Simon Schama's History of Now(2022)
Documentary
First Air Date: 2022-11-27
Average Runtime: N/A
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Seasons: 1
Episodes: 3
In his most personal project to date, Simon Schama looks back at the dramatic history that has played out in his lifetime. Best known for writing history, he has lived a fair bit of it too. Born in 1945, on the night of the bombing of Dresden, Simon grew up as part of a generation determined to rebuild the world from the ashes of war. In this film, he reveals the stories of artists and writers who have been at the forefront of the fight for truth and democracy, often at great personal cost.
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Series 1
Episodes: 3E01
Truth and Democracy
Air Date: 2022-11-27
Simon opens the film with Picasso’s Guernica. Painted in 1937, in response to the bombing of a small town by the Nazi...
E02
Equality
Air Date: 2022-12-04
Simon Schama explores the artists at the vanguard of the fight for equality in the decades after the Second World War...
E03
The Price of Plenty
Air Date: 2022-12-11
After the Second World War, there were deep divisions in America about how to move forward. Should it be a social dem...
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