How did ancient Egyptians build the Great Pyramid at Giza, joining two million blocks of heavy stone with amazing precision? Who were the leaders who built these enormous structures, and what did these tombs signify? Host David Macaulay explores the history, mythology, and religions of Egypt's people, combining live footage and animation. Take a rare look at the mummy of Ramses II and buried treasure in the sacred Valley of the Kings.
Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeatin...
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of...
Johan van der Keuken went against the grain in 1980: from Amsterdam (on April 30 with the coronation...
Poème Électronique is an 8-minute piece of electronic music by composer Edgard Varèse, written for t...
A day-to-day record of the construction of the Confederation Bridge linking Prince Edward Island to ...
In 1919 an art school opened in Germany that would change the world forever. It was called the Bauha...
After filming the construction site of the Berlitz Palace (2nd), Pierre Chenal shows us in contrast ...
What killed King Tutankhamun? Ever since his spectacular tomb was discovered, the boy king has been ...
A look at contemporary Paris through the lens of theories and ideologies of the past two centuries, ...
Five Japanese carpenters came to Boston that summer to reconstruct a Kyoto silkweaver's 150 year old...
Board a traditional felucca sailboat and travel down the Nile from Aswan to Cairo, visiting spectacu...
Go beyond the lost human history! A profile and examination of the recent findings of a highly advan...
Art historian and filmmaker Sundaram Tagore travels in the footsteps of Louis Kahn to discover how t...
Documentary about 4 large architectural landmarks that projected Portugal abroad.
Celebrating the splendor and grandeur of the great cinemas of the United States, built when movies w...