Season 1 (2017)

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The Defeat of the Dardanelles
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October 10, 2017 • 40m

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

Nicolaj II, the Last Tsar
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October 11, 2017 • 40m

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

The Trains of the Sun: Italy's Internal Migration in the 1950s
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October 12, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to the phenomenon of Italy's internal migration, from Southern Italy to the North that took place during 1950s a...Read more

Duce and America
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October 13, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to the relations between Fascist Italy and the United States: from the initial harmony between the American demo...Read more

Charlemagne
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October 16, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to Charlemagne, historical leader and first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire: from his rise to power to the rela...Read more

Caporetto: Before the Battle
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October 17, 2017 • 40m

First of three episodes dedicated to the centenary of the Battle of Caporetto (1917): an analysis of how Italy and Austria-Hungary...Read more

Battle Name: Lenin
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October 18, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to Vladimir Ilic Uljanov, better known as Lenin: from his exile in Switzerland and his return home (which took p...Read more

Italian Prisoners of the Allies
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October 19, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to the vicissitudes of Italian soldiers who were taken prisoner during World War II: the living conditions of pr...Read more

Discord's Final: 1976 Davis Cup in Chile
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October 20, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to the 1976 Davis Cup final, played in Santiago between Chile and Italy: from the tight debate on whether or not...Read more

Caporetto: the Battle
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October 23, 2017 • 40m

Second of the three episodes dedicated to the centenary of the Battle of Caporetto (1917): a detailed analysis of the clash, resul...Read more

Tucci, Duce's Explorer
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October 24, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to the figure of Giuseppe Tucci, a scholar of the East, a great connoisseur of languages and civilizations such ...Read more

Anne Frank, a Denied Memory
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October 25, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to the figure of Anne Frank, a young Dutch Jew who went down in history thanks to her diaries, in which she tell...Read more

Trotsky, the Impossible Revolution
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October 26, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to Lev Davidovic Bronstein, better known as Trotsky: refined intellectual and theoretician of permanent revoluti...Read more

Charles VIII in Italy
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October 27, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to the Charles VIII's 1495 military campaign in Italy: from the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples to the coaliti...Read more

Martin Luther, the Rebel
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October 30, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to Martin Luther, "father" of the Protestant Reformation: from his initial studies in Germany to his growing opp...Read more

Caporetto's Refugees
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October 31, 2017 • 40m

Last of the three episodes dedicated to the centenary of the Battle of Caporetto (1917): an analysis of the massive and disorganiz...Read more

Stalin, the Age of Terror
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November 1, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, better known as Stalin, that went down to history as one of the bloodiest ...Read more

The Fascist Woman
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November 2, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to women under Fascism: a status poised between dictatorship's attempt to force them to stay at home and be prol...Read more

Lawrence of Arabia, Prince of the Desert
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November 3, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to Thomas Edward Lawrence, better known as "Lawrence of Arabia": history and myth of the British colonel, secret...Read more

Memoirs of Deportation
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November 7, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to the reconstruction of the deportations of Jews and other prisoners during World War II: the stages through wh...Read more

Dunkirk: "Operation Dynamo"
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November 8, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to the so-called "Operation Dynamo", the gigantic evacuation operation of Anglo-French troops from Dunkirk beach...Read more

Pitigrilli, Writer and Spy
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November 9, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to Dino Segre, also known as "Pitigrilli": one of Turin's most read writers who, in 1930s, became a spy for OVRA...Read more

The Assembly Line
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November 10, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to the assembly line, the innovation in the industrial production by Frederick Taylor, at the base of the incred...Read more

Lyndon B. Johnson
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November 14, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States: from his first political experiences, passing through...Read more

Nikita Khrushchev
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November 15, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to Nikita Khrushchev, Secretary of the CPSU and successor of Stalin to the leadership of the USSR: from the denu...Read more

Giorgio La Pira, Politics and Utopia
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November 16, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to Giorgio La Pira, politician of the Italian Republican Party and historic mayor of Florence: an important and ...Read more

Ernest Hemingway
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November 17, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to Ernest Hemingway, one of the most important writers of the 20th century, who committed suicide at the age of ...Read more

Elizabeth and Philip
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November 20, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and her prince consort Philip of Edinburgh: from their marriage in 1947, f...Read more

The Inquisition and the Cathars' heresy
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November 21, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to the Cathars and the Inquisition, a special institution created by the Catholic Church to repress and counter ...Read more

Italian Military Internees: Voices from Captivity
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November 22, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to the "Italian Military Internees", the Italian soldiers captured by the Germans after September 8, 1943: refus...Read more

Gaddafi
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November 23, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to Muammar al-Gaddafi: one of the most discussed and controversial Arab leaders in history, for 42 years in comm...Read more

Women During Italy's Economic Boom
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November 24, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to the new role of women during Italy's "Economic Boom": the effect of economic well-being and mass consumerism ...Read more

Ippolito Nievo, Between Novels and Garibaldi
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November 27, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to Ippolito Nievo, Italian writer and patriot.

Pope Luciani
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November 28, 2017 • 40m

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 ...Read more

September 1943: an Army in Disarray
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November 29, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to the Italian WWII armistice on September 8, 1943: from the negotiations started after Allied landing in Sicily...Read more

The Suez Canal
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November 30, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to the Suez Canal, the pharaonic work that connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea: from its construction ...Read more

The Palazzo D'Accursio Massacre
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December 1, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to one of the most tragic events of Italy's "red biennium" (1919-1920): the Fascist assault on Palazzo D'Accursi...Read more

The Holy Grail
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December 4, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to the myth of the Holy Grail, a mythical object endowed with an extraordinary power, and even capable of bestow...Read more

Kennedy vs Nixon
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December 5, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to the 1960 US Presidential elections televised debates, contested between the Democratic Irish-American candida...Read more

Tina Anselmi, a Life For Democracy
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December 7, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to Tina Anselmi, historical figure of Italy's Christian Democracy: from her early years as a trade unionist, thr...Read more

Cavour's Legacy
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December 8, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, and to the lesser-known aspects of his figure: from his work behind the scene...Read more

Giotto and the Discovery of Reality
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December 11, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to Giotto, one of the most famous and revolutionary artists in the history of art, even if his biography is ofte...Read more

Khomeini's Iran
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December 12, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the 1979 Islamic Revolution: from his opposition to Shah Reza Pahlavi's r...Read more

Tambroni and the Street Demonstrations
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December 13, 2017 • 40m

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

Evita Perón
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December 14, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to Maria Eva Ibarguren, better known as Evita Perón: illegitimate daughter of the Argentine landowner Juan Duart...Read more

The Women of Italy's Constituent Assembly
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December 15, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to the 21 women elected to Italy's 1946 Constituent Assembly, four of whom elected in the so-called "Commission ...Read more

The Emigrants and Marcinelle
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December 18, 2017 • 40m

Episode dedicated to Italian emigration to Belgium: from the agreement of June 23, 1946 (with which Italy and Belgium agree on the...Read more

James of England and the Gunpowder Plot
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December 19, 2017 • 40m

Episode 48 of Season 1 premiered on December 19, 2017

When Lenin Sang with Mussolini
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December 20, 2017 • 40m

Episode 49 of Season 1 premiered on December 20, 2017

Dino Grandi, the Man Who Defeated Mussolini
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December 21, 2017 • 40m

Episode 50 of Season 1 premiered on December 21, 2017

Tunisia: Roots of the Uprising
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December 22, 2017 • 40m

Episode 51 of Season 1 premiered on December 22, 2017

Garibaldi and The Thousand
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January 8, 2018 • 40m

Episode 52 of Season 1 premiered on January 8, 2018

Italian Constitution: the Togliatti Case
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January 9, 2018 • 40m

Episode 53 of Season 1 premiered on January 9, 2018

Italo Balbo, an Inconvenient Fascist
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January 10, 2018 • 40m

Episode 54 of Season 1 premiered on January 10, 2018

The Conquest of the West
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January 11, 2018 • 40m

Episode 55 of Season 1 premiered on January 11, 2018

Qin Shi Huang, First Emperor of China
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January 12, 2018 • 40m

Episode 56 of Season 1 premiered on January 12, 2018

The 1968 Belice Earthquake
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January 15, 2018 • 40m

Episode 57 of Season 1 premiered on January 15, 2018

Emperor Hadrian
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January 16, 2018 • 40m

Episode 58 of Season 1 premiered on January 16, 2018

The Night of the Long Knives
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January 17, 2018 • 40m

Episode 59 of Season 1 premiered on January 17, 2018

The Battle of El Alamein
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January 18, 2018 • 40m

Episode 60 of Season 1 premiered on January 18, 2018

Rosie and the American Women at War
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January 19, 2018 • 40m

Episode 61 of Season 1 premiered on January 19, 2018

Arduin, King of Italy
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January 22, 2018 • 40m

Episode 62 of Season 1 premiered on January 22, 2018

Paul VI and the Rebel Priests of 1968
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January 23, 2018 • 40m

Episode 63 of Season 1 premiered on January 23, 2018

1938: the Italian Racial Laws
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January 24, 2018 • 40m

Episode 64 of Season 1 premiered on January 24, 2018

Jews Escaping From Nazism
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January 25, 2018 • 40m

Episode 65 of Season 1 premiered on January 25, 2018

Eichmann, the Extermination Accountant
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January 26, 2018 • 40m

Episode 66 of Season 1 premiered on January 26, 2018

The Battle of Actium
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January 29, 2018 • 40m

Episode 67 of Season 1 premiered on January 29, 2018

Gandhi, the Great Soul
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January 30, 2018 • 40m

Episode 68 of Season 1 premiered on January 30, 2018

Stasi, GDR's Secret Eye
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January 31, 2018 • 40m

Episode 69 of Season 1 premiered on January 31, 2018

Alba de Céspedes, the Voice of Clorinda
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February 1, 2018 • 40m

Episode 70 of Season 1 premiered on February 1, 2018

The Montesi Affair, a Political Scandal
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February 2, 2018 • 40m

Episode 71 of Season 1 premiered on February 2, 2018

Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles
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February 6, 2018 • 40m

Episode 72 of Season 1 premiered on February 6, 2018

Edda Ciano, the Duce's Daughter
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February 7, 2018 • 40m

Episode 73 of Season 1 premiered on February 7, 2018

Churchill and His King
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February 8, 2018 • 40m

Episode 74 of Season 1 premiered on February 8, 2018

The Julian-Dalmatian Tragedy: From Massacres to Exodus
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February 9, 2018 • 40m

Episode 75 of Season 1 premiered on February 9, 2018

Piave River Was Murmuring
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February 12, 2018 • 40m

Episode 76 of Season 1 premiered on February 12, 2018

Diderot, Raynal and the Slave Trade
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February 13, 2018 • 40m

Episode 77 of Season 1 premiered on February 13, 2018

Nenni and Mussolini
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February 14, 2018 • 40m

Episode 78 of Season 1 premiered on February 14, 2018

Sadat, New Egypt's Rais
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February 15, 2018 • 40m

Episode 79 of Season 1 premiered on February 15, 2018

Giacomo Lercaro, the Deposed Cardinal
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February 16, 2018 • 40m

Episode 80 of Season 1 premiered on February 16, 2018

Masaniello and the Revolt of Naples
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February 19, 2018 • 40m

Episode 81 of Season 1 premiered on February 19, 2018

The Merlin Act
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February 20, 2018 • 40m

Episode 82 of Season 1 premiered on February 20, 2018

The London Blitz
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February 21, 2018 • 40m

Episode 83 of Season 1 premiered on February 21, 2018

Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady
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February 22, 2018 • 40m

Episode 84 of Season 1 premiered on February 22, 2018

The Ruse of the Trojan Horse
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February 26, 2018 • 40m

Episode 85 of Season 1 premiered on February 26, 2018

Saddam Hussein
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February 27, 2018 • 40m

Episode 86 of Season 1 premiered on February 27, 2018

The America of Jazz: From New Orleans to the World
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February 28, 2018 • 40m

Episode 87 of Season 1 premiered on February 28, 2018

1968: the Battle of Valle Giulia
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March 1, 2018 • 40m

Episode 88 of Season 1 premiered on March 1, 2018

D'Annunzio, the Aesthete of Politics
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March 2, 2018 • 40m

Episode 89 of Season 1 premiered on March 2, 2018

Silvio Pellico and His Imprisonment
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March 5, 2018 • 40m

Episode 90 of Season 1 premiered on March 5, 2018

Gino Bartali, the National Righteous
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March 6, 2018 • 40m

Episode 91 of Season 1 premiered on March 6, 2018

Cinecittà, Hollywood on the Tiber River
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March 7, 2018 • 40m

Episode 92 of Season 1 premiered on March 7, 2018

Carla Lonzi and Feminism
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March 8, 2018 • 40m

Episode 93 of Season 1 premiered on March 8, 2018

Anita Garibaldi, Heroine of the Italian Risorgimento
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March 9, 2018 • 40m

Episode 94 of Season 1 premiered on March 9, 2018

1527: the Sack of Rome
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March 12, 2018 • 40m

Episode 95 of Season 1 premiered on March 12, 2018

Edward and Wallis, a Forbidden Love
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March 13, 2018 • 40m

Episode 96 of Season 1 premiered on March 13, 2018

Pope Paul VI
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March 14, 2018 • 40m

Episode 97 of Season 1 premiered on March 14, 2018

Housing in Italy's 1960s
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March 15, 2018 • 40m

Episode 98 of Season 1 premiered on March 15, 2018

Aldo Moro: the Negotiation
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March 16, 2018 • 40m

Episode 99 of Season 1 premiered on March 16, 2018

The Five Days of Milan
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March 19, 2018 • 40m

Episode 100 of Season 1 premiered on March 19, 2018

The Balfour Declaration: the Origins of Israel
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March 20, 2018 • 40m

Episode 101 of Season 1 premiered on March 20, 2018

The Trial of Giordano Bruno
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March 21, 2018 • 40m

Episode 102 of Season 1 premiered on March 21, 2018

Lenin and the Defeat of Socialism in Italy
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March 22, 2018 • 40m

Episode 103 of Season 1 premiered on March 22, 2018

The Orthodox Church
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March 29, 2018 • 40m

Episode 104 of Season 1 premiered on March 29, 2018

The Holy Sepulchre
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March 30, 2018 • 40m

Episode 105 of Season 1 premiered on March 30, 2018

The Spring Festivals
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April 2, 2018 • 40m

Episode 106 of Season 1 premiered on April 2, 2018

1968 in the Eastern Bloc
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April 3, 2018 • 40m

Episode 107 of Season 1 premiered on April 3, 2018

Martin Luther King
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April 4, 2018 • 40m

Episode 108 of Season 1 premiered on April 4, 2018

The 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis
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April 5, 2018 • 40m

Episode 109 of Season 1 premiered on April 5, 2018

Orazio Antinori and Colonial Exploration
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April 6, 2018 • 40m

Episode 110 of Season 1 premiered on April 6, 2018

Luigi Giussani, Servant of God
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April 10, 2018 • 40m

Episode 111 of Season 1 premiered on April 10, 2018

Workers between 1968 and the "Hot Autumn"
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April 11, 2018 • 40m

Episode 112 of Season 1 premiered on April 11, 2018

The Attempted Murder of Togliatti
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April 12, 2018 • 40m

Episode 113 of Season 1 premiered on April 12, 2018

The 1948 Italian General Elections
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April 13, 2018 • 40m

Episode 114 of Season 1 premiered on April 13, 2018

Roberto Ruffilli, Killed by Red Brigades
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April 16, 2018 • 40m

Episode 115 of Season 1 premiered on April 16, 2018

Louis XIV, the Sun King
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April 17, 2018 • 40m

Episode 116 of Season 1 premiered on April 17, 2018

Radios of Free Italy
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April 18, 2018 • 40m

Episode 117 of Season 1 premiered on April 18, 2018

Pope Benedict XVI
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April 19, 2018 • 40m

Episode 118 of Season 1 premiered on April 19, 2018

The Red Scare
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April 20, 2018 • 40m

Episode 119 of Season 1 premiered on April 20, 2018

Southern Italy and the Italian Unitary State
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April 23, 2018 • 40m

Episode 120 of Season 1 premiered on April 23, 2018

The 1938 Football World Championship
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April 24, 2018 • 40m

Episode 121 of Season 1 premiered on April 24, 2018

The Scouts and the Resistance
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April 25, 2018 • 40m

Episode 122 of Season 1 premiered on April 25, 2018

The Chernobyl Catastrophe
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April 26, 2018 • 40m

Episode 123 of Season 1 premiered on April 26, 2018

The Battle of Stalingrad
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April 27, 2018 • 40m

Episode 124 of Season 1 premiered on April 27, 2018

Charles Albert, the Reformer Sovereign
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April 30, 2018 • 40m

Episode 125 of Season 1 premiered on April 30, 2018

1968 in Milan
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May 1, 2018 • 40m

Episode 126 of Season 1 premiered on May 1, 2018

1938: Hitler in Italy
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May 2, 2018 • 40m

Episode 127 of Season 1 premiered on May 2, 2018

France's May 68
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May 3, 2018 • 40m

Episode 128 of Season 1 premiered on May 3, 2018

Karl Marx: Revolutionary Thinking
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May 4, 2018 • 40m

Episode 129 of Season 1 premiered on May 4, 2018

The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
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May 7, 2018 • 40m

Episode 130 of Season 1 premiered on May 7, 2018

Prague Spring and Dubcek's Socialism
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May 8, 2018 • 40m

Episode 131 of Season 1 premiered on May 8, 2018

Killing of Aldo Moro: the Day After
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May 9, 2018 • 40m

Episode 132 of Season 1 premiered on May 9, 2018

Pearl Harbour, 1941: Attack to America
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May 10, 2018 • 40m

Episode 133 of Season 1 premiered on May 10, 2018

Law 180: the Basaglia Revolution
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May 11, 2018 • 40m

Episode 134 of Season 1 premiered on May 11, 2018

Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits
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May 14, 2018 • 40m

Episode 135 of Season 1 premiered on May 14, 2018

Giovanni Giolitti: the Statesman
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May 15, 2018 • 40m

Episode 136 of Season 1 premiered on May 15, 2018

The Church of John Paul II
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May 16, 2018 • 40m

Episode 137 of Season 1 premiered on May 16, 2018

Guglielmo Giannini, the Ordinary Man
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May 17, 2018 • 40m

Episode 138 of Season 1 premiered on May 17, 2018

Propaganda During the Great War
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May 18, 2018 • 40m

Episode 139 of Season 1 premiered on May 18, 2018

Nero, Emperor of Rome
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May 21, 2018 • 40m

Episode 140 of Season 1 premiered on May 21, 2018

194: the Law of Discord
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May 22, 2018 • 40m

Episode 141 of Season 1 premiered on May 22, 2018

The 1992 Mafia Bombings
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May 23, 2018 • 40m

Episode 142 of Season 1 premiered on May 23, 2018

1918: the Explosion of a Factory
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May 24, 2018 • 40m

Episode 143 of Season 1 premiered on May 24, 2018

1848 and the Roman Republic
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May 25, 2018 • 40m

Episode 144 of Season 1 premiered on May 25, 2018