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.

Created over 75 years and three generations, Les Quatre Vents stands as an enchanted place of beauty...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chambord, the most impressive castle in the Loire Valley, in France, a truly Renaissance treasure, h...

The British invented them for the world, and they have been described as 'the lungs of the city - hi...

From the open air theater in the Bois de Boulogne the sex workers Heden, Claudia and Samantha, tell ...

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

Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria and a very young girl, marries King Louis-Auguste, Dauphine...