Eikon Film / Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
Luther (2003)
A feature-length biographical drama with Joseph Fiennes as Martin Luther, from his early crisis of conscience as a monk through the Ninety-five Theses, Worms and the Peasants' War. It was partly funded by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans and released in US cinemas in 2003.
Why this is listed
JustWatch US page confirmed: 2h 3min, PG-13, rent for $3.99 or buy for $14.99 on Amazon Video and Apple TV, no free or subscription option at check time. Wikipedia and ELCA news confirm the Thrivent funding and the 2003 release.
Before you press play
A feature-film account of Luther's life to the Diet of Augsburg. Dialogue is invented and the timeline compressed. Rated PG-13: a suicide's body, a hanging, and the violence of the Peasants' War. Teens and up.
Suited to Adults. Age judgements are ours, not a rating board’s — you know your own family.
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- Watch it yourself before you watch it with children, if there are children.
- Read the passage it dramatises alongside it. The point is to send you back to the text, not to replace it.
- Afterwards, ask what the story added and what it left out. That conversation is worth more than the film.
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