How do you cover 3,000 years of conflict in thirty seconds? That was the challenge presented by CNN’s epic new original series: Jerusalem: City of Faith and Fury.

In order to represent the six major battles that have shaped Jerusalem, CNN created the concept of “Sands of Time,” featuring artifacts of war left strewn about in the sands surrounding the desert city. The wind reveals the buried elements, and through those reveals we establish a timeline, going back as far as David versus Goliath to the Six-Day War between Israel and a coalition of three Arab states.

CNN brought this concept to Santa Monica, Calif.-based Minted Content for the shoot, edit and finishing. The result was the above trip through the times and sands of the city, culminating in the reveal of modern Jerusalem.

Jerusalem: City of Faith and Fury, narrated by Ewan McGregor, airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CNN.

CREDITS

Client: CNN Worldwide

Chief Marketing Officer: Allison Gollust

Senior Vice President: Rick Lewchuk

Vice President, Group Creative Director: Whit Friese

Creative Director: Sean Houston

Marketing Director: Lara Hurst

Senior Writer/Producer: Nicole Giles

Senior Design Manager: Brandon Campbell

Marketing Production Assistant: Jaimee Rindy

Senior Director of Production: Matt Barnett

Senior Production Manager: Nichole Goralnik

Production Resource Manager: Denise Patierno

Editor: Andy Garland

Production Agency: Minted Content

Director: Dan Gifford

Executive Producer: Lance O’Connor

Executive Producer: Edina Sallay

Producer: Sean Barney

Directory of Photography: Lol Crawley

Production Designer: Alexander Delgado

Edit: Cut+Run

Executive Producer: Amburr Farls

Managing Director: Michelle Eskin

Senior Producer: Brian Mulvey

Editor: Luc Giddens

Assistant Editor: Kelly Henson

Sound, Mix: Vaudeville Sound

Executive Producer: Annabelle Dunbar-Whittaker

Audio Engineer: Ben Freer

VFX: MPC

Executive Producer: Karen Anderson

Producer: Chris Preston Barnes

Senior Producer: Elissa Norman

Line Producer: Zahid Khan

Creative Director: Morten Vinther

Colourist: Ricky Gausis

Lead Compositor: Chris Green

Compositor: Todd Sarsfield

Shoot Supervisor: Daniel Mellitz

Digital Matte Painter: Daniel Bayona

Tracking: Nishant Ekka

Clean up: Sangeetha M

Roto: Prabhakaran Murugan

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