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.

The film juxtaposes/compares two museums: The Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel, which Samuel Bickels...

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball ...
Pessac, Quartiers Modernes Frugès: The camera goes from living room to living room, from yard to bat...

In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyr...

Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turni...

A still drawing film on the personality of Robespierre and the French Revolution.

In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against ...

Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with t...

England, 11th century. William the Conqueror (ca. 1027-1087) wins the Battle of Hastings (1066), cha...
The Hopperstad stave church is a marvelous, iconic architectural statement from the fjords of Norway...

This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertake...

Ernest Pignon Ernest is a French visual artist who is considered one of the pioneers of urban art in...

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

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

At the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries Boleslav's kingdom fell apart in the fratricidal war betw...

The fascinating and little-known story of the secretarial profession, which tells the story of the e...

Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the...

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...