Ideas have consequences. Martin Luther’s treatise “On the Freedom of a Christian” became the intellectual spark for one of the bloodiest uprisings in European history—the German Peasants’ War. As peasants and citizens across Central Europe rose up to demand freedom, justice, and participation, they saw themselves as executors of the Gospel. However, Luther sided with the princes and called for the violent suppression of the revolt. “The Dangerous Word – Luther and the Peasants’ War” follows the lives of three men who shaped the era: Martin Luther, Thomas Müntzer, and Michael Gaismair. Against a backdrop spanning from South Tyrol to Central Germany and Frankenhausen, the documentary paints a compelling panorama of religious renewal, social revolt, and media revolution—in a time when pamphlets and Bible translations spread new ideas with great speed. It poses the question: What remains of the peasants’ dreams, of Luther’s concept of “freedom,” and of the first calls for human rights in the 16th century? For it was the peasants who, with their “Twelve Articles,” first articulated rights that should be granted to every person, establishing a new political consciousness.