Prologue by Friedrich Heer
Introduction by Xaver Schnieper
The code of Hammurabi, ca. 1700 B.C.
The Ten Commandments, ca. 1300
The laws of Solon, ca. 590
Buddha: truth and enlightenment, ca. 500
The great wisdom of Confucius, ca. 480
Plato's vision of the state, ca. 375
The tao of Lao-Tse, ca. 300
The sermon on the mount, ca. 25 A.D.
The epistle to the Romans, 57-58
The Koran of Mohammed, ca. 650
The Magna Charta [sic], 1215
St. Francis: canticle of the sun, 1225-1226
Nicholas of Cusa: De Pace Fidei, 1453
Martin Luther's protest, 1517
Grotius on international order, 1625
The Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776
The United States Constitution, 1787
Declaration of the Rights of Man, 1789
Kant's Peace Manifesto, 1795
The Communist Manifesto, 1848
Gandhi: the power of non-violence, 1920
China's Declaration to All Nations, 1925
The Atlantic Charter, 1941
Scientists' warning: the Franck Report, 1945
The Charter of the United Nations, 1945
Hirohito's New Year's message, 1946
Voice of the Third World: Frantz Fanon, 1961
John XXIII: Pacem in Terris, 1963
The Pioneer 10 plaque, 1972
Documentary sequence: political and social context.
