Resultados para "Das Original" en Política y activismo

Nochevieja de 1999, un joven Vladímir Putin aparece en las televisiones rusas: incómodo, cohibido...y declarado nuevo presidente. Dos décadas más tarde, aún conserva el poder, pero ahora es un hombre desacomplejado que se desenvuelve a la perfección en la escena mundial. ¿Cómo es que un burócrata de la KGB, un rostro hasta entonces desconocido, se ha convertido en una de las figuras más dominantes del panorama político del siglo XXI?

En la actualidad, China constituye una de las economías más grandes del mundo, y, según diversos analistas, en las próximas décadas será la primera potencia del globo.

Una de las figuras más peculiares de la historia rusa. De orígenes campesinos, habitante de la Siberia y poseedor de un carisma avasallador, a los 30 sufrió una especie de conversión trasformándose en un místico y sanador que usaba el rezo como arma de curación.

"El método Merkel" profundiza en la historia de la primera mujer canciller de Alemania. Dirk Kurbjuweit trabaja en el periódico "Spiegel" y ha escrito mucho sobre Angela Merkel. En este documental sonoro, nos resume los años de su cancillería y, además, dos décadas de historia europea. Con grabaciones originales de múltiples discursos, repasaremos la carrera política de una de las personalidades más fascinantes de Alemania.

Fue el 124 emperador de Japón. De carácter reservado y gentil, su ascensión al trono estuvo plagada de vicisitudes. La vida de Hirohito, un soberano obligado a comportarse como un monarca constitucional al estilo europeo, es también el testimonio de un hombre atrapado entre una existencia casi -divina-, el reiterado temor a perder su trono y las sombras de un misterio (su responsabilidad exacta en la militarización japonesa y el desastre atómico de 1945).

The Romans hated Pompey’s greedy father, Strabo, with a vengeance. Yet when Pompey rose in prominence, Plutarch notes that he developed the opposite character, and the Romans loved him for it. Pompey had many great accomplishments in his military and political life, but his legacy lies in forming the First Triumvirate with Crassus and Caesar. When the alliance eventually dissolved, and Pompey fled from Caesar to his death, the Roman world would never be the same.  

Militant à l'engagement sans faille, Jorge Semprún a donné corps à ses idéaux de démocratie et de liberté tout au long de sa vie. Dans ce témoignage incarné, le grand homme retrace sa vie de combats : de la Résistance dans la France occupée au camp de Buchenwald, de sa lutte dans la clandestinité sous l'Espagne franquiste à son poste de Ministre de la Culture une fois la République rétablie.

The decline and fall of Rudy Giuliani, from “America’s Mayor” to public spectacle, has all the makings of a modern Shakespearean tragedy. Those who know Giuliani, whose tough leadership and even tougher politics helped revitalize New York City in the 1990s and lead the country through 9/11, have stood by and watched with incredulity as he put himself at the heart of impeachment charges against the President.

Follow the life and legacy of Ronald Reagan in this course by his acclaimed biographer Dr. Steven F. Hayward. Dr. Hayward is an accomplished scholar and conservative public intellectual who has taught and held fellowships at Georgetown University, UC Berkeley, and the American Enterprise.

Sin duda, la figura más relevante del mundo del espionaje y contraespionaje previo a la I Guerra Mundial. Su paso por el servicio, marcado por la innovación, promovió el uso de las tecnologías más avanzadas de su tiempo para detectar y arrestar agentes extranjeros, vender información al mejor postor, y lucrar con lo obtenido para llevar una vida glamorosa en las fauces del Imperio Austro-Húngaro, la tierra que lo vio nacer.

Alexander the Great-one of the most renowned figures in antiquity-has inspired everything from medieval romances to blockbuster movies, and military leaders from Julius Caesar to Napoleon to the U.S. general Norman Schwarzkopf. But who was this great king of Macedon? And why is he so legendary? These 36 spellbinding lectures take you deep inside the world of Alexander to witness the astonishing feats of military genius that made his name renowned for millennia after his death.

In these 12 inspiring lectures, Professor Fears presents a well-balanced portrait of Churchill that does not whitewash his flaws. Yet he also draws on the most recent historical scholarship and material from Churchill's writings and speeches to make the case that Churchill belongs with Pericles of Athens and Abraham Lincoln as one of the greatest statesmen in the history of democracy.

Boris Johnson, l'ex sindaco di Londra che si schierò a sorpresa per l'uscita dall'Ue durante la campagna refendaria, sarà il premier che gestirà la Brexit fissata al 31 ottobre, con ancora molte incognite. Il nuovo primo ministro britannico divide, ai molti sostenitori si oppongono numerosi detrattori e i giudizi sono estremi: è uno statista o un clown? Sarà un Dr. Jekyll o un Mr. Hyde?

Notre histoire commence à Paris le 13 juillet 1793, à la prison du Temple. Marie-Antoinette, prisonnière dans sa cellule, n'est plus reine de France. La reine déchue sait qu'elle va bientôt être séparée de son enfant pour toujours. Dans quelques mois, elle sera exécutée place de la Révolution. Elle profite de ses derniers instants avec son fils Louis-Charles, devenu Louis XVII à la mort de son père Louis XVI, pour lui raconter l'histoire de sa vie.

In this powerful essay, the mother of Trayvon Martin shares her grief, reflections, anger, and hope in the wake of a single unforgivable moment that catalyzed the Black Lives Matter movement.

Few things illustrate the magnetism of the Kennedy era like Marilyn Monroe co-headlining the President's massive birthday fundraiser, and suggestively crooning "Happy Birthday." But only a privileged few know what happened months earlier, when the two icons spent a weekend at a private summit hosted by Bing Crosby, and later, after the New York extravaganza, at the top secret, invitation-only midnight affair at a millionaire's Manhattan town house.

This is the year of the Bubble, a vacated Disney World, and the nearly one hundred days that 350 players and personnel from twenty-two NBA teams isolated from their friends and family, testing their patience for a dorm-style solution to America’s lost pandemic sports season - but also inspiring them. In a country violently divided by more than COVID-19, the Lakers rise to the occasion. From initial quarantine to the best basketball ever played by LeBron James and Anthony Davis to transitioning again to the real world, Jared Dudley shares his winning memories....

On the occasion of the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, respected royal broadcaster Jennie Bond explores the life of the longest reigning British monarch.

The brutalized body of 14-year-old Emmett Till was published in Jet magazine at the insistence of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. Mamie wanted the horrific photograph of her son’s lynched body to be displayed for the world to see, to expose America to its own barbaric acts of racial terror. As such, Emmett’s death and Mamie’s actions afterwards would ignite a crucial moment in the civil rights movement, changing the course of history forever.

Der Adel ist nicht totzukriegen. Vor hundert Jahren wurde er in Deutschland abgeschafft und dennoch scheint für uns kaum etwas so spannend wie die glamourösen Geschichten aus Europas Königshäusern.