David Macaulay: Cathedral
1986 · 1h 0m
Documentary, History
Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Using a combination of spectacular location sequences and cinema-quality animation, the program surveys France's most famous churches. Travel back to 1214 to explore the design of Notre Dame de Beaulieu, a representative Gothic cathedral. The program tells period tales revealing fascinating stories of life and death, faith and despair, prosperity, and intrigue.
David Macaulay, Caroline Berg, Derek Jacobi, Geoffrey Matthews, Brian Blessed, Paul Bacon, Sean Barrett, Peter Pacey, Ellis Jones
france, cathedral, engineering, architecture, gothic, middle ages (476-1453), design, medieval