
The Case for Christ
Lee Strobel spent years as an award-winning legal journalist and self-described atheist before setting out to disprove the resurrection of Jesus and, he says, ending up convinced of the opposite. This film follows that investigation, built around interviews with biblical scholars, historians, and theologians who walk through the manuscript evidence, the archaeological record, and the accounts of the crucifixion and empty tomb. Strobel treats the project like the reporting job it started as, cross-examining sources rather than simply presenting conclusions, and the film keeps returning to his own skepticism as the test the evidence has to pass. Alongside the historical case, people from different backgrounds describe how belief in the resurrection changed their lives, giving the argument a personal register alongside the documentary one. The film does not pretend the historical Jesus is uncontroversial, but it argues its case from a journalist's checklist of evidence rather than from doctrine alone.