These skyscrapers of stone dominated skylines for nearly a thousand years. Now, a team of scholars and builders investigates how they we went up, and why some of the tallest fell down. Embedded in stone and stained glass, they uncover a hidden mathematical code — ripped from pages of the Bible — that was used as a blueprint to build the great Gothic Cathedrals.
Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside C...
Hitch a ride with a glamorous blonde in a convertible sports car, and take a spin around the seaside...
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...
An epic ramble from Winchester to Canterbury, through Hampshire, Surrey and Kent with picnics, pints...
David Hockney undertakes a commission to design and install a stained-glass window in Westminster Ab...
A large crowd and choir, on an historic day at York Minster, greet the arrival of a replacement big ...
A film about astronomy which also happens to show views of the ancient city of Winchester, before fo...
For most of America's history, sacred buildings represented our greatest feats of innovative enginee...
Taking you back inside the world-famous Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris in France. It’s three years...
The city of Ordos, in the middle of China, was build for a million people yet remains completely emp...
Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Using a combination of spect...
Cologne Cathedral: a landmark, a World Heritage Site, a building of superlatives - and not just beca...
The Strasbourg cathedral is a stunning edifice, a masterwork of gothic architecture which also expre...
An exploration of Rodez Cathedral and its stained glass windows: praying figures and scientific imag...
The collaboration between architects, scientists, archaeologists and engineers in their efforts to r...
Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles ...