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.

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...

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

In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for th...

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the partic...

Amie Siegel’s film installations often reveal the hidden narratives behind architecture and design, ...

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

In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festiv...

A widower maintains a memorial room filled with his late wife's belongings. When fire destroys it, h...

Big Time gets up close with Danish architectural prodigy Bjarke Ingels over a period of six years wh...

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

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be...

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...

To avenge her defeat and with the help of the Cardinal's army leader Rochefort, the treacherous Mila...

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