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Reformation and the German lands · sixteenth century
The Holy Roman Empire contained numerous principalities, cities and competing religious authorities. The German nation-state did not yet exist.
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History of Germany
Reformation, unification, empire, dictatorship, division and reunification
Trace key transformations in German-speaking Central Europe and the modern German state: the Protestant Reformation, nineteenth-century imperial institutions, World War I, Nazism and Holocaust, the Federal Republic, the GDR and the end of the Cold War. Earlier territories and Prussia are not equated with present-day Germany. The films require critical reading, especially when representing German perpetrators, resistance or marginalized peoples.
1505 → 19892 redaktionelle Guides16 kuratierte Titel
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Grundlegend
A curated, accessible introduction to pivotal events and perspectives, with clear cautions about dramatization.
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HISTORISCHES KAPITEL
Reformation and the German lands · sixteenth century
1505 → 1530
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Luther
DARGESTELLTE GESCHICHTE 1505 → 1530
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Introduces the Reformation and the political and theological upheaval in German principalities.
Biographical, Protestant-centered interpretation that compresses complex causes.
123 minIMDb 6.6 · 16.8K Stimmen
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Empire, industry and colonial ambitions · 1871–1914
German unification in 1871 was followed by rapid industrialization, social reforms, class conflict and German overseas imperial ambitions.
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Empire, industry and colonial ambitions · 1871–1914
1884 → 1885
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Conférence de Berlin 1885 - La ruée sur l'Afrique
DARGESTELLTE GESCHICHTE 1884 → 1885
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Portrays the Berlin Conference and Europe’s partition-making diplomacy during the scramble for Africa.
A docudrama about negotiations; African societies cannot be reduced to decisions made in Berlin.
85 minIMDb 7.1 · 32 Stimmen
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World War I and its political aftermath · 1914–1933
War and defeat undermined the Kaiserreich; the new Weimar Republic faced social division, radicalization and economic crises.
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World War I and its political aftermath · 1914–1933
1917 → 11.11.1918
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Im Westen nichts Neues
All Quiet on the Western FrontDARGESTELLTE GESCHICHTE 1917 → 11.11.1918
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Revisits the violence and collapse of German military morale in the final phase of the war.
Adapts and significantly changes Remarque’s novel; not a literal chronology of 1918.
147 minIMDb 7.8 · 348K Stimmen
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National Socialism, persecution and war · 1933–1945
The Nazi dictatorship dismantled freedoms, persecuted and murdered targeted populations, launched aggressive war and committed genocide. Films should not flatten perpetrators, victims and dissenters into equivalent experiences.
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HISTORISCHES KAPITEL
National Socialism, persecution and war · 1933–1945
29.09.1938 → 30.09.1938
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Munich - The Edge of War
München - Im Angesicht des KriegesDARGESTELLTE GESCHICHTE 29.09.1938 → 30.09.1938
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Shows the appeasement crisis and diplomatic calculations around the 1938 Munich Agreement.
Fictional spy story used to interpret real negotiations.
130 minIMDb 6.8 · 40.2K Stimmen
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Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage
DARGESTELLTE GESCHICHTE 1943
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Depicts the White Rose student resistance and Nazi state repression in 1943.
Focused on one resistance network; resistance was exceptional and diverse.
117 minIMDb 7.6 · 30.0K Stimmen
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Der Untergang
DARGESTELLTE GESCHICHTE 20.04.1945 → 02.05.1945
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Dramatizes the disintegration of the Nazi leadership in Berlin in April 1945.
The bunker perspective must not be mistaken for a complete account of Nazi crimes.
155 minIMDb 8.2 · 405K Stimmen
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Responsibility, trials and rebuilding · 1945–1961
After defeat, Germany was occupied and divided; the Holocaust and other crimes gave rise to trials, memory conflicts and institutional reconstruction.
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Responsibility, trials and rebuilding · 1945–1961
1947
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Wesentlich
Judgment at Nuremberg
Urteil von NürnbergDARGESTELLTE GESCHICHTE 1947
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Examines legal and moral responsibility of German judges for crimes under Nazism.
A fictionalized judicial drama inspired by the 1947 Judges’ Trial, not its literal transcript.
191 minIMDb 8.3 · 98.7K Stimmen
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Two German states and the end of division · 1961–1990
The Berlin Wall came to embody the split between the Federal Republic and the GDR. Intelligence services, surveillance and popular movements shaped the decades to reunification.
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HISTORISCHES KAPITEL
Two German states and the end of division · 1961–1990
13.08.1961 → 09.11.1989
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Optional
Królik po berlińsku
MauerhaseDARGESTELLTE GESCHICHTE 13.08.1961 → 09.11.1989
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Uses the rabbits inhabiting Berlin’s border strip as an unusual documentary perspective on the Wall era.
An allegorical film; human experiences of division require parallel sources.
39 minIMDb 7.5 · 961 Stimmen
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