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.
This short explores the possibility that Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, esc...
An intimate portrait of Christopher Alexander, a critic of modern architecture on a lifelong quest t...
The mavericks who pioneered the modern pit stop made it a raceday staple that takes less than two se...
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...
What started as a simple tomb became over a 2,000 years history the universal seat of Christendom an...
Algiers. From the port to the souks, passing through the Jardin d'Essai, Dominique Cabrera transport...
A documentary focusing on the rebuilding projects in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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...
It began much like the common cold. Yet within a day fever took over black swellings the size of bas...
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...
An old hostel, located in the center of Porto, served for many years as a hostel for people with few...
THE STRAIT GUYS follows Czech-born mining engineer, George, and his fast-talking protégé, Scott, alo...
Too high, misused, unfair... a large part of the French and Europeans criticize taxes. From tax-rasc...
"Clean Lines, Open Spaces: A View of Mid-Century Modern Architecture" focuses on the construction bo...