Passato e Presente

The Defeat of the Dardanelles

Episode dedicated to the Gallipoli campaign, that took place during World War I.

Nicolaj II, the Last Tsar

Episode dedicated to the life and death of Nicolaj II, the last Tsar of Russia: from his initial at...

The Trains of the Sun: Italy's Internal Migration in the 1950s

Episode dedicated to the phenomenon of Italy's internal migration, from Southern Italy to the North...

Duce and America

Episode dedicated to the relations between Fascist Italy and the United States: from the initial ha...

Charlemagne

Episode dedicated to Charlemagne, historical leader and first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire: fro...

Caporetto: Before the Battle

First of three episodes dedicated to the centenary of the Battle of Caporetto (1917): an analysis o...

Battle Name: Lenin

Episode dedicated to Vladimir Ilic Uljanov, better known as Lenin: from his exile in Switzerland an...

Italian Prisoners of the Allies

Episode dedicated to the vicissitudes of Italian soldiers who were taken prisoner during World War...

Discord's Final: 1976 Davis Cup in Chile

Episode dedicated to the 1976 Davis Cup final, played in Santiago between Chile and Italy: from the...

Caporetto: the Battle

Second of the three episodes dedicated to the centenary of the Battle of Caporetto (1917): a detail...

Tucci, Duce's Explorer

Episode dedicated to the figure of Giuseppe Tucci, a scholar of the East, a great connoisseur of la...

Anne Frank, a Denied Memory

Episode dedicated to the figure of Anne Frank, a young Dutch Jew who went down in history thanks to...

Trotsky, the Impossible Revolution

Episode dedicated to Lev Davidovic Bronstein, better known as Trotsky: refined intellectual and the...

Charles VIII in Italy

Episode dedicated to the Charles VIII's 1495 military campaign in Italy: from the conquest of the K...

Martin Luther, the Rebel

Episode dedicated to Martin Luther, "father" of the Protestant Reformation: from his initial studie...

Caporetto's Refugees

Last of the three episodes dedicated to the centenary of the Battle of Caporetto (1917): an analysi...

Stalin, the Age of Terror

Episode dedicated to Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, better known as Stalin, that went down to h...

The Fascist Woman

Episode dedicated to women under Fascism: a status poised between dictatorship's attempt to force t...

Lawrence of Arabia, Prince of the Desert

Episode dedicated to Thomas Edward Lawrence, better known as "Lawrence of Arabia": history and myth...

Memoirs of Deportation

Episode dedicated to the reconstruction of the deportations of Jews and other prisoners during Worl...

Dunkirk: "Operation Dynamo"

Episode dedicated to the so-called "Operation Dynamo", the gigantic evacuation operation of Anglo-F...

Pitigrilli, Writer and Spy

Episode dedicated to Dino Segre, also known as "Pitigrilli": one of Turin's most read writers who,...

The Assembly Line

Episode dedicated to the assembly line, the innovation in the industrial production by Frederick Ta...

Lyndon B. Johnson

Episode dedicated to Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States: from his first politic...

Nikita Khrushchev

Episode dedicated to Nikita Khrushchev, Secretary of the CPSU and successor of Stalin to the leader...

Giorgio La Pira, Politics and Utopia

Episode dedicated to Giorgio La Pira, politician of the Italian Republican Party and historic mayor...

Ernest Hemingway

Episode dedicated to Ernest Hemingway, one of the most important writers of the 20th century, who c...

Elizabeth and Philip

Episode dedicated to Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and her prince consort Philip of Edinburgh:...

The Inquisition and the Cathars' heresy

Episode dedicated to the Cathars and the Inquisition, a special institution created by the Catholic...

Italian Military Internees: Voices from Captivity

Episode dedicated to the "Italian Military Internees", the Italian soldiers captured by the Germans...

Gaddafi

Episode dedicated to Muammar al-Gaddafi: one of the most discussed and controversial Arab leaders i...

Women During Italy's Economic Boom

Episode dedicated to the new role of women during Italy's "Economic Boom": the effect of economic w...

Ippolito Nievo, Between Novels and Garibaldi

Episode dedicated to Ippolito Nievo, Italian writer and patriot.

Pope Luciani

Episode dedicated to Pope John Paul I, who ruled as a Pontiff for only 33 days, enough to enter the...

September 1943: an Army in Disarray

Episode dedicated to the Italian WWII armistice on September 8, 1943: from the negotiations started...

The Suez Canal

Episode dedicated to the Suez Canal, the pharaonic work that connects the Mediterranean Sea to the...

The Palazzo D'Accursio Massacre

Episode dedicated to one of the most tragic events of Italy's "red biennium" (1919-1920): the Fasci...

The Holy Grail

Episode dedicated to the myth of the Holy Grail, a mythical object endowed with an extraordinary po...

Kennedy vs Nixon

Episode dedicated to the 1960 US Presidential elections televised debates, contested between the De...

Tina Anselmi, a Life For Democracy

Episode dedicated to Tina Anselmi, historical figure of Italy's Christian Democracy: from her early...

Cavour's Legacy

Episode dedicated to Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, and to the lesser-known aspects of his figure:...

Giotto and the Discovery of Reality

Episode dedicated to Giotto, one of the most famous and revolutionary artists in the history of art...

Khomeini's Iran

Episode dedicated to the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the 1979 Islamic Revolution: from his oppo...

Tambroni and the Street Demonstrations

Episode dedicated to Ferdinando Tambroni and his troubled, short-lived Government, that lasted only...

Evita Perón

Episode dedicated to Maria Eva Ibarguren, better known as Evita Perón: illegitimate daughter of the...

The Women of Italy's Constituent Assembly

Episode dedicated to the 21 women elected to Italy's 1946 Constituent Assembly, four of whom electe...

The Emigrants and Marcinelle

Episode dedicated to Italian emigration to Belgium: from the agreement of June 23, 1946 (with which...

James of England and the Gunpowder Plot

When Lenin Sang with Mussolini

Dino Grandi, the Man Who Defeated Mussolini

Tunisia: Roots of the Uprising

Garibaldi and The Thousand

Italian Constitution: the Togliatti Case

Italo Balbo, an Inconvenient Fascist

The Conquest of the West

Qin Shi Huang, First Emperor of China

The 1968 Belice Earthquake

Emperor Hadrian

The Night of the Long Knives

The Battle of El Alamein

Rosie and the American Women at War

Arduin, King of Italy

Paul VI and the Rebel Priests of 1968

1938: the Italian Racial Laws

Jews Escaping From Nazism

Eichmann, the Extermination Accountant

The Battle of Actium

Gandhi, the Great Soul

Stasi, GDR's Secret Eye

Alba de Céspedes, the Voice of Clorinda

The Montesi Affair, a Political Scandal

Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles

Edda Ciano, the Duce's Daughter

Churchill and His King

The Julian-Dalmatian Tragedy: From Massacres to Exodus

Piave River Was Murmuring

Diderot, Raynal and the Slave Trade

Nenni and Mussolini

Sadat, New Egypt's Rais

Giacomo Lercaro, the Deposed Cardinal

Masaniello and the Revolt of Naples

The Merlin Act

The London Blitz

Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady

The Ruse of the Trojan Horse

Saddam Hussein

The America of Jazz: From New Orleans to the World

1968: the Battle of Valle Giulia

D'Annunzio, the Aesthete of Politics

Silvio Pellico and His Imprisonment

Gino Bartali, the National Righteous

Cinecittà, Hollywood on the Tiber River

Carla Lonzi and Feminism

Anita Garibaldi, Heroine of the Italian Risorgimento

1527: the Sack of Rome

Edward and Wallis, a Forbidden Love

Pope Paul VI

Housing in Italy's 1960s

Aldo Moro: the Negotiation

The Five Days of Milan

The Balfour Declaration: the Origins of Israel

The Trial of Giordano Bruno

Lenin and the Defeat of Socialism in Italy

The Orthodox Church

The Holy Sepulchre

The Spring Festivals

1968 in the Eastern Bloc

Martin Luther King

The 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis

Orazio Antinori and Colonial Exploration

Luigi Giussani, Servant of God

Workers between 1968 and the "Hot Autumn"

The Attempted Murder of Togliatti

The 1948 Italian General Elections

Roberto Ruffilli, Killed by Red Brigades

Louis XIV, the Sun King

Radios of Free Italy

Pope Benedict XVI

The Red Scare

Southern Italy and the Italian Unitary State

The 1938 Football World Championship

The Scouts and the Resistance

The Chernobyl Catastrophe

The Battle of Stalingrad

Charles Albert, the Reformer Sovereign

1968 in Milan

1938: Hitler in Italy

France's May 68

Karl Marx: Revolutionary Thinking

The Fall of the Western Roman Empire

Prague Spring and Dubcek's Socialism

Killing of Aldo Moro: the Day After

Pearl Harbour, 1941: Attack to America

Law 180: the Basaglia Revolution

Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits

Giovanni Giolitti: the Statesman

The Church of John Paul II

Guglielmo Giannini, the Ordinary Man

Propaganda During the Great War

Nero, Emperor of Rome

194: the Law of Discord

The 1992 Mafia Bombings

1918: the Explosion of a Factory

1848 and the Roman Republic