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 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 commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within t...
Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closes...
A biography documentary of the Argentine modernist architect Amancio Williams.
A WWI veteran decides to build a memorial to all of the people who have mattered to him but are now ...
Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. Whi...
Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by ...
One billion people on our planet—one in six—live in shantytowns, slums or squats. Slums: Cities of T...
In 2024, the iconic Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht will celebrate its 100th anniversary. Gerrit ...
In 1919 an art school opened in Germany that would change the world forever. It was called the Bauha...
The personal odysseys of some of the most influential advertising visionaries of all time and the st...
Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí (1852-1926) designed some of the world's most astonishing buildings,...
An adaptation of the story with the same name by Portuguese writer Alexandre Herculano.
When asked to make a documentary about her friend’s mother—a Parisian astrologer named Juliane—the f...
Cartagena, Colombia – 1666. An enslaved woman accused of witchcraft comes face to face with evil inc...
To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these re...
La Sagrada Familia – although still under construction in Barcelona – is a cathedral without any fla...
Rising sea levels and sinking land threaten to destroy Venice. Leading scientists and engineers batt...