Apocalypse!
A FRONTLINE- Documentary (120 or 2 x 60 min.)
filmed on wide-screen

Drawing on engaging interviews with historians and biblical scholars, and vivid imagery and historical pictures, this two-hour special chronicles of the fascinating history of where our ideas of the End of Time and doomsday and destruction come from, and how they have shaped our world.

APOCALYPSE! explores the impact of apocalyptic thinking from the early Middle Ages to the present, illustrating how the Book of Revelation and its symbolism has shaped the course of Western history in the second millennium - from the apocalyptic overtones of the Crusades to Hitler's apocalyptic language; from Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation to the Antichrist of the American Revolution; from the invention of the printing press to the proliferation of the Internet - and reveals how apocalypse became synonymous with Last Judgment and the end 
of the world.