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Season 1
7.0/1038 votesOtto and the Empire
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/26/2008
The birth of the Germans. In the struggle of the German tribes against the Hungarians, something like a sense of community emerged under the leadership of King Otto I. By obtaining the imperial dignity, he laid the foundation for a unique system of rule.
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7.4/1030 votesHeinrich and the Pope
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/28/2008
The walk to Canossa. It is a power struggle such as has never been seen before: King versus Pope. Who is the stronger? It is about power in the kingdom of the Germans and in the Christian West - and about a unique gesture, the like of which has not been seen since: Henry IV's "Walk to Canossa.
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7.1/1023 votesBarbarossa and the Lion
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/2/2008
Rivalry in the family. He is the king of the Germans and wants to rule over the Occident as emperor: the Staufer Frederick Barbarossa. His empire extends as far as southern Italy. But his rule is disputed. Powerful rivals challenge the monarch - including his former ally Henry the Lion.
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7.1/1027 votesLuther and the Nation
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/4/2008
The reformer and promoter of the German language. At first, he was just a simple monk, a doubting and struggling theologian. He became an epochal figure who united and divided Germans like no other before - without meaning to: Martin Luther.
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7.6/1024 votesWallenstein and the War
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/9/2008
Genius commander or traitor? It is a battle for religious and political supremacy in the empire and in Europe: Catholics against Protestants. One man is to defeat the supporters of the Reformation for the emperor: the general Albrecht von Wallenstein.
Director: Robert Wiezorek, Stephan Koester, Christian Twente, Martin Carazo Mendez
Writer: Martin Carazo
7.1/1021 votesFrederick the Great and the Empress
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/2008
Duel between Prussia and Austria. After the Thirty Years' War, the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation resembled a territorial puzzle. In the absence of a central power, new powers emerged on the periphery: Prussia and Austria.
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6.9/1021 votesNapoleon and the Germans
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/2008
Between freedom and repression. It is a foreign emperor, of all people, who catapults Germany into a national era: France's ruler of the century, Napoleon. His conquests and reforms brought the Germans closer together than ever before. What he succeeds in doing, no one had achieved before: the political awakening of the "German nation.
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7.0/1021 votesRobert Blum and the Revolution
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/2008
An unknown hero. A revolution - in Germany? And by no means, as Lenin later smugly told the Germans, with a proper platform ticket in their pocket! In March 1848, good subjects became determined barricade fighters.
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7.0/1024 votesBismarck and the German Empire
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/2008
From Small-State Fighter to National Fighter. After the revolution of 1848, the unsuccessful attempt at "unity from below" now came "unity from above. Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck paved the way for the first German nation state.
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6.9/1021 votesWilhelm and the World
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/2008
A monarch between megalomania and depression. The German Empire at the beginning of the 20th century: too small to rule over others and too big for the balance of power in Europe. Kaiser Wilhelm II wanted to be a world power.
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