It quite literally caused a national panic, because it was delivered in a believable manner to a gullible audience.

It mostly did not. Ironically, that story is mostly fictitious.

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It quite literally caused a national panic, because it was delivered in a believable manner to a gullible audience.

That was not one of the criteria. People are in a panic about all kinds of fake shit all the time, but (practically) nobody is out trying to rebuild civilization after the human race was decimated by alien Interlopers after they were defeated by a virus. It was a work of fiction, the author acknowledges it as work of fiction, you clearly didn't understand the criteria for evidence of your claim.

It’s a biopic that presents itself as a historical account of real life events.

It literally says it is a work of fiction. The entire production crew acknowledges it is a work of fiction. You clearly did not understand the criteria for evidence of your claim.

You’re going to have to put more on the table than “it doesn’t count because I would have known better if I’d read it in 1163”.

You're going to have to do better than one possible example where we don't know the author's motivations or marketing of the work. To quote, I believe you useed the word "Plenty" when describing the availability of your evidence, so far the actual support is "one possible due to a lack of information about it from hundreds of years ago". Also... Not a historical comedy?

It is incredibly easy.

...And yet still elusive to you.