April 19th 1993, a violent standoff between a radical religious sect and the federal government comes to a fiery end, all eyes are on David Koresh the groups prophet, the government portrays him as a dangerous cult leader but to his followers he is the final messenger.Nearly two decades after the blaze questions about what really happened at Waco still remain. With rare footage and first hand
Sally Evans, mother of two, is on a journey to discover what it was that drove her eldest son Thomas to join leave home and join the deadly Islamic terror group known as Al Shabaab. Thomas was only 21 when he decided to leave his home in a Buckinghamshire village and travel to Somalia.The group Al Shabaab is a jihadi Al Qaeda affiliate which is responsible for many atrocities commited in Kenya
Like much of the United States, Dover, Pennsylvania has become a town divided, split between those who accept Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution and those who reject it. This rift between science and scripture nearly destroyed the community after a Dover high school student painted a mural showing the evolution of humans from ape-like ancestors. This idea that humans were descendants of primates
The Pilgrims or rather Pilgrim Fathers were some of the early settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They started out in the religious congregations of Brownist English Dissenters but ended up having to flee the political environment of England as they maintained the concept of separation from the English state church.With eyes origi
The Caliphate, a form of rule in Islam that lasted for almost 13 centuries from the death of the Prophet Muhammad in the year 632 A.D. to the overthrowing of the last Ottoman Caliph in 1924. Through the centuries the title of Caliph has been used and at times abused, it is a translation from the Arabic word 'Khalifa' which means successor or deputy.In June 2014 a militant group calling itself
In this film we meet several British Mormons, young missionaries who's job it is to convert us to their particular brand of Christianity. Run from Salt Lake City in Utah the Mormon religion is an empire that spans 185 countries including the United Kingdom.Thomas S. Monson is the current world leader of Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Chr
In this Channel 4 film British journalist Alex Hannaford sets out on a journey to visit The Lord Our Righteousness Church, also known as Strong City. Strong City is a community located near Clayton, Union County, New Mexico. When filmed back in 2007 the group consisted of about 50 members and it's leader was Wayne Bent or rather Michael Travesser to those in the "church".Bent, was once a pasto
Just a few hours drive from the noisy streets of Philadelphia and New York, there is another world. It is a world that seems to be frozen in time, home to a people who's way of life has barely changed since their forefathers settled there almost 300 years ago.These are the Amish, they are bound by a code of strict rules that govern every aspect of their lives, rules that keep the modern wor
Mitt Romney as we all know was the front runner for the Republican party back in the 2012 presidential race for the White House, but for some reason the chap they call the "Tin Man" couldn't connect with the voters. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that he has load of money, or is it his take on God? In this film reporter John Sweeney sets about investigating the beliefs of Mit