Passato e Presente: Season 1 (2017)
- Episodes: 144
- Premiered October 10, 2017
Episodes
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Episode 1 · · 40m
The Defeat of the Dardanelles
Episode dedicated to the Gallipoli campaign, that took place during World War I.
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Episode 2 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 3 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 4 · · 40m
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).
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Episode 5 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 6 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 7 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 8 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 9 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 10 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 11 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 12 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 13 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 14 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 15 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 16 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 17 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 18 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 19 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 20 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 21 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 22 · · 40m
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".
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Episode 23 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 24 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 25 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 26 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 27 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 28 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 29 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 30 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 31 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 32 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 33 · · 40m
Ippolito Nievo, Between Novels and Garibaldi
Episode dedicated to Ippolito Nievo, Italian writer and patriot.
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Episode 34 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 35 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 36 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 37 · · 40m
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).
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Episode 38 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 39 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 40 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 41 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 42 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 43 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 44 · · 40m
Tambroni and the Street Demonstrations
Episode dedicated to Ferdinando Tambroni and his troubled, short-lived Government, that lasted only four months in 1960.
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Episode 45 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 46 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 47 · · 40m
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.
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Episode 48 · · 40m
James of England and the Gunpowder Plot
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Episode 49 · · 40m
When Lenin Sang with Mussolini
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Episode 50 · · 40m
Dino Grandi, the Man Who Defeated Mussolini
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Episode 51 · · 40m
Tunisia: Roots of the Uprising
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Episode 52 · · 40m
Garibaldi and The Thousand
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Episode 53 · · 40m
Italian Constitution: the Togliatti Case
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Episode 54 · · 40m
Italo Balbo, an Inconvenient Fascist
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Episode 55 · · 40m
The Conquest of the West
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Episode 56 · · 40m
Qin Shi Huang, First Emperor of China
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Episode 57 · · 40m
The 1968 Belice Earthquake
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Episode 58 · · 40m
Emperor Hadrian
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Episode 59 · · 40m
The Night of the Long Knives
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Episode 60 · · 40m
The Battle of El Alamein
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Episode 61 · · 40m
Rosie and the American Women at War
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Episode 62 · · 40m
Arduin, King of Italy
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Episode 63 · · 40m
Paul VI and the Rebel Priests of 1968
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Episode 64 · · 40m
1938: the Italian Racial Laws
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Episode 65 · · 40m
Jews Escaping From Nazism
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Episode 66 · · 40m
Eichmann, the Extermination Accountant
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Episode 67 · · 40m
The Battle of Actium
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Episode 68 · · 40m
Gandhi, the Great Soul
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Episode 69 · · 40m
Stasi, GDR's Secret Eye
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Episode 70 · · 40m
Alba de Céspedes, the Voice of Clorinda
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Episode 71 · · 40m
The Montesi Affair, a Political Scandal
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Episode 72 · · 40m
Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles
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Episode 73 · · 40m
Edda Ciano, the Duce's Daughter
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Episode 74 · · 40m
Churchill and His King
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Episode 75 · · 40m
The Julian-Dalmatian Tragedy: From Massacres to Exodus
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Episode 76 · · 40m
Piave River Was Murmuring
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Episode 77 · · 40m
Diderot, Raynal and the Slave Trade
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Episode 78 · · 40m
Nenni and Mussolini
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Episode 79 · · 40m
Sadat, New Egypt's Rais
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Episode 80 · · 40m
Giacomo Lercaro, the Deposed Cardinal
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Episode 81 · · 40m
Masaniello and the Revolt of Naples
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Episode 82 · · 40m
The Merlin Act
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Episode 83 · · 40m
The London Blitz
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Episode 84 · · 40m
Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady
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Episode 85 · · 40m
The Ruse of the Trojan Horse
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Episode 86 · · 40m
Saddam Hussein
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Episode 87 · · 40m
The America of Jazz: From New Orleans to the World
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Episode 88 · · 40m
1968: the Battle of Valle Giulia
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Episode 89 · · 40m
D'Annunzio, the Aesthete of Politics
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Episode 90 · · 40m
Silvio Pellico and His Imprisonment
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Episode 91 · · 40m
Gino Bartali, the National Righteous
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Episode 92 · · 40m
Cinecittà, Hollywood on the Tiber River
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Episode 93 · · 40m
Carla Lonzi and Feminism
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Episode 94 · · 40m
Anita Garibaldi, Heroine of the Italian Risorgimento
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Episode 95 · · 40m
1527: the Sack of Rome
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Episode 96 · · 40m
Edward and Wallis, a Forbidden Love
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Episode 97 · · 40m
Pope Paul VI
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Episode 98 · · 40m
Housing in Italy's 1960s
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Episode 99 · · 40m
Aldo Moro: the Negotiation
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Episode 100 · · 40m
The Five Days of Milan
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Episode 101 · · 40m
The Balfour Declaration: the Origins of Israel
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Episode 102 · · 40m
The Trial of Giordano Bruno
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Episode 103 · · 40m
Lenin and the Defeat of Socialism in Italy
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Episode 104 · · 40m
The Orthodox Church
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Episode 105 · · 40m
The Holy Sepulchre
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Episode 106 · · 40m
The Spring Festivals
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Episode 107 · · 40m
1968 in the Eastern Bloc
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Episode 108 · · 40m
Martin Luther King
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Episode 109 · · 40m
The 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis
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Episode 110 · · 40m
Orazio Antinori and Colonial Exploration
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Episode 111 · · 40m
Luigi Giussani, Servant of God
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Episode 112 · · 40m
Workers between 1968 and the "Hot Autumn"
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Episode 113 · · 40m
The Attempted Murder of Togliatti
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Episode 114 · · 40m
The 1948 Italian General Elections
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Episode 115 · · 40m
Roberto Ruffilli, Killed by Red Brigades
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Episode 116 · · 40m
Louis XIV, the Sun King
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Episode 117 · · 40m
Radios of Free Italy
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Episode 118 · · 40m
Pope Benedict XVI
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Episode 119 · · 40m
The Red Scare
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Episode 120 · · 40m
Southern Italy and the Italian Unitary State
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Episode 121 · · 40m
The 1938 Football World Championship
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Episode 122 · · 40m
The Scouts and the Resistance
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Episode 123 · · 40m
The Chernobyl Catastrophe
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Episode 124 · · 40m
The Battle of Stalingrad
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Episode 125 · · 40m
Charles Albert, the Reformer Sovereign
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Episode 126 · · 40m
1968 in Milan
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Episode 127 · · 40m
1938: Hitler in Italy
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Episode 128 · · 40m
France's May 68
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Episode 129 · · 40m
Karl Marx: Revolutionary Thinking
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Episode 130 · · 40m
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
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Episode 131 · · 40m
Prague Spring and Dubcek's Socialism
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Episode 132 · · 40m
Killing of Aldo Moro: the Day After
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Episode 133 · · 40m
Pearl Harbour, 1941: Attack to America
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Episode 134 · · 40m
Law 180: the Basaglia Revolution
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Episode 135 · · 40m
Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits
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Episode 136 · · 40m
Giovanni Giolitti: the Statesman
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Episode 137 · · 40m
The Church of John Paul II
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Episode 138 · · 40m
Guglielmo Giannini, the Ordinary Man
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Episode 139 · · 40m
Propaganda During the Great War
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Episode 140 · · 40m
Nero, Emperor of Rome
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Episode 141 · · 40m
194: the Law of Discord
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Episode 142 · · 40m
The 1992 Mafia Bombings
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Episode 143 · · 40m
1918: the Explosion of a Factory
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Episode 144 · · 40m
1848 and the Roman Republic