Storia della famiglia tedesca degli Essenbeck, industriali metallurgici, nel biennio 1933-34, dall'incendio del Reichstag alla “notte dei lunghi coltelli” in cui le SS fecero strage delle SA. Poeta del negativo, Visconti riprende qui – tenendo d'occhio Macbeth di Shakespeare, I demoni di Dostoevskij, Götterdämmerung di Wagner e Thomas Mann – la sua vocazione di registratore di crolli, profanatore di romanticismi, cantore di corruzioni e dissoluzioni. Forzature, dissonanze, compiacimenti sono i peccati minori di un film di fosca potenza, con attori di prim'ordine. Ribattezzato malignamente “La saga dei Buddenkrupp”.

In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.

This is part one of a two-part biopic about Karl Liebknecht. In 1914, Germany is arming itself for war. Karl Liebknecht, left-wing revolutionary Social Democrat, workers’ leader and a virulent antimilitarist, is one among 110 SPD members of Parliament who vote against approving war loans. From then on, he is considered un-German and a traitor to the fatherland, and his own party’s leadership turns against him. Despite threats, Liebknecht speaks up against the war and writes the manifesto “The Main Enemy Is at Home.” Even when he is arrested and charged with treason, he does not surrender.

Short educational film about the society of the weimar republic.

Mr Surgeoner takes the viewer on an enthralling journey through the SQA Higher History course.