1. Christianity: The First 1000 Years
The incredible story of the people who, despite persecution, grew Christianity from an obscure movement to one of the world's largest religions.
2. Christianity: The Second Millennium
The story of Christianity's second thousand years of existence, including its strength in the 1500s and the overwhelming challenges it has faced since then.
3. Religion of the World
(Religion of the World)
4. Spurensuche – Die Weltreligionen auf dem Weg (Spurensuche – Die Weltreligionen auf dem Weg)
Theologian Hans Küng explains and explores religions around the world, where they originated, and what defines them.
5. The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin
Explore how the late Gwen Shamblin Lara, who founded the controversial Remnant Fellowship Church and created the Christian weight loss program The Weigh Down Workshop, rose to fame as a diet guru and church leader.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
6. Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
Janina Ramirez discovers how monasteries shaped all aspects of medieval Britain and created a dazzling array of art, architecture and literature, a story of faith, sacrifice, violence and corruption.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
7. Who Was Jesus?
(Who Was Jesus?)
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
8. Secret Files of the Inquisition
A four-part history of the Inquisition, a 500-year campaign against heretics by the Roman Catholic Church initiated by Pope Gregory IX. The series benefits from the 1998 release of secret Vatican files.
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
9. Extraordinary Rituals
Explores the spectacular and emotional world of rituals.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
10. Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God
Chronicles the life and death of Amy Carlson, also known as Mother God, a self-proclaimed spiritual savior who built a cult through her online manifestos and live-streaming sessions. As Amy's health declined, her followers believed her death would lead to her evacuation by UFO and salvation for humanity. Told through the eyes of Amy's devotees and constructed from the cult's archival footage, the three-part docuseries captures the perils of internet proselytizing and a conspiracy-driven faith.
It has an average vote of 7.455 on TMDB.
11. Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief – known in the United States as A Brief History of Disbelief – is a 2004 television documentary series written and presented by Jonathan Miller for the BBC and tracing the history of atheism.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
12. Religious biographies (Biographies religieuses)
A series of about twenty movies about religious matters. They all last 52 minutes. By Armand Isnard.
13. Bible's Buried Secrets
Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou examines how archaeological discoveries are changing the way people interpret stories from the Bible.
It has an average vote of 8.5 on TMDB.
14. Raël: The Alien Prophet (Raël : Le prophète des extraterrestres)
Featuring interviews with his followers, critics and Raël himself, this docuseries traces how a UFO-inspired religion spiraled into a controversial cult.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
15. Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults
What started in 1975 with the disappearance of 20 people from a small town in Oregon, ended in 1997 with the largest suicide on US soil and changed the face of modern New Age religion forever. This four-part docuseries uses never-before-seen footage and first-person accounts to explore the infamous UFO cult that shocked the nation with their out-of-this-world beliefs.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
16. Inside Scientology
Scientology is the only major religion to emerge in the 20th century. This series takes an unprecedented look behind the scenes into the many fascinating operations of the global Scientology movement. From its stunning 21st-century cathedral in Florida, state-of-the-art publishing houses, one-of-a-kind film and media facilities, see what happens on a typical day at a Church of Scientology, to a race against time to find the technology that will preserve Scientology’s scripture for thousands of years.
17. Animated World Faiths
Animated World Faiths tells the stories of the world's major faiths and their founders. Gloriously animated in studios in India, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and the UK, these programmes have been produced by a team of the worlds best childrens television producers.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
18. La fraternité : les secrets de l'Ordre du Temple solaire (La fraternité : les secrets de l'Ordre du Temple solaire)
The tragedy of the Order of the Solar Temple has been - and remains to this day - a highly complex criminal and judicial puzzle which, according to some, is still unsolved. Using archive footage and never-before-seen eyewitness accounts, this series dissects the drift of a communal utopia towards annihilation by bullets and fire.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
19. Heaven on Earth
Explores how six major world religions have expressed the spiritual yearnings of the faithful in art and architecture through the ages.
20. In the Name of God: A Holy Betrayal (나는 신이다: 신이 배신한 사람들)
This docuseries examining the chilling true stories of four Korean leaders claiming to be prophets exposes the dark side of unquestioning belief.
It has an average vote of 7.826 on TMDB.