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In 1517, a German monk sent a letter to a bishop and accidentally split Christendom in two. But the Protestant Reformation was not the work of one man, one document, or one moment. It was the product of a hundred years of institutional rot, political resentment, and failed reform that the Catholic Church could no longer contain.

This is that story.

Beginning at the Council of Constance in 1417, where the Church burned the reformer Jan Hus, declared itself renewed, and then resumed every behavior that had made reform necessary, this documentary traces the century of conditions that made Martin Luther's challenge not just possible but inevitable. The corruption of the medieval Church, the financial machinery of indulgences, the political grievances of the German princes, the arrival of the Gutenberg printing press, the quiet devastation of Erasmus, the failed conciliarist movement, and the singular moment at the Diet of Worms when one man refused to recant before the most powerful assembly in Europe.

The causes of the Protestant Reformation are usually taught as background. This episode treats them as the story itself.

What emerges is not a history of Luther's heroism or Rome's villainy, but something more interesting: a portrait of a great institution that had every opportunity to save itself, understood exactly what was being asked of it, and could not bring itself to change in time.

If you've ever wondered why the Reformation happened when it did, why the same arguments that got Jan Hus burned in 1415 made Martin Luther the most famous man in Europe a hundred years later, this is the answer.