Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Using a combination of spectacular location sequences and cinema-quality animation, the program surveys France's most famous churches. Travel back to 1214 to explore the design of Notre Dame de Beaulieu, a representative Gothic cathedral. The program tells period tales revealing fascinating stories of life and death, faith and despair, prosperity, and intrigue.

Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the ...
A documentary with and about the legendary Italian Architect Carlo Scarpa.

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the co...

A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their b...

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...
This film features some of the most important living Postmodern practitioners, Charles Jencks, Rober...

In the heart of the Jura mountains, a call resounds through the forest. The silhouette of a Eurasian...

Reserved by Citroën for immigrant workers, the Aulnay-sous-Bois factory experienced its first strike...

X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their resp...

Historical drama set during the reign of Philip II of Spain. The royal troops have taken up quarters...

Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster dau...

The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later...

The Alps are covered by a nearly invisible security system that’s supposed to protect humans from na...

This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the ...

A poet among architects and an innovator among educators, John Hejduk converses with poet David Shap...