Simon Schama Movies

In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay throu...

Inspired by a book by acclaimed historian Simon Schama, Murder at Harvard uses a combination of film-noir drama and present-day documentary footage to...

Simon Schama explains the style, theme and concept of Rembrandt's late masterpieces.

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,...

Simon Schama presents a drama-documentary that charts the extraordinary journey of the American slaves who fought for the British side in the American...

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 liv...

The historian explores the threads that bind the population of Britain together. In this edition, he examines the art and culture that captured and dr...