Breaking the Da Vinci Code (2005)

This program is not smug, dishonest, or desperate as its partisan critics protest. It simply presents the historical facts that have been documented to be contemporary with Jesus Christ, and asserts that Dan Brown's followers cannot defend his work as a work of fiction when Brown himself claims in his own work that it is uniformly factual. There is no documentary or historical evidence of Brown's claims; he repeatedly misrepresents historical facts; and duplicate errors in works he has plagiarized demonstrate his lack of intellectual integrity. Brown may promote his own books as he sees fit; he should just not do so dishonestly or disingenuously. Yes, conspiracy theories sell nowadays; but history, and especially church history, has been openly transparent and never as sordid as Brown represents. Any truly open mind will listen to fact rather than preselected bias. Three stars.