2017-10-10 9.5/10
Overview
Program about historical dissemination, presented by Paolo Mieli. Each episode sees a historian interacting with the presenter and three young university students.
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Paolo Mieli
Seasons List
Season 1
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1. The Defeat of the Dardanelles
2. Nicolaj II, the Last Tsar
3. The Trains of the Sun: Italy's Internal Migration in the 1950s
4. Duce and America
5. Charlemagne
6. Caporetto: Before the Battle
7. Battle Name: Lenin
8. Italian Prisoners of the Allies
9. Discord's Final: 1976 Davis Cup in Chile
10. Caporetto: the Battle
11. Tucci, Duce's Explorer
12. Anne Frank, a Denied Memory
13. Trotsky, the Impossible Revolution
14. Charles VIII in Italy
15. Martin Luther, the Rebel
16. Caporetto's Refugees
17. Stalin, the Age of Terror
18. The Fascist Woman
19. Lawrence of Arabia, Prince of the Desert
20. Memoirs of Deportation
21. Dunkirk: "Operation Dynamo"
22. Pitigrilli, Writer and Spy
23. The Assembly Line
24. Lyndon B. Johnson
25. Nikita Khrushchev
26. Giorgio La Pira, Politics and Utopia
27. Ernest Hemingway
28. Elizabeth and Philip
29. The Inquisition and the Cathars' heresy
30. Italian Military Internees: Voices from Captivity
31. Gaddafi
32. Women During Italy's Economic Boom
33. Ippolito Nievo, Between Novels and Garibaldi
34. Pope Luciani
35. September 1943: an Army in Disarray
36. The Suez Canal
37. The Palazzo D'Accursio Massacre
38. The Holy Grail
39. Kennedy vs Nixon
40. Tina Anselmi, a Life For Democracy
41. Cavour's Legacy
42. Giotto and the Discovery of Reality
43. Khomeini's Iran
44. Tambroni and the Street Demonstrations
45. Evita Perón
46. The Women of Italy's Constituent Assembly
47. The Emigrants and Marcinelle
48. James of England and the Gunpowder Plot
49. When Lenin Sang with Mussolini
50. Dino Grandi, the Man Who Defeated Mussolini
51. Tunisia: Roots of the Uprising
52. Garibaldi and The Thousand
53. Italian Constitution: the Togliatti Case
54. Italo Balbo, an Inconvenient Fascist
55. The Conquest of the West
56. Qin Shi Huang, First Emperor of China
57. The 1968 Belice Earthquake
58. Emperor Hadrian
59. The Night of the Long Knives
60. The Battle of El Alamein
61. Rosie and the American Women at War
62. Arduin, King of Italy
63. Paul VI and the Rebel Priests of 1968
64. 1938: the Italian Racial Laws
65. Jews Escaping From Nazism
66. Eichmann, the Extermination Accountant
67. The Battle of Actium
68. Gandhi, the Great Soul
69. Stasi, GDR's Secret Eye
70. Alba de Céspedes, the Voice of Clorinda
71. The Montesi Affair, a Political Scandal
72. Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles
73. Edda Ciano, the Duce's Daughter
74. Churchill and His King
75. The Julian-Dalmatian Tragedy: From Massacres to Exodus
76. Piave River Was Murmuring
77. Diderot, Raynal and the Slave Trade
78. Nenni and Mussolini
79. Sadat, New Egypt's Rais
80. Giacomo Lercaro, the Deposed Cardinal
81. Masaniello and the Revolt of Naples
82. The Merlin Act
83. The London Blitz
84. Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady
85. The Ruse of the Trojan Horse
86. Saddam Hussein
87. The America of Jazz: From New Orleans to the World
88. 1968: the Battle of Valle Giulia
89. D'Annunzio, the Aesthete of Politics
90. Silvio Pellico and His Imprisonment
91. Gino Bartali, the National Righteous
92. Cinecittà, Hollywood on the Tiber River
93. Carla Lonzi and Feminism
94. Anita Garibaldi, Heroine of the Italian Risorgimento
95. 1527: the Sack of Rome
96. Edward and Wallis, a Forbidden Love
97. Pope Paul VI
98. Housing in Italy's 1960s
99. Aldo Moro: the Negotiation
100. The Five Days of Milan
101. The Balfour Declaration: the Origins of Israel
102. The Trial of Giordano Bruno
103. Lenin and the Defeat of Socialism in Italy
104. The Orthodox Church
105. The Holy Sepulchre
106. The Spring Festivals
107. 1968 in the Eastern Bloc
108. Martin Luther King
109. The 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis
110. Orazio Antinori and Colonial Exploration
111. Luigi Giussani, Servant of God
112. Workers between 1968 and the "Hot Autumn"
113. The Attempted Murder of Togliatti
114. The 1948 Italian General Elections
115. Roberto Ruffilli, Killed by Red Brigades
116. Louis XIV, the Sun King
117. Radios of Free Italy
118. Pope Benedict XVI
119. The Red Scare
120. Southern Italy and the Italian Unitary State
121. The 1938 Football World Championship
122. The Scouts and the Resistance
123. The Chernobyl Catastrophe
124. The Battle of Stalingrad
125. Charles Albert, the Reformer Sovereign
126. 1968 in Milan
127. 1938: Hitler in Italy
128. France's May 68
129. Karl Marx: Revolutionary Thinking
130. The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
131. Prague Spring and Dubcek's Socialism
132. Killing of Aldo Moro: the Day After
133. Pearl Harbour, 1941: Attack to America
134. Law 180: the Basaglia Revolution
135. Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits
136. Giovanni Giolitti: the Statesman
137. The Church of John Paul II
138. Guglielmo Giannini, the Ordinary Man
139. Propaganda During the Great War
140. Nero, Emperor of Rome
141. 194: the Law of Discord
142. The 1992 Mafia Bombings
143. 1918: the Explosion of a Factory
144. 1848 and the Roman Republic
Season 2
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1. The King and General Diaz
2. The Prisoners' Odyssey
3. Trento and Trieste
4. Mutilated of Body and Soul
5. The Myth of the Combatant
6. Frederick II: Stupor Mundi or Antichrist?
7. Hoover and the FBI
8. Mario Scelba, the Police Mobile Units' Strategist
9. The Weimar Republic
10. The Night of Broken Glass
11. The Parthenopean Republic
12. The Second Italo-Ethiopian War and the Church
13. Fenoglio and the Resistance Between the Lines
14. 1952 Elections in America: Eisenhower vs Stevenson
15. Panagoulis and the Regime of the Colonels
16. Robespierre, the Incorruptible
17. The Italian Resistance and Women
18. Fidel Castro Enters Havana
19. Female Adultery Is No Longer a Crime
20. The Oath of Allegiance to Fascism
21. Aurelian and the Defense of the Empire
22. Leo Longanesi, a Nonconformist Voice
23. The Tehran Conference
24. Bourguiba, Tunisia's Father
25. The Massacre of Avola
26. Garibaldi in Sicily
27. Galeazzo Ciano, a Tragic Rise and Fall
28. The 1969 Nixon's Visit to Rome
29. Henry IV: the Abjuration and the Throne
30. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
31. Ovid, the Troublesome Poet
32. The 1908 Messina Earthquake
33. 1964 Elections in America: Johnson vs Goldwater
34. Paul the Apostle and the Church
35. Emperor Diocletian
36. Charles De Gaulle's France
37. The Roots of Immigration
38. Retreat From Russia
39. Enrico Mattei: the Challenge For Oil
40. Caligula, Excess in Power
41. The End of the Ottoman Empire
42. Jan Palach's Tragic Spring
43. The Birth of the Italian People's Party
44. The 1919 Paris Peace Conference
45. Hannibal, the Enemy of Rome
46. Guido Rossa, the Workman who Challenged the Red Brigades
47. The Second Vatican Council
48. The Origins of Nazi Antisemitism
49. Exodus 1947
50. The Rome of Kings
51. De Gasperi and Fascism
52. Beatles' UK
53. Hollywood Goes to War
54. Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution
55. I Viceré's Sicily
56. Eugenio Colorni, a Militant for Europe
57. Vichy France
58. 1968 Elections in America: Nixon vs Humphrey
59. Rijeka: Tito's Purge
60. The Lateran Treaty
61. The Paris Commune
62. François Mitterrand
63. The Soviet Retreat From Afghanistan
64. The Bombing of Monte Cassino
65. The Serfs
66. Mariano Rumor
67. Solidarność
68. Pancho Villa and the Mexican Revolution
69. Savonarola: Saint or Heretic?
70. Montanelli, War Correspondent
71. 1933: the Reichstag Fire
72. The Fanfani Plan: a House for Italians
73. Pius XII: Doubts and Silence
74. Venice and the Jewish Ghetto
75. The Acerbo Law: Liberalism's Darkest Hour
76. The Kids of Villa Emma
77. 1980 Elections in America: Reagan vs Carter
78. Maria Montessori, a Role Model
79. The Severan Dynasty
80. The Assassination Attempts on Mussolini
81. SS, the Führer's Militia
82. Aldo Moro, Christian Democracy's Secretary
83. Francesco Crispi, an Authoritarian Democrat
84. Ivan the Terrible
85. The Assassination of Mino Pecorelli
86. The Birth of the Italian Fasci of Combat
87. Journey to the Moon
88. The Martyrs of the Fosse Ardeatine Massacre
89. The Reconquista's Spain
90. Carlo Rosselli: Socialism and Freedom
91. The League of Nations
92. Benedetto Croce, Civilian and Politician
93. Claretta and Mussolini
94. The Byzantine Empire
95. Mussolini and the Balillas
96. Oscar Romero, the Saint of the Campesinos
97. 1992 Elections in America: Bush vs Clinton
98. 1933 Nazi Book Burnings
99. Alexander the Great
100. The Endeavour of Fiume
101. Gorbachev: End of an Empire
102. The Architects of the Duce
103. Nuclear Energy in Italy
104. The Last Days of Jesus
105. The Medieval Bestiaries
106. Italy's Red Biennium
107. The Female Writers of Italian Resistance
108. The Clandestine Radios of the Italian Resistance
109. Hitler's British Friends
110. Carlo Cattaneo: Thought and Action
111. The Church and Mafia
112. Women at Work
113. Leonardo da Vinci
114. Superga: the End of the Grande Torino
115. The Magna Charta
116. OVRA, the Fascist Regime's Police
117. The Historic Compromise
118. Magic and Science During Renaissance
119. Sigmund Freud and Michelangelo's Moses
120. Constantine the Great and the Church
121. The Cambodian Genocide
122. The Battle of Solferino
123. Red Scare in Hollywood
124. Livingstone's Africa
125. The Storming of the Bastille
126. Francesco Saverio Nitti: History of a Liberal
127. General Nicola Bellomo
128. Falcone and Borsellino, Dedication and Courage
129. 1944: Rome, an Occupied City
130. 1944: Rome, a Freed City
Season 3
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1. The Fall of the Berlin Wall
2. Poland 1989: Walesa's Victory
3. Prague 1989: the Velvet Revolution
4. Romania 1989: Ceausescu's Fall
5. The Dissolution of the Soviet Union
6. 1919 Italian General Elections
7. The Longobardian Italy
8. Wall Street's Black Tuesday
9. Giovanni Franzoni, the Rebel Abbot
10. The Four Days of Naples
11. War Rapes in the 20th Century
12. The First Travel Around the World
13. The Moscow Trials
14. The First Gulf War
15. The Reggio Revolt
16. Emperor Claudius
17. Suez, a Door to the East
18. Ferruccio Parri, the Dream of a New Italy
19. The Kosovo Crisis
20. Spies From Cambridge
21. Pius IX, the Last Pope King
22. Weiss and Gemelli, Psychoanalysis and the Church
23. How University For All Started
24. The Piazza Fontana Bombing
25. Niccolò Machiavelli: Politician, Diplomat, Scholar, Playwright
26. Florence Capital City
27. The Fund for the South
28. Futurism Between Art and Politics
29. The 1915-1918 Alpine War
30. John Melchior Bosco
31. Napoleon in Italy
32. Nino Andreatta, Supportive Rigorist
33. Sandokan and Colonialism
34. Prohibition in America
35. Giovanni Ansaldo, the Stainless Conservative
36. President Roosevelt
37. Sparta and Athens
38. Andrei Sakharov
39. The Indian Independence
40. The Sereni Brothers
41. The Liberation of Auschwitz
42. Joan of Arc
43. Pastrone and the Dawn of Cinema with Cabiria
44. The Trains of Happiness
45. Rosa Parks
46. Metternich, the Art of Diplomacy
47. The Yalta Conference
48. Salvatore Giuliano, the Bandit From Montelepre
49. Totò's Italy
50. Porzus, Blood on Resistance
51. Foibe, the Eternal Abandonment
52. Marcus Aurelius, the Philosopher Emperor
53. Farinacci, the Uncompromising Fascist
54. Dresden 1945: a Hell of Fire
55. Zanardelli: the Liberal New Strategy
56. A Case Against Madame Bovary
57. Albania Under Enver Hohxa
58. Cosma Manera and the Redeemed Legion
59. The Biennial of Dissent
60. The Two Conclaves of 1978
61. Louise of Prussia
62. Turati and Kuliscioff: Two Lives, One Passion
63. 1947, the Rift Between De Gasperi and the Italian Communist Party
64. The Six-Day War
65. The IRI Parable
66. Catherine of Siena
67. The Algerian War
68. Turin at War
69. Violence Against Women
70. Italian Righteous Among the Nations
71. Luigi Barzini, the Adventure of Journalism
72. Alexandre Dumas and Italian Risorgimento
73. The Burning of the Narodni Dom in Trieste
74. Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy
75. Paris, the City of Exile
76. John Paul II
77. Italy Discovers Mafia
78. The Vikings
79. 1946: Birth of the Republic
80. Rome 1960, the Italians' Olympiad
81. The Statute of Workers
82. Hitler-Mussolini, Meeting at the Brenner Pass
83. Augustus, Prince of the Empire
84. Emilio Colombo, Last of the Constituents
85. June 10, 1940: Italy Goes to War
86. The End of WWII in Europe
87. From Hollywood to Via Veneto
88. The Witch Hunt
89. 1973: Austerity's Italy
90. The Nuremberg Trial
91. The Salerno Decision
92. The Myth of Rome During Fascism
93. Milan During the 1960s
94. The End of the Cold War
95. Giovanni Gentile
96. Tito's Yugoslavia
97. The Crimean War
98. Giuseppe Bottai, a Critical Fascist
99. The Nazi Massacres in Italy
100. The Popular Fronts
101. 1900 Paris Expo
102. Raphael, Art and Ideas
103. The Italo-Turkish War
104. Consumerist Italy
105. Marco Polo and His Travels
106. Cavour
107. The Arab League
108. Malaparte, a Damned Italian
109. The Normandy Landings
110. Vietnam and Opposition to War
111. Augustine of Hippo
112. The Beat Generation
113. The Cephalonia Massacre
114. The Lebanese Civil War
115. The Red Cross Nurses
Season 4
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1. Fuga Mundi: the First Monks and Benedict
2. JFK: Election of a President
3. Badoglio, a General Between Two Wars
4. Franco Antonicelli, a Passion for Freedom
5. The Mexican Revolution
6. The 1980 Irpinia Earthquake
7. Matteo Ricci, Missionary to China
8. Petronilla and Dottor Amal
9. The Duke of Abruzzi
10. Giuseppe Verdi's Italy
11. The Italian Divorce Law, a Long Journey
12. The 'Fantastic' Middle Ages
13. Simone Weil Against Totalitarianism
14. Chancellor Willy Brandt
15. The Borghese Attempted Coup d'État
16. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, the Tenth President
17. Emperor Trajan
18. Anti-Racist Movements in the USA
19. The End of Yugoslavia
20. Sitting Bull, the Great Sioux Leader
21. Giuseppe Prezzolini, History of an Irregular
22. 1951 Inquiry on Misery
23. Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery
24. The House of Farnese
25. The French Foreign Legion
26. Alberto Sordi, the Italian
27. Nasser, the Last Pharaoh
28. Decolonization in North Africa
29. Salvo D'Acquisto
30. The Birth of the Italian Communist Party
31. The Rwandan Genocide
32. The Jewish Resistance
33. Edith Stein and the 'Nazi Religion'
34. Shoah: the Deported, the Rescued, the Resistant
35. Maria José, the May Queen
36. The Excommunication of Communism
37. Apartheid
38. The Brazilian Expeditionary Force
39. Rome Capital City
40. The Collegno Amnesiac
41. The Black Death
42. Foibe, Violence Without Borders
43. Reza Pahlavi and Soraya: a Sad Tale
44. Ambrose of Milan and the Emperors
45. The Seveso Disaster
46. Fascism Abroad
47. The Middle Ages Do Not Exist
48. The 1970s Revolution of the Airwaves
49. President Juan Peron
50. Umberto Nobile, an Italian at the North Pole
51. Achille Lauro, the Commander
52. Aigues-Mortes, Louis IX and the Crusades
53. Pius XII and the Jews: the New Documents From the Vatican Archives
54. Charles Lindbergh, the Aviator Who Flew Over the Ocean
55. The Words of the Regime
56. Death to the Tyrant: Anarchists in the 19th Century
57. Men and Women Equal at Work
58. Messalina, the Scandalous Empress
59. Tondi, the Jesuit spy for the Italian Communist Party
60. Land and Dignity: Marcos' Long March
61. At the Origins of the Italian Fascist Party
62. The Abandoned Childhood
63. Operation Barbarossa
64. Historical Right and Unification of Italy
65. 150 Hours For the Right to Education
66. Danilo Dolci, Sicily's Gandhi
67. The Middle Ages and Women
68. Secret Services and European Resistance
69. Videla's Argentinian Dictatorship
70. Dante and His Comedy
71. Fascism and Repression
72. 1941: When Italians Invaded Yugoslavia
73. Emanuele Filiberto, the Unconquered Duke
74. Guelphs and Ghibellines
75. Alan Turing, the Mathematician Who Defeated Hitler
76. Yuri Gagarin, First Man in Space
77. Gutenberg: the Invention of Printing
78. Rosa Genoni and Made in Italy
79. The Tenants of Quirinale
80. Cuba Under Attack: the Bay of Pigs
81. Leo Tolstoy: Greatness and Torment
82. The Greco-Turkish War
83. Enemy Aliens: Strangers in Enemy Land, 1915-1945
84. Italians in Comintern's Schools
85. The Battaglione Mario
86. Rasna: the Name of the Etruscans
87. Italian Culture and America
88. Father Arrupe and the Jesuits
89. Boat People: an Italian Rescue
90. The 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War
91. The Road of Silk and Ideas
92. IRA: Ireland's Armed Wing
93. Napoleon and Rome
94. Italy's Expo 61: the Labour Expo
95. The Baader-Meinhof Gang
96. Giro d'Italia: the Roaring Years (1909-1969)
97. Livia Drusilla, the First Roman Empress
98. Neo-Atlanticism: Italy and the Mediterranean Sea
99. Villarbasse: Italy's Last Death Sentence
100. Sophie Scholl, the White Rose
101. Emperor Domitian
102. The Chinese Communist Party: 100 Years of Revolution
103. Sibilla Aleramo
104. History of Pacifist Movements
Le storie di Passato e Presente
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1. Rome, the Principate
2. The Beginning of Nazism
3. Northern Africa, the Leaders of Decolonization
4. Prisoners in World War II
5. The Post-Conciliar Popes
6. Rome, From the Old to the New Empire
7. Third Reich's Project of Conquest
8. Portraits of 20th Century Women
9. The First Post-War Years
10. The French Revolution
11. The Medieval Empires
12. Italians During World War II
13. Communist Russia
14. Fascism and the 'New Italian'
15. 1920s' America
16. Histories of Saints and Mystics
17. America Between Dreams and Fears
18. The Booming Years
19. The Great War
20. From Duce's Fall to the Armistice
21. Episode 21
22. Episode 22
23. Episode 23
24. Episode 24
25. Episode 25
26. Episode 26
27. Episode 27
28. Episode 28
29. Episode 29
30. Episode 30
31. Episode 31
32. Episode 32
33. Episode 33
34. Episode 34
35. Episode 35
36. Episode 36
37. Episode 37
38. Episode 38
39. Episode 39
40. Episode 40
Season 6
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1. Episode 1
2. Episode 2
3. Episode 3
4. Episode 4
5. Episode 5
6. Episode 6
7. Episode 7
8. Episode 8
9. Episode 9
10. Episode 10
11. Episode 11
12. Episode 12
13. Episode 13
14. Episode 14
15. Episode 15
16. Episode 16
17. Episode 17
18. Episode 18
19. Episode 19
20. Episode 20
21. Episode 21
22. Episode 22
23. Episode 23
24. Episode 24
25. Episode 25
26. Episode 26
27. Episode 27
28. Episode 28
29. Episode 29
30. Episode 30
31. Episode 31
32. Episode 32
33. Episode 33
34. Episode 34
35. Episode 35
36. Episode 36
37. Episode 37
38. Episode 38
39. Episode 39
40. Episode 40
41. Episode 41
42. Episode 42
43. Episode 43
44. Episode 44
45. Episode 45
46. Episode 46
47. Episode 47
48. Episode 48
49. Episode 49
50. Episode 50
51. Episode 51
52. Episode 52
53. Episode 53
54. Episode 54
55. Episode 55
56. Episode 56
57. Episode 57
58. Episode 58
59. Episode 59
60. Episode 60
61. Episode 61
62. Episode 62
63. Episode 63
64. Episode 64
65. Episode 65
66. Episode 66
67. Episode 67
68. Episode 68
69. Episode 69
70. Episode 70
71. Episode 71
72. Episode 72
73. Episode 73
74. Episode 74
75. Episode 75
Season 7
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1. Episode 1
2. Episode 2
3. Episode 3
4. Episode 4
5. Episode 5
6. Episode 6
7. Episode 7
8. Episode 8
9. Episode 9
10. Episode 10
11. Episode 11
12. Episode 12
13. Episode 13
14. Episode 14
15. Episode 15
16. Episode 16
17. Episode 17
18. Episode 18
19. Episode 19
20. Episode 20
21. Episode 21
22. Episode 22
23. Episode 23
24. Episode 24
25. Episode 25
26. Episode 26
27. Episode 27
28. Episode 28
29. Episode 29
30. Episode 30
31. Episode 31
32. Episode 32
33. Episode 33
34. Episode 34
35. Episode 35
36. Episode 36
37. Episode 37
38. Episode 38
39. Episode 39
40. Episode 40
41. Episode 41
42. Episode 42
43. Episode 43
44. Episode 44
45. Episode 45
46. Episode 46
47. Episode 47
48. Episode 48
49. Episode 49
50. Episode 50
51. Episode 51
52. Episode 52
53. Episode 53
54. Episode 54
55. Episode 55