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51. Historians of Genius (2004)
Documentary
Documentary series with each episode focusing on the work of a different historian from the past (Carlyle, Gibbon, Macauley); actors in modern dress delivered their words to the camera, making them seem like a contemporary presenter.
Stars: Simon Russell Beale, Bill Paterson, Simon Schama, Samuel West
52. Museums in Quarantine (2020)
Documentary
Stars: Simon Schama, Alastair Sooke, Janina Ramirez, Alastair Sooke
Votes: 28
53. Europe: The Final Debate with Jeremy Paxman (2016 TV Special)
73 min | Talk-Show
Jeremy Paxman is joined by a range of guests including politicians, celebrities, business leaders and academics as he hosts the final debate on Britain's membership of the E.U. just hours before voting begins.
Director: David Coleman | Stars: Jeremy Paxman, Akala, Portia Antonia Alexis, Vince Cable
Votes: 9
56.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Murder at Harvard
(2003)
TV-PG | 50 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Eric Stange | Stars: Simon Schama, Timothy Sawyer, Stephen Benson, Sean McGuirk
Votes: 33
57.
Booknotes (1989–2004)
Episode:
Episode dated 14 July 1989
(1989)
Talk-Show
Simon Schama discusses his book "Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution".
Stars: Simon Schama, Brian Lamb
59.
Breakfast (2000– )
Episode:
Episode dated 27 September 2005
(2005)
News, Talk-Show
Stars: Barry Norman, Simon Schama, Ann Widdecombe
60.
A History of Britain (2000–2002)
Episode:
Beginnings
(2000)
Documentary, History
Simon Schama begins his history of Britain with a visit to the miraculously preserved Stone Age cottages of Skara Brae in Orkney and then moves all the way to the world of Anglo-Saxon England, newly converted to Christianity.
Director: Martin Davidson | Stars: Simon Schama, George Anton, Lindsay Duncan, Michael Kitchen
Votes: 57
61.
A History of Britain (2000–2002)
Episode:
Burning Convictions
(2000)
Documentary, History
Simon Schama sets out to explain how Britain stopped being a Catholic country in just three generations. Henry VIII's passion for Anne Boleyn set in motion a tidal wave of religious upheaval that would claim the lives of thousands.
Directors: Martina Hall, Tim Kirby | Stars: Simon Schama, William Green, Sidney Knott
Votes: 42
62.
A History of Britain (2000–2002)
Episode:
Conquest!
(2000)
Documentary, History
In nine short hours, William the Conqueror triumphed at the Battle of Hastings - and England was changed forever. Simon Schama recounts the saga of blood, betrayal and ambition that led up to this pivotal battle.
Director: Liz Hartford | Stars: Simon Schama, Michael Kitchen
Votes: 43
63.
A History of Britain (2000–2002)
Episode:
Dynasty
(2000)
Documentary, History
Henry II built one of the greatest empires the medieval world had seen - only to see his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and his scheming sons tear it all to pieces. He also created the jury system.
Director: Clare Beavan | Stars: Simon Schama, Lindsay Duncan
Votes: 42
64.
A History of Britain (2000–2002)
Episode:
Forces of Nature
(2002)
Documentary, History
The French Revolution sent shock-waves through Britain. While some watched transfixed, others were horrified. Simon Schama explores why the British proved immune to the siren call of liberty, equality and fraternity.
Director: Jamie Muir | Stars: Simon Schama, James Bolam, William Chubb, Kenneth Cranham
Votes: 35
65.
A History of Britain (2000–2002)
Episode:
King Death
(2000)
Documentary, History
Simon Schama continues his look at British history with the Black Death, the horror of medieval Britain. Those it did not kill were condemned to suffer decades of anarchy and unrest, not least King Richard II.
Director: Paul Tilzey | Stars: Simon Schama, Ben de la Flèche, Jon Ian Dredge, Janet Ellis
Votes: 39
66.
A History of Britain (2000–2002)
Episode:
Nations
(2000)
Documentary, History
The British history series continues with the story of Edward I - known by many as the villainous king in the Hollywood film Braveheart - who tried to force English rule on Scotland and Wales.
Director: Ian Bremner | Stars: Simon Schama, George Anton, Michael Kitchen, Matthew Rhys
Votes: 41
67.
A History of Britain (2000–2002)
Episode:
Revolutions
(2001)
Documentary, History
Simon Schama examines the turbulent years in Britain from 1649 to 1689, from Oliver Cromwell's republic to Charles II's restoration and James II's subsequent pro-Catholic rule from which he was quickly deposed.
Director: Mike Ibeji | Stars: Simon Schama, Anthony Bate, Lindsay Duncan, David Threlfall
Votes: 34
68.
A History of Britain (2000–2002)
Episode:
The Body of the Queen
(2000)
Documentary, History
Queen Elizabeth I was one of the country's most intelligent monarchs, ruling a Protestant rogue state in a Catholic world. But it was her long, tangled relationship with her cousin Mary Queen of Scots that would test her the most.
Director: Clare Beavan | Stars: Simon Schama, Myriam Acharki, Jane Lapotaire, Ray Lonnen
Votes: 39
69.
A History of Britain (2000–2002)
Episode:
The British Wars
(2001)
Documentary, History
Simon Schama looks beyond the romantic stories of Cavaliers and Roundheads to the real story of the English Civil War, in which hundreds of thousands died, countless families were torn apart and the nation was divided.
Stars: Simon Schama, Anthony Bate, Nigel Terry, David Threlfall
Votes: 32
70.
A History of Britain (2000–2002)
Episode:
The Empire of Good Intentions
(2002)
Documentary, History
Simon Schama looks at how the liberal politics and free-market economics of the British Empire in the 19th century unraveled, leading to the potato famine in Ireland and mutiny in India.
Director: Jamie Muir | Stars: Simon Schama, Oliver Ford Davies, Emilia Fox, Paul Freeman
Votes: 33
71.
A History of Britain (2000–2002)
Episode:
The Two Winstons
(2002)
Documentary, History
Simon Schama tackles the 20th century through the lives of two men - Winston Churchill and George Orwell. Both men, so very different in almost every way, lived through and wrote about the key moments of British 20th-century life.
Director: Clare Beavan | Stars: Simon Schama, Charles Dance, Heathcote Williams
Votes: 33
72.
A History of Britain (2000–2002)
Episode:
The Wrong Empire
(2001)
Documentary, History
Simon Schama traces the steps of the empire-makers to tell the extraordinary story of how this small set of islands came to rule an empire that stretched around the globe.
Director: Ian Bremner | Stars: Simon Schama, Ariyon Bakare, Richard Griffiths, David Soul
Votes: 32
73.
A History of Britain (2000–2002)
Episode:
Victoria and Her Sisters
(2002)
Documentary, History
She began the century that bears her name a princess and ended it as an empress. Queen Victoria ruled one of the most powerful empires in world history during a century of staggering change - for both good and bad.
Director: Martina Hall | Stars: Robert Bathurst, Angela Down, Andrea Ecinas-Meade, Emilia Fox
Votes: 32
74.
This Week (2003–2019)
Episode:
Episode dated 6 October 2005
(2005)
News, Talk-Show
Stars: P.D. James, Simon Schama
75.
A History of Britain (2000–2002)
Episode:
Britannia Incorporated
(2001)
Documentary, History
Simon Schama's epic history reaches the 18th century and the birth of modern Britain. Due to an economic explosion, the consumer society is born, agriculture becomes big business and London becomes the fastest growing city in Europe.
Director: Liz Hartford | Stars: Simon Schama, Bill Paterson, Samuel West
Votes: 33
76.
This Week (2003–2019)
Episode:
Episode dated 20 July 2006
(2006)
50 min | News, Talk-Show
Stars: Andrew Neil, Diane Abbott, Michael Portillo, Jon Culshaw
77.
Simon Schama's Power of Art (2006)
Episode:
Turner
(2006)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Simon argues The Slave ship, one of 7 of his works causing a scandal at the 1840 Royal Academy exhibition, is typical of Turner's feeling from experience, as low-born Covent garden boy ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Condie | Stars: Simon Schama, Mark Hyde, Joe Van Moyland, Hollygale Millette
Votes: 68
78.
Simon Schama's Power of Art (2006)
Episode:
Van Gogh
(2006)
TV-14 | 50 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Simon sketches how Vincent Van Gogh was foremost a world-improver, who cared for the common man, working as a 'lay priest' among but got fired by the Dutch Protestant establishment at age ... See full summary »
Director: David Belton | Stars: Simon Schama, Andy Serkis
Votes: 85
79.
Simon Schama's Power of Art (2006)
Episode:
Caravaggio
(2006)
60 min | Documentary, Drama, History
The violent life and tumultuous times of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), revolutionary artist of the Counter Reformation and Baroque era, whose paintings forever changed religious art.
Director: Carl Hindmarch | Stars: Simon Schama, Paul Popplewell, Andrew Garfield, Christine Bottomley
Votes: 102
80.
Simon Schama's Power of Art (2006)
Episode:
David
(2006)
TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary, Drama, History
This time Simon rather uses the works of the iron-monger's son, orphaned at 7 by a duel and trained by a famous relative, Boulanger, in the art of 'bonbonniere' paintings to the taste of ... See full summary »
Director: Clare Beavan | Stars: Simon Schama, Grégoire Bonnet, Tim Frances, Oliver McLelland
Votes: 54
81.
Simon Schama's Power of Art (2006)
Episode:
Rothko
(2006)
TV-14 | 51 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Mark Rothko, the Anglicized name of a Russian Jewish family which immigrated while he was a child to escape the abusive Cossacks, shortly before father's dead, initially followed the ... See full summary »
Director: Carl Hindmarch | Stars: Simon Schama, Allan Corduner, Simon Quarterman
Votes: 64
82.
Simon Schama's Power of Art (2006)
Episode:
Rembrandt
(2006)
TV-G | 59 min | Documentary, Drama, History
The rise and fall of Holland's great painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669) is detailed.
Directors: Clare Beavan, James Runcie | Star: Simon Schama
Votes: 64
83.
Simon Schama's Power of Art (2006)
Episode:
Bernini
(2006)
TV-PG | 50 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Italian sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) becomes the hottest artist in Rome.
Director: Clare Beavan | Stars: Simon Schama, Andrea Gherpelli, Meirko Ficca, Valerio Aprea
Votes: 76
84.
Simon Schama's Power of Art (2006)
Episode:
Picasso
(2006)
53 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Simon sketches how Pablo Picasso, the Andalusian (south Spanish) hedonistic king of Paris' bohemian painting scene, who for decades deliberately created pioneering modern works, far from ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Condie | Stars: Pep Brusca, Anna Coll Miller, Pep Cortés, Simon Schama
Votes: 54
85.
Front Row (2017– )
Episode:
Hay Festival 2019
(2019)
41 min | Music, News, Talk-Show
Mary Beard and guests discuss what is "unsayable" in today's society. What does today's comedy say about our changing taboos? Has social media enhanced debate or debased it?
Directors: Dino Charalambous, Becky Marshall | Stars: Mary Beard, Simon Schama, David Olusoga, Ella Whelan
86.
Question Time (1979– )
Episode:
Episode dated 31 May 2007
(2007)
News, Talk-Show
Director: David Coleman | Stars: David Dimbleby, Greg Dyke, Roy Hattersley, Simon Schama
87.
The Colbert Report (2005–2014)
Episode:
Episode #3.93
(2007)
TV-14 | Comedy, News, Talk-Show
Director: Jim Hoskinson | Stars: Stephen Colbert, Rudy Giuliani, Ben Nelson, Mitt Romney
Votes: 18
88.
Question Time (1979– )
Episode:
Episode dated 27 September 2007
(2007)
News, Talk-Show
Director: Rob Hopkin | Stars: David Dimbleby, Nick Clegg, John Denham, Amanda Platell
89.
Acontece (1994–2003)
Episode:
Episode dated 16 May 1996
(1996)
News
Stars: Carlos Pinto Coelho, Mia Couto, Gil Nave, Simon Schama
90.
Sunday AM (2005– )
Episode:
Episode #3.19
(2008)
News, Talk-Show
Suzanna Reid read the latest news headlines and Matt Taylor forecast the Weather. Daily Telegraph reporter Jeff Randall, and actress Jane Asher reviewed the Sunday news papers with Andrew ... See full summary »
Director: Leah Purplett | Stars: Andrew Marr, Susanna Reid, Matt Taylor, Jonathan Beale
91.
Museums in Quarantine (2020)
Episode:
Rembrandt
(2020)
Documentary
Hustorian Simon Schama takes us on a very personal virtual tour of the young Rembrandt exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, currently in lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Director: Christian Collerton | Star: Simon Schama
Votes: 5
92.
A Taste of My Life (2006–2008)
Episode:
Nigella Lawson
(2008)
30 min | Documentary, Biography, Talk-Show
Director: Mark Adderley | Stars: Nigella Lawson, Nigel Slater, Cosima Diamond, Bruno Diamond
93.
Hier is... Adriaan van Dis (1983–1992)
Episode:
Episode dated 10 April 1988
(1988)
Talk-Show
Stars: Maya Angelou, Simon Schama, Adriaan van Dis
94.
The Romantics and Us (2020)
Episode:
Passions of the People
(2020)
60 min | Documentary, History
Simon explores how the Romantics were involved in fueling ideas of rebellion and imaginative passion that clashed with Enlightenment ideals of reason and mechanical logic.
Director: Hugo Macgregor | Stars: Simon Schama, Michèle Katz, Testament, Michael Gorman
Votes: 26
95.
The Romantics and Us (2020)
Episode:
The Chambers of the Mind
(2020)
60 min | Documentary, History
Simon looks at how the Romantics, before the dawn of the modern psychological revolution, delved into their own minds and the human subconscious, often at great personal cost.
Director: Hugo Macgregor | Stars: Simon Schama, Sigmund Freud, Pete Doherty, Piotr Anderszewski
Votes: 19
96.
The Romantics and Us (2020)
Episode:
Tribes
(2020)
60 min | Documentary, History
Simon examines the Romantics' contribution to the idea of 'national belonging' and the distinctly mixed consequences, from the facilitation of authentic cultural development, to the manipulation of their work by nationalist movements.
Director: Hugo Macgregor | Stars: Simon Schama, Eddi Reader, Cameron Nixon, Mariele Neudecker
Votes: 20
97.
Question Time (1979– )
Episode:
Episode dated 30 October 2008
(2008)
News, Talk-Show
Director: Rob Hopkin | Stars: David Dimbleby, Elizabeth Edwards, Cheri Jacobus, Christopher Nixon Cox
98.
The American Future: A History (2008)
Episode:
American Plenty
(2008)
59 min | Documentary, History
A look at America's waning belief in the infinite possibilities of its land and resources.
Director: Sam Hobkinson | Stars: Simon Schama, Jimmy Carter, Don Eden, Abe Henry
Votes: 10
99.
The American Future: A History (2008)
Episode:
American War
(2008)
51 min | Documentary, History
A look at how different the US attitude to war is from what outsiders assume it to be.
Director: Sam Hobkinson | Stars: Simon Schama, Richard Amaya, Larry Choate, David Plylar
Votes: 7
100.
The American Future: A History (2008)
Episode:
American Fervour
(2008)
59 min | Documentary, History
Simon explores how faith has shaped American political life.
Director: Ricardo Pollack | Stars: Simon Schama, Jerry Falwell, Mark Anthony Green, Fannie Lou Hamer
Votes: 6