In Europe: Travels through the Twentieth Century

Duration: 35 x 35'

Director: Roel van Broekhoven, Hans Fels, Britta Hosman, David Kleijwegt, Jorien van Nes, Walter Stokman

Producer: VPRO Television and Pieter van Huystee Film&TV

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Film director Roel van Broekhoven and best-selling historian Geert Mak take us on a grand tour through 20th century Europe. By train, car and boat, they literally flow the tracks of time, through the century, through the continent; starting off in fin de siecle Vienna, past Madrid and Volgograd, the bunkers of Berlin, the toy-cars left behind by the children of Chernobyl, ending at the ruins of Sarajevo.
They show beautiful archive material and listen to the experiences of witnesses: writers and politicians, a farmer in the Pyrenees, the grandson of the German Emperor, dozens of ordinary people whose lives have been influenced by the larger historical events. Basques, Silesians and Serbs. We are all part of Europe, but we each have our own story and our own identity.

Season 1: 18 episodes (1900-1943). Click here to to download the synopsis of each episode.

Season 2: 17 episodes (1944-2000). Click here to download the synopsis of each episode.

IN EUROPE CLUSTERS

Click here to download an overview of the clusters, including the synopsis of each episode.

Top-3: The best three episodes according to the In Europa team – and at the same time three traditional ‘highlights’ of the 20th Century: The First World War, the Holocaust and the Fall of Communism.

Top-5: The best five episodes according to the In Europa team: The First World War, the Holocaust, Germans as victims in World War II, the bloodless revolution in Portugal and the Fall of Communism.

Top-10: The best ten episodes according to the In Europa team. In chronological order, they represent many of the traditional traditional ‘highlights’ of the 20th Century.

First World War (5 episodes)

The Road to World War II, or: Interbellum (7 episodes)

Second World War (8 episodes)

Rise and Fall of the USSR (5 episodes)

Eastern Europe (5 episodes)

Former Yugoslavia (3 episodes)

Communism (11 episodes)

Revolutions (5 episodes)

Civil War (5 episodes)

Dictators (9 episodes): Lenin, Mussolini, Stalin, Franco, Hitler, Tito, Caetano and Ceausescu