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Kingdom of Granada, al-Andalus, 14th century. After recognizing that his land, always under siege, is hopelessly doomed to be conquered, Sultan Yusuf...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Amr Waked

One of the most significant cases in European archaeology is the grave of the shaman woman of Bad Dürrenberg, a key finding of the last...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Petra Konradi

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In 1919 an art school opened in Germany that would change the world forever. It was called the Bauhaus. A century later, its radical thinking still...

Genre: History

Cast: Jodie Whittaker

Everyone knows the view of Via della Conciliazione with St. Peter's Basilica framed behind it. The most famous postcard of Rome, the background used...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David I. Kertzer

The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Krystyna Budnicka

A smaller scale Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysées can be found just outside Shanghai; a copy of St. Peter’s in Rome can be found in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Benoît Felici

"What we were trying to do was the ultimate form of architecture, which was predicting how society would use space, land and time." Curtis Schreier,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chip Lord

From the cabinets of curiosities created in Italy during the 16th century to the prestigious cultural institutions of today, a history of museums...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marina Behnke

Amidst a mostly Catholic community, a small tiny Anglican church offers more to the community of Placentia than people may think, and holds many...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christopher Newhook

Celebrating the splendor and grandeur of the great cinemas of the United States, built when movies were the acme of entertainment and the stories...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Leonard Maltin

The history of the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, an opera house located in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, whose construction, between 1884 and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Leonard Maltin

Southern California’s Coachella Valley, including the communities of Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Desert Hot Springs, boasts hundreds of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Albert Frey

Documentary about Queen Elizabeth Square, Sir Basil Spence's block of Brutalist style flats built to replace the Gorbal's tenements in Glasgow during...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Basil Spence

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman province in Southern Gaul - Gallia...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anna Flori-Lamour

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Explorations in 21st Century American Architecture Series: Ray Kappe has long been a cult figure in the architectural scene in and around Los...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ray Kappe

A film commissioned by architects Vitangelo Ardito and Nicoletta Faccitondo (Polytechnic University of Bari) as a companion piece to the book...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Umberto Riva

How can structures, which take up defined, rigid portions of space, make us feel transcendence? How can chapels turn into places of introspection?...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Zumthor

For the first time in history, women are designing our world. They are the rising stars in architecture-previously an all-male galaxy--and they are...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Odile Decq

These are some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has ever known. The series explores how and why they were built,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tom Ward

Documentary series investigating why some of the world's most advanced architectural achievements were abandoned.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kasper Michaels

This four-part history series looks at how Australia has been shaped by its many definitions of home. Historic moments impacted homes, their designs,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Septimus Caton

Scattered across the United States are abandoned structures, forgotten ruins of the past and monuments to a bygone era. Each one shines a light on...

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Jonathan Meades takes a quixotic tour of Scotland, a country which has intrigued him since he first encountered lists of towns only known from...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jonathan Meades

Robert Hughes tackles the work and lives of three remarkable 20th-century architects: Albert Speer, Mies van der Rohe, and Antonio Gaudi - whose work...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Hughes

First broadcast on October 2, 1989, these 18 original 30-minute episodes provide a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Wood

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Vávra

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sandra Medina

Hindu or Buddhist temples, synagogues, churches or mosques: religions have inspired architectural marvels. Four episodes to discover jewels of Muslim...

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Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pierre Tissot

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pierre Tissot