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...

A voyage to the center of the thought of Michel Foucault (1926-1984), a tireless explorer of the mar...

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

La Garoupe, a beach in Antibes, in 1937. For one summer, the painter and photographer Man Ray films ...

Kingdom of Granada, al-Andalus, 14th century. After recognizing that his land, always under siege, i...

A visual essay on contemporary Kiwi architecture.

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...

The Gateway Arch: A Reflection of America chronicles for the first time the complete story of this g...

Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the f...

A look into the 25 years of career of famous musician Chico Buarque and his influence in Brazilian c...

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the partic...
Documentary film about Gothic painting and its representatives.

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

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

France is at the heart of Madonna's life. She is inspired by French culture and its values and has s...