Spring Premiere for Nat Geo’s The Story of God

WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Geographic Channel will debut The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, a six-part global television event series produced by Revelations Entertainment, in early April.

The Story of God with Morgan Freeman aims to understand how religion has changed through the years and has influenced the evolution of societies around the world. The program, hosted and executive produced by Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman, is slated to begin airing on April 3 at 9 p.m. It will broadcast globally in the spring on Nat Geo channels in 171 countries in 45 languages, and in Spanish on Nat Geo Mundo.

“Over the past few months, I’ve traveled to nearly 20 cities in seven different countries on a personal journey to find answers to the big mysteries of faith,” said Freeman. “I’ve sung the call to prayer at a mosque in Cairo, taken meditation lessons from the Buddhist leader of the oldest line of reincarnating Lamas, discussed Galileo with the head of the Papal Academy of Sciences and explored the first instructions for the afterlife rendered in hieroglyphs inside the pyramids. In some places I found answers, and others led to more questions. The constant through it all is that we’re all looking to be part of something bigger than us. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that we certainly are.”

“As we put this series together, we sought answers to some of mankind’s biggest questions, but in the end what surprised us most was to find how personal those answers were for each of us,” added executive producers Lori McCreary and James Younger. “There is no wrong answer when it comes to God or what you believe, and we hope The Story of God will help open an interfaith dialogue about ideas and values that we all share, not that we disagree on.”