Features Tania Martino, Alexander Painco, Morgan Marrot, Corjan de Raaf, Lucie Robin Manfield

* Tiresome & rehashed hullabaloo of a subject matter that has been excessively overdone by its gullible addicts. The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail is presented as a serious book and viewers are not informed that the current Château de Montségur is known as “Montségur III” and is typical of post-medieval French architecture of the seventeenth century. Pierre Plantard’s Merovingian mythologies from “Les Dossiers Secrets d’Henri Lobineau” are presented as historical facts. The story of the Louis Lawrence tomb continues to be misidentified with the painting by Nicolas Poussin.

* Narration by Tania Martino is in Italian with English subtitles – available to watch only on Amazon

* Joining the usual team of this television series, this episode of the continuing quest for the mythical Oak Island “Money Pit” introduces the conspiracy theory of French Painter Nicolas Poussin, the Knights Templar and the Ark of the Covenant that inspired the book and associated Television Movie by Corjan Mol & Christopher Morford: “The Jerusalem Files: The Secret Journey of The Menorah To Oak Island”

* Featured Justin Fornal, Emiliano Ruprah, Professor Evan Pritchard, Tim Sock, David S. Brody, Rick Lynch, Jim Vieira

* Repeats the historical fantasy that Henry Sinclair was a Knights Templar who discovered America (as well as the keeper of the Ark of The Covenant and The Holy Grail) – the evidence for this being the spurious Zeno map. This theory was first introduced by Johan Reinhold Forster in 1784 and was popularised by Frederick J. Pohl in 1950. Endorsed by Professor Evan Pritchard who claims to be descended from the Mi’kmaq people. The Westford Knight, mysterious codes on The Boat Stone, the “In Hoc Signo Vinces” carving on The Overton Stone, The Newport Tower – all add up to the possible existence of an often-repeated & so-called “hidden history”.

Featured Dr Stephen Pfann, Dr Shimon Gibson, Dr Craig Evans, Dr James Tabor, Professor Luc Lombardi, Joe Amaral, Dr Dan Bahat, Prof Camil Fuchs, Dr Stefano Deluca, Prof Steven J. Cox, Dr Emile Puech

* Documentary containing new research and interpretations that cast serious doubts on the popular theories that the Talpiot Tomb contains the remains of Jesus Christ, Mary Magdalene and their son, Judah. This is probably the best of the documentaries on The Talpiot Tomb. This documentary has of course been made from the perspective of accepted Christian belief, but its conclusion can be universally accepted as being objectively accurate.

* Bonus: Interview Gino Sandri (without English subtitles)

Featured Jean-Michel Pous, André Galaup (1938-2021), Clair Captier, Christian Doumergue, Antoine Captier, Jean-Claude de Brou, Guy Gentil (died 2016), Germain Blanc-Delmas, Gino Sandri, Jean Brunelin, Johan Netchacovitch, Kris Darquis, Paul Rouelle (Philippe de Chérisey's dentist, 1944-2022), Christian Attard, Aronnax, Henri Mariou, Michel Vallet

* Philippe Brunel's documentary serves as another great Tourist Attraction to Rennes-le-Château – without a single critical researcher invited to participate and no information of any value to forward on to DRAC, the archaeological body of France, part of the French Ministry of Culture.

Vague stories of collapsed underground passages concealing hidden treasures attract gullible tourists, not historians.

Featured George Noory, Jonathan Young, Matthew Landrus, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, William Henry, Michael W. Kwakkelstein, Noah Charney, Lynn Picknett, Maurizio Seracini, Caroline Corey, David Hatcher Childress, Katy Blatt, Godfrey Harris, Giovanni Pala (William M. Roberts, translator), Layne Little.

* Quoting David Hatcher Childress: “Mary Magdalene, according to a number of traditions, was actually the wife of Jesus and she was pregnant with his children – and in fact these children will be special and carrying a special new type of DNA for a new type of person on earth – and this is literally The Holy Grail” (the stained-glass window in Kilmore Church on the Isle of Mull, presented as background to what was said, is plainly that of Jesus Christ with Mary of Bethany, not Mary Magdalene, as is evident from the inscription taken from Luke 10:42).

* The episode also conveyed the goofball claims of Lynn Picknett about Leonardo da Vinci that have been discredited for decades (for example, there are numerous examples of artists depicting the Disciple John as feminine in The Last Supper, this trait did not belong solely to Leonardo da Vinci).

* Dan Brown gives his 2017 position on The Priory of Sion

Featured Robert Howells, Dr Linda Papadopoulos, Ross Andrews, Richard Felix, Lynn Picknett, Andrew Gough, Martine Guillot, Guy Walters, Father Florien Racine (Mary Magdalene played by Rayanna Dibs).

* No mention was made of the earlier tradition of the death of Mary Magdalene at Ephesus and her re-interment at Constantinople in 899 AD. The documentary included the usual biased conspiracy theory fodder by oddball “experts”. This documentary was so bad it should have been called The Lynn Picknett Show.

Featured Robert Howells, Dominic Selwood, FSA, FRSA, FRHistS, Guy Walters, Richard Felix, Dr Linda Papadopoulos, Andrew Gough, Tony McMahon, Marie Goncalvez, Lynn Picknett, Ross Andrews

* Motley crew of oddball “experts” discuss conspiracy theories about the Knights Templar. The accusations of heresy, blasphemy and homosexuality levelled against the Knights Templar by Guillaume de Nogaret on behalf of the King of France were accepted face-value (Dominic Selwood and Guy Walters were the exceptions). The claim that the Knights Templar went on a relic-questing mission to the Temple of Jerusalem originated with the French author Louis Charpentier in his 1966 pseudo-historical book The Mysteries of Chartres Cathedral.

Featured Dr George Busby, Prof & Pastor Joe Basile, Dr Mark Goodacre, Dr Gianni Barcacca, Mehul Anjaria, Dr Rossina Kestova, Dr Kazimir Popkonstantinov, Dr Jonathan L. Reed, Dr Hannes Schroeder, Dr Israel Hershkovitz, Dr Nicola Denzey Lewis, Dr Aryeh Shimron, Mark Guscin, Members of a Druze Family

* Laughable hokum made by those who believe in the authenticity of the Turin Shroud and in the Historical Reliability of the Gospels. Dr Walter McCrone (1916-2002) proved there was no blood on the Turin Shroud (the Shroud cannot be tested anymore since it was dipped in preservatives, something ignored by contemporary authors). The historicity of the Gospels was disputed a long time ago by critical Protestant Theologians. The Last King of the Tribe of Judah was Zedekiah (2 Kings 25:7; Jeremiah 52: 11, 13) – the monarchy of Israel was not restored until the time of the Maccabees/Hasmonians who considered themselves to be of the Tribe of Levi. Old Testament Scholars have disputed the historicity of David based on the lack of archaeological evidence (Neil Asher Silberman, Israel Finkelstein).

* The Merovingians were descended from an ancient race of fallen angels that spanned the globe, taking wisdom and knowledge with them as Atlantis sank.
* The Merovingians also held a dark secret and are the true ruling power on Earth

Featured Chris Hodapp, Rob Howells, Alice Von Kannon, Andrew Gough, Gino Sandri, Jean-Luc Chaumeil, Lynn Picknett, Nicolas Haywood

* Began by repeating all the long-debunked and long-discredited claims associated with the subject matter (for the umpteenth time), adding bits of criticisms during the middle, and concluding with the canard that the “Priory of Sion possibly knew about the marriage of Jesus Christ to Mary Magdalene and their burial in the region of Rennes-le-Château”

* Starring Paul Hughes, Simon Oliver

* The Holy Grail is inextricably linked with the mysterious family known to the ruling elite as the Merovingians; a name used in The Da Vinci Code, The Matrix and others due to the undeniable power it holds

Featured Graham Phillips, Lionel Fanthorpe, Dr Dominic Selwood, Dr Juliette Wood, Tim Wallace-Murphy (1930-2019), Father Nicholas Schofield, Joseph Campbell (archive footage), Dr Simon Wilson, Ean Begg (1929-2018)

* Weak presentation of “Holy-Grail-as-Knights-Templar-relic” (that in fact was wisdom) hidden in Chartres Cathedral, that contains three Black Madonnas: a code for hidden secret – linked to Freemasonry – and repeating the falsehood invented by Pierre Plantard that the founder of the Knights Templar married a Scottish woman (Hugues de Payen first married Emeline de Touillon, then Elisabeth de Chappes, not Catherine Saint-Clair)

Featured Lionel Fanthorpe, Clive Prince, Jean Brunelin, Jean-Jacques Bedu, Antoine Captier, Claire Corbu, Henry Lincoln (archive footage), Christian Doumergue, Peter McCrohon (Bérenger Saunière), Ben Craze (Bishop Beauséjour), Imola Gáspár (old Marie Denarnaud), Leanne Johnson (young Marie Denarnaud), Jim Glaister (Noël Corbu), Stephen Parker (Robert Charroux)

* Initially repeating many of the post-1950s sensational myths, rumours and canards associated with this subject matter – the documentary at the end revealed the banal and mediocre fact that Bérenger Saunière was “a highly enterprising crook” who obtained his wealth through trafficking in masses

Featured David Gibson; Professor Elaine Pagels; Professor Ben Witherington III; Professor Candida Moss; Professor Mark Goodacre; Professor Byron R. McCane; Father James Martin, SJ; Rabbi Dr Joshua Garroway; Dr Nicola Denzey Lewis; Professor Kate Cooper; Dr Obery Hendricks; Dr Tim Gray; Reverend Paul Raushenbush; Erwin McManus; Adam Bond (as Jesus); Anna Shaffer (as Mary Magdalene)

Featured Steve St Clair; Alan Butler; unnamed individual in Tomar, Portugal; David Christiana

* Two more examples of the Hooked X are found: on an inscription on one of the columns in the church of Tomar, Portugal – and on the “carving of the Westford Knight” in Massachusetts.

Featured Dr Loredana Di Marzio, Roy Doliner, Professor William E. Wallace, Dr Francesco Stante, Tomaso Emaldi, Dr Lisa Hillier, Roberto Saponelli, Dr Cinzia Chiari, Professor Paul Gwynne, Margaret Starbird, Silvano Vinceti

* Michelangelo hid a dangerous secret about Jesus Christ, embedded within his works of art

* Based on the book by Benjamin Blech & Roy Doliner, The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages In The Heart of The Vatican (foreword by Enrico Bruschini, HarperCollins, 2008)

Featured Bill Carney, Butch Laney, Steve St Clair, Alan Butler

* Recapping all the old chestnuts about how the Knights Templar took the secret of the Jesus Bloodline to America, adding that it was linked to Leonardo da Vinci. Religious paintings and sculptures in the Templar Commanderie d'Arville bear unnatural M-shaped hand gestures that are coded symbols representing the secret. A traditional statue of Virgin Mary and Child is really that of Mary Magdalene and Jesus' child. A sculpture in the French church of Saint-Remi depicts a pregnant Mary Magdalene

Featured Simcha Jacobovici, Professor Tony Burke, Michael B. Toth, Dr Kristian Heal, Professor James Tabor, Professor Elaine Pagels, Dr Bill Christens-Barry, Professor Barrie A. Wilson, Dr Rami Arav, Professor James H. Charlesworth, Dr Luke Dixon, Dr Nava Panitz-Cohen, Dr Guy Bloch, Professor H. Gregory Snyder

* Jesus Christ was portrayed as the Sun God Helios; he was married to Mary Magdalene, a fact encoded within the text of the Historia Miscellanea (Pseudo-Zacharias Rhetor), that is a lost gospel. Mary Magdalene was a gentile Phoenician priestess perceived as the Goddess Artemis. Jesus Christ's biological father was the Roman soldier Tiberius Iulius Abdes Pantera (a Phoenician), implying it was the same person as the Roman soldier Panthera mentioned by the Greek philosopher Celsus during the second century. The Virgin Mary could be buried with her son Maximus in a cemetery located by a 6th century monastery in Beth Shean, Galilee

* Based on the book by Simcha Jacobovici & Barrie Wilson, The Lost Gospel: Decoding The Ancient Text That Reveals Jesus' Marriage To Mary The Magdalene (Pegasus Books LLC, 2014)

Part 1) The Sacred Teachings of Tim Wallace-Murphy: The Truth Behind The Da Vinci Code
Part 2) God Kings: The Descendents of Jesus Traced Through The Odonic and Davidic Dynasties with Professor Hugh Montgomery
Part 3) Dan Green: The Murder of Mary Magdalene
* Compilation of three documentaries from Philip Gardiner's Talk-Show, “Gardiner's World” (Edge Media Television Ltd, shown on Controversial TV, 2008-2013)

Featured Lionel Fanthorpe, Clive Prince, Jean Brunelin, Jean-Jacques Bedu, Antoine Captier, Claire Corbu, Henry Lincoln (archive footage), Christian Doumergue, Peter McCrohon (Bérenger Saunière), Ben Craze (Bishop Beauséjour), Imola Gáspár (old Marie Denarnaud), Leanne Johnson (young Marie Denarnaud), Jim Glaister (Noël Corbu), Stephen Parker (Robert Charroux)

* Initially repeating many of the post-1950s sensational myths, rumours and canards associated with this subject matter – the documentary at the end revealed the banal and mediocre fact that Bérenger Saunière was “a highly enterprising crook” who obtained his wealth through trafficking in masses

Featured Rick Lagina, Jack Begley, Charles Barkhouse, Dave Blankenship, Dan Henskee, Kathleen McGowan, Alan Butler, Alex Lagina, Marty Lagina, Dan Blankenship, Drake Tester, Craig Tester, Jim Meagher, Fiona Rogan

* The Cathars, The Knights Templar, Kilwinning, the Tironensian Order of Monks, Rosslyn Chapel, William and Henry Sinclair, Micmac Indians, the Masonic “Royal Arch of Enoch” (developed in France during the mid-1700s and translated into English in 1821) – all form part of a jigsaw puzzle that solves the mystery of the Oak Island “Money Pit” – that in all probability is a natural sinkhole that was used as storage for something far more mundane than The Holy Grail – and was emptied again before being discovered in 1795 (American War of Independence, 1775-1783)

Featured Rick Lagina, Dave Blankenship, Dan Blankenship, Tony Sampson, Alex Lagina, Marty Lagina, Kathleen McGowan, Tobi Dobler, Charles Barkhouse, Jack Begley, Dan Henskee, Daniel Ronnstam, Fred Shuman

* Ideas that the Ark of the Covenant and/or The Holy Grail were held at Montsegur, then moved to Rennes-le-Château, then to Scotland, then to Oak Island were supported by Kathleen McGowan and Tobi Dobler. Knights Templar historian Helen Nicholson has pointed out that such theories have no basis in fact.

* The earliest Oak Island “Money Pit” theory was the treasure of Captain Kidd (1857). The much later Knights Templar theory was first advanced by Fred Nolan with his discovery of a megalithic “Templar” cross (1981) – and later by Michael Bradley (1988) and Andrew Sinclair (1992)

Featured Alan Butler, Andrew Gough, Lionel Fanthorpe, Clive Prince, Graham Phillips, Lynn Picknett, Gerald Morgan, Nigel Jones, Fiona Mirylees, Rob Howells, Brett Harrison, Canon Jaime Sancho

* Thomas Wright's small stone vessel (the Hawkstone Grail), The Nanteos Cup, Shugborough Hall's Shepherd's Monument, The Santo Caliz in Valencia, Spain are each considered to be The Holy Grail – despite it originating within fiction, within Medieval Romance

Part 1: Introducing Gnosticism: Understanding The Worldview Behind The DaVinci Code (2013)
Part 2: Manuscripts of The New Testament vs. The Gnostic Gospels From Nag Hammadi (2013)
Part 3: Were Jesus and Mary Magdalene Married? (2013)
Part 4: Enlightened Gnostics and Misogynistic Christians? The New Testament Attitude Toward Women (2013)
Part 5: Neither Lord Nor Christ? The Belief in Jesus as God Before Nicea and The Exalted Christ of Gnosticism (2013)
Part 6: What Really Happened at Nicea? (2013)
Part 7: The Conspiratorial Logic of The DaVinci Code and Jesus Bloodline Theorists (2013)
Part 8: Jumping The Shark From The Newsroom To The Ivory Tower: Assessing The Gospel of Judas Frenzy (2013)

Featured Todd Hallowell, The Revd Robin Griffith-Jones, Professor Elaine Pagels, Mario Taddei, Cecilia Frosinini, Professor John Langdon, Professor Maryanne Wolf, Jean-Luc Chaumeil, Nick Boyes, Stuart Mitchell, John Stuart Reid

Starring Nick Apostolides, Kevin Cirone, Carlyne Fournier, Paul J. Held, Danielle Kellerman, Mattias Lupri, Amanda Rae Troisi

Featured Lynn Picknett, Andrew Gough, Lionel Fanthorpe, Robert Howells, Pat Jokl, Corjan de Raaf, Clive Prince, Hugh Montgomery

* Made by the Fringe Community for the Fringe Community, uncritically repeating all the usual conspiracy theories and ignoring the well-documented life of the priest Bérenger Saunière that would discredit the entire documentary

Featured Robert Howells, Clive Prince, Lionel Fanthorpe, Shimon Gibson, Lynn Picknett, Andrew Gough, Andrew Sinclair [1935-2019], Ian Gardner, Anne McNeil, Dan Blankenship, Sylvia Beamon

* More present-day fantasy-based conspiracy theories than tough-minded serious historical research based on documentary evidence, more Treasure-Hunting Templars than Banker Templars – enter the lost treasure of Jerusalem, the Copper Scroll, Gnosticism, Freemasonry, Rosslyn Chapel, the Oak Island Money Pit and Royston Cave

Featured Claire Corbu, Antoine Captier, Laurent Buchholtzer, Germain Blanc-Delmas, Christian Doumergue, Jean Fourié, André Galaup (1938-2021), André Goudonnet, Henry Lincoln (1930-2022), Philippe Marlin [Philippe Miecret], Jean Patrick Pourtal, Paul Rouelle, Paul Saussez

Bonus Features
-L’Affaire du Meurtre de l’Abbé Gélis by Jean-Patrick Pourtal
-Henri Boudet: Un Livre Mysterieux by André Goudonnet
-Recontre avec André Galaup, Interview sur Henri Boudet

* Originally intended to be released on July 2012

* Another “Official Release” DVD acting as Public Relations Exercise promoting the “mystery” to attract more tourists to the village of Rennes-le-Château – another propaganda machine without a single critical researcher invited to participate

Starring John Hurt (1940-2017), Sebastian Stan, Jessica Brown Findlay, Vanessa Kirby, Janet Suzman, Katie McGrath, Claudia Gerini, Emun Elliott, Danny Keogh (1948-2019), Bernard Schir, Lena Dorrie, Erica Wessels, Patrick Rapold, Matthew Beard, Gawn Grainger, Paul Hilton, Tony Curran, Tom Hilton, cameo appearance by Kate Mosse

Category: Slow Melodrama

Featured Steve St Clair, Den Parada, Brett Brown, Kem Parada, Ryan Trymbiski, Patrick Whelan, Mike Thompson, James Trymbiski

* Knights Templar Treasure Conspiracy Theories on Oak Island, Hobson Island and unsuccessful excavations in New Ross, Nova Scotia

Featured Jim Egan, Paul Roberti, Jim Miller

* The Newport Tower in Rhode Island was built by the Knights Templar and was used by them as an astronomical marker for the alignments of the planet Venus, featuring a failed experiment

* Simcha Jacobovici explains that mainstream scholars have succeeded in rubbishing the authenticity of The Jesus Wife Papyrus – representing a process of censorship that has lasted since the origin of Christianity

Featured Professor Karen L. King, Professor AnneMarie Luijendijk, Professor Roger Bagnall, Father Henry Wansbrough, The Reverend Robin Griffith-Jones, Dr Verena Lepper, Dr Dirk Obbink, Professor Giovanni Maria Vian, Dr James McCullagh, Professor Alberto Camplani

Featured Sean Martin, Helen Nicholson, Aymeric Kurzawinski, Jean Patrick Pourtal, Gino Sandri, Lionel Fanthorpe, Richard Kemp, Joel Doucet, Danny Hannigar

* Nobody knows who commissioned Nicolas Poussin to paint the version of Les Bergers d'Arcadie that is in the Louvre – the documentary was wrong claiming otherwise

Featured Margaret Starbird, Sabine Affre, Paul Sanda (presented as a Cathar Archbishop), Professor Barrie Wilson (Humanities and Religious Studies, York University, Toronto), Dr Helen Bond (School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh), Jeremy Pine, Brother Thomas (Chapel of St Mary Magdalene, St-Baume)

* Shot in St Maximin, Béziers, Cordes-sur-Ciel, Jerusalem, Megiddo, Caesarea, Marseilles, California, Sainte-Baume and Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer – the documentary is a vehicle of Margaret Starbird who can see a pregnant Mary Magdalene everywhere (the clues are all around her)

1) Jean Pellet: Cinquante ans de recherches. “Je sais aù est caché le trésor” (Interview with Jean Pellet who uncritically repeats the story of Rennes-le-Château)

2) Henri Buthion: Le secret des Blanchefort. Comment l’abbé Saunière a été financé par les Habsbourg (archive footage dating from 1985 of Henri Buthion giving one of his lectures in Saunière’s estate)

3) 1907-1970: Rennes-le-Château, de l’abbé Saunière à nos jours. (early archive photographs and film footage of Rennes-le-Château)

In Memorian Henri Buthion (8 août 1924-15 mars 2002)

Thanks to: André Galaup, Jean Pellet, Michel Azens, Robert Charroux, Jean-Luc Chaumeil, Claire and Antoine Corbu-Captier, Patrick Mensior, Sonia Moreu, Jean & Micheline Ribière, Gérard de Sède

* Re-issued in 2012 with a booklet entitled Henri Buthion, Les secrets de l’église de Rennes-le-Château (transcript of a lecture dating from May 1985)

* Although aimed at believers in the treasure of Rennes-le-Château, this is a very useful DVD to acquire for its archive footage of the subject matter

Featured Bart Ehrman (University of North Carolina), John Dominic Crossan (DePaul University, Chicago), Father John Wauck (Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome), James D. Tabor (University of North Carolina), Marcus Borg (Oregon State University), Yardenna Alexandre (Israel Antiquities Authority), Eric Meyers (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina), Joseph Raymond (author, Herodian Messiah: Case For Jesus As Grandson of Herod), Shimon Gibson (University of the Holy Land, Jerusalem), Holger Kersten (author, Jesus Lived In India: His Unknown Life Before and After the Crucifixion)

* Placing the existence of Jesus Christ within the historical context of the Roman occupation of Judaea and its relationship to Apocalyptic theology – assuming Qumran was inhabited by the Essenes – and that the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in nearby caves in 1947 were written by the Essenes – and that John the Baptist could have been an Essene

Featured Professor James D. Tabor, Simcha Jacobovici, Felix Golubev, Professor Rami Arav, Walter Klassen, Professor Robin Jensen, Bill Tarant, Dr James Charlesworth

* Documentary examined another first century Talpiot Tomb discovered in 1981, using maneuverable robotic arms holding cameras. One of the ossuaries contained the image of a whale spittng out Jonah surrounded by images of fishes, interpreted as “the earliest Jesus-related symbol ever found”. Another ossuary contained a Greek inscription that was translated as either “God Jehovah Raise Up! Raise Up!” or “Lord Jesus Rise Up! Rise Up!” It was claimed Talpiot was an estate that belonged to Joseph of Arimathea. James Tabor regarded the discovery as convincing him the Tomb was the last resting place of Jesus and His Family

Featured Michael Dennin (Physicist), Jonathan Young (Joseph Campbell Archives), Betty Ann Brown (Professor of Art History), Martin Kemp (Professor, History of Art), Godfrey Harris, Sean-David Morton, William Wallace (Professor, Art History), Philip Coppens (1971-2012), Sean Roberts (Professor, Art History), Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, David Childress, Terrence Masson, John Rodgers, William Henry

* Compilation of clips from Philip Gardiner's Talk-Show, “Gardiner's World” (Edge Media Television Ltd, shown on Controversial TV, 2008-2013)

Featured Mirko Iliade, Adelgardo Adone, Adelmo Plutonni, Galina Vladimirovna Tarkovskaja

Comprises material covering the death of Mary Magdalene (Dan Green/Callum Jensen), the theories of Professor Hugh Montgomery and an interview with Timothy Wallace-Murphy (1930-2019)

Featured Alexandre Painco (Mayor of Rennes-le-Château), Eloïse Moulin (Saunière Museum), Nicolas Miecret (Atelier Empreinte Bookshop), Jean-Paul Raymond (Glass artist in Rennes-le-Château), Eric Fille (Château de Queribus), David Bailey (Pianist, Rennes-le-Château)

Segment about Rennes-le-Château and Rosslyn Chapel featured Kathleen McGowan, David Childress, Josef Dobler, Philip Coppens (1971-2012), William Henry, John Ritchie (1947-2014), Giorgio A. Tsoukalos

* “Rennes-le-Château could be the stargate to another world” and “The Knights Templar took their treasure to Scotland and buried it at Rosslyn Chapel” – “Could gold actually be the ultimate link between humans and otherworldly beings?”

Featured Nicolas Boyes, Julian Russell, Brian Park, Marcus Paine, Greg Siddells, Professor Richard Fawcett (co-author, Melrose Abbey), Philippe Giraud

* Commendable Documentary exploring reasonable historic origins of the construction of Rosslyn Chapel

Featured Martin Aurell, Richard Bessière, Alain Bouchard, Edina Bozoky, Laurent Buchholtzer, Jean-Luc Caradeau, André Douzet, Lionel Fanthorpe, Michael Hesemann, Susie Hodge, Yves Lignon, Henry Lincoln

* More laughable fiction about Abbé Bérenger Saunière & Rennes-le-Château from Laurent Buchholtzer, André Douzet, Yves Lignon and especially Henry Lincoln – presented as “historical authorities”

Featured Germain Blanc-Delmas, Jean Brunelin, Antoine Captier, Claire Corbu, Jean Fourié, Philippe Goloubenko, Joseph Huillet, Henry Lincoln (1930-2022), Henri Mariou, Alexandre Painco

Bonus Features:
Interview: Henry Lincoln
Le Château Mysterieux
Les Lieux Secrets

* “Official Release” DVD acting as Public Relations Exercise promoting the “mystery” to attract more tourists to the village of Rennes-le-Château – propaganda machine

* Dedicated to Jean-Luc Robin, 1949-2008

Lectures delivered at the 23rd Annual God’s News Behind the News International Prophecy Conference, held in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Cabbalists Caroline Robertson, David V. Barrett, Gareth Medway, Jon Randall, Carole Hart, Debbie Gallagher

* About Patrice Chaplin’s 2007 book City of Secrets that has been dismissed as a work of fiction by Enric Mirambell, the official historian of Girona

Featuring Rat Scabies (Chris Millar), Andrew Gough, Philip Gardiner, Philip Coppens (1971-2012)

* Product manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media

Featured Frédéric Lenoir, Jean Markale (1928-2008), Thierry Leroy, Aymeric Kurzawinski, Jean-Patrick Pourtal, Gino Sandri, Lionel Fanthorpe, Richard Kemp, Joel Doucet, Danny Hennigar, Bernard Delacourt

* Dedicated To Jean-Luc Robin (1949-2008)

Featured Dr Alice Kehoe, Dr Anatoly Liberman, Darwin Ohman, Scott Wolter, Tom Trow, Florian Ledermann, Dr James Scherz, Alan Butler, Simon Brighton, Erling Haagensen, Steven Sora, Ashley Cowie, Evan Pritchard, Niven Sinclair (1924-2017), Carmen Legge, David Brody, Dr Virginia Kimball, Dr Bruce Bourque, Roslyn Strong, Dr William Penhallow, Suzanne Carlson, Akram Elias

* An Epic of Pseudo-History: assortment of discredited modern myths – involving The Kensington Rune Stone, The Spirit Pond Rune Stones, The Westford Knight, The Newport Tower, The Templars discovering America, The Templar Treasure Fleet at La Rochelle, The Templars excavating Solomon’s Temple, The Templars and Astronomical Alignments, The Templars holding the Secrets of Moses, The Templars and Robert The Bruce, The Templars and Freemasonry, The Oak Island Money Pit, “Prince” Henry Sinclair discovering America, The Zeno Brothers and “Prince” Henry Sinclair

* That Christopher Columbus was not the first person to discover America is not a disputed fact among academic historians as repeatedly claimed on this documentary

* The success of Holy Grail In America inspired the series America Unearthed that premiered on 21 December 2012 (produced by Committee Films of Chaska, Minnesota)

* Jesus married Mary Magdalene and they had children. Those children became the rulers of Europe and fought to regain their Holy birthright – Jerusalem.
* Professor Hugh Montgomery sets the record straight.

Featured Mino Carboni, David Barney, Jeffrey Hangst, William Messenger, Maurice Finocchairo, James Underdown, Caterina Volpi

Television mini-series shown 26 January 2009 (Muse Entertainment Enterprises. Zak Productions). 170 mins

Starring Mira Sorvino, Scott Foley, Victor Garber, Omar Sharif, 1932-2015

Featured Vincent Nichols (Archbishop of Birmingham); Helen Bond (Edinburgh University); James Tabor (University of North Carolina); Dr Richard Chartres (Bishop of London); A. N. Wilson (Author, Jesus: A Life); Geza Vermes (1924-2013; Author, The Nativity: History & Legend); Shimon Gibson (Archaeologist); Richard Burridge (Dean of King’s College London); Israel Knohl (Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Marianne Sawicki (Author, Crossing Galilee); Abdal Hakim Murad (Muslim Academic Trust); Tekleab Nigussie (Curator, Axum Museum); Sister Wendy Beckett (1930-2018; Art Historian); Father Justin (Librarian, St. Catherine’s Monastery); Father Girgis (St George’s Church, Heliopolis); Juliana Rahmatalla

*After repeating facts familiar to most researchers of Christian origins, Dr Robert Beckford proposed as a serious suggestion that Mary was raped by a Roman soldier named Ben Pantera (cited by Celsus and mentioned in 2nd century Jewish texts) in the town of Sepphoris, of which Jesus Christ became the offspring.

Featured Professor Elaine Pagels, Professor Anthony Tambasco, Edward T. Martin, Aziz Kashmiri, Marie Witcher, Elvis Fisher, Robbis Storm, Professor Alan Mitchell, Dr Paul Fleischman, Brother Chidananda, Michael Hesemann, Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein, Suzanne Olsson, Arif Khan, Unnamed Head Priest Meenakshi Temple, Father Baptiste, Daniel Entin, unnamed Iskcon Priest, His Holiness The Shankaracharya, Monsignor Corrado Balducci, Unnamed Hemis Monastery Monk, James Deardorff, Dr Ramesh Bajpai, Unnamed India Security Advisor, His Holiness The Dalai Lama

* Based on the book by Edward T. Martin, King of Travellers: Jesus' Lost Years In India (Jonah Publishing Company, 1999)

Featured Dr Shimon Gibson (W.F. Albright Institute, Jerusalem), Dr Adrian Boas (University of Haifa, Israel), Sean Martin (Author The Knights Templar), Dr Barbara Frale (Vatican School of Palaeography), Professor Alain Demurger (University of Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne)

* Not so much a ‘history’ of the Knights Templar but rather the myths of the Knights Templar – the Shroud, the Grail, the Templar ‘treasure fleet’ at La Rochelle – with Barbara Frale giving another misrepresentation of the historical significance of ‘The Chinon Parchment’.

Featured Professor James D. Tabor; Mother Catherine (St Mary Magdalene Convent); Dr Esther de Boer (1959-2010); Professor Bart Ehrman; Dr Samantha Riches (Cultural Historian, Lancaster University); Professor Tal Ilan (Institute for Jewish Studies, Freie University, Berlin); Stephen Langfur (Writer and Guide); Dr Rami Arav (Archaeologist, University of Nebraska); Veronique Flayol (Secretary, L’Association Santo Madeleno); Monseigneur Jean-Pierre Ravotti (Saint Maximin la Sainte Baume); Brother Thomas Michelet (Couvent des Dominicains); Yotam Tepper (Archaeologist, IAA)

* Quoting Professor Bart Ehrman: “Some people say the fact Jesus Christ is kissing Mary Magdalene – doesn’t that show that they had an intimate relationship – and one would think that unless one read the rest of The Gospel of Philip – because as it turns out kissing is referred to elsewhere in The Gospel of Philip – and the way it is referred to elsewhere is in relationship to the Christian Ritual that happened during Christian Worship Services in the Early Church where Christians would welcome one another with a kiss – and The Gospel of Philip asks ‘why is it that you welcome one another with a kiss?’ The reason is because by kissing you are showing that Revelation has been given, God gives His Revelation by delivering His Word – words are delivered by the mouth, and so Christians kiss one another to show that they are giving Revelation to one another”.

Featured Professor Bart Ehrman (University of North Carolina); Dr Shimon Gibson (W.F. Albright Institute, Jerusalem); Professor Amos Kloner (1940-2019; formerly of Bar-Ilan University, Israel); Professor James D. Tabor (Author: ‘Jesus Family Dynasty’); David Horovitz (Editor, The Jerusalem Post); Professor Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University); Dr Carney Matheson (Lakehead University, Canada); Professor Tal Ilan (Freie University, Berlin); Dr Camil Fuchs (Tel Aviv University)

* Excellent documentary about the 1980 Talpiot Tomb discovery – first devoting a considerable amount of time to the recently generated conspiracy theory, before towards the end providing a more sober conclusion, emphasising a more realistic interpretation to this archaeological discovery. Repeated on 27 December 2008.

Featured “Good Morning America” presenter George Stephanopoulos talking to Bruce Burgess, maker of Bloodline – The Movie about the alleged tomb of Mary Magdalene located in Rennes-le-Château and the descendants of Jesus Christ

The tomb has since been revealed as a hoax by its perpetrator “Ben Hammott” on Podcast Interview with René Barnett (executive producer of Bloodline), dated 21 March 2012 on L A Talk Radio (NightVision Radio)

Presented by Maurizio Decollanz, who served as a question-master on the subject matter of Rennes-le-Château, the programme looked for answers from invited guests Mariano Tomatis (critical researcher) and Giorgio Baietti (defending the existence of the mystery)

* The programme showed clips from the DVD about Bérenger Saunière and Rennes-le-Château by Francesco Garufi, author of the 2004 book Rennes-le-Château: un'inchiesta

Featured Julie K. Smith, Lucia Santos, Desiree Carey, Arthur Roberts (as Dr Knowitall), Monica Mayhem, Delia Sheppard, Marlie Moore

Louis Buff Parry deciphers the 250-year-old encoded inscription on The Shepherds Monument in Staffordshire, England

* Winner, Seventh Annual The Garden State Film Festival 2007, Feature Length International Documentary (Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA)

The Real Bloodline: The Sacred Teachings of Tim Wallace-Murphy – The Truth Behind The Da Vinci Code, 2007 (also entitled “Jesus and Mary: The Hidden Bloodline”, containing different music, 2018)
An exclusive interview by Philip Gardiner
Directed by Philip Gardiner
Reality Films Production

DVD contains two documentaries:

The Da Vinci Code: A Masterful Deception
Produced and Directed by Mario Biasetti
Rome Reports

Featured Professor Elizabeth Lev, Professor Peter Gumpel, Monsignor Robert Sarno, Michel Rougé, Amy Welborn, Laura Collura, Professor John Wauck, Professor Raphaela Schmid, Professor Gerald O’Collins, Professor Marc Ellis, Cardinal Francis Arinze, Rocco Buttiglione, John Thavis, Mark Palermo, M.D., Fauzia Chanda, Padre Raniero Cantalamessa

The Da Vinci Files: The Divinity of Christ
Produced by Susanna Pinto, Raphaela Schmid
Rome Reports & Becket Institute

Featured Professor Gerald O’Collins, Cardinal Francis Arinze, Professor Raphaela Schmid, Professor Justin Taylor, Professor Jean Louis Ska, Professor John Wauck, Professor Elizabeth Lev, Professor Pietro Marani, Pinin Brambilla, Professor Ian Wood, Michel Rougé, Amy Welborn, John Allen, Sister Maria Gloria Riva, Mark Palermo, M.D.

Extra Features:

The Vatican vs. The Code
Featured Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, Katerina Karkala, Cardinal George Pell, Manuel Sánchez Hurtado, John Thavis

The Mystery of Saint Sulpice
Featured Michel Rougé

Dan Brown: A Nobody In Vinci
Featured Francesco Cingara

Featured Shrivatsa Goswami, Deebandhu Das, Pema Donyo Nyingje Wangpo, Professor J. Duncan M. Derrett (1922-2012), H. H. Ogyen Trinley Dorje The Karmapa, Lindsay Allason-Jones, Dr Bojana Mojsov, Rabbi Tovia Singer, Dan Sered, Debbie Figueras, Yakim Figueras, Professor Fida Hussnain (1924-2016), Ghulam Nabi Ringshal, Dr Ahmad El-Tayyib, Sheikh Abdalla El Kurdi, Professor Tridip Suhrud, Kamilia Makram, Mona Haliem, Eileen Hanson, Rabbi Arik Ascherman

* Dr Robert Beckford explored similarities between Jesus Christ, Krishna, Buddha, Mithras and Osiris; as well as investigating allegations that Jesus Christ travelled to India and was buried in Kashmir, concluding that what really matters is what lies in the Christian message

Featured Reverend Dr Esther de Boer (1959-2010), Susan Haskins, Dr Pheme Perkins, Giulio Silano, Dr Marvin Meyer (1948-2012), Friar Henri Dominique, Yves Bridonneau, Ramon K. Jusino

Featured Ouriel Maoz, Rivka Maoz, Felix Golubev, Dr Shimon Gibson, Professor Tal Ilan, Professor James Tabor, Frank Moore Cross (1921-2012), John Dominic Crossnan, Na'ama Vilozny, Professor Amos Kloner (1940-2019), David Mevorah, Professor Andrey Feuerverger, Bill Tarant, Professor François Bovon (1938-2013), Steven J. Cox, Dr Carney Matheson, Efraym Shochat, Oded Golan, Dr Charles Pellegrino, Robert E. Genna

* A revised and extended version of The Lost Tomb of Jesus was later aired in May 2007 that featured Tom Powers (ossuary of Simon of Cyrene) with an Epilogue added, and omitting some of the material shown on the first airing

* Two DVDs of the documentary were released. “The Lost Tomb of Jesus: Has Physical Evidence Been Discovered?” in widescreen by The Discovery Channel (92 minutes). A Director’s Cut version, entitled “James Cameron Presents The Lost Tomb of Jesus: Has The 2,000 Year-Old Mystery Finally Been Solved?” contained additional material (106 minutes)

Featured Dr Jim Garlow, Therese Thurston, Dr Craig Bloomberg, Jeffery Rose, Dr Rosemary Ruether, Dr Erwin Lutzer, Reverend Julie Slayback, Ramon Justino, Charles Thurston, E. Raymond Capt (1914-2008), Karena Bryan, Steven Sora, Graham Phillips, Dr Daniel Scavone

Featured ‘Lisa’ Marisa Privatera, ‘Waiter’ Richard Harris, Stuart Beattie, Simon Beattie, Dr Neil Hargreaves, John Miller, Norah Fitzcharles, Robert Brydon (1930-2014), Nic Boyes, Joe Lang

Featured Stewart Ferris, Henry Lincoln (1930-2022), Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince, Dave Smith, Graham Simmans (1919-2005)

* DVD arguing that Bérenger Saunière’s activities at Rennes-le-Château were an “unexplained mystery” whilst disparaging the overwhelming material evidence that the priest’s source of wealth originated from the selling of masses – pure propaganda

Featured John Matthews, Duncan Caldwell, Timothy Freke, Rabbi Irwin Kula, Elizabeth Lev, Gerald O'Collins, Elaine Pagels, Caitlin Matthews, Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince, Anna Fedele, Brother John Patrick, Joe E. Zias, Eldad Junoh, Pere Thierry Francois de Vregille, Susan Haskins, Sean Martin, John Allen, Terri Carron, Richard Leigh (1943-2007), John Saul, Jean-Luc Robin (1949-2008), Dan Burstein, Scott Johnson, Stuart Mitchell, Mark Oxbrow

* Feckless and mediocre examinations of Themes found in Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. The subject matter of The Priory of Sion was concluded by a question mark while the story of Bérenger Saunière at Rennes-le-Château rested upon the totally romantic and unsubstantiated claims of the late Jean-Luc Robin (1949-2008)

Programme One: Secrets of Mary Magdalene
Featured Jean-Pierre Ruiz, Deirdre Good, Dan Burstein, Susan Haskins, Dr Jane Schaberg (1938-2012), Lesa Bellevie, Elaine Pagels, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona

Starring Spartok Genev (Jesus of Nazareth), Tsvetomiva Stefanova (Mary Magdalene)

Programme Two: A Mary Magdalene Roundtable – The Experts Speak
Featured Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Lesa Bellevie, Deidre Good, Susan Haskins, Dr Katherine Kurs, Elaine Pagels, Dr. Jane Schaberg

Featurette: More Secrets of Mary Magdalene
Featured Dan Burstein, Jean-Pierre Ruiz, Deirdre Good, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Susan Haskins, Elaine Pagels, Jane Schaberg, Lesa Bellevie

* Secrets of Mary Magdalene contains references to non-existent “traditions” and “legends” relating to Saint Sarah (of the Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mere legend) being the “daughter of Jesus and Mary Magdalene” – a claim only first made by Margaret Starbird in 1993; to “traditions” and “legends” of the bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene starting the Merovingian dynasty – a claim only first made in the 1982 book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail; to the claim that the French priest Bérenger Saunière discovered “parchments” whilst renovating his church in Rennes-le-Château – a story that does not date from his lifetime but first started during the mid-1950s. The Secrets of Mary Magdalene DVD failed to emphasise the recent origins of these “traditions” and “legends” – that they do not date back to earliest Christianity, or to the Cathars or Knights Templar, or to the lifetime of Bérenger Saunière.

* Re-release of From Saunière To Da Vinci DVD with Special Features: The Village of Rennes-le-Château with Interactive Map; The Historical Figures of The Mystery; Documentation of Saunière’s Trial; Church Clues To The Holy Grail

Dubbed “A mind-blowing eye-popping documentary that reveals how Satanic Forces are using Hollywood’s most memorable Movies and most popular Actors to Propagate an Ancient Lie in Fulfilment of Biblical Prophecy”

Covers The Da Vinci Code (2006), The Matrix (1999), Constantine (2005), The Fight Club (1999), The Truman Show (1999), Pleasantville (1998), Total Recall (1990), From Hell (2001), League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), Blade Runner (1982), Vanilla Sky (2001), Eyes Wide Shut (1991), Minority Report (2002), Harry Potter films (2001, 2002, 2004, 2005)

Filmed live on 6 May 2006 in Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, California; lasting 3 hours 37 minutes – the conference was hosted by Joe Schimmel with guest speakers Kirk Cameron and Francis Chan

Featured Dr Jim Garlow, Paul L. Maier, Craig Hazen, Mike Finch, John-Mark Reynolds, Chuck Missler, Desiree Morales, Carmen Deluca, Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince, Timothy Wallace-Murphy (1930-2019), J. P. Moreland, Alex F. Metherell, John F. Wilson, Michael J. Wilkins

* Da Vinci's Lost Code was aired by the Discovery Channel on 14 May 2006 and narrated by David Soul.

Featured Robert Bolleurs; Richard Feigen; Professor Elizabeth Pilliod; Marcus Mazure; Dr Celia Frosinini; Richard Dorment; David Bull; Dr Nicholas Eastaugh; Professor Martin Kemp; Charles Nicholl; Professor Evelyn Welch; Professor David Hemsoll; Dr Matthew C. Steenberg; Professor Elaine Pagels; Dr Mario Taddei; Dr Karen Kirkby; Javier Sierra; Marta Paraventi

* The first part examined the provenance of a lost Leonardo Da Vinci painting and its original design called “The Holy Infants” (a meeting between the infants Jesus Christ and John the Baptist kissing, taken from the Apocrypha, depicted by many other artists). The second part dealt with an interpretation alluding to a “deeply heretical message” involving John the Baptist and Gnosticism. The documentary-makers invited Professor Martin Kemp’s verdict towards the end: “The Gnostic interpretation of ‘The Holy Babies’ is to put it bluntly nonsense – there is no evidence that Leonardo had any interest in Gnostic doctrine at all – and indeed everything we know about Leonardo suggests he would have been deeply unsympathetic to them”.

Presented by Dr Robert Beckford (Oxford Brookes University), who tried to reveal the original message of Christianity that involved Mary Magdalene, John The Baptist, and the immediate members of the family that shared the original bloodline of Jesus Christ – “this is the conspiracy that Dan Brown missed, more significant than The Da Vinci Code, it’s a story that has been hidden for more than two thousand years – it goes right back to the very beginnings of Christianity and if true, could rock everything that Christians believe in”.

Featured Dr Esther de Boer (1959-2010; author, The Mary Magdalene Cover Up); Mother Catherine (Russian Orthodox Nun); Father Stefano de Luca (Franciscan Monk); Dr Helen Bond (Edinburgh University); Father Nicolai Spiro (Greek Orthodox Church); Archbishop Abba Melchizedek (Ethiopian Church); Father Lawrence (Guardian of The Milk Grotto); Issa Khoury-Jaraisy (Shop Keeper); Professor Richard Bauckham (St Andrews University); Aviram Oshri (Archaeologist); Father Saleh (Greek Orthodox Church); Dr. Mordechai Aviam (Director of Archeological Research at the Institute of Galilean Archeology); Professor James Tabor (author, The Jesus Dynasty); Father Eugenio Alliata (Franciscan Monk); Dr Shimon Gibson (The Cave of John the Baptist); Professor Ronny Reich (University of Haifa); Dr Raffaella Giuliani (Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology); Reverend Dean Bechard (Pontifical Biblical Institute); Ignatius Zakkai Iwas (Patriarch of Syriac Orthodox Church); Archbishop Aristarchos (Greek Orthodox Patriarchate)

* The claims and theories that were presented in this particular documentary are nothing new – that James the Just was the literal blood brother of Jesus Christ and that the earliest Christians were the members of Jesus Christ’s immediate family that flourished up to the third century were mooted in the 1980s four-part Channel Four television series Jesus: The Evidence, for example.

Motion Picture released 19 May 2006 (Columbia Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, Skylark Productions)

Hans Zimmer soundtrack Music CD released 9 May 2006 (Decca, UMO)

The Da Vinci Code DVD : Widescreen and Full Screen Two-Disc Special Editions released 14 November 2006. 149 mins

The Da Vinci Code Special Edition Giftset DVD with Metal Cryptex released 14 November 2006

The Da Vinci Code 3-Disc Deluxe Widescreen DVD Edition including The History Channel documentary Beyond The Da Vinci Code, released 2006

The Da Vinci Code Blu-Ray Two-Disc Widescreen Extended Cut with new Special Features , 174 mins. Released 28 April 2009

The Da Vinci Code Blu-Ray Special Edition Giftset with Metal Cryptex released 28 April 2009. 174 mins. Released 28 April 2009

Starring Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno, Ian McKellen, Paul Bettany, Alfred Molina, Jürgen Prochnow

Programme 1 – Secret Societies; 8 October 2006
Produced & Directed by Clare Slessor
Presented by Dan Rivers

Featured Alan Gilbert (presenter’s Grandfather); Chris Mullin MP; Dr Robert Lomas; Ben Acheson; Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith (1938-2016); Elie de Comminges; Robin Ramsay; Lord Healey of Riddlesden (1917-2015); Professor Peter Kinderman

Programme 2 – The Sacred Feminine; 15 October 2006
Produced & Directed by Helen Williamson
Presented by Dan Rivers

Featured Elaine Pagels; Geri Parlby; Margaret Knight; Professor Salima Ikram; Professor Melissa Raphael; Rabbi Jonathan Romain; Dr Ananya Kabir; Dr Ahmed Al-Dubayan; Dr Reza Shah Kazeemi; Christina Oakley-Harrington; Jules Cashford

Programme 3 – Codes and Symbols; 22 October 2006
Produced & Directed by Nick Gillam-Smith
Presented by Dan Rivers

Featured Dr Joan Readman; Richard Kemp; Professor Joseph Koerner; Dr Louise Govier; Rabbi Larry Tabick; Dr Keith Martin; Clare Asquith; Madame Dorine Vitrouve; Stuart Mitchell; Professor Murray Campbell; Dr Philip Ball

Featured Professor Mariano Bizzarri, Professor Roberto Giacobbo, Michael Baigent (1948-2013), Professor Mario Moiraghi, Doctor Alessandro Vezzosi

* Amateur video with a musical background, product manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media

* New Age material

Featured Professor Paul Crawford, Dr David Nicolle, Dr Helen Nicholson, Professor Jonathan Phillips, Father Tim Bugby

Featured Dr Tom Asbridge, Reverend Robin Griffith-Jones, Ian Robertson, Geoffrey Ashe (1923-2022), Richard Barber, Simon Cox, Stephen O’Shea, Karen McDermott, Father Gerald O’Collins; uncredited contributions from an American psychic in Rosslyn Chapel and various individuals at Glastonbury

Featured John Allen, Patricia Anderson, Monsignor Thomas Bohlin, Mary Alice Chrnalogar, David Clark, Nathan Davis, Dianne DiNicola, Tammy DiNicola, Dennis Dubro, Bishop Javier Echevarria, Cardinal Julian Herranz, Doug Hinderer, Shirley Hinderer, Father Hilary Maheny, Susan Mangels, Will Rey, Charles Shaw, Maria del Carmen Tapia, Art Thelen, Michael Walsh, Father John Wauck, Kenneth L. Woodward, archive footage of Saint Josemaria Escriva

Starred Joiwind Alexander, Danielle Dearing, Diego DiGiovanni, Ed Flanagan, Christopher Garcia, Matthew Jaeger, Elizabeth Perez, David Villar

* Was the crucifixion of Jesus faked? Did he have children? This conspiracy, suggesting a direct bloodline from the Son of God, has had profound effects through the centuries and has been linked to the most creative thinkers and artists in history.

Featured Dr Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Mark Irving, Simon Cox, Dan Burstein, George Lechner, Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lindsay Johns, James Wasserman, Dr Michael Barkun, Peter Sandford, Dr Amy Bernstein, Greg Tobin, Dr Antonio Sennis

* Revised Version of the DVD, Dan Burstein's Secrets of Angels, Demons & Masons (2005)

Featured Henry Lincoln (1930-2022), Professor Brian Ford, Sharan Newman, Dr Helen Nicholson, John Edwin Wood (1929-2018), Erling Haagensen, Dr Jim Bennett, Ed Danson, Peter Barber (with archive footage of Professor Christopher Cornford, 1917-1993)

* Repeated on 10 May 2009 when the movie The Da Vinci Code (2006) premiered on UK Television on Channel 5.

* Also shown on The History Channel (Narrated by Michael Brandon) and released on DVD in 2007 entitled Behind The Da Vinci Code

Featured Elaine Pagels, Peter Stanford, John Dominic Crossan, Paula Fredericksen, Father Jerome Murphy-O'Connor (1935-2013), Tom Wright, Thierry LaCombe, Richard Andrews, James Tabor, Steve Mason, Abdullah Assiz Kashmiri

Featured Richard Leigh (1943-2007); Jonathan Riley-Smith (Ecclesiastical Historian, Cambridge, 1938-2016); David Aaronovitch (Columnist, The Guardian); Jack Valero (Opus Dei UK Director); Ruth Gledhill (Religion Correspondent, The Times); Evelyn Welch (Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary); James McConnachie; Robin Griffith-Jones (Master of the Temple, Temple Church, London); Brian Sewell (Art critic, The Evening Standard, 1931-2015); Fred Piper (Professor of Mathematics, Royal Holloway); Sarah Dunant (Historical Novelist); Mike West (Chancellor, Lincoln Cathedral), with uncredited filmed contributions from a female Wiccan and assorted readers of The Da Vinci Code.

* Included extract footage from various past BBC documentaries (from the 1970s Chronicle documentaries, from the 1982 Omnibus, from the 1996 Timewatch documentary The History of a Mystery, from the February 2006 Culture Show, etc)

* Excellent documentary sending-up the modern day highly-fashionable beliefs in bogus secret societies, bogus hidden codes concealed in works of classical art and the bogus beliefs in the “descendants of Jesus Christ” which in turn have produced distorted and off-set interpretations of the Mediaeval literary creation The Holy Grail – all of which have crystallized due to the sudden and overwhelming popularity of Dan Brown’s recent novel The Da Vinci Code, itself inspired by books like The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail (1982).

* Quoting David Aaronovitch: “I am older than the Priory of Sion”, and “One of the things I think is interesting about this, is the way in which the authors of The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail have never, as far as I know, turned round to the rest of the world, and said, ‘It was a load of rubbish. Terribly sorry and all that. We are not going to give the money back cos we’ve spent it all and we did do quite a lot of work and we were hoaxed too, but actually, it’s all complete and utter tosh’.”

* Quoting Jonathan Riley-Smith: “What Holy Blood, Holy Grail, did, was to dismiss reputable evidence which didn’t go with its theories. Accept disreputable evidence and fill in the gaps where there was no evidence at all.”

Featured Kerby Anderson, Dr Darrel Bock, Dr John Hannah, Dr R. Larry Moyer, Mark Rae

Featuring Jean-Luc Chaumeil, Tammy DiNicola, Professor Martin Kemp, Richard Leigh (1943-2007), Sharan Newman, Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince, Father William Stetson (died 2019), Tracy Twyman (1978-2019)

Featured Alice Jouve, Tuvia Fogel, Timothy Wallace-Murphy (1930-2019), Professor Jean-Jacques Cassiman, Daniel Perrier, Kent Dobson, Archbishop Malki Murad

* This Documentary DNA-tested the remains of 1,400 year-old Merovingian Queen Aregund, the wife of Clothar I, failing to detect any near-Eastern origin.

Featured Timothy Wallace-Murphy (1930-2019), Larissa Tracy, Jill N. Claster, James Wasserman, Dr Karen Ralls, Reverend Robin Griffith-Jones, Stuart Beattie

* Amongst its catalogue of shortcomings, the documentary claimed that “beneath the ancient temple [of Jerusalem] folklore says the Knights made one of the most remarkable discoveries of all time” – when in fact this allegation was only first made by Louis Charpentier in his 1966 book, The Mysteries of Chartres Cathedral

Featured Jean-Luc Chaumeil; Henry Lincoln (1930-2022); Dr Jan Rüdiger; Antoine Captier; Claire Corbu; Jean-Jacques Bedu

* Terra X: Geheimakte Sakrileg – Der Mythos von Rennes-le-Château is found on the Terra X - Expeditionen Ins Unbekannte III DVD (2006)

Featured Simon Dodd (Yeoman Warder, Tower of London), Kenny Hanley (Local Edinburgh Historian and Guide), Kevin Hanley (Bagpiper), Stuart Wilson (Professional Golf Instructor)

Featured Dennis Kahan, Cynthia Kagan, Carmen Deluca, Zoltan Pali, Tim Mcguire, Matthew Landrus, Claudio Giorgione, Desiree Morales, Francois Saint Bris, Lynn Picknett, Asha Mevlana

Featured Dr Paul L. Maier, Dr Chuck Missler (1934-2018), Dr Erwin Lutzer, Amy Welborn, Dr Scott Wenig, Steve Kellmeyer, Dr Darrell Bock, Dr Jim Garlow, Hank Hanegraaff, Rev. Julie Slayback

* Featured Erling Haagensen

Extras:
Interviews with Henry Lincoln and Erling Haagensen
Henry’s Thoughts on Rennes-le-Château
The Concise ‘Origins’
Commentary
Outtakes

* “Grateful Thanks to Jean-Luc Robin, Nicolas Miécret, Hedda Mainz” (in end credits)

Featured Bobby Boone, Silas Agbim, Lynn Frank, John Allen, Jack Valero, Paul Nagy, Benedicte Nagy, Adrienne Treleaven, Eileen Cole, Mgr Vladimir Felzmann, Mgr Flavio Capucci, Tammy DiNicola, Dianne DiNicola, Art Thelan, Brian Parker, Father Gerard Sheehan, Father Ian Dickie [1948-2012], Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor [1932-2017], Kenneth L Woodward (with archive footage of Jose Maria Escriva, 1902-1975)

* DVD contains Eight Expanded Interviews

Featured Ronald Top, Tessa Dunlop, Massimo Polidoro, Tony Stockwell, Claire Corbu, Jean-Claude de Brou, Antoine Captier, Maitre André Salaün, Laurent Bucholtzer, André Douzet, Professor Robert Eisenman

Featured Kelly DeVries, Jonathan Pevsner, Stephen Campbell, Ed Rodley, Morten Steen Hansen, Bert S. Hall

* The DVD has a Behind-The-Scenes Featurette entitled History In The Making: Da Vinci

Featured Sean Martin, George Smart, Dr Timothy Wallace-Murphy (1930-2019), Alan Butler, Marilyn Hopkins, Dr Karen Ralls

* Knights Templar myths involving the Temple of Solomon, the worship of a mysterious head, Rosslyn Chapel, travelling to America, the Oak Island ‘Money Pit’

Featured Henry Lincoln (1930-2022), Professor Brian Ford, Sharan Newman, Dr Helen Nicholson, John Edwin Wood (1929-2018), Erling Haagensen, Dr Jim Bennett, Ed Danson, Peter Barber (with archive footage of Professor Christopher Cornford, 1917-1993)

* This documentary was an updated version of Beyond The Da Vinci Code shown by The History Channel on 16 January 2005, using much of the original footage.

Featured Dr Steven Mizrach, Lynn Picknett, David Barrett, Henry Lincoln (1930-2022), Clive Prince, Jessica Teisch, Ph.D., Heather Sexton, Craig Dickens, Dan Duling, Sharan Newman, Professor Arthur Benjamin, John Edwin Wood (1929-2018), Bill Putnam (1930-2008), Peter Caine, Michel Rouge, Stuart Beattie, Robert Brydon (1930-2014), Dr Karen Ralls, archive footage of Dan Brown

Featured Dr Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Dan Burstein, George Lechner, Dr Amy Bernstein, James Wasserman, Dr Michael Barkun, Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson

Secrets of Masons
Executive Producer Stuart B. Rekant
Produced and Edited by Rob Fruchtman
Written by Lori Nelson
Narrated by John Cullum

Featured Dan Burstein, James Wasserman, Dr Michael Barkun, Akram Elias, Dr Steven Bullock

Extra Features
-The Dan Brown Phenomenon
Featured George Lechner, Greg Tobin, Dr Michael Barkun, Dr Steven Bullock, Dr Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson, James Wasserman
-God, Religion, Conspiracy
Featured Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson, Dr Amy Bernstein, Dr Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Dr Michael Barkun, James Wasserman
-Fact or Fiction?
Featured Dan Burstein, Greg Tobin, James Wasserman, Dr Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
-Behind The Scenes
Featured Rob Fruchtman, Lori Nelson

Featured Steven Ostrow, Simon Cox, Jim Marrs (1943-2017), Jon Rappoport, Devon Jackson, Clive Prince, Lynn Picknett, Paul L. Williams, John Follain, Steve Sora, Betty Ann Brown, Eric Johnson

Featured psychologist Dr Raj Persaud; Leah Ganpatsingh, Philip Lindholm & Neil O’Neil; Lynn Picknett; Professor Ronald Hutton; Charles Nicholl; Father John Wauck; Nigel Bryant

Recorded excerpt of Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan announcing The Da Vinci Code winning the W. H. Smith Book of the Year Award at the 16th annual British Book Awards on 20 April, with author Dan Brown expressing his gratitude by means of video

Featured Father Thomas Williams; Professor Bart D Ehrman, PhD; Professor Karen King, PhD; Professor Ben Witherington, III, PhD; Darrell L Bock, PhD; Professor Elaine Pagels, PhD; Margaret Starbird; Professor David Nolta, PhD; Richard Leigh (1943-2007); Henry Lincoln (1930-2022); Bill Putnam (1930-2008) (with archive footage of Pierre Plantard from 1979).

Featured Sister Wendy Beckett (1930-2018); Rabbi Jonathan Romain; Dr Edward Adams; Professor Paul Fouracre; Professor John Gordon; Jean-Luc Chaumeil; Michael Baigent (cameo appearance only).

A “Saunière Manuscript” (located in Rennes-le-Château) is mentioned by the character Henry ‘Hack’ Scudder (played by John Savage)

Featured Professor Oliver Davies; Graham Phillips; Dr Juliette Wood; Richard Barber; Canon Jaime Sancho; Dr Thomas Asbridge; Michael Baigent (1948-2013); Jonathan Sumption, QC; Dr Gabriel Barkav; Dr Helen Nicholson; Robert Brydon (1930-2014); Dr Andrew Sinclair (1935-2019); Stuart Beattie; Robert Cooper; Jean-Luc Chaumeil; Arnaud de Sede; Father Thierry Vregil; Michel Rouge; Charles Nicholl; Professor Elaine Pagels, PhD; Dr Ann Graham Brock; Margaret Starbird, uncredited contributions by various inhabitants from the town of Saintes-Maries de la Mer (with archive footage of Dan Brown, Henry Lincoln, Pierre Plantard).

Featured Richard Leigh (1943-2007); Dr Karen Ralls; Timothy Freke; Dan Burstein; Dr George Gorse; Margaret Starbird; Dr Deirdre Good; Jean-Luc Chaumeil; Andrew Soane.

Starred Stephen Wozniak (Jesus), Claudia Cox (Mary Magdalene)

Featured Gene Shane (Jesus), Garth Pillsbury (Quintar), Roberta Haynes (Mary the Mother), Warren Hammack (Judas), Jean Fadal (John the Baptist), Howard Rubin, Rosalind Saunders (The Madam), Gilleigh McLain (Mary Magdalene), Linda Avery, Erica Gavin, Andre Phillippe (voice of Jesus)

* Recut version of the 1972 film “The Rebel Jesus”, a post-resurrection story depicting Jesus Christ escaping death and being nursed back to health by Mary Magdalene in a brothel. “The Rebel Jesus” was recipient of the Bronze Medal for “Low Budget Feature” at the 1973 Atlanta Film Festival.

Featured interviews with Mark Oxbrow (Rosslyn Chapel), Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince (Leonardo Da Vinci), Jean-Luc Robin, 1949-2008 (Rennes-le-Château)

Featured Dan Brown; Ellen McBreen, PhD; Darrell L Bock, PhD; Father Richard P McBrien (1936-2015); Paul L Maier, PhD; Professor Elaine Pagels, PhD; Jeffrey Bingham, PhD; Professor Karen King, PhD; Margaret Starbird; Rev Robin Griffith-Jones; Jack Wasserman, PhD; Carlo Pedretti, PhD (1938-2015); Henry Lincoln (1930-2022); Umberto Eco (1932-2016); Helen Nicholson; Dr Niven Sinclair (1924-2017); Andrew Sinclair (1935-2019); uncredited contributions by various inhabitants from the village of Rennes-le-Château and the town of Saintes-Maries de la Mer.

Featured Marie-France Etchegoin, Jean-Luc Chaumeil, Jean-François Lhuiller, Thierry Jean-Pierre (1955-2005), archive footage of Pierre Plantard de Saint Clair, archive footage of Henry Lincoln

Featured Richard Madeley, Judy Finnigan, Dr Juliette Wood (Historian) and Christine Large (Director, Bletchley Park) discussing the search for The Holy Grail and speculating it could be connected to the coded inscription found on the Shepherds Monument located in Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire; that could be deciphered as “Best of wives, best of sisters, a loving widower, makes holy vows virtuously”, which may lead to the site of The Holy Grail

Featured Michael Baigent (1948-2013); Professor Malcolm Barber; Dr Robert Eisenman; Dr Barbara Frale; uncredited contribution from an individual who claimed that Flying Saucers visited the village of Rennes-le-Château.

* Showed exclusive film footage of the excavation of the Tour Magdala in the village of Rennes-le-Château on 20 August 2003

Charlie Gibson and Dan Brown reveal the four codes built into the dust jacket of the novel and present the prize of a trip for two to Paris for the winner

Featured Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince, Timothy Wallace-Murphy (1930-2019), William L. Peterson, Karen Jo Torjensen, Dr Daniel Smith-Christopher, Paul L. Maier, Father Benjamin Flore, Ray Riegert

Laurence Gardner’s Presentation Lecture in Los Angeles of Lost Secrets Of The Sacred Ark

Charlie Gibson discusses The Da Vinci Code with author Dan Brown

Quote:

Charlie Gibson: This is a novel. If you were writing it as a non-fiction book, how would it have been different?

Dan Brown: I don’t think it would have. I began the research for The Da Vinci Code as a skeptic. I entirely expected, as I researched the book, to disprove this theory. And after numerous trips to Europe, about two years of research, I really became a believer.

Featured Dan Brown; Father Richard McBrien (1936-2015), PhD; Professor Elaine Pagels, PhD; Darrell L Bock, PhD; D Jeffrey Bingham, PhD; Professor Karen King, PhD; Margaret Starbird; Jack Wasserman, PhD; Carlo Pedretti, PhD (1928-2018); Henry Lincoln (1930-2022); Niven Sinclair (1924-2017); Andrew Sinclair (1935-2019); Umberto Eco (1932-2016); Rev Robin Griffith-Jones, PhD.

Starred Afaf Chayab (Mary Magdalene), Mohamed Quatib (Jesus), M'Barek El Mamoudi (Peter)

Matt Lauer discusses The Da Vinci Code with author Dan Brown

Quote:

Matt Lauer: How much of this is based on reality in terms of things that actually occurred?

Dan Brown: Absolutely all of it. Obviously, there are — Robert Langdon is fictional, but all of the art, architecture, secret rituals, secret societies, all of that is historical fact.

Martin Savidge discusses The Da Vinci Code with author Dan Brown

Quote:

Martin Savidge: When we talk about da Vinci and your book, how much is true and how much is fabricated in your storyline?

Dan Brown: 99 percent of it is true. All of the architecture, the art, the secret rituals, the history, all of that is true, the Gnostic gospels. All of that is… all that is fiction, of course, is that there's a Harvard symbologist named Robert Langdon, and all of his action is fictionalized. But the background is all true.

Featured Stephen Moore, PhD., Henry Lincoln (1930-2022); Michael Stokes, John Brunsdon, MBE; Andrew Collins; Graham Phillips; Rosemary Arscott; Steve Mizrach, PhD

Featured Simon Kirk, Michael Blackburn, Dr Juliette Wood, Gerald Morgan, Andrew Sinclair (1935-2019), Michael Orchard, Michael Baigent (1948-2013), Canon Jaime Sancho

* “Thanks to Jean-Luc Robin, Paul Lacroix, Monique & René Pons, Sonia Moreu, Joyce Bott, Betty Middleton” (in end credits)

* Later entitled Exploring The Da Vinci Code: Henry Lincoln’s Guide To Rennes-le-Château

Featured Gregg Stotesbery (Abbé Bérenger Saunière), Boyd Rice, Jonathan Vankin, Brian Freeston

Featured Malcolm Barber, David Nicolle, Ronni Ellenblum, Yusuf Natsheh

Featured Norris J Lacy, Bonnie Wheeler, Caitlin Matthews, John Matthews, Laurence Gardner (1943-2010)

*A revised version of the documentary The Quest for the Holy Grail, being part of The History Channel's Ancient Mysteries series, shown in August 1997.

Featured Antoine Captier, Claire Corbu, Gérard de Sède (1921-2004), Robert McCrum, Paul Schellenberger, Richard Andrews, Professor Martin Kemp, Pierre Jarnac, John Hamill, Jean-Luc Chaumeil (with archive footage of Henry Lincoln, Professor Christopher Cornford and Pierre Plantard)

* Quoting Robert McCrum: “There is something called Historical Evidence – there is something called Historical Method – and if you look around the shelves of bookshops, there is a lot of history being published, and people mistake this kind of ‘history’ (The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail, The Tomb of God) for the real thing. These kind of books do appeal to an enormous audience who believe them to be history – but actually, they aren’t history – they are a kind of parody of history. Alas, though, I think that one has to say that this is the direction that history is going today”.

* Later shown in edited format on The Discovery Channel entitled Secrets Of The Templars
* Also called Only For The Initiated

Featured Dominique Tisserand, Sonia Moreu, André Lecossois, Guy Tarade, Jean Blum (1932-2012), Alain Feral (1942-2013)

Featured Tatiana Kletzky-Pradere, Henri Buthion (1924-2002), Gérard de Sède (1921-2004), Jean Blum (1932-2012), Marcel Bonnefoi, Louis Vazart (1957-2005), Jean-Michel Thibaux (1949-2015), Jean de Rignies (died circa 2010), Eliab Le Berger

* Andrew Sinclair (1935-2019) was the film director and screenwriter for Timon Films 1969-1995. Niven Sinclair (1924-2017) donated £200,000 to The Orcadian Trust.

Featured Henry Lincoln (1930-2022), Don Cupitt, Iain Sinclair, Jonathan Riley-Smith (1938-2016)

Quoting Don Cupitt: “A good deal of what Henry Lincoln’s saying reminds me very much of Renaissance ways of thinking – in the Renaissance the world was seen as a puzzle written in a kind of code – it was full of numerology, hidden harmonies and correspondences – codes that needed to be deciphered – people believed in magic numbers like 3, 5 and 7 – magic figures like the triangle, the pentagon, the quincunx and so on. Now, Henry’s search for those sort of ‘magic numbers’ in the phenomena of nature is very like that in Renaissance thinkers.”

Quoting Iain Sinclair: “I think if ‘The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail’ had been written to a ‘Mystery Kit’ – which you were going to shake in all the vital ingredients – they would have got the lot. You start with a coded message on a sheet of paper, which is initially very easy to break, but ultimately impossible without computer technology running for something like three years. You have tombs, you have to have a church, have elements coded into the church. From that you find that there’s a secret society operating behind it – secret masters, conspiracies, manipulation of history. And finally you leap back to Jesus, and some strange new theory about he wasn’t crucified, there are children, there are bloodlines. The excitement is bringing bits of the past – the impossible past that you only know as fiction or mythology – and suddenly claiming ‘there it is, it’s still active, there is no death, everything is going on’. That’s the excitement.”

Peter Gabriel soundtrack: Passion: Music For The Last Temptation Of Christ
2×LP: Geffen Records, 1989
Music CD: Real World Records, Virgin, 1989

Laser Disc: Criterion Collection, 1997 (Universal, Janus Films)
DVD: Criterion Collection, 25 April 2000 (Universal, Janus Films)
DVD: Columbia Tristar, 29 January 2001 (General Release)
DVD: Universal, 14 April 2003 (General Release)

Motion Picture: 12 August 1988 (Universal Pictures, Cineplex Odeon Films)

Starring Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Verna Bloom, Barbara Hershey, Harry Dean Stanton (1926-2017), David Bowie (1947-2016)

Episode 1: “Knowledge of The Heart”

Featured Nigel Harrison (as Jesus Christ), Gilles Quispel (1916-2006), Elaine Pagels, Professor James Robinson (1924-2016), Professor Hans Jonas (1903-1993), His Holiness Pope Shenouda III (1923-2012), Muhammad Ali al-Samman, Raymond Ross (as Irenaeus of Lyons), Paul Dixey (as Narcissus)

Episode 2: “The Goodmen's Heresy”

Featured Brian Blessed (as Guilhabert de Castres), Ian Brooker (as Dominic de Guzman de Fanjeaux), R. I. Moore, Michel Rocquebert, Anne Brenon, Gerard Zuchetto & Patrice Brient (as Troubadours), Joost Ritman

Episode 3: “The Divinity of Man”

Featured Marius Goring (as Hermes Trismegistus and Prospero), Dr Frans Janssen, Dr Anthony Alcock, Gareth Knight, Professor Sidney Alexander, James Tillitt (as Pico della Mirandola), Gilles Quispel, Joost Ritman

Episode 4: “Crack In The Universe”

Featured Gilles Quispel, Elaine Pagels, Aniela Jaffé (1903-1991), Carl G. Jung (archive footage), Professor C. A. Meier (1905-1995), Professor Hans Jonas, June Singer, Reverend Lance Beizer, Bishop Rosa Miller (Tau Rosamonde Miller), Nigel Harrison (as Jesus Christ)

Episode One, 4 April 1984
Featured Dr Werner G. Kümmel (1905-1995), Reverend Professor Dennis Nineham (1921-2016), Professor I. Howard Marshall (1934-2015), Professor George A. Wells (1926-2017), Dr Géza Vermès (1924-2013)

Episode Two, 8 April 1984
Featured Dr Géza Vermès, Ian Wilson, Dr Anthony E. Harvey (1930-2018), Professor Morton Smith (1915-1991)

Episode Three, 22 April 1984 (Easter Sunday)
Featured Professor Helmut Koester (1926-2016), Professor Gilles Quispel (1916-2006)

Jesus: The Evidence concluded: “There’s little doubt that a remarkable Jew called Jesus did live in first century Palestine. He was a man, who like other charismatic figures of the period healed, exorcised and preached to the outcast. He was not the Messiah that most of his compatriots were expecting – but he may have thought to change those expectations. There’s no evidence that he was ever seen as God in his lifetime, or that he ever intended to found a new Church. The Church that bears his name has emerged from the beliefs of those who came after him. They combined the words of Jesus as handed down with elements of Judaism and Paganism to form a religion of enduring and universal appeal. How much it is based on historical reality remains open to question. How much that matters, is a question for Faith.”

* A Discussion Programme entitled Faith and Fact acting as a response to the series was shown on 29 April 1984 (directed by K. Angus Robertson, Griffin Productions). It was Chaired by Ann Loades, CBE, Professor Emerita of Divinity in Durham University; the participants were Canon John Fenton (1922-2009), Henry Chadwick (1920-2008), Hyam Maccoby (1924-2004) and Thomas Crowther

Featured Henry Lincoln (1930-2022), Lord Soper (Donald Oliver Soper, 1903-1998), Jean-Luc Chaumeil, Auberon Waugh (1939-2001), The Duke of Devonshire (Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish, 1920-2004), archive footage of Pierre Plantard de St Clair (1920-2000)

Featured Bishop Hugh Montefiore (1920-2005), Marina Warner, Henry Lincoln (1930-2022), Michael Baigent (1948-2013), Richard Leigh (1943-2007)

Featured Professor Christopher Cornford (1917-1993), Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair (1920-2000)

* Repeated on 20 November 1979

Featured Professor Christopher Cornford (1917-1993)

* Originally shown on 12 February 1972 but transmission of the documentary was blacked-out due to a power cut caused by a National Strike in the United Kingdom

The story of Bérenger Saunière at Rennes-le-Château 1885-1917 that presented early versions of the myth with Noël Corbu playing the role of Father Saunière