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.

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...

Travel through the streets of Rochester and you’ll find some extraordinary architecture. From Califo...
This film features some of the most important living Postmodern practitioners, Charles Jencks, Rober...
The life and works of Frei Otto told in his own words and by those he inspired. An in-depth look at ...
Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Mi...

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...

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

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

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

In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festiv...
A documentary with and about the legendary Italian Architect Carlo Scarpa.

A portrait of the internationally acclaimed Japanese architect who employs Buddhist ideas and wester...

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...

Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) provides trained agents, arms and other assistance to t...

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

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

Berlin’s brutalist heritage is under fire. The city’s powerful Charité hospital wants to destroy a b...