PBS Frontline's "Pope John Paul II: The Millennial Pope," a bold, innovative biography on this controversial world leader, is a journey through the 20th century to the sources of John Paul II's character and beliefs, and the passionate reaction to him. Drawing on interviews with those who have studied and analyzed John Paul II, or whose lives have intersected with his, the program weaves a biographical narrative through several thematic chapters.
He's the charismatic Holy Father who commands great influence not only over the Catholic Church but also among world leaders and politicians and issues of human rights and social justice. Pope John Paul II is as much a prominent world figure as the presidents and monarchs. Here, now, is his biography, a telling story that covers the past 50 years of a man and spiritual leader who has been at the center of some of the world's most historic events the Holocaust, World War II, liberation theology, the demise of communism and much more.
