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

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...

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

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

Travel through the streets of Rochester and you’ll find some extraordinary architecture. From Califo...
This film features some of the most important living Postmodern practitioners, Charles Jencks, Rober...
The life and works of Frei Otto told in his own words and by those he inspired. An in-depth look at ...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their resp...

Brazilian architecture in the 20th century influenced generations of architects worldwide. But there...