100 Jahre – Der Countdown

100 Jahre – Der Countdown
Country of origin	Germany
No. of seasons	1
Release
Original network	ZDF
Original release	1999 – 1999

100 Jahre – Der Countdown (English - 100 Years - The Countdown) is a German documentary television series produced from Zolcer TV. It was first broadcast in 1999 on ZDF. The host of the series is Guido Knopp. The documentaries are usually focusing on a single event in a given year. The total length of the series was about 15 ½ hours. The series was first broadcast on the last 100 days of 1999, one episode after each of the daily news cast ZDF Heute-Journal. 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 would begin with the title. It first shows the Earth from space. The look increasingly converging, highlighted by the title tune, playing outstanding citations of this century. Those were:

"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 show before again following a brief intro. 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. Now 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) already has its own consequence.

No known episode was made for 1902, 1904, 1905, 1908, 1910, 1915, 1921, 1931, 1935, 1950, 1952, 1957, 1971, 1973, 1984 and 1996. Even the year of 1999 is no longer mentioned. 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.

With the zoom on the continents, it 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

Chapter 2: Trench Warfare

Chapter 3: Crazy Years

Chapter 4: Hitler in power

1933 - Hitler's Subreption of Power
1934 - Mao's Long March* ja
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

Chapter 10: Changing World

The series has been released on DVD. The contributions marked with * are not included on the DVD release.

External links

100 Jahre – Der Countdown at the Internet Movie Database

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