If you saw an old black and white film showing people hung from a tree,

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10. The context would matter to me.

If what you're describing happened on the Outlander series (which I have not watched and I've only read the first book of the series) it would feel so far in the past as to not have too much or an effect.

But if I see pictures of black people hung from a tree, I'm intensely bothered. While I'm white, there's a sense that these are my people. The hangings are too close in time for me to have any distance, even though none of them were personally known to me. I feel as if much of the history of this country since about 1860, even though that year is more than a generation before my own grandparents got here, anything since about then is connected to me.

But 18th century Scotland? Meh.

I realize the above sentence makes me look completely uncaring, but my point is that I don't feel a strong personal connection to that era. However, back to your original question, if the footage is graphic and gruesome, I would definitely be disturbed.