Building the Great Cathedrals

Building the Great Cathedrals

2010•1h 20m•7.0/10

DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie

Ratings

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7.0/10(1)

These skyscrapers of stone dominated skylines for nearly a thousand years. Now, a team of scholars and builders investigates how they we went up, and why some of the tallest fell down. Embedded in stone and stained glass, they uncover a hidden mathematical code — ripped from pages of the Bible — that was used as a blueprint to build the great Gothic Cathedrals.

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Production

CFRT, ARTE, Providence Pictures, Telfrance

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Féodor Atkine

Féodor Atkine

Self - Narrator (voice)

Joan R. Branham

Self

Frank Helmholz

Self

Stefaan Van Liefferinge

Self

Thibaut Desjardins

Self

Jacqueline Jung

Self

Andrew Tallon

Self

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