Legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese, executive producer of “The Saints,” along with creator, executive producer and director Matt Leshem, and Father James Martin, a collaborator on the project, spoke with The Good Newsroom about the docuseries, which explores the lives and legacies of eight courageous saints in each episode.

With each episode focusing on a single saint, including Joan of Arc, John the Baptist, Sebastian, Maximilian Kolbe, Francis of Assisi, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene and Moses the Black, Scorsese traces more than 2,000 years of history, focusing on these extraordinary figures and their extreme acts of kindness, altruism and sacrifice.