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6 Episodes 2021 - 2021
Episode 1
Sun, Jul 18, 202139 mins
After seizing Canaan, the Israelites wage war, ending in the battle of David and Goliath. David is made ruler and names Jerusalem as the new capital of the United Kingdom of Israel. Upon his death, David's son ascends to the throne, but proves to be a different ruler.
Episode 2
Sun, Jul 25, 202140 mins
When King Herod claims Jerusalem from the Hasmoneans, he angers Cleopatra, who wants to reclaim Judea for her Kingdom of Egypt. Despite this conflict, Herod the Great manages to modernize the ancient city, revolutionizing the city of God forever.
Episode 3
Sun, Aug 1, 202139 mins
Jerusalem has become a holy city for three of the major faiths of the world, and this brings them into conflict. Tension reaches a climax during the epic battle between Saladin and Richard the Lionheart during the Third Crusade. As these two prominent military strategists go to war, the fate of the holy city hangs in their balance.
Episode 4
Sun, Aug 8, 202139 mins
World War I finds Jerusalem under Ottoman rule. Prince Faisal leads an Arab revolt, aided and encouraged by Britain. The war ends with the British in control, declaring the Crusades over and setting in train the city's next great conflict.
Episode 5
Sun, Aug 15, 202140 mins
While World War II rages, in the Middle East, Palestinian Arabs feel trapped between competing forces. When the British Mandate ends and the state of Israel is declared, war breaks out immediately. At its end almost a year later, Israel's independence is secured, while Transjordan too has made gains. But the Holy City lies divided, with a no-man's land of barbed wire separating East from West.
Episode 6
Sun, Aug 22, 202140 mins
Israel and its Arab neighbors are at war again on the streets of the Old City itself. War comes directly to Jerusalem, with fighting taking place in the narrow streets of the Old City itself. But while Israel emerges victorious, its control of Palestinian Arab communities, on territory ear-marked for a Palestinian state, creates the dilemma still plaguing the Holy Land to this day.