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15 premises for historical fiction shows/movies that I would love to see

So I recently binged The Great and am now working my way through Reign so here are some ideas for people/historical events/time periods that I think would make excellent shows/movies.

  1. The US Camel Corps. This could be a bizarre drama or it could be a great comedy.
  2. Elizabeth of York. She was King Henry VIII's mother and also the sister of the princes in the tower. She lived a dramatic and intense life and she carries the intrigue of King Henry VIII which should be enough to pull people in.
  3. Following a USSR spy in the US who was sent to make maps. We know that the USSR secretly mapped a lot of the world and we know that some of this had to come from boots on the ground. Some of the mapped out areas were of very big cities, but some where small towns. In my show, it would be a comedy about a spy who isn't good at his job sent to a small town in the US to map it.
  4. A family sitcom based on the two living grandsons of our tenth president. They would end up going to events for families of presidents and also have to have secret service with them despite the fact that not even their own agents know who they are.
  5. A drama following The Jane Collective.
  6. A drama following the White Rose Society.
  7. A drama following Jonas Salk and the creation of the polio vaccine. Feels like a reminder of life prior to the polio vaccine could be could.
  8. A drama following Marie Curie. She had a dramatic and tragic life and made incredible scientific contributions, why isn't she a main character yet?
  9. A dramaedy following Ada Lovelace. She was told to focus on mathematics because her family thought being focused on the arts would make her go crazy. How is that not an insanely hilarious premise for a show?
  10. A comedy based on that time the US and Canada almost went to war over a pig being shot.
  11. A comedy following the Emu War. How is the time that people fought a bird and lost not already an award-winning comedy?
  12. A comedy based on Anne of Cleves's life post-King Henry VIII. She got to live a pretty lavish life afterwards and I think I would also have the ghosts of his other wives making appearances.
  13. A drama based on the life of the person who stabbed The Night Watch by Rembrandt.
  14. A drama series based on the life of first lady Harriet Lane. Wait, we never had a president Lane you say? That's right. Harriet Lane was the niece of James Buchanan, our only president so far to have never married. There would also be hints to Buchanan likely having been gay, but also having had a tragic end to his engagement (she killed herself).
  15. A drama based on a sex worker during the times of Jack the Ripper. I would have her do her own investigations and likely culminate in her and some of the other sex workers killing Ripper themselves.

(Prompt by me)
"A member of the legendary southwestern 'Camel Corps' stands at ease at the Drum Barracks military facility, near California’s San Pedro harbor." Photography by Rudolph D'Heureuse, who published a series of forty-one photos in 1863 refSorenson, Michael K.. A Most Curious Corps. Military Images Magazine. Retrieved on 13 February 2013. Found at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Camel_Corp_1.jpg

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