Furor Teutonicus, pax Romana
Subtitle: the saga of the Goths
By: a production of Gruppe 5 Filmproduktion [for] ZDF ; English version by SBS TV, Australia
Contributors: Duncan, Alastair, 1926-2005. narration; Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; SBS TV (Television station : Australia); Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Series: The Wandering tribes of Europe; Storm over Europe, the wandering tribes; Storm over Europe
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 53
Subjects: Documentary television programs; Historical television programs; Germanic peoples; History; Teutonic race; Goths
Other titles: Wandering tribes of Europe; Saga of the Goths; End of Rome
Description: At the time the Roman Empire supplanted the failed Republic, the Rhine River marked Rome's northern frontier in western Europe, until Emperor Augustus tried to push the boundary east to the Elbe. This program focuses on the events during the 1st through 4th centuries and traces the movements of the Goths and the tribes of Germania. Includes the battle in the year 9 when Arminius, leader of the Germanic resistance to Roman colonization, destroyed three Roman legions under Publius Varus.

"This ... four-part series takes an in-depth look at the history of Europe's wandering tribes: their migrations in search of land, their ensuing clashes with the Romans and the Huns, and their adoption, overtime, of Christianity. Dramatic reenactments, computer-generated re-creations of period architecture, maps, images of anthropological and historical artifacts, and insights from leading scholars create a compelling picture of life and death in ancient and early medieval Europe."--Container.
Notes: "30643."

Originally produced for television broadcast.

Writer, director, Christian Feyerabend.

Narrator, Alastair Duncan.

DVD.