100 Jahre – Der Countdown

culture July 2011 100 Jahre – Der Countdown Guido Knopp Germany ZDF 1999 1999 1 100 100 Jahre – Der Countdown (English - 100 Years - The Countdown) is a German documentary television series produced by Zolcer TV. It was first broadcast in 1999 on ZDF. The host of the series is Guido Knopp. Most of the 100 episodes focus on a single event in a given year. The total length of the series is about 16 1 2 hours. The series was first broadcast on the last 100 days of 1999, one episode after the daily news cast ZDF Heute-Journal de. Since New Year's Eve 1999 the full length of "100 Jahre" is broadcast several times a year by Phoenix. Structure Each of the ten-minute episodes begins with a title. It first shows the Earth from space. As Earth comes closer into view, the series title track plays along with historic recordings. These are: "Three, Two, One" - Apollo 11 countdown "I Have a Dream" - Martin Luther King Jr. "Do you want total war?" - Joseph Goebbels "We choose freedom!" - Konrad Adenauer "I am a Berliner" - John F. Kennedy "The wall must go!" - Willy Brandt "We are the people!" - Monday demonstrations in East Germany After the opening credits three events of the year are briefly shown followed by an introduction. In this we see the Earth again before the featured year is displayed and the view through the closed hallmark of the second-ranked 9 on the respective continent zooms. After this begins the actual sequence that is about the last-mentioned event. This is used as a hook for a more detailed consideration of the topic, not limited only to the year. Several of the previously mentioned issues are addressed briefly in other episodes. The individual effects are rotated so that when taken by itself conclusive, and the knowledge from previous episodes is not necessarily required. For example, in the wake of falling to his knees in Warsaw (1970) again reported a lot about the Warsaw Ghetto, with The Boy from Warsaw (1943) having its own segment. No known episode was made for 1902, 1904, 1905, 1908, 1910, 1915, 1921, 1931, 1935, 1950, 1952, 1957, 1971, 1973, 1984 and 1996. The year 1999 is also omitted. The years 1922, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1941, 1943, 1945, 1954, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1974, 1986 and 1991, however, had two episodes, and for 1953, three. The zooming into the continents is usually to Europe, followed by North America and Asia. South America was rarely shown, only twice (1960 - Operation Eichmann, 1982 - The Falklands War); Antarctica and Australia are not shown at all. Episodes The documentary is divided into ten chapters: Chapter 1: World on the Move 1900 - Long Live the Century 1901 - The grandmother of Europe 1903 - The Dream of Flying 1906 - The Earthquake in San Francisco 1907 - The Magician and the Empress 1909 - Votes for Women! 1911 - The Race to the South Pole 1912 - The Sinking of the Titanic 1913 - The Last German Emperor* Chapter 2: Trench Warfare 1914 - The Assassination in Sarajevo 1916 - The Hell of Verdun 1917 - The Red Revolution 1918 - Long Live the Republic! 1919 - The Dictated Peace* Chapter 3: Crazy Years 1920 - The Big Prohibition* 1922 - Mussolini's March on Rome* 1922 - The Grave of Tutankhamun 1923 - Hitler's Coup 1924 - Stalin's Grip on Power 1925 - Chaplin in the Gold Rush* 1926 - The Black Venus 1927 - The first Atlantic flight 1928 - The Medicine of the Century 1929 - The Black Friday 1930 - Gandhi's Salt March 1932 - Weimar at its End* Chapter 4: Hitler in power 1933 - Hitler's Subreption of Power 1934 - Mao's Long March* 1936 - At the Moment of Death* 1936 - The Beautiful Illusion 1937 - The Zeppelin Inferno* 1937 - Stalin, the Dictator 1938 - The Bought Peace* 1938 - The Pogrom Night Chapter 5: Total war 1939 - The Raid 1940 - Hitler in Paris* 1941 - "Operation Barbarossa" 1941 - Attack on Pearl Harbor 1942 - Crime Scene Auschwitz* 1943 - Decision at Stalingrad 1943 - The Boy from Warsaw (was not originally aired on television) 1944 - The Longest Day 1945 - The Red Flag over the Reichstag* 1945 - The Bomb Chapter 6: New Beginning 1946 - The Tribunal of the Victors 1947 - The Struggle for Israel* 1948 - Berlin Candy Bomber 1949 - Birth of the Federal Republic* 1951 - Churchill's Last Battle* 1953 - Triumph on Everest 1953 - The Coronation* 1953 - Stones Against Tanks 1954 - Marilyn Myth 1954 - The Bombing of Bikini 1955 - The Return of the Ten Thousand* Chapter 7: Cold War 1956 - The Hungarian Uprising 1958 - The King of Rock 'n' Roll 1959 - The Victory of Fidel Castro* 1960 - Operation Eichmann* 1961 - The Shock of Berlin 1962 - On the Edge of Nuclear War 1963 - The Murder of the Century 1964 - Cassius Clay becomes World Champion* 1965 - Beatlemania* 1966 - The Third Goal 1967 - The Death of Benno Ohnesorg* 1967 - War in the Holy Land 1968 - The Fatal Shot* 1968 - Words Against Tanks* Chapter 8: Changing World 1969 - Departure to the Moon 1970 - Warschauer Kniefall 1972 - The Girl from Vietnam 1972 - The Munich Massacre 1974 - The Chancellor Spy* 1974 - The Watergate Scandal 1975 - Escape from Saigon* 1976 - Uprising of the Children* 1977 - The Assignment 1978 - The Test-tube Baby* 1979 - The Power of the Ayatollah Chapter 9: Reversing years 1980 - The Strike of Gdansk* 1981 - Shots at the Pope 1982 - The Falklands War* 1983 - Hitler's Fake Diaries 1985 - Patient Zero 1986 - The Challenger Tragedy 1986 - The Meltdown at Chernobyl 1987 - The Case Barschel* 1988 - The drama of Gladbeck* (was not originally aired on television) 1989 - The Miracle of Berlin 1990 - The German Unity* Chapter 10: Changing World 1991 - Operation Desert Storm 1991 - Coup in Moscow 1992 - The Bosnian tragedy 1993 - Debacle in Somalia* 1994 - Mandela's victory 1995 - Murder in the Holy Land* 1997 - Death of a Princess 1998 - The President and the Maiden The series has been released on DVD. The contributions marked with * are not included on the DVD release. See also List of German television series External links 100 Jahre – Der Countdown Category:German documentary television series Category:1999 German television series debuts Category:1999 German television series endings Category:German-language television shows Category:ZDF original programming