Free Religion Documentaries

This documentary for PBS by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin and narrated by Richard Gere, tells the story of the Buddha’s life...

Six of today's most influential leaders share their insights on personal growth and the Quest for spiritual harmony, offering vivid hope and an unsurpassed clarity of vision.

Gregg Braden spent 22 years of his life searching high mountain villages, remote monasteries and forgotten texts to uncover their timeless secrets.

Narrated by the legendary Orson Welles and based on the best selling book by Hal Lindsey, get ready for The End of the World! Welcome to the future, a world ruled by an evil supercomputer that carries the mark of the beast.

The film offers a front row seat on an around the world exploration of how people, groups and entire cultures tap into an alternative “true reality” through spirituality, meditation, and plant medicine.

The Source Family's outlandish lifestyle made them the darlings of Hollywood; but their outsider ideals and spiritual leader, Father Yod, caused controversy with local authorities.

The Long Search was a 1977 BBC documentary television series spanning 13 episodes. Presented by theatre director Ronald Eyre, the series surveyed several major world religions, including Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic Christianity.

The Root of All Evil?, later retitled The God Delusion, is a television documentary written and presented by Richard Dawkins in which he argues that humanity would be better off without religion or belief in God.

Holy Ghost People is a 1967 documentary directed and narrated by Peter Adair. It is about the service of a Pentecostal community in Scrabble Creek, West Virginia, United States. The church service includes faith healing, snake handling, speaking in tongues and singing.

In THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN REPORTING: SEARCHING FOR THE ROOTS OF 9/11, the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist provides an in depth portrait into the origins and the roots of Muslim rage and mistrust towards America and the Western world, which ultimately culminated in the September 11th terrorist attacks.