Caesar's Messiah: Christianity as a Roman Invention

A very thoughtful documentary that pieces together some disparate facts, arguing that Christianity was contrived by the Flavian dynasty in Rome in the late 1st century AD/CE. It took an ancient and oft-repeated myth of a savior born of a virgin, produced Gospels written in Greek (he language of educated Romans) half a century after Jesus's death, and tried to create a more obedient and less violent counterpart to the Judean zealots who were a thorn in the side of Imperial Rome. I was dubious when I first encountered it, but watching and listening to it carefully makes it more than a little persuasive. It certainly answered some nagging questions I had as a scholar - e.g. Roman governors NEVER showed indecisiveness or weakness before the locals, and lived, yet Pilate went on to a successful governorship elsewhere. If true, the Flavian gambit didn't work, a lesson in the dictum of unintended consequences.