The stories were told through the generations, stories of what had happened and what was to come. "The best stories there ever were ," Charlton Heston says about the Bible's tales. In Genesis, the first of Heston's acclaimed four-part series, the renowned actor serves as storyteller. An ancient Roman amphitheater and other locales in Israel provide the settings for the Ben-Hur Academy Award winner he relies on the King James text, his dramatic skill and insightful observations plus great works of art and music to give flesh and bone to the Biblical wonder of creation, the forming of Adam and Eve, the plight of Jericho, the time of Noah, the lineage of Abraham and more.