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.
Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind...
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...
France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody...
An account of the life and work of controversial German orchestra conductor Herbert von Karajan (190...
In 1919 an art school opened in Germany that would change the world forever. It was called the Bauha...
On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...
Documentary about 4 large architectural landmarks that projected Portugal abroad.
Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Soli...
A walk through the golden age of Spanish exploitation cinema, from the sixties to the eighties; a lo...
The history of Bruguera, the most important comic publisher in Spain between the 1940s and the 1980s...
Art historian and filmmaker Sundaram Tagore travels in the footsteps of Louis Kahn to discover how t...
On the tiny island of Martha's Vineyard, where presidents and celebrities vacation, trophy homes thr...
How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...
Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...
Chronicling the reconstruction of the World Trade Center and restoration of the New York City skylin...
City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and viole...
Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...
The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainl...
The history of the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, an opera house located in the middle of the Amazon rai...
Kingdom of Granada, al-Andalus, 14th century. After recognizing that his land, always under siege, i...