The Story of God with Morgan Freeman

2016 • National Geographic Channel
4.6
234 reviews
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Season 1 episodes (6)

1 Beyond Death
4/3/16
Host Morgan Freeman explores how different religions of past and present answer the question: What happens when we die?
2 Apocalypse
4/10/16
Host Morgan Freeman examines what various faith traditions predict about the End of Days. He journeys to the desert where he pores over the Dead Sea Scrolls, and to Rome to decode the enigmatic Mark of the Beast: 666. A meditative session with one of Buddhism’s holiest men begins to realign Morgan’s perspective—what if the apocalypse isn't a planetary bloodbath, but rather a mental paradigm shift?
3 Who Is God?
4/17/16
Who is God? Morgan begins a quest to discover who God is and how he, she or they have evolved over human history. He traces how gods evolved, from embodiments of the raw forces of nature, to a single omnipotent force, to a supreme being that lives only in our heads. Is God just an idea, if so, can we find evidence of God’s presence in our brains? Could God be inside all of us, even nonbelievers?
4 Creation
4/24/16
Morgan Freeman traverses the globe to ask: Where did we come from, and what happened “in the beginning”? Were we created in the image of God, or are we the result of a 13.8 million-year-old singularity? He meets with papal representatives at the Vatican, takes part in sacred Navajo rituals in New Mexico and goes looking for clues to the Garden of Eden in Jerusalem.
5 Why Does Evil Exist?
5/1/16
Where does evil come from? Morgan sets out to understand the root of evil and how our ideas of it have evolved over the millennia. Is the devil real? From the underworld of ancient Egypt to a modern-day maximum-security prison, Morgan discovers that evil might be more than a supernatural force. The birth of religion may be inextricably tied to the need to control evil.
6 The Power of Miracles
5/8/16
Do miracles really happen? Morgan sets out to discover why we believe in miracles and how they shape our understanding of God. Miracles may simply be unlikely events that our brains impose meaning on. But many believe God does intervene in our world. If so, does that mean we are merely God’s puppets, with no free will?

About this show

Today, for better or worse, the power of religion touches all of our lives, no matter what our faith.This is Morgan Freeman's journey to discover how our beliefs connect us all. This is the quest of our generation. This is the Story of God.

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4.6
234 reviews
Pam Sing
November 20, 2020
Why is it the people looks at the person and not the information to make a conclusion? Why cant people look a the information store it an research for them self's? I know any thing put in mans hand is tampered with. Mans nature is to deceive to gain power. But how can you find truth with no path to search. Seems people would rather resist and have a world of nothingness then to enlighten them selves. I alway thought knowledge is power. You dont have to do any thing with it.
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DENISE
April 16, 2020
This is NOT available to the UK users. Is incredibly disappointing to see National Geographic as well as many other related streaming websites such as Netflix, Amazon, Google play not bothering to release season 3 onto their networks for UK users.
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A Google user
October 9, 2017
THIS SHOW IS SENSATIONAL! MORGAN FREEMAN IS BEST MAN FOR THIS JOB. HES NOT PREDJUDICE AND RESPECTS ALL RELIGIONS, ALTHOUGH HE DOESNT BELIEVE SOME. VERY EDUCATING. THANK. YOU.
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