1x18 - The Fascist Woman

November 2, 2017

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.

1x19 - Lawrence of Arabia, Prince of the Desert

November 3, 2017

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.

1x20 - Memoirs of Deportation

November 7, 2017

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.

1x21 - Dunkirk: "Operation Dynamo"

November 8, 2017

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.

1x22 - Pitigrilli, Writer and Spy

November 9, 2017

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".

1x23 - The Assembly Line

November 10, 2017

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.

1x24 - Lyndon B. Johnson

November 14, 2017

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.

1x25 - Nikita Khrushchev

November 15, 2017

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.

1x26 - Giorgio La Pira, Politics and Utopia

November 16, 2017

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.

1x27 - Ernest Hemingway

November 17, 2017

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.

1x28 - Elizabeth and Philip

November 20, 2017

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.

1x29 - The Inquisition and the Cathars' heresy

November 21, 2017

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.

1x30 - Italian Military Internees: Voices from Captivity

November 22, 2017

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.

1x31 - Gaddafi

November 23, 2017

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.

1x32 - Women During Italy's Economic Boom

November 24, 2017

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.

1x33 - Ippolito Nievo, Between Novels and Garibaldi

November 27, 2017

Episode dedicated to Ippolito Nievo, Italian writer and patriot.

1x34 - Pope Luciani

November 28, 2017

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.

1x35 - September 1943: an Army in Disarray

November 29, 2017

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.

1x36 - The Suez Canal

November 30, 2017

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.

1x37 - The Palazzo D'Accursio Massacre

December 1, 2017

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).

1x38 - The Holy Grail

December 4, 2017

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.

1x39 - Kennedy vs Nixon

December 5, 2017

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.

1x40 - Tina Anselmi, a Life For Democracy

December 7, 2017

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.

1x41 - Cavour's Legacy

December 8, 2017

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.

1x42 - Giotto and the Discovery of Reality

December 11, 2017

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.

1x43 - Khomeini's Iran

December 12, 2017

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.

1x44 - Tambroni and the Street Demonstrations

December 13, 2017

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

1x45 - Evita Perón

December 14, 2017

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.

1x46 - The Women of Italy's Constituent Assembly

December 15, 2017

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.

1x47 - The Emigrants and Marcinelle

December 18, 2017

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.

1x48 - James of England and the Gunpowder Plot

December 19, 2017

1x49 - When Lenin Sang with Mussolini

December 20, 2017

1x50 - Dino Grandi, the Man Who Defeated Mussolini

December 21, 2017

1x51 - Tunisia: Roots of the Uprising

December 22, 2017

1x52 - Garibaldi and The Thousand

January 8, 2018

1x53 - Italian Constitution: the Togliatti Case

January 9, 2018

1x54 - Italo Balbo, an Inconvenient Fascist

January 10, 2018

1x55 - The Conquest of the West

January 11, 2018

1x56 - Qin Shi Huang, First Emperor of China

January 12, 2018

1x57 - The 1968 Belice Earthquake

January 15, 2018

1x58 - Emperor Hadrian

January 16, 2018

1x59 - The Night of the Long Knives

January 17, 2018

1x60 - The Battle of El Alamein

January 18, 2018

1x61 - Rosie and the American Women at War

January 19, 2018

1x62 - Arduin, King of Italy

January 22, 2018

1x63 - Paul VI and the Rebel Priests of 1968

January 23, 2018

1x64 - 1938: the Italian Racial Laws

January 24, 2018

1x65 - Jews Escaping From Nazism

January 25, 2018

1x66 - Eichmann, the Extermination Accountant

January 26, 2018

1x67 - The Battle of Actium

January 29, 2018

1x69 - Stasi, GDR's Secret Eye

January 31, 2018

1x70 - Alba de Céspedes, the Voice of Clorinda

February 1, 2018

1x71 - The Montesi Affair, a Political Scandal

February 2, 2018

1x72 - Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles

February 6, 2018

1x73 - Edda Ciano, the Duce's Daughter

February 7, 2018

1x74 - Churchill and His King

February 8, 2018

1x75 - The Julian-Dalmatian Tragedy: From Massacres to Exodus

February 9, 2018

1x76 - Piave River Was Murmuring

February 12, 2018

1x77 - Diderot, Raynal and the Slave Trade

February 13, 2018

1x78 - Nenni and Mussolini

February 14, 2018

1x79 - Sadat, New Egypt's Rais

February 15, 2018

1x80 - Giacomo Lercaro, the Deposed Cardinal

February 16, 2018

1x81 - Masaniello and the Revolt of Naples

February 19, 2018

1x82 - The Merlin Act

February 20, 2018

1x83 - The London Blitz

February 21, 2018

1x84 - Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady

February 22, 2018

1x85 - The Ruse of the Trojan Horse

February 26, 2018

1x86 - Saddam Hussein

February 27, 2018

1x87 - The America of Jazz: From New Orleans to the World

February 28, 2018

1x88 - 1968: the Battle of Valle Giulia

March 1, 2018

1x89 - D'Annunzio, the Aesthete of Politics

March 2, 2018

1x90 - Silvio Pellico and His Imprisonment

March 5, 2018

1x91 - Gino Bartali, the National Righteous

March 6, 2018

1x92 - Cinecittà, Hollywood on the Tiber River

March 7, 2018

1x93 - Carla Lonzi and Feminism

March 8, 2018

1x94 - Anita Garibaldi, Heroine of the Italian Risorgimento

March 9, 2018

1x95 - 1527: the Sack of Rome

March 12, 2018

1x96 - Edward and Wallis, a Forbidden Love

March 13, 2018

1x97 - Pope Paul VI

March 14, 2018

1x98 - Housing in Italy's 1960s

March 15, 2018

1x99 - Aldo Moro: the Negotiation

March 16, 2018

1x100 - The Five Days of Milan

March 19, 2018

1x101 - The Balfour Declaration: the Origins of Israel

March 20, 2018

1x102 - The Trial of Giordano Bruno

March 21, 2018

1x103 - Lenin and the Defeat of Socialism in Italy

March 22, 2018

1x104 - The Orthodox Church

March 29, 2018

1x105 - The Holy Sepulchre

March 30, 2018

1x106 - The Spring Festivals

April 2, 2018

1x107 - 1968 in the Eastern Bloc

April 3, 2018

1x108 - Martin Luther King

April 4, 2018

1x109 - The 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis

April 5, 2018

1x110 - Orazio Antinori and Colonial Exploration

April 6, 2018

1x111 - Luigi Giussani, Servant of God

April 10, 2018

1x112 - Workers between 1968 and the "Hot Autumn"

April 11, 2018

1x113 - The Attempted Murder of Togliatti

April 12, 2018

1x114 - The 1948 Italian General Elections

April 13, 2018

1x115 - Roberto Ruffilli, Killed by Red Brigades

April 16, 2018

1x116 - Louis XIV, the Sun King

April 17, 2018

1x117 - Radios of Free Italy

April 18, 2018

1x118 - Pope Benedict XVI

April 19, 2018