Lenin... The Train 1988

Passato e Presente (2017 - 2023)

0 /10

Program about historical dissemination, presented by Paolo Mieli. Each episode sees a historian interacting with the presenter and three young university students.

Average Episode Run Time: 31` . Year(s): 2017 - 2023

Stars: Paolo Mieli , Lucio Villari , Giovanni De Luna , Valeria Paola Babini , Silvio Pons , Mauro Canali

The Law According to Lidia Poët (2023)

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In late 19th-century Turin, the young Lidia Poët, fights against everything and everyone to get what is rightfully hers: to be enrolled in the official register of lawyers. A profession, at the time, reserved exclusively for men. Nevertheless, nothing could stop her dream of becoming the first female lawyer in Italy.

Average Episode Run Time: 42` . Year(s): 2023

Director: Matteo Rovere , Letizia Lamartire , Davide Orsini

Producer: Davide Orsini , Guido Iuculano , Francesco Marras

Stars: Matilda De Angelis , Sara Lazzaro , Nicolo Pasetti , Dario Aita , Mia McGovern Zaini , Eduardo Scarpetta

The Name of the Rose (2019)

6.9 /10

Northern Italy, 1327. The Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young apprentice Adso of Melk reach an isolated Benedictine abbey on the Alps to aid in a dispute between the Franciscan Order and the Avignon papacy. Upon arrival at the abbey, the two find themselves involved in a chain of mysterious deaths.

Average Episode Run Time: 51` . Year(s): 2019

Director: Giacomo Battiato

Producer: Herbert G. Kloiber , Marta Aceto , Margherita Murolo

Stars: John Turturro , Rupert Everett , Damian Hardung , Fabrizio Bentivoglio , Greta Scarano , Richard Sammel

Imperium: Nero (2004)

5.5 /10

As a young boy, future emperor Nero witnesses the mad Emperor Caligula kill his father and exile his mother. While in exile in the pontine islands, Agrippina, his mother, sees a vision telling her that her son can become emperor, but she will have to die first. She accepts the proposal. Back in Rome, Nero, now being raised by emperor Claudius after Caligula's death, Agrippina returns. She poisons Claudius' food and Nero becomes emperor. At first, Nero cuts taxes and introduces successful programs and invades Brittania. Soon he meets a beautiful slave named Claudia Acte, and marries her, throwing off his engagement with Claudius' daughter, Claudia Octavia, telling her she can marry someone she will be happy with. Heartbroken, she arrives at an island and kills herself. Nero enjoys being married to Claudia Acte, but soon he gradually goes mad with power and sets fire to Rome.

Average Episode Run Time: 1hr 30` . Year(s): 2004

Director: Paul Marcus

Stars: Hans Matheson , Laura Morante , Rike Schmid , Sonia Aquino , Gabriella Barbuti , James Bentley

Dictators' Nightmare (2022)

6.6 /10

Hitler, Mussolini and Franco had an aura of invincibility. However, an obsession haunted their lives: the existence of a Masonic conspiracy against them. What were Freemasons plotting in their temples? Considered a foe to the dictatorships of the 20th century Freemasonry was outlawed and Freemasons persecuted throughout Europe, with the blessing of the Catholic Church. How to survive the wrath of dictators? We will tell the untold story of World War II seen through the eyes of history's most famous secret association.

Average Episode Run Time: 50` . Year(s): 2022

Director: Luigi Maria Perotti , Gioia Avvantaggiato

Producer: Gioia Avvantaggiato

The Countess of Castiglione (2006)

5.7 /10

Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, is an unscrupulous and beautiful woman, in love with Andrea Pieri, a patriot ready to do anything to free Italy from the foreign oppressor. Wounded during a chase, Pieri takes refuge in the castle of Virginia, which, with the approval of her husband, Count Francesco Verasis of Castiglione, takes care of him. Meanwhile, Nigra, in charge of the affairs of the Kingdom of Piedmont in Paris, discovers the relations of the countess with the subversives and sees in her the perfect tool to bring Napoleon closer to the Italian cause.

Average Episode Run Time: 1hr 30` . Year(s): 2006

Director: Luca Prati , Luca Grivet Brancot , Josée Dayan

Producer: Elide Melli , Maria Teresa Bono , Giovanni Bertolucci

Stars: Marco Messeri , Jeanne Moreau , Sergio Rubini , Frédéric van den Driessche , Francesca Dellera , Christopher Thompson

Salvo D'Acquisto (2003)

5.7 /10

During World War II, 22-year-old Carabinieri deputy brigadier Salvo D'Acquisto makes an heroic gesture of self-sacrifice by "confessing" an act of sabotage for which 22 civilians had been rounded up by the Germans, and is executed by firing squad in their place on September 23, 1943.

Average Episode Run Time: 1hr 40` . Year(s): 2003

Director: Francesco Pavolini , Alberto Sironi

Producer: Federico Starace , Sergio Giussani , Roberto Giussani

Stars: Giuseppe Fiorello , Luigi Maria Burruano , Biancamaria D'Amato , Domenico Balsamo , Eugenia Costantini , Giovanni Esposito

Exterior Night (2022)

7.7 /10

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists.

Average Episode Run Time: 56` . Year(s): 2022

Director: Alberto Mangiante , Raffaele Grasso , Anna Belluccio

Producer: Daria Hensemberger , Marco Matteo Donat-Cattin , Dennis Kuipers

Stars: Fabrizio Gifuni , Margherita Buy , Fausto Russo Alesi , Daniela Marra , Gabriel Montesi , Fabrizio Contri

Italy at War: 1940-1942 Battles (1983)

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A 1983 six-episodes series, made by Massimo Sani, which recounts the WW2 battles involving Italy between 1940 and 1942: from the attacks to France and Greece to the clashes in Africa and the disastrous expedition to Russia.

Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . Year(s): 1983

Director: Massimo Sani

Producer: Fabrizio Truini

Stars: Massimo Sani , Claudio Capone , Ernesto Giuriati , Barrie Pitt , Lucio Ceva , Nuto Revelli

The Little King (1979)

6.2 /10

1976 documentary by Nicola Caracciolo about the life of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III

Average Episode Run Time: 46` . Year(s): 1979

Director: Amleto Fattori , Nicola Caracciolo

Stars: Nicola Caracciolo , King Umberto II

War at the Peace Table (1975)

9.2 /10

A RAI television miniseries that reconstructs the Allied Conferences held during the World War II, from Placentia Bay (1941) to Potsdam (1945).

Average Episode Run Time: 50` . Year(s): 1975

Director: Paolo Gazzara , Massimo Sani , Italo Alighiero Chiusano

Stars: Virginio Gazzolo , Gianni Bonagura , Renzo Montagnani , Warner Bentivegna , Franco D'Amato , Mario Erpichini

La notte della Repubblica (1989 - 1990)

8.3 /10

A TV programme presented by Sergio Zavoli, broadcast by the Italian public TV channel Rai 2, about Italy during the Years of Lead, with movies, interviews with some protagonists of the period and final discussion.

Average Episode Run Time: 2hr . Year(s): 1989 - 1990

Stars: Sergio Zavoli