it's all a plot

     Crime, war, disaster, romance, intrigue--these all do well at the box office. Making them seem boring in a history book is a crime--or a diabolical plot of some kind. Hollywood does a better job making history interesting than many authors of textbooks. Unfortunately, many people believe that if Hollywood puts it on the screen, it must be pretend. That's right, they believe that Hollywood invented Henry VIII as a screen character. So the movies can't teach them history, since they believe it to be a fantasy.  How to teach them that history was real is the problem.