RTE's 'Jesus: Countdown to Calvary' is a landmark documentary, which uses the production values, narrative tools and pace of a political thriller to re-tell the story of the last six days of Jesus’ life. Jesus: Countdown to Calvary sets Hugh Bonneville’s energetic and insightful exploration of that tumultuous week against a pulsating countdown-style narrative. He discovers how a perfect storm of social, political and religious factors brought an itinerant Jewish healer and preacher into conflict with the most powerful forces in his world and led, in the space of just six days, to his death. Jesus: Countdown to Calvary is RTÉ’s first co-production with ARTE. It’s also RTÉ’s first co-production with American Public Television (APT). It will air this Easter Sunday in Ireland (RTÉ One) and also in France & Germany (ARTE), the USA & Canada (APT/PBS), Australia & New Zealand (ABC & History), Norway (NRK), Switzerland (RSI) and Denmark (DR).