Our popular image of the Reformation is of Martin Luther getting angry at the Catholic Church for selling indulgences, nailing 95 theses to a church door, and suddenly a new religion springing forth.

Historian Drummond (A Quite Impossible Proposal) offers an expansive biography of Thomas Müntzer (1489–1525), a radical figure of the German Reformation whom Martin Luther once called “Satan, a ...

The documentary reports on the most important stages of Thomas Müntzer's life, from his birthplace in Stolberg to his place of death in the Heldrungen fortress. The film looks at the preacher, his ...

This documentary shows the German Peasants’ War between 1524 and 1525 and looks at the role of Thomas Müntzer in it. Müntzer, who was a follower and admirer of Martin Luther, directed his resistance ...