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.

King Carlos II of Spain (r. 1665-1700) once sent his brother Luis to lead a military expedition into...

Madame Simone Renaud witnessed the liberation of France on June 6, 1944 from a very unique viewpoint...

Four experienced mountaineers climb the three floors of the Eiffel Tower through the pillars of the ...

This documentary follows the French soccer team on their way to victory in the 1998 World Cup in Fra...

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

Death and the devil, nudity and eroticism, horror in blazing colours, Gothic art cast a spell over p...

At 96, Lawrence Herbert reflects on his life, from his Depression-era Brooklyn upbringing to creatin...

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

An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, ...

Christian Dior, the creator of the New Look, died 60 years ago, on October 23, 1957. Frédéric Mitter...

Cyrille, a young gay farmer from Auvergne, has only one friend, a homosexual like him. One day, he g...

The British architect based in Stockholm looks back on major projects of a long career inspired by E...