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.

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

Beginning at the industrial revolution of the ‘great north’, Jenn Nkiru draws lines between peoples,...

Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closes...

A documentary film comparing current / everyday and historical / noble aspects of Prague.

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...

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

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...

On the tiny island of Martha's Vineyard, where presidents and celebrities vacation, trophy homes thr...

A WWI veteran decides to build a memorial to all of the people who have mattered to him but are now ...

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

In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the...

A new era is about to begin in Eastern Europe. Scythians, the proud warriors, are all but gone and m...

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became the third President of the Fifth Republic. An alternati...

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

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

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