumentalDamage absolutely razed the old Confederacy's legacy]] -- whether his motivations were disgust or pragmatism are left ambiguous.
* ''VideoGame/EmpireEarth'''s German campaign starts in WWI and continues into WWII, starting with the Blitzkrieg and ending with an AlternateHistory mission where Operation Sealion is implemented and England is successfully invaded. At no point is it mentioned that you are, in fact, working for the Nazis, the Chancellor is never named, and of course there's that whole Holocaust business that goes unmentioned.
* The developers of ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWWII'' have [[https://www.polygon.com/e3/2017/6/14/15798864/call-of-duty-world-war-ii-black-female-german-soldier gone on record stating]] that, for the multiplayer modes, they want the players to have their choice of how to customize their character, regardless of historical propriety. The ability to play as a black female German soldier spawned a minor meme, since this would have run completely counter to almost everything the Nazi party believed - the whole "master race" thing was very heavy on the ''white'' Aryan race. It's not that much better for the American side, either, as women were only allowed in logistical roles, and while blacks were allowed to serve on the front lines at least as far back as UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, they were in segregated all-black units like the 92nd Infantry Division, though [[RealityIsUnrealistic 10 White Divisions (including the 1st Infantry Division, which the main characters are in) did eventually have all black companies]]. In the campaign however, this is {{Averted}}, with the developers keeping things as historically accurate as they can.
* ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}'':
** NoSwastikas applies to all the World War 2 games, starting with the very first one, ''VideoGame/Battlefield1942''.
** ''VideoGame/Battlefield1''.
*** While many armies had non-white soldiers, they are overrepresented in multiplayer given how the American, British, French and German armies have at least one out of seven classes represented by a person of color. Most egregiously, the German Scout and Calvary classes are black, whereas there were only ''five'' recorded Afro-Germans in the Kaiser's army in Europe during World War I.[[note]]Germans had the Askari regiments... but those fought in Africa only, and the game has no such map. In contrast, the British and French historically had more non-white soldiers because they controlled the sea lanes and thus were able to ship over soldiers from their colonies. But even then, only 8% of France's troops in total did not come from Europe.[[/note]]
*** For Russian Army in the ''In the Name of the Tsar'' DLC, female soldiers (in reference to Russia's Women's Battalion of Death) appeared as the Russian Scout class. Again, this one is somewhat justifiable given the history behind Russia's female soldiers, but they were treated as propaganda value and disbanded before the end of the war.
** ''VideoGame/BattlefieldV''
*** The game became the first in the series to feature full-fledged character customization and female avatars, something that's been requested for years. Only problem is, the game is set in ''UsefulNotes/WorldWarII''. The reveal trailer depicts a squad of four British soldiers consisting of two white men, a black man, and a [[TwoferTokenMinority woman with a prosthetic arm]] all fighting together as equals and [[CustomUniform featuring designs that aren't authentic to the era in the slightest]]. It was even more controversial when the box art was revealed, featuring a woman standing front and center of the WWII shooter, despite the fact that out of over 100 million people who fought in the war, less than 1% of them were women - and the vast majority of those (over 800,000) were in the Soviet military. To say that there was controversy around the trailer would be putting it mildly, especially since it was supposedly a "return" to the roots for the series.
*** The released game, possibly in response to the backlash, took a few steps back: the multiplayer still lets you customize your character as you please, but the story mode features female and coloured fighters only where they really existed (for the latter) or where they might plausibly have existed (for the former). There are also no prosthetic arms to be seen.
** The campaign war story ''Nordlys'' depicts a mother-daughter duo sabotaging a heavy water plant in occupied Norway when in reality the heavy water plant sabotage was carried out by an all-male team of British SOE commandos.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda:'' In-universe, with the Initiative's Milky Way museum. The whole joke is that all the entries, ''especially'' those related to [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy the krogan]], are about how everyone got along all the time, and never did anything bad to one another, evidently to not trouble any aliens species they run into.
* ''Videogame/TheSimsMedieval'' features gender equality and acceptance of same-sex relations and marriage in the medieval period. It's sort of justified in that the Sim world is not the same as the real world, and bigotry may never be a thing in their universe.
* The [[VideoGame/CriminalCaseMysteriesOfThePast fourth season]] of ''VideoGame/CriminalCase'' is ostensibly set in the late 19th century, but there is a distinct lack of racial segregation (in fact, your team features two black characters and one Asian woman), and no one seem to show any prejudice against interracial and same-sex relations (such as the one between Evie Holloway and Katherine Woolf).
* It is highly unlikely Annet (and Restiana) in ''VideoGame/ElViento'' would be able to wear such a [[{{Stripperiffic}} scantily-clad]] outfit across America in the [=1920s=]. Annet is also a dark-skinned South American, but no prejudice shows up, including any against her (alleged) interracial relationship with the white Earnest Evans.
* ''VisualNovel/MurderByNumbers2020'' is set in 1996, and yet gay people like KC and the drag queen culture are treated with a lot more respect than you'd think from that decade.
* ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker2'' is set in roughly the medieval period, yet gender doesn't seem to be an issue for anyone, as Olive is completely free to pursue any educational course or career she chooses without anyone batting an eye. A few characters do imply that such equality for women is recent, but that's about it.
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* ''WebAnimation/TheWaltenFiles'' is set in the 80s, yet Banny, a cartoon character, is openly lesbian in a time when casual homosexuality in a kids' show was inconceivable. Susan Woodings has also been confirmed to be lesbian, with Sophie Walten confirmed to be bisexual and in a romantic relationship with Jenny by WordOfGay and the latter two don't seem to have a problem with how they like each other.
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* ''Webcomic/BlueyCapsules'' takes place in the 80s, yet has a CastFullOfGay very open with their non-heteronormality.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', the black Jack Fury leads the Howling Commandos, who as mentioned, are pretty diverse during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Of course, seeing as that particular [=WW2=] was between the Allied Nations and ''[[NoSwastikas Hydra]]'' as well as the Nazis, it can probably be excused as an AlternateHistory.[[note]]The full explanation is that in the actual comics, Nick Fury, the leader of the Commandos in that continuity, is white; the cartoon followed ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'' and the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' in making Nick Fury look like Creator/SamuelLJackson, but kept the connection to the Howling Commandos, and making their leader Nick's grandfather to account for the sliding time scale.[[/note]]
* Subverted in the '90s ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' cartoon, where a time-traveling ComicBook/{{Storm}} is told she is not welcome in a restaurant. At first, she thinks it's because she is a mutant, then once she realizes it's because she's black, she says that discrimination by race is almost quaint.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' featured Franchise/{{Batman}}, Franchise/WonderWoman, and Franchise/GreenLantern [[TimeTravel chasing]] a MadScientist back to the WildWest, where they disguised themselves as law enforcers. Nobody they met saw anything odd about a woman or a black man as a lawperson. Though this might be an unintended aversion, as there ''were'' black lawmen and cowboys at the time, but they sort of faded out of the limelight until recently.
** An earlier episode, "Legends," before the series changed names, had some of the League transported into a dimension that bore resemblance to an in-show comic book (it's theorized that the creators of said comic had a subconscious link to that universe and used what they thought were original ideas for the comic) and pair up with equivalents of the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica, who were of course still in UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks mentally. The token girl character invites Hawkgirl to help cook. And when Green Lantern's childhood hero complimented him with "[[YouAreACreditToYourRace You're a credit to your people]], son!", Green Lantern could only reply, "Uh... yeah." It was an incredibly subtle bit of animation where you could see John's thoughts written all over his face... he obviously knew that the other man wasn't ''trying'' to be insulting, he just came from an era where statements like that probably ''were'' the equivalent of being racially sensitive. (The fact that the present day Green Lantern did not meet an actual [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] DC superhero but the ''equivalent'' enabled the script to get away with more. Actually, an earlier draft of the script had just that scenario, but you tend to think that Creator/DCComics might have a problem with ''any'' incarnation of one of their superheroes portrayed as a racist.)
* ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'', "Witchery Science Theater": No one in the old B-grade movie that Sabrina and friends [[TrappedInTVLand find themselves trapped in]] found Sabrina's Afro-American SecretKeeper best friend the least unusual. Then again, it was a ShowWithinAShow and not actual time travel.
* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'', a time travel episode to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII features Caucasian, Asian and African American soldiers all in the same company. It also features a handlebar mustached ''Führer'', who, while clearly intended to be Hitler, isn't.
* The cartoon ''WEsternAnimation/SagwaTheChineseSiameseCat'' has the Magistrate having three daughters and NO sons. No-one says anything about it. In real life, he would have been pressured to keep trying for a son or take another wife -- the Kingdom could NOT be passed down to girls! Also, in real life, no matter how dumb the Magistrate is, his wife wouldn't dare talk to him as she did (in a henpecking, almost bullying, mother-like way) or she would have been beheaded! (or at least not in public, there were plenty of Chinese noblewomen who ruled from behind the scenes.)
* ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourTheAnimatedSeries'' had a TimeTravel episode where the heroes are transported to ancient Greece during the battle of Marathon. The Thing asks whose side they're on and Reed Richards responds, "The Persians were brutal tyrants, while the Athenians invented democracy." While neither side was a bastion of liberty by today's standards, participation in Athenian democracy was denied to women, foreigners, and slaves (''i.e''., over two-thirds of the population). Meanwhile, while the Persians were conquerors and slavers they were conspicuous for how they tolerated the customs and institutions of the peoples they conquered -- their general policy was that as long as they paid proper tribute to the empire and didn't rebel, their conquered states could self-govern, maintain their traditions and beliefs, and generally go on much as they had before being conquered. This is generally believed to have been a major contributor to the success of their empire, as it tended to make rebellion a much less attractive proposition than it might otherwise be.
* Lampshaded on ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}.'' Any time their depiction of history got a little less than family-friendly, network censor Lydia Karaoke would step forward and complain. Many of Lydia's complaints were more along the lines of HaveAGayOldTime, however.
* A Christmas episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', set at Christmastime during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, shows the neighborhood of the Simpson family (or, at least, the family being portrayed by the Simpsons characters) as racially integrated. Although there ''were'' some integrated neighborhoods in the 1940s, that has not commonly been portrayed in popular culture, either then or now - and it is certainly odd to see it on ''The Simpsons'', which is famous for its [[WorldHalfEmpty cynical brand of humor]] and [[PopularHistory historical generalizations]].
** Not to mention it showed Marge as a combat rifleman in the war, even though women are only just now being allowed in direct-combat roles in the U.S. Army.
*** That was more PlayedForLaughs than for political correctness. The joke had been that Marge had been drafted from the Simpson family instead of Homer because Homer was too fat to fit into the foxholes and ended up working on the weapon assembly lines instead.
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' had an episode dealing with this. Hank, dismayed at the fact that the school's Texas History textbook skips important events like the Alamo in favor of pop culture, produces a re-enactment of the Alamo with another man who's supposedly just as outraged. However, that man's script is a revisionist version of the story where the Texans are all braindead, drunken cowards (and one wears a dress, to boot). The man defends his version by saying the facts are unclear (and citing Creator/OliverStone's ''Film/{{JFK}}''); after briefly considering trashing the set, Hank realizes it's wrong to censor someone just for disagreeing, and presages the play with a speech about the bare facts regarding the Alamo.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has this in-universe, when Aang accidentally infiltrates a Fire Nation elementary school and their history turns out to be systematic propaganda, including revising the comet-powered genocide of Aang's pacifistic race as a mighty victory over the mighty 'Air Nation' armies. Given they also obviously killed all the babies[[note]]That they killed the women and old people does not apply in this context as the Fire Nation were EqualOpportunityEvil, and they would not be considered categorically helpless[[/note]], this isn't a story likely to hold together long against serious examination, but it makes the majority of students who hear it ''much'' less likely to start wondering about the rightness of the cause than the truth would.
** Under Fire Lord [[spoiler:Zuko]], what is politically correct changes dramatically from the regime probably instated by Fire Lord Azulon, who presided over the chronological bulk of the war and making it a feasible long-term project. Something Sozin almost certainly never anticipated and Ozai never had the patience for.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfFrostyTheSnowman'' takes place in a stereotypical 1950's suburban community, but racism doesn't exist. Kids of different races hang out, and it's socially acceptable for Tommy (who is white) to be attracted to Sara (who is black).
* When ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' and the Holograms go back to 1781 Vienna and 1944 London, Shana, Aja, and Raya never face any racism.
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' [[spoiler:with Philip Wittebane/Emperor Belos, who was a white British settler in the New World stranded in the Boiling Isles in the 1600s. While his journal entries Luz reads seems to indicate he grew to love the Demon Realm despite its horrors like she did, in "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", when Luz and Lilith travel back in time to meet him, it's revealed he's a racist jerk who hates witches because he hasn't let go of his seventeenth-century mindset. "Hollow Mind" goes even further by revealing that he ''still'' identifies as a witch hunter centuries afterwards, and in fact his ascent to power and the Day of Unity was all a very-long gambit to wipe out the Boiling Isles to save humanity. This is [[{{Hypocrite}} despite him altering his body with magic to survive to the point that even many of the witches we see like Eda, Amity, Willow, and Gus resemble humans more than he does.]] He's also heavily hinted to have killed his own brother for letting go of the anti-witch beliefs and falling in love with one.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' plays with this during "Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.I.V.E." as [[FishOutOfTemporalWater Numbuh 19th Century]] is shocked to see girls now serving as Kids Next Door operatives, which, [[StayInTheKitchen given the roles they were forced into]] during his time makes sense, yet makes no comment on the French-African Numbuh 5 serving as one outside of her gender, even though she would have been most likely enslaved when he was active.
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* ''Film/HauntedMansion2023'': Master Gracey. Despite being a wealthy landowner in the American South in the 19th century, he married a biracial woman (who he clearly loved very much, as his attempts to contact her via Madame Leota is what led to all of the ghosts being in the mansion in the first place). He also seems to have no problem helping Ben in his mission to end the mansion's curse.

* ''Film/HauntedMansion'': Master Gracey. Despite being a wealthy landowner in the American South in the 19th century, he married a biracial woman (who he clearly loved very much, as his attempts to contact her via Madame Leota is what led to all of the ghosts being in the mansion in the first place). He also seems to have no problem helping Ben in his mission to end the mansion's curse.

* The '' Series/QuantumLeap2022'' episode "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E5SalvationOrBust Salvation or Bust]]" takes place in the Old West town of Salvation, which is seen to be a melting pot of several different races and backgrounds who all seem to treat one another with respect. It's {{discussed|Trope}} several times in dialogue that main reason the town is so important to everyone there is because they don't face the same prejudices there as they would in the rest of the country.

* ''Music/{{Skyclad|Band}}'' "[[DiscussedTrope discussed]]" (if using a bloody axe counts) attempts to gloss over less-than-pretty moments in a song aptly named "[[LieBackAndThinkOfEngland Think Back And Lie Of England]]".

* The 1972 musical ''[[Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix 1776]]'' originally featured a musical number in which the "conservatives" of the Continental Congress express their unwillingness to jeopardize their personal positions and wealth by supporting American independence. Though the song was historically accurate, producer Jack Warner's good friend [[HilariousInHindsight President Richard Nixon objected to the scene on the basis that it depicted "conservatives" in a negative light]], in spite of the difference in meaning between the term then and now. In an instance of [[ExecutiveMeddling Chief Executive Meddling]], Warner had the sequence removed from the film at Nixon's behest, though a surviving copy can be found on the DVD.

* A weird in-universe example occurs in the movie ''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica'', where [[AlternateHistory the South won the]] UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar. After the war ends, there's a strong effort to repaint the North as misguided, with the issue of slavery swept under the rug. As the announcer put it, "The Civil War became civil". This parallels our own timeline's whitewashing of the horrors of the antebellum south.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', the black Jack Fury leads the Howling Commandos, who as mentioned, are pretty diverse during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Of course, seeing as that particular [=WW2=] was between the Allied Nations and ''[[NoSwastikas Hydra]]'' as well as the Nazis, it can probably be excused as an AlternateHistory.

* A major facet of ''VideoGame/EmpireTotalWar'' is your faction's participation in the 18th century's colonial/maritime economy, but Creative Assembly really tries their damnedest to ignore the fact that African slavery was arguably the most vital cog in that economy. Two of the "trade theaters" in the game are West Africa and East Africa/Madagascar, and they exclusively produce...''ivory''. Slavery is also glossed over on the flavor texts for the plantations; the most mention that the practice gets is the late-game "Abolition of Slavery" technology... Though Revolutionary France abolished the practice in 1789, it was reinstated by Napoleon. The long game's ending year of 1799 was long before any American/European nation permanently abolished slavery.