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.

David Jones investigates how 1960s council housing came to be built so poorly that thousands later n...

As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. Ther...
Documentary film about Gothic painting and its representatives.

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

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

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

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

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

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...
Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Mi...

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

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...

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

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