Architecture Movies
- 2016
Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments and Modernism
Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments and Modernism6.52016HD
Having previously investigated the architecture of Hitler and Stalin's regimes, Jonathan Meades turns his attention to another notorious 20th-century...
- 1991
Liebestraum
Liebestraum5.31991HD
A man returns to his hometown and a series of dark secrets are revealed.
- 1981
Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Bridge7.5631981HD
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...
- 1986
David Macaulay: Cathedral
David Macaulay: Cathedral01986HD
Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Using a combination of spectacular location sequences and cinema-quality...
- 2021
Saving Venice
Saving Venice7.22021HD
Rising sea levels and sinking land threaten to destroy Venice. Leading scientists and engineers battling the forces of nature to try to save this...
- 1989
The Architecture of Doom
The Architecture of Doom7.21989HD
Featuring never-before-seen film footage of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, The Architecture of Doom captures the inner workings of the Third Reich...
- 1962
Alvorada: Brazil's Changing Face
Alvorada: Brazil's Changing Face101962HD
Documentary film about Brazil around the year 1960 and how it is shaped by industrial and social upheavals. The film portrays people and landscapes,...
- 1980
Architecture
Architecture01980HD
A stop motion opus made up of hundreds of hand-painted wooden blocks that takes the viewer through a brief history of architecture. Primitive...
- 2008
Secrets of the Parthenon
Secrets of the Parthenon82008HD
For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, and disfigured by catastrophic...
- 2003
The Lost World of Tyntesfield
The Lost World of Tyntesfield02003HD
Dan Cruickshank explores one of Britain’s last Victorian country homes, Tyntesfield, a Gothic fantasy frozen in time and a monument to the...
- 1968
Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City
Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City7.51968HD
In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian capital city of Brasília....
- 1982
Pražský hrad
Pražský hrad01982HD
- 1987
The Belly of an Architect
The Belly of an Architect6.81987HD
The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures....
- 2015
Paradise Lost?
Paradise Lost?6.0912015HD
After discovering that John Milton is buried within London's Barbican grounds, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard reimagined his epic poem ‘Paradise...
- 1974
The World of Buckminster Fuller
The World of Buckminster Fuller71974HD
Architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome and one of the most brilliant thinkers...
- 2018
The Real Thing
The Real Thing7.62018HD
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...
- 2019
Architecture of Infinity
Architecture of Infinity62019HD
How can structures, which take up defined, rigid portions of space, make us feel transcendence? How can chapels turn into places of introspection?...
- 1989
David Macaulay: Pyramid
David Macaulay: Pyramid01989HD
How did ancient Egyptians build the Great Pyramid at Giza, joining two million blocks of heavy stone with amazing precision? Who were the leaders who...
- 1989
Twilight City
Twilight City71989HD
A fictional letter from a daughter, Olivia, to her mother in Dominica is the narrative thread connecting interviews from (predominantly) black and...
- 2015
Vilanova Artigas: The Architect and the Light
Vilanova Artigas: The Architect and the Light6.82015HD
The documentary rebuilds the life of the Brazilian architect João Batista Vilanova Artigas. His relatives, friends, students and six of his...