The Story of God with Morgan Freeman

Who is the devil? A god? A fallen angel? A dark urge lurking inside us all? Morgan Freeman travels the world in search of evil – from the Jericho desert where monks battle the devil, to the Vatican where an exorcist sits with a man who underwent years of exorcisms to purge his demons. And Morgan goes to Kathmandu to learn the Buddhist way of dealing with the devil—persuading him to be a friend.

What happens when a God comes to earth? Millions of people believe that God can and does come down from heaven to walk among us. Morgan Freeman journeys around the world to explore what can we learn from God in human form, and to discover the people, places and mysteries that enshroud divine mortals - including the Emperor god of the Rastafarians, Jesus Christ, and a young living goddess in Nepal.

Morgan Freeman explores the mysteries of divine visions and the people who claim to have them. He travels to Lourdes, France, to meet a woman who believes she was cured of paralysis by miraculous waters; to London, to meet a man whose divine visions followed a life-saving surgery, and to Canada, to meet an Anishnaabe man who endured days alone in the wilderness for the sake of divine vision

The consequences of sin can be deadly. Morgan Freeman travels around the world to explore how different religions have developed ways to fight back. He heads to Italy to discover the origins of the ritual of self-flagellation, meets a prison executioner who personally killed dozens of inmates, and reckons with the Vietnamese officer who oversaw the confinement of John McCain at the Hanoi Hilton.

Some faiths have secret rituals only for special initiates, while others hide their entire religious communities. Morgan Freeman travels the world to uncover why secrecy and religion are often intertwined. He explores a villa in Pompeii that housed the secret cult of Dionysus and heads to the mountains of Nepal, where Buddhist monks have secret mantras just for select groups.

Morgan Freeman travels the world to explore what holy laws mean for different religions, and what punishment awaits if these rules are disobeyed. He journeys to Pompeii to see how the eruption of Vesuvius was seen as divine retribution, travels to Jerusalem to see the oldest existing copy of the Ten Commandments, and learns a powerful lesson from a man who forgave his son’s murderer.