Nepal

Find out what people do for faith in the most spectacular sacred places on the planet.

Life of the Buddha is a major new landmark documentary following Buddha on his journey from the lap of luxury to the verge of starvation and final enlightenment. Shot on location in Nepal and India, Life of the Buddha uses dramatic computer-generated images and recent archaeological discoveries to piece together this remarkable story.

In the greatly anticipated third season of The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, the legendary Academy Award winner continues his groundbreaking adventure. Morgan travels to ancient religious sites and modern-day centers of spiritual meaning to participate in dazzling cultural spectacles and hear moving personal stories. He explores the ways different religions shape our lives and the underlying themes that our faiths have in common. In this episode Morgan Freeman explores the role that the devil plays in various religions. From the ascetic monks in the Judean desert to the Buddhists of Nepal, he'll learn what purpose the figure of the devil serves.

Morgan Freeman delves into why many religious believers desire to see God in human form - and how that strengthens their faith. From a living Kumari Goddess in the mountains of Nepal, to the Crown of Thorns many Christians believe was worn by Jesus during the crucifixion, Morgan will discover that these tangible connections help people make sense of the divine.

Professor Brian Cox combines some of the most spectacular sights on Earth with our deepest understanding of the universe to reveal how the planet's beauty is created by just a handful of forces.

In this fascinating documentary, historian Bettany Hughes travels to the seven wonders of the Buddhist world and offers a unique insight into one of the most ancient belief systems still practised today. Buddhism began 2,500 years ago when one man had an amazing internal revelation underneath a peepul tree in India.

Two statues, a temple, a hanging garden, two tombs and a lighthouse. This selection of monuments became known as "The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World". There are probably few who could list them right away, are even fewer who know something about each of them or the reasons for which they were labeled as Wonders. Six of those seven were destroyed by forces of nature, or by human hand. Each episode in this series describes one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and we see besides the monuments themselves the people who designed and built them, with the vision to create something wonderful.

In the 1990s, a high Himalayan cave in Upper Mustang, Nepal, was discovered that contained 42 ancient people, buried on wooden bunk beds. American archaeologist, Dr. Mark Aldenderfer, believes there must be more burial caves but the challenge is how to find them, deep within cliff faces in the cold and inhospitable environment of the Himalaya. He needs the world's best technical climbers to do the searching.

In Search of Myths and Heroes is an enjoyable series of programs: well researched, dynamic, visually sumptuous and informative. These programs are not out to give exhaustive explanations of historical events. Instead, they approach the heavy subject matter with a light touch, a sense of adventure and the feel of a quest – searching for factual evidence of fictional characters.