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.

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

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic V...

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

On the tiny island of Martha's Vineyard, where presidents and celebrities vacation, trophy homes thr...

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the partic...
A collection of personal anecdotes from those who have navigated through a tumultuous year in Americ...
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 1959, a government employee named Richard Oyler, living in the tiny desert town of Lone Pine, Cal...

Alan Yentob profiles the most successful female architect there has ever been, the late Zaha Hadid, ...

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomi...

Berlin’s brutalist heritage is under fire. The city’s powerful Charité hospital wants to destroy a b...

A portrait of the masterful author whose novels were adapted into the classics 'The Birds,' 'Jamaica...

A vacant theater still has “screenings” of its own: apparitions that come to life on a curved screen...

A cultural-historical portrait of the renowned and enigmatic architect Sigurd Lewerentz, who rarely ...

Documentary about Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi made for the BBC series "Visions of Space".

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