Product Details

• Actors: Peter Jennings
• Format: DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: KOCH VISION
• DVD Release Date: April 6, 2004
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0001BFDKK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #93,530 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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PETER JENNINGS REPORTS:SEARCH FOR JES - DVD Movie

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Lies, lies and a personable tour through more lies, November 20, 2010

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Marika Stone "Tiger Lily" (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ABC News Presents The Search for Jesus (DVD)

The purse string holders at ABC news paid for the hotels, camera crews, and travel expenses to make this series, but no one was at the wheel, truth-wise. If I had to guess, I would say the mission statement of ABC news was the same as that of Time and Newsweek, when every year at Easter or Christimas they quote the same buffoonish scholar-skeptics to "prove" that Jesus was not who he said he was. As if pretty pictures, "quote marks," and "academic credentials" will somehow morph into truth greater than God's message. I'm not blaming Peter Jennings. He did go as far as most journalists go in asking dogged questions. The trouble is, the information is only as accurate as the sources, and they are not, in this series, telling the viewers the facts. Matthew, Mark, and John WERE eyewitnesses, and the gospels were not written way later by some weirdos. Luke was a Roman physician who did do careful journalistic research after Jesus' crucifixion, and he interviewed many who saw Jesus after come back to life after three days. There were 500 witnesses at least. There is much evidence, as others have pointed out, so I would only recommend this series as a travelogue to the modern Holy Land. Get some real sources if you actually want truth. A point-by-point refutation of the inaccuracies in the Search for Jesus would be a good thing, yet I doubt it would convince the people who actually believe the ABC news version, anyway.
(There are at least a dozen printed point-by-point refutations of Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code by actual scholars (some of whom used to be skeptics), but they keep migrating to the back shelves, while lots of friends of mine still prefer to believe a novelist rather than people who've done the research.)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Be Duped!, September 25, 2009

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AMAZED - See all my reviews

This review is from: ABC News Presents The Search for Jesus (DVD)

Unfortunately, Peter Jennings who I really still like, was duped by so called "Bible scholars" called the "Jesus Seminar". Sounds good, but underneath it all, this video promoted their biased belief that the historical Jesus and the Biblical Jesus were different. Rather than being duped as Mr.Jennings was by both titles, prestige, and the rather seemingly innocent sounding name of this group--"Jesus Seminar" your money would be better spent in the name of "a journalistic investigation" by viewing the DVD, "A Case For Christ" by Lee Strobel who himself was a Chicago Tribune reporter and self-proclaimed atheist. In the "Case For Christ" real "students" of the Bible are interviewed and you can make up your own mind about the matter.

27 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Faithful to Factual Data, July 29, 2004

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Salvador A. Delarosa III (San Antonio, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ABC News Presents The Search for Jesus (DVD)

I saw this when it was shown on television. I was enthralled by the fact that it presented the factual history of the life of Jesus the Christ.
I recently purchased it through Amazon.com and viewed it immediately upon recieving the package.
I would like to inform the reader that I am a devout Christian of the Catholic religion who is not afraid to listen to, or read about, nor even see films that contain historical, archaelogical data to support their viewpoints on the life of the one now known to us as Jesus the Christ. All the other previous reviewers cannot deny the facts. All they can do is beg the Bible when it comes to espousing their viewpoints on Christianity. They'll even tell us that we are blasphemers and will rot in hell for not believing in what they believe. But most of them are not even faintly familiar with the actual history of the Bible. Well, I feel sorry for them. Hey, it's the Christian thing to do, is it not?
Anyway, job well done in presenting the FACTS, Mr.Jennings. I await the release on DVD of the episode you recently did on the historical life of Mary, the mother of Jesus the Christ.