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Empires - Martin Luther

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Dramatic story of the collapse of the medieval world and the birth of the modern age, following from Martin Luther's revolt against the all-powerful Vatican. Filmed across Europe, from rural Germany to Rome.

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MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.2 Ounces
Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC
Release date ‏ : ‎ February 25, 2003
Studio ‏ : ‎ Pbs Home Video
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00007K00E
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Frank Rebholz

Solid Historical Documentary, Just Drags

Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2021

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Found documentary intriguing to watch. However, the pacing does drag a little until it picks up again. Definitely worth a watch.

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C. P. Gilmore

One Man CAN Change the World!

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2012

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I had seen this video on PBS a number of times but never got to see it in its entirety, for one reason or another (mainly, because Part I was aired without Part II as a follow-up, or vice versa). That is why I ordered my own copy, and it's become one of my favorites. It is a riveting story about Martin Luther's life and times, and it tells the story better than any history book could about how the Protestant Reformation began, its spread throughout Europe, and its impact on everyone's life today. If you are into World History, Religious History, or are just plain curious what the big split between the Catholics and Protestants was all about, THIS is the video for you!

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A revolutionary (and reactionary?)

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2017

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As noted by other reviewers, the program provides more than ordinary detail about Luther's life: his childhood, early adulthood, gradual movement into rebellion, and fights over religious matters. Having earlier read a biography of Luther, I still learned more about him from this film. Most striking to me is the consistent violence embedded in Luther's psychology. Whether dealing with his father, his religious peers, the pope, the German peasants, or the Jews, Luther had an absolute compulsion not just to discuss or debate, but to destroy. In his rigid extremism and inflammatory rhetoric he emerges as a classic revolutionary in the mold of Savonarola, Patrick Henry, Fidel Castro, Lenin, Thomas Paine. There is a lot of redundancy in the comments by historians in the film. It's enough to be told two or three times that Luther helped unleash the voice of the common man in religious matters; more than that merely turns the subject into jingoism. We could gain more from the film if the other repetitions of this theme were replaced by more nuanced and illuminating reflections on Luther's historical significance. For example, we are told that Luther's revolution spread to other countries and even led to the Puritan emigration to America for religious freedom. What we are not told is that upon obtaining their freedom here, they promptly set about denying it to others and killing those who who differed with them.

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Luther, a man used by God.

Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2016

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Well written, well produced story of the man, chosen by God to change the world. He relied upon God to stand for his conviction the God's word is for the common man, not just to be used by the catholic church as tool to fill the coffers of the bankrupt church. The world was changed when he nailed his 95 Thesis to the church door. The catholic church used all their power to silence him. God had other plans.

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Harvey Rubin

This is an excellent re-enactment/documentary of the life and times of Martin Luther

Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2016

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This is an excellent re-enactment/documentary of the life and times of Martin Luther. It taught me a lot. All of the Empires series are great in that respect. You get pulled right into the time frame, so you feel you are observing from within that time. The narrators are wonderful. Liam Neeson narrated the Martin Luther series. Sigorney Weaver narrated Rome in the First Century, which is the other set of episodes that I watched.

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Lodrö Pharchin

Devilishly Deceitful

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2013

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The video comes across like a North Korean propaganda film: Our glorious leader was the best of all monks. He is nothing short than the cause of human freedom, itself. Our glorious leader was justified in founding his own religion because he was the most spiritual person of his age. You think I am exaggerating? At one point the narration actually calls Luther, "this monk who had been the Church's most devoted servant..." Really, where is the evidence that he was ever even simply a committed Catholic, much less a devoted servant, much less her most devoted servant?

Since Luther's 95 thesis are mostly fair questions concerning the abuses of indulgences that were going on at the time. The question of where Luther came in to conflict with the Church must lie elsewhere. I suspect that it was the combination of political intrigue combined with Luther's other writings that lead to this conflict. The Thesis' only role was in spreading the Luther's notoriety. However the program plays fast and loose with the truth. Sacraments are cunningly referred to as rituals giving a false impression about their true nature. If you don't already know you won't learn from this program that indulgences are only for the forgiveness of temporal punishments for already forgiven sins, which means that a sincere repentance would have already taken place. In fact this program does everything in its power to obscure what indulgences may or may not actually be. Considering this in light of the weight they put on Luther's thesis as the fulcrum of his career then it is absolutely diabolical that they would do this, and I mean that quit sincerely: if the devil were to defend his servant Martin Luther the results wouldn't likely be much different from this program.

Was Pope Leo X also a servant of satan? Yes. Is this surprising? No, I don't believe it should surprise any Christian considering how far we saw evil enter even into the ranks of Christ's chosen apostles, themselves, at the beginning. However Christ has promised that His bride would be preserved despite the sins of men of like Judas Iscariot, Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici and Martin Luther. This being exactly the point in how the Father of Lies works in this world to visit fresh evils upon it. His minions gets into the heart of a man like Giovanni then through Martin Luther's indignation they get into his heart too only to play both sides against the middle. Who suffers? The world suffers as Christ's church is chipped away at the edges and reality, itself, becomes distorted. When you combine the so-called "reformation" with other philosophical movements like modernism, men lose all sense of moral direction and you have the type of carnage we call the the 20th century.

The image of people, like some medieval Cultural Revolution, storming into the churches to defile the images of the Saints, who are in reality the instructional models of history for us on what true piety looks like in actual practice, says everything one needs to know to understand who really was the true author of the reformation. As we quickly approach 21st century's store of carnage the noise of more than 20,000 screaming and often hysterical voices of various Protestant "faiths" are drowning out John the Baptist's voice as his words can still be heard echoing through the ages.

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Sehr informativ.

Reviewed in Germany on May 12, 2017

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Gut sachlich, sehr informativ und chronologisch aufgebaut. Es gab etliche Begebenheiten, die ich so noch nicht kannte. Dadurch, dass der Film in Themenbereiche mit Kapitelüberschriften eingeteilt ist, ist er gut als Unterrichtsfilm geeignet.

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Yusuph Mbago

Very interesting

Reviewed in Germany on July 12, 2021

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In short I like the story of Martin Luther.
I need to use it in teaching the Students.
But I need DVDs which are in English language.

Bärbel Buhmann, Gorch-Fock-Str. 22, 21255 Tostedt

Preis-/Leistungsverhätnis ist ok -

Reviewed in Germany on September 9, 2014

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Im Vergleich zu allen erhältlichen Infos über Martin Luther ist in diesem Buch die Art
der Beschreibung seiner verschiedenen Lebensstationen sehr gut gelungen.

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Lutherrose

Missverständnisse unvermeidlich

Reviewed in Germany on November 5, 2014

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Eine Mischung aus Spielfilm und Dokumentation. - Wers mag...
Die Erläuterungen sind hilfreich und hochwertig.

Nur: Der Film pocht sehr stark auf Luthers Angst vor dem Teufel. Und den personifiziert er mit dem DAMALIGEN Papst. Das können Schüler oft nur schwer differenzieren. So wird der Film leicht ein Rundumschlag gegen Kirche und Ökumene überhaupt.
Das ist schade.

Wer sich daran nicht stößt bekommt gute Infos.

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