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Documentaries like The God Who Wasn't There

Not everyone loves The God Who Wasn't There for the same reason. Pick the one that was yours, and the picks follow.

The 3 reasons people love The God Who Wasn't There

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  1. You like asking what is actually known about the historical Jesus.

  2. You like a first-person documentary about faith and doubt.

  3. You want a documentary that fits in an hour.

Picks that share your reasons

Which reasons were yours?

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  • The Story of God with Morgan Freeman2016

    • asking what is actually known about the historical Jesus
    • a first-person documentary about faith and doubt

    Good for you if you like learning how ancient civilizations imagined their gods.

  • Pray Away2021

    • a first-person documentary about faith and doubt

    Good for you if you want the true story of conversion therapy told by those who led it.

  • Salesman1969

    • a first-person documentary about faith and doubt

    Good for you if you like watching real door-to-door salesmen at work in 1960s America.

  • Hail Satan?2019

    • a first-person documentary about faith and doubt

    Good for you if you want to meet the real people behind a movement that sounds like a joke.

  • A1998

    • a first-person documentary about faith and doubt

    Good for you if you want to see the Aum sect from inside, a year after the Tokyo subway attack.

  • I Am Not Your Negro2017

    • asking what is actually known about the historical Jesus
    • a first-person documentary about faith and doubt

    Good for you if you want Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King through James Baldwin's eyes.

  • Disclosure2020

    • asking what is actually known about the historical Jesus
    • a first-person documentary about faith and doubt

    Good for you if you want trans people telling their own story of growing up with Hollywood.

  • Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief2015

    • a first-person documentary about faith and doubt

    Good for you if you like hearing people explain how they came to believe, and how they left.

  • Religulous2008

    • a first-person documentary about faith and doubt

    Good for you if you like real people filmed in their own churches and shops.

  • The Unbelievers2013

    • a first-person documentary about faith and doubt

    Good for you if you like spending time on the road with two well-known scientists.

  • Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple2006

    • asking what is actually known about the historical Jesus
    • a first-person documentary about faith and doubt

    Good for you if you want to understand how ordinary people followed Jim Jones.

  • The Celluloid Closet1996

    • asking what is actually known about the historical Jesus
    • a first-person documentary about faith and doubt

    Good for you if you like seeing a century of Hollywood through one lens.

  • The Devil and Father Amorth2018

    • a first-person documentary about faith and doubt

    Good for you if you're curious what the director of The Exorcist saw at a real one.

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