I read that it's much worse than that, and there are ISBNs that were reused for completely different books.
But there is at least one case where it was on purpose. There's a set of reading primers from the UK called the Biff, Chip and Kipper books. We acquired a whole set of them at a garage sale, and when I went to enter them into my catalogue, I discovered that the publisher had assigned just one ISBN to the whole series. Which quite annoyed me when I discovered it. (I ended up just not cataloguing those books, because I didn't want to type the titles, author, copyright date, etc. in by hand for 50+ tiny books).
For example, here's a non-exhaustive but still pretty long list of movies with reused titles: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls083468410/