National Geographic to present global premiere of Morgan Freeman series in Middle East on Sunday
The new series presented by Hollywood legend Morgan Freeman, will premiere on Sunday at 10pm (Oman time) on National Geographic, stated a press release.
At a time when global events seem to be driving cultures apart, The Story of Us
aims to reveal the common humanity that lies inside each one of us. Each of the six, hour long episodes will explore a single fundamental force or topic: freedom, peace, love, social division, power and rebellion. Along the way Freeman meets and speaks with powerful world leaders, ordinary people with extraordinary stories and everyone in between.
Among those Freeman speaks with on his journeys: Albert Woodfox (The March of Freedom
), one of three prison inmates put in solitary confinement in Louisiana State Penitentiary in April 1972 after the killing of a corrections officer. He was kept in solitary confinement for more than 43 years until his conviction was overturned in 2014. He was finally released in 2016.
Paul Kagame (The Fight for Peace)
, the president of Rwanda, whose people have been able to make peace after a horrific civil war. Freeman also meets with a Tutsi who has reconciled with the Hutu who killed her family.
Joshua Coombes (The Power of Love
), a hairstylist from London who began a global social movement called #DoSomethingForNothing, which encourages people to carry out everyday small acts of kindness. For Coombes, that meant offering free haircuts to the homeless to help give them back their dignity.
Megan Phelps-Roper (Us and Them
), a prominent member of the Westboro Baptist Church before leaving in 2012. Since then, she has become an advocate for people and ideas she was once taught to despise — especially the value of empathising with people across ideological lines.
President Bill Clinton (The Power of Us
), who discusses what it’s like to bear the weight of wielding great power, both in the US and around the world.
Patrisse Cullors (The Spirit of Rebellion
), one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement. The abuse of her brother at the hands of the police started her on the road to fighting for social justice.
…And many others.
“Talking with three presidents and two Nobel Peace Prize winners and travelling to remote regions of Africa and Central America was a memorable experience for me. It was an incredible global journey to understand how human culture has taken on so many remarkable forms,” added Freeman.
The Story of Us
will air on the following satellite channels across the GCC: OSN – Channel #513
beIN – Channel #302
Ooredoo – Channel #457