Simon Schama
Birthday: Born in 1945-02-13 in London, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
The American Future: A History
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The American Future: A History is a four-part documentary series written and presented by Simon Schama which aired on BBC Two in the UK during October 2008, in the run up to the 2008 US presidential election. The first episode was broadcast on BBC Two at 9:00pm on 10 October 2008, and it was shown over four consecutive Fridays. The series saw Schama travelling through the United States as he investigated the conflicts from its past in order to understand the country's contemporary political sit...
Simon Schama's Power of Art
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Documentary series in which historian Simon Schama recounts the story of eight moments of high drama in the making of eight artistic masterpieces....
Simon Schama's Shakespeare
Character: Self - Presenter
Simon Schama explores the life and times of William Shakespeare to shed a new and fascinating light on some of the greatest plays ever written. He asks the question: "What came first, Englishness, or Shakespeare's idea of it?" and produces a persuasive argument in favour of the latter....
The Face of Britain by Simon Schama
Character: Self - Presenter
Simon Schama explores the history of British portraiture, revealing the stories behind the most compelling images in British art and examining the ways portraiture is used to make a statement....
A History of Britain
Character: Self - Presenter
Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, Simon Schama's Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British Isles. What Schama does do, however, is tell the story in vivid and gripping narrative terms, free of the fustiness of traditional academe, personalising key historical events by examining the major characters at the centre of them. Not all historians would approve of the history depicted here as sha...
The Story of the Jews
Character: Self - Presenter
Simon Schama explores the story of the Jewish experience from ancient times to the present day....
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
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The big names behind the big stories. Laura Kuenssberg talks to those making the news, inside and outside politics....
Simon Schama's John Donne
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Simon Schama celebrates the life and work of one of Britain's greatest love poets, John Donne....
Civilisations
Character: Presenter
The story of art from the dawn of human history to the present day—for the first time on a global scale. Inspired by Civilisation, Kenneth Clark’s acclaimed landmark 1969 series about Western art, this series broadens the canvas to reveal the role art and the creative imagination have played across multiple cultures and civilizations....
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Character: Self – Historian
The big names behind the big stories. Laura Kuenssberg talks to those making the news, inside and outside politics....
Question Time
Character: Self - Panellist
This topical debate series based on Any Questions? typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by a carefully selected audience....
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Character: Self
The big names behind the big stories. Laura Kuenssberg talks to those making the news, inside and outside politics....
Simon Schama's History of Now
Character: Self - Presenter
In his most personal project to date, Simon Schama looks back at the dramatic history that has played out in his lifetime. Best known for writing history, he has lived a fair bit of it too. Born in 1945, on the night of the bombing of Dresden, Simon grew up as part of a generation determined to rebuild the world from the ashes of war. In this film, he reveals the stories of artists and writers who have been at the forefront of the fight for truth and democracy, often at great personal cost....
Real Time with Bill Maher
Character: Himself
Each week Bill Maher surrounds himself with a panel of guests which include politicians, actors, comedians, musicians and the like to discuss what's going on in the world....
Civilisations
Character: self
The story of art from the dawn of human history to the present day—for the first time on a global scale. Inspired by Civilisation, Kenneth Clark’s acclaimed landmark 1969 series about Western art, this series broadens the canvas to reveal the role art and the creative imagination have played across multiple cultures and civilizations....
Van de Schoonheid en de Troost
Character: himself
To his guests – artists, scientists, writers, philosophers and musicians – Wim Kayzer in Of Beauty and Consolation asks the philosophical question: What makes this life worth living?...
Movie Credits
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
Character: Self - Author - 'Citizens'
In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay through political violence. This film combines drama, archive and documentary interviews to examine Robespierre's year in charge of the Committee Of Public Safety - the powerful state machine at the heart of Revolutionary France. Contesting Robespierre's legacy is Slavoj Zizek, who argues that terror in the cause of virtue is justifiable, and Simon Scha...
Schama on Rembrandt: Masterpieces of the Late Years
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Simon Schama explains the style, theme and concept of Rembrandt's late masterpieces....
The Genius of Turner: Painting the Industrial Revolution
Character: Self
A film that looks at the genius of JMW Turner in a new light. There is more to Turner than his sublime landscapes - he also painted machines, science, technology and industry. Turner's life spans the Industrial Revolution, he witnessed it as it unfolded and he painted it. In the process he created a whole new kind of art. The programme examines nine key Turner paintings and shows how we should re-think them in the light of the scientific and Industrial Revolution. Includes interviews with histor...
Rough Crossings
Character: Host
Simon Schama presents a drama-documentary that charts the extraordinary journey of the American slaves who fought for the British side in the American War of Independence and were then led by a young Englishman to Africa. There, they struggled to establish a colony in Sierra Leone, where they could be free....
Marie Antoinette: A Film by David Grubin
Character: Self
This was a very human account of the lives and deaths of Marie Antoinette and Louis the XVI focusing primarily on Marie. It is an account of their lives from birth to death and the circumstances leading to the downfall of the French monarchy....