Thiry years after Martin Luther King, Jr's death, how have we reached this point where we have both the largest black middle class and the largest underclass in history. --Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

FRONTLINE presents the epic story of the rise of Christianity. Drawing upon new and sometimes controversial historical evidence, the series transports the viewer back two thousand years to the time and place where Jesus of Nazareth once lived and preached and challenges familiar assumptions and conventional notions about the origins of Christianity.