"Luther" (2003)

In the 1500s lived a German monk named Martin Luther. He, one man alone, took a stable and united Europe and shattered it. By his own admission, tens of thousands died as a result of the revolution he began, the face of western Religion, economics, politics, and culture were forever shifted. For these reasons, every American, every German, every Canadian, Mexican, Latino, European, Christian, everyone should be eternally thankful.

A dramatized biography of a monumentally revolutionary man, this movie is awe-inspiring. Justice and mercy, tradition and revolution, religion and reason, politics and plain truth all shattered and melted together. Everything that's happened in the Western world in 500 years was influenced by this one man.

Given this glowing review of Luther, both the man and the movie, I should make it clear that I am not Lutheran. I don't consider him infallible (far from it, actually), I just recognize a revolutionary, a pivotal identity in history, and respect him accordingly. If you are so supremely anti-Christian as to be unwilling to watch this movie, you can find movies about Ghandi, Emperor Qin, or Buddha. But, without an outline of knowledge of the influence of Martin Luther you remain intellectually crippled, unable to understand why and what Western Culture is.