Passato e Presente

S1 E1 - The Defeat of the Dardanelles

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

Oct 10, 2017 • 40m

S1 E2 - Nicolaj II, the Last Tsar

Episode dedicated to the life and death of Nicolaj II, the last Tsar of Russia: from his initial attempts at solving the needs of the people, passing through the tragic choice to join WWI, up to his arrest and execution, together with his family, by the Bolsheviks in 1917.

Oct 11, 2017 • 40m

S1 E3 - 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 that took place during 1950s and 1960s, recounting the reasons behind and the effects this phenomenon had on Italian society.

Oct 12, 2017 • 40m

S1 E4 - Duce and America

Episode dedicated to the relations between Fascist Italy and the United States: from the initial harmony between the American democracy and the dictatorial regime, passing through the 1936 Italo-Ethiopian War and the approach to Nazi Germany, until 1940 (the date on which Italy enters World War II alongside the Axis).

Oct 13, 2017 • 40m

S1 E5 - Charlemagne

Episode dedicated to Charlemagne, historical leader and first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire: from his rise to power to the relations with the Arab and Byzantine world, passing through the creation of what became the core of modern Europe.

Oct 16, 2017 • 40m

S1 E6 - Caporetto: Before the Battle

First of three episodes dedicated to the centenary of the Battle of Caporetto (1917): an analysis of how Italy and Austria-Hungary approach the clash, from the internal to the military situation on the field, passing through the reconstruction of the 1917 war events.

Oct 17, 2017 • 40m

S1 E7 - Battle Name: Lenin

Episode dedicated to Vladimir Ilic Uljanov, better known as Lenin: from his exile in Switzerland and his return home (which took place with the help of Germany), passing through the failure of the first revolutionary attempt in July 1917, until the success of the October Revolution and the first steps of what will become the Soviet Union.

Oct 18, 2017 • 40m

S1 E8 - Italian Prisoners of the Allies

Episode dedicated to the vicissitudes of Italian soldiers who were taken prisoner during World War II: the living conditions of prisoners before and after Italy's surrender, the relationship with the Badoglio Government and their difficult return home after the war.

Oct 19, 2017 • 40m

S1 E9 - 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 tight debate on whether or not to boycott the final, in protest against the newborn Pinochet regime, to the decision to participate, marked by the Italian victory and by the "protest" of Panatta and Bertolucci's double.

Oct 20, 2017 • 40m

S1 E10 - Caporetto: the Battle

Second of the three episodes dedicated to the centenary of the Battle of Caporetto (1917): a detailed analysis of the clash, resulted in the clamorous defeat of the Italians and in their tragic fall back to the Piave river.

Oct 23, 2017 • 40m

S1 E11 - Tucci, Duce's Explorer

Episode dedicated to the figure of Giuseppe Tucci, a scholar of the East, a great connoisseur of languages and civilizations such as Indian, Tibetan or Nepalese, but also an indomitable explorer of regions that were still largely unexplored.

Oct 24, 2017 • 40m

S1 E12 - Anne Frank, a Denied Memory

Episode dedicated to the figure of Anne Frank, a young Dutch Jew who went down in history thanks to her diaries, in which she tells her life as a teenager before and during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

Oct 25, 2017 • 40m

S1 E13 - Trotsky, the Impossible Revolution

Episode dedicated to Lev Davidovic Bronstein, better known as Trotsky: refined intellectual and theoretician of permanent revolution, father of the October Revolution, hated, fought, deported, exiled and then chased all over the world, until a hitman reaches him in Mexico.

Oct 26, 2017 • 40m

S1 E14 - Charles VIII in Italy

Episode dedicated to the Charles VIII's 1495 military campaign in Italy: from the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples to the coalition of the major and minor Italian states (helped by Ferdinand II of Aragon and Maximilian I of Habsburg), created for the purpose of defeating the French king.

Oct 27, 2017 • 40m

S1 E15 - Martin Luther, the Rebel

Episode dedicated to Martin Luther, "father" of the Protestant Reformation: from his initial studies in Germany to his growing opposition to the practice of indulgences and to the Vatican's practices of the time, culminating in the publication of the 95 theses.

Oct 30, 2017 • 40m

S1 E16 - Caporetto's Refugees

Last of the three episodes dedicated to the centenary of the Battle of Caporetto (1917): an analysis of the massive and disorganized exodus of the Italian population, after the German-Austro-Hungarian occupation of almost all Veneto, and the repercussions on the new war front on the Piave river.

Oct 31, 2017 • 40m

S1 E17 - Stalin, the Age of Terror

Episode dedicated to Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, better known as Stalin, that went down to history as one of the bloodiest dictators of the 20th century: from his youth in the seminary, passing through his rise to power in the years following Lenin's death, his contribution in transforming the USSR into a military and industrial power, the non-aggression pact with Hitler, to the post-war years of terror and gulags.

Nov 1, 2017 • 40m

S1 E18 - The Fascist Woman

Episode dedicated to women under Fascism: a status poised between dictatorship's attempt to force them to stay at home and be prolific mothers (discouraging their employment as much as possible) and the regime's drive towards a new "self-consciousness" through Fascist associationism.

Nov 2, 2017 • 40m

S1 E19 - Lawrence of Arabia, Prince of the Desert

Episode dedicated to Thomas Edward Lawrence, better known as "Lawrence of Arabia": history and myth of the British colonel, secret agent and principal architect of the Arab revolt against Ottoman domination (for the benefit of the British), who died in a motorcycle accident in May 1935.

Nov 3, 2017 • 40m

S1 E20 - Memoirs of Deportation

Episode dedicated to the reconstruction of the deportations of Jews and other prisoners during World War II: the stages through which the memory in Italy of these events was formed, starting from the Nuremberg trial to the publication of the testimonies of the survivors, first among them Primo Levi's memoirs.

Nov 7, 2017 • 40m

S1 E21 - Dunkirk: "Operation Dynamo"

Episode dedicated to the so-called "Operation Dynamo", the gigantic evacuation operation of Anglo-French troops from Dunkirk beach in the early months of World War II.

Nov 8, 2017 • 40m

S1 E22 - Pitigrilli, Writer and Spy

Episode dedicated to Dino Segre, also known as "Pitigrilli": one of Turin's most read writers who, in 1930s, became a spy for OVRA (the Fascist regime's political police), although he himself often had problems with the regime, that considered him "immoral" and his novels "not very Italian".

Nov 9, 2017 • 40m

S1 E23 - The Assembly Line

Episode dedicated to the assembly line, the innovation in the industrial production by Frederick Taylor, at the base of the incredible productivity growth of nowadays "consumer society", but also of the workers' protests against the alienation and the ever-increasing use of machines.

Nov 10, 2017 • 40m

S1 E24 - Lyndon B. Johnson

Episode dedicated to Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States: from his first political experiences, passing through the election as senator and the vice-presidency under Kennedy, until his unexpected appointment as president, his commitment to civil rights, his management of university protests and his involvement in the Vietnam War.

Nov 14, 2017 • 40m

S1 E25 - Nikita Khrushchev

Episode dedicated to Nikita Khrushchev, Secretary of the CPSU and successor of Stalin to the leadership of the USSR: from the denunciation of Stalinism, passing through the suppression of the Hungarian uprising of 1956, up to the Cuban missile crisis, after which it will be ousted and confined to a dacha until his death.

Nov 15, 2017 • 40m

S1 E26 - Giorgio La Pira, Politics and Utopia

Episode dedicated to Giorgio La Pira, politician of the Italian Republican Party and historic mayor of Florence: an important and original figure, who strove in the (somewhat utopian) attempt to contribute to overcoming historical conflicts through peaceful means.

Nov 16, 2017 • 40m

S1 E27 - Ernest Hemingway

Episode dedicated to Ernest Hemingway, one of the most important writers of the 20th century, who committed suicide at the age of 62. On the front of World War I, of the Spanish Civil War (on the side of the Republicans and against the Francoists) and of World War II, his adventurous life also filters through his very successful novels.

Nov 17, 2017 • 40m

S1 E28 - Elizabeth and Philip

Episode dedicated to Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and her prince consort Philip of Edinburgh: from their marriage in 1947, for which Philip renounced the succession to the thrones of Greece and Denmark, to Elisabeth's ascent to the throne in 1952, on the background of the disintegration of the former British Empire and the new role of the United Kingdom after World War II.

Nov 20, 2017 • 40m

S1 E29 - The Inquisition and the Cathars' heresy

Episode dedicated to the Cathars and the Inquisition, a special institution created by the Catholic Church to repress and counter the heretical movements that, from 12th century on, spread throughout Europe.

Nov 21, 2017 • 40m

S1 E30 - Italian Military Internees: Voices from Captivity

Episode dedicated to the "Italian Military Internees", the Italian soldiers captured by the Germans after September 8, 1943: refusing to continue fighting alongside the Nazi-fascists, they were denied the status of prisoners of war; used in the Axis war industry, abused and unable to receive help from the Red Cross, after the end of the war they were "forgotten" until 1997, when their figure was eventually rehabilitated.

Nov 22, 2017 • 40m

S1 E31 - Gaddafi

Episode dedicated to Muammar al-Gaddafi: one of the most discussed and controversial Arab leaders in history, for 42 years in command of Libya, starting with the coup d'état of September 1, 1969 (carried out at just 27 years), and at the center of countless unworkable political designs and military conflicts.

Nov 23, 2017 • 40m

S1 E32 - Women During Italy's Economic Boom

Episode dedicated to the new role of women during Italy's "Economic Boom": the effect of economic well-being and mass consumerism on the behaviours and habits of women, but also of new means of communication (television, above all) and newborns beauty contests, which promise occasions of fame and social mobility.

Nov 24, 2017 • 40m

S1 E33 - Ippolito Nievo, Between Novels and Garibaldi

Episode dedicated to Ippolito Nievo, Italian writer and patriot.

Nov 27, 2017 • 40m

S1 E34 - Pope Luciani

Episode dedicated to Pope John Paul I, who ruled as a Pontiff for only 33 days, enough to enter the hearts of the faithful, above all for his very informal style and his being far from spotlight; paradoxically, however, his sudden death will attract worldwide attention.

Nov 28, 2017 • 40m

S1 E35 - September 1943: an Army in Disarray

Episode dedicated to the Italian WWII armistice on September 8, 1943: from the negotiations started after Allied landing in Sicily, through Operation Alaric (the Nazi occupation of the Italian peninsula) and the provisions on how to react to the probable German retaliation after the armistice, which however were never officially given, leaving the Italian commands on their own without orders.

Nov 29, 2017 • 40m

S1 E36 - The Suez Canal

Episode dedicated to the Suez Canal, the pharaonic work that connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea: from its construction in the 19th century until 1956, the year in which Egyptian president Nasser decided to nationalize it; this decision is followed by the so-called "Suez crisis", which marked the definitive decline of France and the United Kingdom as World powers and the escalation of the clash between Arab countries and Israel.

Nov 30, 2017 • 40m

S1 E37 - The Palazzo D'Accursio Massacre

Episode dedicated to one of the most tragic events of Italy's "red biennium" (1919-1920): the Fascist assault on Palazzo D'Accursio in Bologna on November 21, 1920, where Fascist gangs shot and bombed the crowd, killing 10 and wounding 58; the event marks the irreversible crisis of socialism in Bologna and paves the way for the so-called "black biennium (1921-1922).

Dec 1, 2017 • 40m

S1 E38 - The Holy Grail

Episode dedicated to the myth of the Holy Grail, a mythical object endowed with an extraordinary power, and even capable of bestowing immortality to those who possess it: first cited in a Chrétien de Troyes 12th-century poem, the myth had a great success throughout the Middle Ages, but returned more recently to the limelight only with Richard Wagner's Parsifal.

Dec 4, 2017 • 40m

S1 E39 - Kennedy vs Nixon

Episode dedicated to the 1960 US Presidential elections televised debates, contested between the Democratic Irish-American candidate John Fitzgerald Kennedy and the incumbent Republican Vice-president (and, to that point, likely to win) Richard Nixon: from the political differences to the novelty of the television debate, that Kennedy will be able to exploit to his full advantage.

Dec 5, 2017 • 40m

S1 E40 - Tina Anselmi, a Life For Democracy

Episode dedicated to Tina Anselmi, historical figure of Italy's Christian Democracy: from her early years as a trade unionist, through her efforts as a partisan during World War II and in her party after the war, to her appointment as Italy's first-ever female Minister in 1976.

Dec 7, 2017 • 40m

S1 E41 - Cavour's Legacy

Episode dedicated to Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, and to the lesser-known aspects of his figure: from his work behind the scenes of the Italy's Risorgimento to his death by malaria (June 6, 1861), which caused a huge void in the Italian political scene; his project continued however in the following decade, with the conquest of Veneto and Rome.

Dec 8, 2017 • 40m

S1 E42 - Giotto and the Discovery of Reality

Episode dedicated to Giotto, one of the most famous and revolutionary artists in the history of art, even if his biography is often incomplete: from the fragments we know of his personal history to the most important testimonies of his work, such as the frescoes in the Basilica of Assisi and the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua.

Dec 11, 2017 • 40m

S1 E43 - Khomeini's Iran

Episode dedicated to the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the 1979 Islamic Revolution: from his opposition to Shah Reza Pahlavi's regime to the success of his Revolution, up to the 1980 hostage crisis and the 1980s war between his country and Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

Dec 12, 2017 • 40m

S1 E44 - Tambroni and the Street Demonstrations

Episode dedicated to Ferdinando Tambroni and his troubled, short-lived Government, that lasted only four months in 1960.

Dec 13, 2017 • 40m

S1 E45 - Evita Perón

Episode dedicated to Maria Eva Ibarguren, better known as Evita Perón: illegitimate daughter of the Argentine landowner Juan Duarte, she will experience throughout her life indignation in front of diversity of treatment and injustice, becoming one of the most important figures of Argentine politics, together to her husband Juan Domingo Perón.

Dec 14, 2017 • 40m

S1 E46 - The Women of Italy's Constituent Assembly

Episode dedicated to the 21 women elected to Italy's 1946 Constituent Assembly, four of whom elected in the so-called "Commission of the 75", charged with writing the republican Constitution: formal equality between men and women is thus sanctioned, the first stage of a long journey towards de facto equality.

Dec 15, 2017 • 40m

S1 E47 - The Emigrants and Marcinelle

Episode dedicated to Italian emigration to Belgium: from the agreement of June 23, 1946 (with which Italy and Belgium agree on the transfer of 50,000 Italian miners in Belgium, in exchange for 2,500 tons of coal every 1,000 miners) to the disaster of Marcinelle (August 8, 1956) in which 262 people died.

Dec 18, 2017 • 40m

S1 E48 - James of England and the Gunpowder Plot

Dec 19, 2017 • 40m

S1 E49 - When Lenin Sang with Mussolini

Dec 20, 2017 • 40m

S1 E50 - Dino Grandi, the Man Who Defeated Mussolini

Dec 21, 2017 • 40m

S1 E51 - Tunisia: Roots of the Uprising

Dec 22, 2017 • 40m

S1 E52 - Garibaldi and The Thousand

Jan 8, 2018 • 40m

S1 E53 - Italian Constitution: the Togliatti Case

Jan 9, 2018 • 40m

S1 E54 - Italo Balbo, an Inconvenient Fascist

Jan 10, 2018 • 40m

S1 E55 - The Conquest of the West

Jan 11, 2018 • 40m

S1 E56 - Qin Shi Huang, First Emperor of China

Jan 12, 2018 • 40m

S1 E57 - The 1968 Belice Earthquake

Jan 15, 2018 • 40m

S1 E58 - Emperor Hadrian

Jan 16, 2018 • 40m

S1 E59 - The Night of the Long Knives

Jan 17, 2018 • 40m

S1 E60 - The Battle of El Alamein

Jan 18, 2018 • 40m

S1 E61 - Rosie and the American Women at War

Jan 19, 2018 • 40m

S1 E62 - Arduin, King of Italy

Jan 22, 2018 • 40m

S1 E63 - Paul VI and the Rebel Priests of 1968

Jan 23, 2018 • 40m

S1 E64 - 1938: the Italian Racial Laws

Jan 24, 2018 • 40m

S1 E65 - Jews Escaping From Nazism

Jan 25, 2018 • 40m

S1 E66 - Eichmann, the Extermination Accountant

Jan 26, 2018 • 40m

S1 E67 - The Battle of Actium

Jan 29, 2018 • 40m

S1 E68 - Gandhi, the Great Soul

Jan 30, 2018 • 40m

S1 E69 - Stasi, GDR's Secret Eye

Jan 31, 2018 • 40m

S1 E70 - Alba de Céspedes, the Voice of Clorinda

Feb 1, 2018 • 40m

S1 E71 - The Montesi Affair, a Political Scandal

Feb 2, 2018 • 40m

S1 E72 - Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles

Feb 6, 2018 • 40m

S1 E73 - Edda Ciano, the Duce's Daughter

Feb 7, 2018 • 40m

S1 E74 - Churchill and His King

Feb 8, 2018 • 40m

S1 E75 - The Julian-Dalmatian Tragedy: From Massacres to Exodus

Feb 9, 2018 • 40m

S1 E76 - Piave River Was Murmuring

Feb 12, 2018 • 40m

S1 E77 - Diderot, Raynal and the Slave Trade

Feb 13, 2018 • 40m

S1 E78 - Nenni and Mussolini

Feb 14, 2018 • 40m

S1 E79 - Sadat, New Egypt's Rais

Feb 15, 2018 • 40m

S1 E80 - Giacomo Lercaro, the Deposed Cardinal

Feb 16, 2018 • 40m

S1 E81 - Masaniello and the Revolt of Naples

Feb 19, 2018 • 40m

S1 E82 - The Merlin Act

Feb 20, 2018 • 40m

S1 E83 - The London Blitz

Feb 21, 2018 • 40m

S1 E84 - Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady

Feb 22, 2018 • 40m

S1 E85 - The Ruse of the Trojan Horse

Feb 26, 2018 • 40m

S1 E86 - Saddam Hussein

Feb 27, 2018 • 40m

S1 E87 - The America of Jazz: From New Orleans to the World

Feb 28, 2018 • 40m

S1 E88 - 1968: the Battle of Valle Giulia

Mar 1, 2018 • 40m

S1 E89 - D'Annunzio, the Aesthete of Politics

Mar 2, 2018 • 40m

S1 E90 - Silvio Pellico and His Imprisonment

Mar 5, 2018 • 40m

S1 E91 - Gino Bartali, the National Righteous

Mar 6, 2018 • 40m

S1 E92 - Cinecittà, Hollywood on the Tiber River

Mar 7, 2018 • 40m

S1 E93 - Carla Lonzi and Feminism

Mar 8, 2018 • 40m

S1 E94 - Anita Garibaldi, Heroine of the Italian Risorgimento

Mar 9, 2018 • 40m

S1 E95 - 1527: the Sack of Rome

Mar 12, 2018 • 40m

S1 E96 - Edward and Wallis, a Forbidden Love

Mar 13, 2018 • 40m

S1 E97 - Pope Paul VI

Mar 14, 2018 • 40m

S1 E98 - Housing in Italy's 1960s

Mar 15, 2018 • 40m

S1 E99 - Aldo Moro: the Negotiation

Mar 16, 2018 • 40m

S1 E100 - The Five Days of Milan

Mar 19, 2018 • 40m

S1 E101 - The Balfour Declaration: the Origins of Israel

Mar 20, 2018 • 40m

S1 E102 - The Trial of Giordano Bruno

Mar 21, 2018 • 40m

S1 E103 - Lenin and the Defeat of Socialism in Italy

Mar 22, 2018 • 40m

S1 E104 - The Orthodox Church

Mar 29, 2018 • 40m

S1 E105 - The Holy Sepulchre

Mar 30, 2018 • 40m

S1 E106 - The Spring Festivals

Apr 2, 2018 • 40m

S1 E107 - 1968 in the Eastern Bloc

Apr 3, 2018 • 40m

S1 E108 - Martin Luther King

Apr 4, 2018 • 40m

S1 E109 - The 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis

Apr 5, 2018 • 40m

S1 E110 - Orazio Antinori and Colonial Exploration

Apr 6, 2018 • 40m

S1 E111 - Luigi Giussani, Servant of God

Apr 10, 2018 • 40m

S1 E112 - Workers between 1968 and the "Hot Autumn"

Apr 11, 2018 • 40m

S1 E113 - The Attempted Murder of Togliatti

Apr 12, 2018 • 40m

S1 E114 - The 1948 Italian General Elections

Apr 13, 2018 • 40m

S1 E115 - Roberto Ruffilli, Killed by Red Brigades

Apr 16, 2018 • 40m

S1 E116 - Louis XIV, the Sun King

Apr 17, 2018 • 40m

S1 E117 - Radios of Free Italy

Apr 18, 2018 • 40m

S1 E118 - Pope Benedict XVI

Apr 19, 2018 • 40m

S1 E119 - The Red Scare

Apr 20, 2018 • 40m

S1 E120 - Southern Italy and the Italian Unitary State

Apr 23, 2018 • 40m

S1 E121 - The 1938 Football World Championship

Apr 24, 2018 • 40m

S1 E122 - The Scouts and the Resistance

Apr 25, 2018 • 40m

S1 E123 - The Chernobyl Catastrophe

Apr 26, 2018 • 40m

S1 E124 - The Battle of Stalingrad

Apr 27, 2018 • 40m

S1 E125 - Charles Albert, the Reformer Sovereign

Apr 30, 2018 • 40m

S1 E126 - 1968 in Milan

May 1, 2018 • 40m

S1 E127 - 1938: Hitler in Italy

May 2, 2018 • 40m

S1 E128 - France's May 68

May 3, 2018 • 40m

S1 E129 - Karl Marx: Revolutionary Thinking

May 4, 2018 • 40m

S1 E130 - The Fall of the Western Roman Empire

May 7, 2018 • 40m

S1 E131 - Prague Spring and Dubcek's Socialism

May 8, 2018 • 40m

S1 E132 - Killing of Aldo Moro: the Day After

May 9, 2018 • 40m

S1 E133 - Pearl Harbour, 1941: Attack to America

May 10, 2018 • 40m

S1 E134 - Law 180: the Basaglia Revolution

May 11, 2018 • 40m

S1 E135 - Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits

May 14, 2018 • 40m

S1 E136 - Giovanni Giolitti: the Statesman

May 15, 2018 • 40m

S1 E137 - The Church of John Paul II

May 16, 2018 • 40m

S1 E138 - Guglielmo Giannini, the Ordinary Man

May 17, 2018 • 40m

S1 E139 - Propaganda During the Great War

May 18, 2018 • 40m

S1 E140 - Nero, Emperor of Rome

May 21, 2018 • 40m

S1 E141 - 194: the Law of Discord

May 22, 2018 • 40m

S1 E142 - The 1992 Mafia Bombings

May 23, 2018 • 40m

S1 E143 - 1918: the Explosion of a Factory

May 24, 2018 • 40m

S1 E144 - 1848 and the Roman Republic

May 25, 2018 • 40m