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- DirectorGustav UcickyStarsWerner KraussGrete MosheimRudolf ForsterThe story of General Yorck von Wartenburg, a commander in the army of Prussian King Wilhelm, who defied the king's orders for the Prussian army to join Napoleon in his invason of Russia.
- DirectorChristian TwenteStarsThomas ThiemePeter MeinhardtHubertus Hartmann150 years ago, the German Empire was proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles: a revenge on the defeat of Jena in 1806. From the battle of Sedan in September 1870, followed by the surrender of France to Prussia, to January 18, 1871, the date on which King William I of Prussia was proclaimed emperor, the unification of Germany was largely built thanks to Otto von Bismarck. While in France the Second Empire had collapsed, the chancellor, through his power of persuasion, succeeded in obtaining the consent of the German princes.
- DirectorChristian-JaqueStarsMicheline PresleBerthe BovyLouise ConteTen people fleeing Rouen invaded by the Prussians, Rousset nicknamed ball of tallow among them, give to a Prussian to save other passengers who still despise. However, on later nobody could underestimate her being how brave .
- DirectorJohannes MeyerStarsMarianne HoppePaul HartmannGustaf GründgensA feisty young German woman cuts her hair and dons black armor to help the resistance of Braunschweig in 1809 against occupying Napoleonic troops.
- DirectorCarl FroelichWalter SupperArzén von CserépyStarsOtto GebührOlga TschechowaElga BrinkThe story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia of his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in Europe.
- DirectorPaul WegenerStanislaw WasylewskiStarsMichael BohnenLil DagoverMarieluise ClaudiusAn egotistical Saxon monarch reclaims the throne of Poland from the Swedish Karl XII in 1709 with Russian help.
- DirectorJosef von BákyStarsLuise UllrichWerner KraussKäthe HaackA Berlin woman grows up in the wake of Prussia's victory over France in 1870 and lives to see her grandchildren participating in the military successes of Germany under Hitler.
- DirectorHans SteinhoffStarsEmil JanningsWerner HinzLeopoldine KonstantinThe story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.
- DirectorErich WaschneckStarsPaul HartmannAnnelies ReinholdClementia EgiesPrussian General Roedern is designing the top secret blueprints of a fortress. When one of the designs is found in the embassy of the hostile Austrians, Roedern is charged with treason. His lover Maria wants to join him in his confinement.
- DirectorBasil DeardenStarsStewart GrangerJoan GreenwoodFlora RobsonYoung Sophie Dorothea marries Prince George Louis but it's far from a love match. Then she falls for Swedish Count Philip Christoph von Königsmark.
- DirectorWolf DietrichStarsGerhart LippertHans-Reinhard MüllerOswald FuchsA chronicle of the lives of the inhabitants of the Bavarian village Sachrang during the years of the Napoleonic wars (1791-1814). The main character is Peter Müllner, who has been away to the big city of Munich to study there, and who is seen as a rebel and reformer when he returns to the village. Not all of the villagers see eye to eye with him and his modern ideas.