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

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

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...

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

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...

Death and the devil, nudity and eroticism, horror in blazing colours, Gothic art cast a spell over p...

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

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

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

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the partic...

In the 13th century a scheming thief finds his wits challenged by a hunter and his daughter.

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

In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of ...

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

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