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Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief is a documentary exploring the inside dealings of the Church of Scientology. The film provides history of the church as a way to understand what draws members to it, and for some, away from it. Directed by Alex Gibney, the documentary is an adaptation of Going Clear: […]

The Life of Muhammad is a three-part series charting the life of Prophet Muhammad and the birth of Islam. Filmed in Saudi Arabia, it chronicles the evolution of Islam and its prophet over the centuries. The film explores issues around Islam as a faith and how it is perceived around the world. Presenter Rageh Omaar […]

America’s Most Hated Family in Crisis is a follow-up to Louis Theroux’s earlier film The Most Hated Family in America as he returns to Topeka, Kansas to interview the family behind the infamous Westboro Baptist Church. Since Theroux’s last visit, several members of the Phelps family have left the church. He meets two such women […]

Reporter John Sweeney interviews several people connected with the Church of Scientology and investigates allegations by former followers that the church has sought to divide their families. Scientology is seeped in mystery and cloaked with silence and yet since the early 1950’s when it was founded by L. Ron Hubbard, it has remained as one […]

The Buddha explores the life of Siddhartha Gautama, respectfully referred to by his title the ‘Buddha’, and the history and teachings of the faith which he founded known as Buddhism. Born into the royal family of a small kingdom in Southeast Asia in the 6th century BC, Siddhartha sought to find out the meaning of […]

Scientology: The Ex-Files reveals the shocking truth behind one of the most provocative and scandal-ridden religious organisations. This film depicts the story of Joe Reaiche, a former rugby star. At the age of just 19, when he was actively looking for an opportunity to unleash his inherent talents and potential, he was approached by Scientology […]

The Bible’s Buried Secrets explores the most recent archaeological evidence to either prove or disprove the long-held beliefs and assertions in Judeo-Christian tradition on the origin of the modern religion. It is a powerful collaboration between science, scholarship and religious precepts that presents new evidence from the Holy Land in a bid to unearth new […]

Bill Maher travels across the world interviewing people about God and religion. He examines the tenets of the Abrahamic religions and raises the questions of homosexuality, Jesus’s existence, the Sabbath laws and Islamic extremists. Religulous, the documentary’s title, is a portmanteau of the words religious and ridiculous. Maher disagrees with the concept of organised religion, […]

The Root of All Evil by Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist and a leading advocate of atheism, argues that the world would be a better place without religion or belief in God. It spotlights societal ills derived from religious institutions, including Islamic extremism, child abuse committed by Christian leaders, and insular Jewish religious schools. The […]

Theologian Robert Beckford examines the astounding similarities between the story of Christ and other faiths, some of which predate Christianity by thousands of years. The Hidden Story Of Jesus looks at the lives of religious figures such as Krishna, the Buddha. Horus and Mithras, and how they compare to the stories of Jesus’ life. The […]

The Case for Christ pits an atheist husband’s way of thinking against his wife’s newfound belief in Christ. The atheist, Lee Strobel, is an award-winning journalist. His wife’s burgeoning faith in Christ forces Lee to utilise his investigative skills to try and disprove the claims of Christianity. Strobel examines as much of the historical record […]

The Most Hated Family in America, presented by Louis Theroux, investigates the lives and activities of members of the Westboro Baptist Church, who have attracted significant controversy due to their uncompromising stance on homosexuality. Notorious for their picketing of the funerals US soldiers killed in action, church members believe that such deaths are divine retribution […]