Given the state of general historical ignorance, probably not well. People take crap like Stone's "JFK" to be factual, and that stuff happened within living memory. I doubt even most British know what Guy Fawkes did in any deeper sense than the average US citizen knows what Benedict Arnold actually did.
I don't think any quasi intelligent person takes a piece of historical fiction like JFK to be factual. But a lot of people don't know who the VP is much less Benedict Arnold or Guy Fawkes.