The Past is a Foreign Country may refer to:
"The past is a foreign country", the opening phrase of The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley, 1953 The Past is a Foreign Country, a book by David Lowenthal, 1985 "O Passado é um País Distante", a song by Sérgio Godinho (1995) The Past is a Foreign Country (Il passato è una terra straniera), a book by Gianrico Carofiglio, 2004 The Past Is a Foreign Land, an Italian film of 2008, based on the Carofiglio novel The Past is a Foreign Country, a South Korean film of 2008
See also The Past is Another Country (disambiguation) The Future is a Foreign Land