Simon Schama
Known for: Acting
Sir Simon Michael Schama CBE FBA FRHistS FRSL is an English historian and television presenter. He specialises in art history, Dutch history, Jewish history, and French history. He is a professor of history and art history at Columbia University. Schama first came to public attention with his history of the French Revolution titled Citizens, published in 1989. He is also known for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC television documentary series A History of Britain (2000–2002), as well as other documentary series such as The American Future: A History (2008) and The Story of the Jews (2013).
Filmography
Series
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
2003
Series
Question Time
Self - Panellist
1979
Series
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self - Historian
2022
Series
Remembers…
2022
Series
Remembers…
Self
2022
Series
Simon Schama's Power of Art
2006
Series
A History of Britain
Self — Presenter
2000
Series
Civilisations
Presenter
2018
Series
Civilisations
self
2018
Series
Van de Schoonheid en de Troost
himself
2000
Series
Simon Schama's Shakespeare
Self - Presenter
2012
Series
Simon Schama's John Donne
2009
The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama
Self - Presenter
2020
Film
Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz
Self - Presenter
2025
Film
Rough Crossings
Host
2007
Series
The Story of the Jews
Self - Presenter
2013
Series
Simon Schama's Story of Us
Self - Presenter
2025
Series
The Face of Britain by Simon Schama
Self - Presenter
2015
Faulks on Fiction
2011
Film
Marie Antoinette: A Film by David Grubin
Self
2006
Film
Schama on Rembrandt: Masterpieces of the Late Years
2014
Series
The American Future: A History
2008
Murder at Harvard
2003
Landscape and Memory
Self - Presenter
1995
Simon Schama Meets
Presenter
2022
Film
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
Self - Author - 'Citizens'
2009
Series
Simon Schama's History of Now
Self - Presenter
2022
Film
The Genius of Turner: Painting the Industrial Revolution
Self
2013