Movies: Simon Schama
- 2009
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution (2009)
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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 Robes...
- 2013
The Genius of Turner: Painting the Industrial Revolution (2013)
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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 unfol...
- 2006
Marie Antoinette: A Film by David Grubin (2006)
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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....
- 2014
Schama on Rembrandt: Masterpieces of the Late Years (2014)
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Simon Schama explains the style, theme and concept of Rembrandt's late masterpieces....
- 2007
Rough Crossings (2007)
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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 est...
- 2003
American Experience: Murder at Harvard (2003)
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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 tell the true tale of one of the most notorious American crimes of the 19th century. Grappling with...