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CONTESTO STORICO
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.
← Paesi e civiltàGUARDA LA STORIA
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 guide editoriali16 titoli selezionati
GUIDA SELEZIONATA
Essenziale
A curated, accessible introduction to pivotal events and perspectives, with clear cautions about dramatization.
- Titoli
- 8
- Capitoli
- 6
- Durata
- 15h 48m
- Mix
- 8 film · 2 documentari · 0 TV
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CAPITOLO STORICO
Reformation and the German lands · sixteenth century
1505 → 1530
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Essenziale
Luther
STORIA RAPPRESENTATA 1505 → 1530
Perché guardarlo qui
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 voti
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CONTESTO STORICO
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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CAPITOLO STORICO
Empire, industry and colonial ambitions · 1871–1914
1884 → 1885
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Essenziale
Conférence de Berlin 1885 - La ruée sur l'Afrique
Berlin 1885: The Division of AfricaSTORIA RAPPRESENTATA 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 voti
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CONTESTO STORICO
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.
03
CAPITOLO STORICO
World War I and its political aftermath · 1914–1933
1917 → 11.11.1918
06
Essenziale
Im Westen nichts Neues
All Quiet on the Western FrontSTORIA RAPPRESENTATA 1917 → 11.11.1918
Perché guardarlo qui
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 voti
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CONTESTO STORICO
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.
04
CAPITOLO STORICO
National Socialism, persecution and war · 1933–1945
29.09.1938 → 30.09.1938
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Essenziale
Munich - The Edge of War
STORIA RAPPRESENTATA 29.09.1938 → 30.09.1938
Perché guardarlo qui
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 voti
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Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage
Sophie Scholl: The Final DaysSTORIA RAPPRESENTATA 1943
Perché guardarlo qui
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 voti
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Essenziale
Der Untergang
DownfallSTORIA RAPPRESENTATA 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 voti
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CONTESTO STORICO
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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CAPITOLO STORICO
Responsibility, trials and rebuilding · 1945–1961
1947
12
Essenziale
Judgment at Nuremberg
Vincitori e vintiSTORIA RAPPRESENTATA 1947
Perché guardarlo qui
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 voti
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CONTESTO STORICO
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.
06
CAPITOLO STORICO
Two German states and the end of division · 1961–1990
13.08.1961 → 09.11.1989
14
Opzionale
Królik po berlińsku
Rabbit à la BerlinSTORIA RAPPRESENTATA 13.08.1961 → 09.11.1989
Perché guardarlo qui
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 voti
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