André Le Notre is certainly the most famous French gardener. He was also a designer, architect, engineer, landscaper and urban planner. He worked for Louis XIV from 1645 to 1700 and designed the gardens of Versailles, Vaux le Vicomte, Chantilly and Fontainebleau, as well as the Tuileries in Paris.

Visits to three animal parks in Miami, Florida: the Rare Bird Farm, with it's many chickens, cranes,...

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Catchy mix of farce and documentary. Portrait of a Berlin theatre company made up entirely of the ho...

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Isamu Noguchi was a sculptor, designer, architect, and craftsman. Throughout his life he struggled t...

An examination of occultism as practiced in different parts of the world.

To Olmsted, a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted’s efforts to prese...

Filmed over the course of a year in an "upstairs-downstairs" fashion, this fascinating program provi...

Frederick Law Olmsted designed New York City's Central Park with Calvert Vaux over 150 years ago, an...

after mourning the passing of his late wife, Bill finds the courage to travel to New York City and r...

The Duplex A86 is a 10 kilometer underground highway buried more than 90 meters deep. This concrete ...

The chateau of Versailles is believed to have been a dirty palace: a place where everyone tossed the...

Looks at the engineering of the Knights Templar, the religious order that marked the rise of the Mid...

Reclaiming what was once stolen from him, a man journeys back to the place of his childhood nearly 8...

For over 100 years the Tudor dynasty ruled over England, and in that time they changed the face of t...

Spain, 1961. Life in the small village of Torrelobatón, in the province of Valladolid, was turned up...

Based on the latest technological and scientific advances, this documentary explores the palace's ar...