An intimate portrait of the lives of the artists, founders of modern art, who lived in Montmartre from 1900 until the liberation of France from the German yoke in 1944, near the end of World War II.

In his most personal project to date, Simon Schama looks back at the dramatic history that has playe...

First broadcast on October 2, 1989, these 18 original 30-minute episodes provide a panorama of 2000 ...

Featuring the minute-by-minute accounts of the brave soldiers who crossed deep into enemy territory ...

Women write art history – but in turn are systematically ignored by it. LOST WOMEN ART tells the sto...

Using the very latest in drone and aerial photographic technology, tour across countries and their s...

A look back at a cruel conflict, the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), which changed the political geog...

North Africa, 1954. The Algerian war of independence begins, a traumatic and extremely violent catas...
From popular revolt to the obsession with the self, even to modern nationalism, Simon Schama explore...

A look into Frida Kahlo's world, revealing an artist driven by politics, power, sex and identity, wi...

This two-part, four-hour documentary delves into the world of a 15th-century art titan and unravels ...

Simon Schama explores the history of British portraiture, revealing the stories behind the most comp...

After World War II, the French colonial empire, which dominated the lives of over 110 million people...

In the show, selected applicants each present a curiosity, rarity or antique they have brought with ...