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.

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

Finding their place between the forest and the sea, the Japanese have always felt awe and gratitude ...

Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous ...

Edmond Dantès, who was active in the resistance against the Nazis, is accused for being a Nazi colla...

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...

This is the story of the Bohemian King, Přemysl Otakar II, and the forgotten pilgrim, Odorik, who wa...

May 10th, 1981. François Mitterrand is elected President of the Republic. The “soviet tanks” suppose...

On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the...

Kingdom of Granada, al-Andalus, 14th century. After recognizing that his land, always under siege, i...

After five years studying in Paris, Arash has not adjusted to life there and has decided to return t...

In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she ...

In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of ...

In 1959, a government employee named Richard Oyler, living in the tiny desert town of Lone Pine, Cal...

This documentary follows seven wine-making families in the Burgundy region of France, delving into t...

In the heart of the Camargue region, in the south of France, Jawad and Belka find freedom in their l...

Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the ...

A core group of architects embraced the West Coast from Vancouver to LA with its particular geograph...

In 1900, the eyes of the whole world are on Paris. The World's Fair welcomed 50 million amazed visit...