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

• 2025Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz — Self - Presenter, Writer, Producer
• Simon Schama Meets — Presenter
• Simon Schama's History of Now — Self - Presenter, Writer, Creator
• Civilisations — Presenter, self, Writer
• 2014Schama on Rembrandt: Masterpieces of the Late Years — Writer
• Simon Schama's Shakespeare — Self - Presenter, Writer, Creator
• Faulks on Fiction
• Simon Schama's John Donne — Writer, Creator
• The American Future: A History
• 2007Rough Crossings — Host, Writer
• Simon Schama's Power of Art — Creator
• 2003Murder at Harvard
• A History of Britain — Self — Presenter, Writer
• Landscape and Memory — Self - Presenter, Writer

Appearances as themselves (12)

• Simon Schama's Story of Us — Self - Presenter
• Remembers… — Self
• Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg — Self - Historian
• The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama — Self - Presenter
• The Face of Britain by Simon Schama — Self - Presenter
• 2013The Genius of Turner: Painting the Industrial Revolution — Self
• The Story of the Jews — Self - Presenter
• 2009Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution — Self - Author - 'Citizens'
• 2006Marie Antoinette: A Film by David Grubin — Self
• Real Time with Bill Maher — Self
• Van de Schoonheid en de Troost — himself
• Question Time — Self - Panellist