History movies are no replacement for history but documentaries and books don’t have great actors, costumes or the odd explosion. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) showed us all that history doesn’t matter in movies. Braveheart showed us that history matters, but accuracy doesn’t. And Elizabeth: The Golden Age showed us that accuracy is an ingredient you can mix with deliberate lies to get your point across. We have some real nonsense of our own to add to the end of history.

The Economists: John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman team up to counteract an unseen economic threat from an international cabal. They put aside their theoretical differences to save the West from rampant inflation and unemployment in the post-war world. Get Cumberbatch on this one. He’s got form with Turing.

Hamilton & Norwood laid bald: A fictional look into the study of hair loss that led to the Hamilton-Norwood baldness scale. We will need to give this one some Ryan Murphy ‘Monster’ treatment to get this moving. Otherwise, this will end up as a TV movie like Breast Men did in 1997.

The League of Political Philosophy: To prevent World War 3, a scientist clones Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Niccolo Machiavelli and E.H. Carr to investigate the causes and come up with solutions at a state and international level. The realists and the liberals must resolve their differences before societies break down and the nukes are flying.

I bet you didn’t think I could get nerdier than this but history can overblow any person with a name in the history books. The Patriot, The Untouchables, Tombstone and many others play with history but with some relevance but the Oscar winners are doing the same with Bohemian Rhapsody and Mary Queen of Scots. History movies are what we use when script ideas are short on supply.