Documentary: Die Deutschen (The Germans) S01E09 'Bismarck und das Deutsche Reich' (Ger&Eng Subs)
Production: ZDF
Subtitles/Translation: Jerry Sa

Genre: Documentary, history

Starring:

Hans Mittermüller
David C. Bunners
Mickey Hardt
Gabriel Spahiu
Guntbernt Warns
Bernd Gnann
Georg Prang
Stefan Jürgens
Ulrich Wiggers
Yasmina Djaballah
Adrian Vancica
Hansjürgen Hürrig
Cristian Motiu
Steffen Münster
Susann Uplegger
Mircea Caraman
Vlad Radescu
Constantin Draganescu
Udo Schenk
Benjamin Morik
Michael Pink

"Die Deutschen" ("The Germans") is a German television documentary produced for ZDF that first aired from October to November 2008. Each episode recounts a selected epoch of German History, beginning (first season) with the reign of Otto the Great and ending with the collapse of the German Empire at the end of the First World War. In November 2010 the second season of "Die Deutschen" was published in German television (ZDF and ZDFneo), beginning with Charlemagne, the Frankish King, and ending with Gustav Stresemann, the Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic." (wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Deut...)

'German Confederation' (Deutsche Bund) 1815-1866, was a loose association of 39 German states in Central Europe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Confederation

'North German Confederation' (Norddeutscher Bund) 1866-1870/71, was a federation of 22 independent states of northern Germany: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_German_Confederation

Prussian 'Needle-Gun' (Zündnadelgewehr):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyse_needle_gun

'Battle of Königgrätz' (Schlacht von Königgrätz) 1866:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_K%C3%B6niggr%C3%A4tz

'Battle of Sedan' (Schlacht von Sedan) 1870:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sedan_(1870)

Ems Dispatch (Emser Depesche) of 1870:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ems_Dispatch

"Heil dir im Siegerkranz" 1871-1918 the unofficial national anthem of the German Empire:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heil_dir_im_Siegerkranz

Bismarck quote: "We will not go to Canossa -- neither in body nor in spirit!":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_to_Canossa

'Founding Years' (Gründerjahre) explaination:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnderzeit

"Dropping the Pilot" (Der Lotse geht von Bord) 'British magazine Punch'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropping_the_Pilot

Other translated Documentation:

'Wilhelm und die Welt' S01E09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geB2Uvkionc

Gustav Stresemann S02E10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFSIQ2b_cw4

Napoleon und die Deutschen S01E07
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f59SOxNmcyU