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

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

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

Big Time gets up close with Danish architectural prodigy Bjarke Ingels over a period of six years wh...

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

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...

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

Historical drama set during the reign of Philip II of Spain. The royal troops have taken up quarters...

Christian Dior, the creator of the New Look, died 60 years ago, on October 23, 1957. Frédéric Mitter...
In June 1946, the sculptor and photographer Michel Sima met with Pablo Picasso in Antibes. At Picass...

This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the ...

A documentary on the life and work of the American designer, Walter Dorwin Teague. It's the story of...

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

At the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries Boleslav's kingdom fell apart in the fratricidal war betw...

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 ...