Passato e Presente

Season 1

144 episodes · 2017

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    1The Defeat of the Dardanelles

    10 Oct 2017 · 40 min

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

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    2Nicolaj II, the Last Tsar

    11 Oct 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    3The Trains of the Sun: Italy's Internal Migration in the 1950s

    12 Oct 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    4Duce and America

    13 Oct 2017 · 40 min

    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).

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    5Charlemagne

    16 Oct 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    6Caporetto: Before the Battle

    17 Oct 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    7Battle Name: Lenin

    18 Oct 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    8Italian Prisoners of the Allies

    19 Oct 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    9Discord's Final: 1976 Davis Cup in Chile

    20 Oct 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    10Caporetto: the Battle

    23 Oct 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    11Tucci, Duce's Explorer

    24 Oct 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    12Anne Frank, a Denied Memory

    25 Oct 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    13Trotsky, the Impossible Revolution

    26 Oct 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    14Charles VIII in Italy

    27 Oct 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    15Martin Luther, the Rebel

    30 Oct 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    16Caporetto's Refugees

    31 Oct 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    17Stalin, the Age of Terror

    01 Nov 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    18The Fascist Woman

    02 Nov 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    19Lawrence of Arabia, Prince of the Desert

    03 Nov 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    20Memoirs of Deportation

    07 Nov 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    21Dunkirk: "Operation Dynamo"

    08 Nov 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    22Pitigrilli, Writer and Spy

    09 Nov 2017 · 40 min

    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".

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    23The Assembly Line

    10 Nov 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    24Lyndon B. Johnson

    14 Nov 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    25Nikita Khrushchev

    15 Nov 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    26Giorgio La Pira, Politics and Utopia

    16 Nov 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    27Ernest Hemingway

    17 Nov 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    28Elizabeth and Philip

    20 Nov 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    29The Inquisition and the Cathars' heresy

    21 Nov 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    30Italian Military Internees: Voices from Captivity

    22 Nov 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    31Gaddafi

    23 Nov 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    32Women During Italy's Economic Boom

    24 Nov 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    33Ippolito Nievo, Between Novels and Garibaldi

    27 Nov 2017 · 40 min

    Episode dedicated to Ippolito Nievo, Italian writer and patriot.

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    34Pope Luciani

    28 Nov 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    35September 1943: an Army in Disarray

    29 Nov 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    36The Suez Canal

    30 Nov 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    37The Palazzo D'Accursio Massacre

    01 Dec 2017 · 40 min

    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).

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    38The Holy Grail

    04 Dec 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    39Kennedy vs Nixon

    05 Dec 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    40Tina Anselmi, a Life For Democracy

    07 Dec 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    41Cavour's Legacy

    08 Dec 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    42Giotto and the Discovery of Reality

    11 Dec 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    43Khomeini's Iran

    12 Dec 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    44Tambroni and the Street Demonstrations

    13 Dec 2017 · 40 min

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

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    45Evita Perón

    14 Dec 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    46The Women of Italy's Constituent Assembly

    15 Dec 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    47The Emigrants and Marcinelle

    18 Dec 2017 · 40 min

    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.

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    48James of England and the Gunpowder Plot

    19 Dec 2017 · 40 min

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    49When Lenin Sang with Mussolini

    20 Dec 2017 · 40 min

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    50Dino Grandi, the Man Who Defeated Mussolini

    21 Dec 2017 · 40 min

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    51Tunisia: Roots of the Uprising

    22 Dec 2017 · 40 min

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    52Garibaldi and The Thousand

    08 Jan 2018 · 40 min

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    53Italian Constitution: the Togliatti Case

    09 Jan 2018 · 40 min

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    54Italo Balbo, an Inconvenient Fascist

    10 Jan 2018 · 40 min

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    55The Conquest of the West

    11 Jan 2018 · 40 min

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    56Qin Shi Huang, First Emperor of China

    12 Jan 2018 · 40 min

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    57The 1968 Belice Earthquake

    15 Jan 2018 · 40 min

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    58Emperor Hadrian

    16 Jan 2018 · 40 min

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    59The Night of the Long Knives

    17 Jan 2018 · 40 min

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    60The Battle of El Alamein

    18 Jan 2018 · 40 min

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    61Rosie and the American Women at War

    19 Jan 2018 · 40 min

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    62Arduin, King of Italy

    22 Jan 2018 · 40 min

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    63Paul VI and the Rebel Priests of 1968

    23 Jan 2018 · 40 min

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    641938: the Italian Racial Laws

    24 Jan 2018 · 40 min

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    65Jews Escaping From Nazism

    25 Jan 2018 · 40 min

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    66Eichmann, the Extermination Accountant

    26 Jan 2018 · 40 min

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    67The Battle of Actium

    29 Jan 2018 · 40 min

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    68Gandhi, the Great Soul

    30 Jan 2018 · 40 min

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    69Stasi, GDR's Secret Eye

    31 Jan 2018 · 40 min

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    70Alba de Céspedes, the Voice of Clorinda

    01 Feb 2018 · 40 min

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    71The Montesi Affair, a Political Scandal

    02 Feb 2018 · 40 min

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    72Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles

    06 Feb 2018 · 40 min

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    73Edda Ciano, the Duce's Daughter

    07 Feb 2018 · 40 min

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    74Churchill and His King

    08 Feb 2018 · 40 min

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    75The Julian-Dalmatian Tragedy: From Massacres to Exodus

    09 Feb 2018 · 40 min

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    76Piave River Was Murmuring

    12 Feb 2018 · 40 min

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    77Diderot, Raynal and the Slave Trade

    13 Feb 2018 · 40 min

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    78Nenni and Mussolini

    14 Feb 2018 · 40 min

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    79Sadat, New Egypt's Rais

    15 Feb 2018 · 40 min

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    80Giacomo Lercaro, the Deposed Cardinal

    16 Feb 2018 · 40 min

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    81Masaniello and the Revolt of Naples

    19 Feb 2018 · 40 min

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    82The Merlin Act

    20 Feb 2018 · 40 min

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    83The London Blitz

    21 Feb 2018 · 40 min

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    84Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady

    22 Feb 2018 · 40 min

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    85The Ruse of the Trojan Horse

    26 Feb 2018 · 40 min

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    86Saddam Hussein

    27 Feb 2018 · 40 min

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    87The America of Jazz: From New Orleans to the World

    28 Feb 2018 · 40 min

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    881968: the Battle of Valle Giulia

    01 Mar 2018 · 40 min

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    89D'Annunzio, the Aesthete of Politics

    02 Mar 2018 · 40 min

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    90Silvio Pellico and His Imprisonment

    05 Mar 2018 · 40 min

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    91Gino Bartali, the National Righteous

    06 Mar 2018 · 40 min

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    92Cinecittà, Hollywood on the Tiber River

    07 Mar 2018 · 40 min

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    93Carla Lonzi and Feminism

    08 Mar 2018 · 40 min

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    94Anita Garibaldi, Heroine of the Italian Risorgimento

    09 Mar 2018 · 40 min

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    951527: the Sack of Rome

    12 Mar 2018 · 40 min

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    96Edward and Wallis, a Forbidden Love

    13 Mar 2018 · 40 min

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    97Pope Paul VI

    14 Mar 2018 · 40 min

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    98Housing in Italy's 1960s

    15 Mar 2018 · 40 min

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    99Aldo Moro: the Negotiation

    16 Mar 2018 · 40 min

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    100The Five Days of Milan

    19 Mar 2018 · 40 min

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    101The Balfour Declaration: the Origins of Israel

    20 Mar 2018 · 40 min

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    102The Trial of Giordano Bruno

    21 Mar 2018 · 40 min

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    103Lenin and the Defeat of Socialism in Italy

    22 Mar 2018 · 40 min

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    104The Orthodox Church

    29 Mar 2018 · 40 min

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    105The Holy Sepulchre

    30 Mar 2018 · 40 min

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    106The Spring Festivals

    02 Apr 2018 · 40 min

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    1071968 in the Eastern Bloc

    03 Apr 2018 · 40 min

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    108Martin Luther King

    04 Apr 2018 · 40 min

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    109The 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis

    05 Apr 2018 · 40 min

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    110Orazio Antinori and Colonial Exploration

    06 Apr 2018 · 40 min

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    111Luigi Giussani, Servant of God

    10 Apr 2018 · 40 min

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    112Workers between 1968 and the "Hot Autumn"

    11 Apr 2018 · 40 min

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    113The Attempted Murder of Togliatti

    12 Apr 2018 · 40 min

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    114The 1948 Italian General Elections

    13 Apr 2018 · 40 min

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    115Roberto Ruffilli, Killed by Red Brigades

    16 Apr 2018 · 40 min

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    116Louis XIV, the Sun King

    17 Apr 2018 · 40 min

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    117Radios of Free Italy

    18 Apr 2018 · 40 min

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    118Pope Benedict XVI

    19 Apr 2018 · 40 min

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    119The Red Scare

    20 Apr 2018 · 40 min

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    120Southern Italy and the Italian Unitary State

    23 Apr 2018 · 40 min

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    121The 1938 Football World Championship

    24 Apr 2018 · 40 min

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    122The Scouts and the Resistance

    25 Apr 2018 · 40 min

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    123The Chernobyl Catastrophe

    26 Apr 2018 · 40 min

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    124The Battle of Stalingrad

    27 Apr 2018 · 40 min

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    125Charles Albert, the Reformer Sovereign

    30 Apr 2018 · 40 min

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    1261968 in Milan

    01 May 2018 · 40 min

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    1271938: Hitler in Italy

    02 May 2018 · 40 min

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    128France's May 68

    03 May 2018 · 40 min

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    129Karl Marx: Revolutionary Thinking

    04 May 2018 · 40 min

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    130The Fall of the Western Roman Empire

    07 May 2018 · 40 min

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    131Prague Spring and Dubcek's Socialism

    08 May 2018 · 40 min

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    132Killing of Aldo Moro: the Day After

    09 May 2018 · 40 min

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    133Pearl Harbour, 1941: Attack to America

    10 May 2018 · 40 min

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    134Law 180: the Basaglia Revolution

    11 May 2018 · 40 min

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    135Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits

    14 May 2018 · 40 min

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    136Giovanni Giolitti: the Statesman

    15 May 2018 · 40 min

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    137The Church of John Paul II

    16 May 2018 · 40 min

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    138Guglielmo Giannini, the Ordinary Man

    17 May 2018 · 40 min

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    139Propaganda During the Great War

    18 May 2018 · 40 min

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    140Nero, Emperor of Rome

    21 May 2018 · 40 min

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    141194: the Law of Discord

    22 May 2018 · 40 min

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    142The 1992 Mafia Bombings

    23 May 2018 · 40 min

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    1431918: the Explosion of a Factory

    24 May 2018 · 40 min

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    1441848 and the Roman Republicfinale

    25 May 2018 · 40 min