Architecture Movies

This documentary provides an astonishing journey through innovative, futuristic, utopian and sometimes bizarre architecture projects—including...

The life of a couple is observed through the home they have left behind.

A documentary about Montreal architect Roger D'astous, who battled all his life to create a Nordic architecture. A star architect in the 60s, and...

Nominated for an Academy Award, this live-action short film playfully chronicles the construction of the Tishman Building at 666 Fifth Avenue in New...

A stop motion opus made up of hundreds of hand-painted wooden blocks that takes the viewer through a brief history of architecture. Primitive...

The Barbican Estate in the City of London is arguably England's finest example of Brutalist architecture. This film explores the history of the...

A visual celebration of Manhattan and its waterways on the 300th anniversary of purchase from the local Native Americans.

In the aftermath of the fire that struck Notre-Dame de Paris in 2019, the cathedral is in danger of collapsing. A race against time begins for a...

In his experimental short film "Brutalität in Stein" (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of...

Ninety-year-old sound artist and comedian Henry “Sandy” Jacobs lives a quirky existence at the end of Sunnyside Drive, a steep and...

This J.G. Ballard documentary assembles decades of interviews and archival material to paint a striking portrait of one of the most imaginative and...

A documentary that transports individuals beyond a mosque's architecture, to a universe of thousands of years of tradition, spirituality and culture,...

This documentary follows 200 days in the life of contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto— a leading presence in the world of modern art. He is the...

Once a maverick who was nearly run out of the American Institute of Architects, John Portman is now recognized as one of the most innovative and...

Copenhagen’s “8 House,” an ultramodern loop of apartments created by architect Bjarke Ingels, reinvents the concept of...

A psycho-geographic journey through London and its history, as undertaken by an unseen narrator and his companion, Robinson, at the time of the 1992...