BERLIN, GERMANY - MAY 22: People walk past a billboard that shows 16th-century religious reformer Martin Luther ahead of the Protestant Church Congress on May 22, 2017 in Berlin, Germany.

The 500th anniversary of the Reformation is an opportune time to compare and reflect. This series showcases documentaries and films from Germany and the former GDR about Martin Luther. Introductions ...

(Martin Luther ... thousand-year old domination of the Church. But as the reformation expanded into a movement for social freedom, Luther found himself overwhelmed by the pace of change.

In 1502 he founded the University of Wittenberg where Martin Luther taught. During Luther's lifetime Wittenberg was the home and intellectual centre of the reformation movement of which the ...

being preached by theologian Martin Luther, who had recently launched the Protestant Reformation. Luther’s rejection of the ...