Today it's a symbol of strength and vitality. 135 years ago, it was a source of controversy. This documentary examines the great problems and ingenious solutions that marked the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. From conception to construction, it traces the bridge's transformation from a spectacular feat of heroic engineering to an honored symbol in American culture.

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, ...

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...

Tadao Ando, a self-taught architect, proposes an international architecture that he believes can onl...

Ninety-year-old sound artist and comedian Henry “Sandy” Jacobs lives a quirky existence at the end o...

The city of Ordos, in the middle of China, was build for a million people yet remains completely emp...

Danish documentary about the disobedient schoolboy with a talent for painting, who became one of Den...

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainl...

Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainabilit...

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former ...

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding o...

For more than 120 years, Mohawk ironworkers have raised America’s modern cityscapes. They are called...

5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three mill...
A collection of personal anecdotes from those who have navigated through a tumultuous year in Americ...

Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of ...

A core group of architects embraced the West Coast from Vancouver to LA with its particular geograph...

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his...