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.

His buildings are garish, colorful and completely overloaded. Columns and glittering chandeliers eve...

A new era is about to begin in Eastern Europe. Scythians, the proud warriors, are all but gone and m...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the co...

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

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

Beginning at the industrial revolution of the ‘great north’, Jenn Nkiru draws lines between peoples,...
Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Mi...

A widower maintains a memorial room filled with his late wife's belongings. When fire destroys it, h...

This documentary follows the French soccer team on their way to victory in the 1998 World Cup in Fra...