Martin Luther: The Idea that Changed the World (2017)
• February 15th, 2017 • 1h 54min
Documentary, History
Overview
The year 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of one on the most important events in Western civilization: the birth of an idea that continues to shape the life of every American today. In 1517, power was in the hands of the few, thought was controlled by the chosen, and common people lived lives without hope. On October 31 of that year, a penniless monk named Martin Luther sparked the revolution that would change everything. He had no army. In fact, he preached nonviolence so powerfully that — 400 years later — Michael King would change his name to Martin Luther King to show solidarity with the original movement. This movement, the Protestant Reformation, changed Western culture at its core, sparking the drive toward individualism, freedom of religion, women's rights, separation of church and state, and even free public education. Without the Reformation, there would have been no pilgrims, no Puritans, and no America in the way we know it.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Tin Drum
Released on: 1979-05-02
Drama, History, War
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
Grand Illusion
Released on: 1937-06-04
Drama, History, War
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...
Night and Fog
Released on: 1959-04-27
Documentary, War
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
Pope Joan
Released on: 2009-10-22
Drama, History, Romance
A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as ...
Beyond Borders: Arab Feminists Talk About Their Lives... East and West
Released on: 1999-01-01
Documentary
In the Arab world, women are fighting a two-front war against repressive internal constraints and in...
Nisei Soldiers: Japanese American G.I. Joes
Released on: 2017-04-01
Documentary, War
Leaving internment camps to defend their country in Europe, Japanese-American Nisei soldiers of WWII...
Effigy: Poison and the City
Released on: 2020-10-09
Thriller, History
1828 in the German port city of Bremen: Two very different women collide in an age that has no place...
Newton: The Dark Heretic
Released on: 2003-03-05
Documentary
A BBC documentary uncovers, for the first time, the original manuscript where Newton forecast the da...
The Magdalene Sisters
Released on: 2002-08-30
Drama, History
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as i...
Ich. Immendorff
Released on: 2007-05-31
Documentary
Documentary film about the painter and sculptor Jörg Immendorff who ranks among the most important G...
More Than Work
Released on: 2019-11-19
Documentary
Tells a story about a blurry photo of a woman who works in the media industry in Indonesia. This mov...
The Mission of Herman Stern
Released on: 2017-11-06
Documentary
This is the true story how one person made a difference in the lives of over 125 people by rescuing ...
Germany in Autumn
Released on: 1978-03-03
Documentary, Drama
Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard mov...
Without a Whisper - Konnón:kwe
Released on: 2020-11-02
Documentary
"Without a Whisper" is the untold story of how Indigenous women influenced the early suffragists in ...
Master of the Universe
Released on: 2013-11-07
Documentary
He was one of Germany's leading investment experts with an income of several million Euros per day. ...
Underplayed
Released on: 2020-04-15
Documentary, Music
Filmed over the summer festival season, Stacey Lee’s uplifting documentary examines gender inequalit...
White Man with Black Bread
Released on: 2007-01-13
Documentary
Christof Wackernagel, best known in Germany as an actor and former member of the Red Army Faction ("...
When Multinationals Attack Nation States
Released on: 2016-12-01
Documentary, TV Movie
In autumn 2016, demonstrations sprang up all over Europe against the CETA free-trade agreement betwe...
Elizabeth
Released on: 1998-09-13
Drama, History
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endle...