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Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2005)

Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief poster
Original title
Brief History of Disbelief
Directed by
Richard Denton
Genre
documentary film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
2h 58m
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Jonathan Miller presents a documentary series that traces the history of atheism. It features interviews with scientists and philosophers discussing their views on disbelief. The series also includes historical quotes read by an actor.

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What happens

A Rough History of Disbelief — known in the United States as Atheism: A Brief History of Disbelief — is a 2004 television documentary series written and presented by Jonathan Miller for the BBC and tracing the history of atheism. It was first shown on BBC Four and was repeated on BBC Two. It was first shown in the U.S. on PBS in 2007. The series includes interviews of Arthur Miller, Richard Dawkins, Steven Weinberg, Colin McGinn, Denys Turner, Pascal Boyer and Daniel Dennett giving their views on disbelief. Also presented are historical quotations from a range of atheists, agnostics and deists, read by Bernard Hill. The series consists of three 60-minute episodes: "Shadows of Doubt" "Noughts and Crosses" "The Final Hour" A series of six supplementary programmes was made from material that did not make it into the original episodes; this was dubbed The Atheism Tapes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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