SIMON SCHAMA: A HISTORY OF BRITAIN: SPECIAL EDITION

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• Release Year: 2000
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: Award-winning histporian, Simon Schama presents A History of Briatain, a 15-part series that brings the stuff of history to life through the dramatic stories of key lives and moments in Briatain's risch and colorful past. Familiar names and places - warriors and kings, priests and politicians, battlegrounds, castles and cathedrals - punctuate the stories which make up the themes of the series spanning 3000 BC to 1965.; ; Schama crosse continents and visits hundreds of locations as he uses his compelling storytelling skills to describe the struggles for national identities, the triumphs and trials of the monarchy and the effects of warring religions, the expansion of empire and the decline of Britain as a world power.; ; The series satisfies a very basic, but powerful curiosity about other people's lives: Who were they, how did they live, and what happened to them? Letters, diaries and memoirs fill in the details of everyday life which the reference books omit.
• Cast: Simon Schama, Michael Kitchen, Samuel West, Lindsay Duncan, David Threlfall, George Anton, Matthew Rhys, Christian Rodska, Anthony Bate, Timothy West, Emilia Fox, Gerry O'Brien, Clare Beavan, Martina Hall, Ian Bremner, Liz Hartford, Jamie Muir
• Director: Clare Beavan
• Runtime: 14:42
• Company: BBC Video
• Media Format: Series