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.

Journalist Émilie Tran Nguyen invites the viewer to follow her in her quest and discover, at the sam...

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

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

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...

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

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Walla...

5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three mill...

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...
Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Mi...

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the partic...
Based on the life of Rosa Bonheur, a trailblazing feminist and artist who rose to fame in 19th centu...

One billion people on our planet—one in six—live in shantytowns, slums or squats. Slums: Cities of T...

This film is a portrait of unique cultural space for Spirits, Gods and People. While permanent theat...

Join self confessed petrol-head Guy Martin as he learns about the alternative to the internal combus...