Simon Schama's Rough Crossings movie was released Jan 20, 2009 by the Warner Home Video studio. One of American history's most unknown chapters is told in this BBC documentary: the stories of slaves who fled to the British side during the American Revolution. Simon Schama's Rough Crossings movie Historian Simon Schama hosts this intriguing program that follows the odyssey of two slaves, Thomas Peters and David George, who earned their freedom--with heavy irony--fighting against America's war of liberty.