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.

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...

In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Kore...

In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she ...

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

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

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

After five years studying in Paris, Arash has not adjusted to life there and has decided to return t...

Europe in second half of 16th century was very rough place to live. Peasants of Slovenia and Croatia...

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

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...
In June 1946, the sculptor and photographer Michel Sima met with Pablo Picasso in Antibes. At Picass...

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

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

Christian Dior, the creator of the New Look, died 60 years ago, on October 23, 1957. Frédéric Mitter...

Travel through the streets of Rochester and you’ll find some extraordinary architecture. From Califo...