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A harrowing countdown of the major events leading up to Auschwitz's liberation, told through the testimonies of survivors, local residents, perpetrators, liberators and expert insights.

Esplora il recente passato dell'Europa attraverso la lente dei suoi dittatori. Immergendoci nei mondi di queste menti tiranniche e intransigenti dell'era della Guerra Fredda.

An analysis of the life of German officer and physician Josef Mengele, exploring his youth and studies, his adherence to Nazism, the inhumane experiments conducted at Auschwitz, and the connection between Nazism and the German academic system.

Continua la missione del fotografo Fabiano Ventura e del suo team di studiosi volta a studiare gli effetti dei cambiamenti climatici sui ghiacciai più importanti della Terra.

Attraverso l'accesso esclusivo agli archivi vaticani, questa serie di docu indaga sulla controversa storia di Papa Pio XII prima, durante e subito dopo la seconda guerra mondiale.

What unites a Baroque city filled with lights and the sounds of a festive band with the silence of a soak in a warm pool surrounded by snow in front of Mont Blanc? These are paths of pleasure and beauty that converge in a multicolored inlay on wood on a terrace in Sorrento, as well as in the moment when a bell is cast in an ancient foundry in the mountains of Molise. It is an Italy in harmony with the beauty of its landscape, attentive to the qualities of things, and ingenious in inventions and taste. It is the Italy of those who do things with passion.

Ghosts of the Third Reich documents the poignant and anguished stories of descendants of the Nazis, who confront their family's past and communicate their most profound feelings of guilt by inheritance. These individuals, whose family members were supporters, officers, and elite of the Nazi regime, share a common desire to distance themselves from Nazi ideology and the actions of their ancestors.

Fifty years after the disaster, the time has come to reveal the mystery behind one of the greatest marine disasters ever and to redistribute blame and praise more justly, with an absorbing documentary using incredible archive and original footage, some seen for the very first time. After fifty years, the various pieces of the puzzle can be fit together to reveal the truth behind the tragedy.

Ernest Hemingway is an almost mythical figure. In addition to being an author, he is literary work himself - a real rock star ante litteram. Much of his life has been an eternal holiday, minutely documented and continues to be a source of inspiration for himself. Wherever there are places that share their quotes: true or presumed. The pictures that portray him are thousands. Hemingway had built a fame as a captain of ventura, expressing a strong personality, man and myth, joining the life lived in the imagination of his characters. It is in this context that his many trips to Italy are included. From the First World War to the advent of Fascism, from the Second World War to the Boom Years: both male and female acquaintances, relationships with food and wine, landscapes, loves, pleasures and tragedies of life, especially in Veneto, were fundamental to the writer. Finding how Hemingway was a forerunner of the modern public figure, we will also see how he eventually found himself victim to the icon that was sewn on him. Finding its strange and private sides between the mountains and the lagoons of a territory that he loved to the end, makes the silence more silent on the fragility of this hard.

This is a series of 6 episodes on the European Middle Ages. Each documentary deals with a different subject and develops from a philological reconstruction and a general historical framework to go into detail and focus on the protagonists, the places, the events, the customs, always trying to provide new and exciting details and anecdotes , thanks to the involvement of experts and historians of international renown (such as Franco Cardini, Duccio Balestracci, Aldo Settia) who are responsible for focusing on and analyzing the subject matter. Fiction makes the story more alive than ever and drags the spectator into an enchanted atmosphere of banquets, investiture, horseback riding, but also ceremonies, trades and everyday life. Betting: 1) Lights and Shadows: Faith, Science and Magic. 2) By the way: cities, merchants and artisans. 3) Mater Land: Villages, Rites and Tradition. 4) Value And Amor Cortese: tournaments, knights and ladies. 5) Oppidum Repugnat: castles, sieges and contests. 6) Medieval man: thought, culture and fear.

An inspiring portrait of Margaret Bourke-White, Martha Gellhorn and Lee Miller, three pioneering journalists who made history as the first female correspondents to report on the Second World War.

Did you think you knew the beautiful city of Venice in Italy? This documentary will reveal a historical aspect of the city that is unknown to many.

Anna just broke up with her boyfriend. She has no money but the desire to run away from everything. Her goal is London. She becomes good friends with a transvestite who suffers the horrible pains inflicted by a prejudiced society. She steals a car and the adventure begins.

Una tragedia italiana che mostra le implicazioni politiche, il ruolo dello stato italiano, le ombre di alcuni suoi funzionari, ma anche l'azione positiva delle amministrazioni nel piano per il rilancio della valle del Piave.

The true story of Angelo d'Arrigo, pluri-recordman, and his flight in a hang-glider over Mt Everest, as well as of the two Himalayan Eagles he raised to fly with him.

The brackish waters of Venice are an inexhaustible resource, yet at the same time, a threat to the city's survival. Today, the increasing frequency of high tides and increasing sea levels caused by climate change are threatening the city's infrastructure. Therefore, a decision was made to protect Venice with a massive system of Mobile Barriers. Will the project help solve Venice's problem?

Africa seen and described through the eyes of a wildlife photographer who has always been fascinated by the unique atmosphere of this extraordinary continent. A tale of the sensation of breathing the air of Africa, admiring its fiery skies and observing the daily activities of its animals, frequently caught in unusual poses. A story that shuns the spectacle of animals suffering and dying in favor of striking colors and the light, smells and landscapes unique to this continent. A story that describes the cause of his longing for Africa, the sweetest sadness.

Il racconto di un'avventura unica. In uno spettacolare scenario di panorami montani, sfide al limite del possibile e amare rinunce.

A captivating narrative to reconstruct all the political- Military Hidden Behind Clamorous Campaign Stalemate Anglo-American military service in Italy in the winter of 1944.

Rome. May 13, 1981, 17:00. John Paul II crosses St. Peter's Square in an open Jeep among thousands of cheering people. Suddenly three shots ring out across the square. The Pope collapses. First the shock, then the confusion. The would-be assassin is chased and arrested. A few minutes later an ambulance is hurtling towards the Gemelli hospital, sirens wailing. As four surgeons fight to save the pope's life, the first theories about the attack are already circulating. Who is Mehmet Ali Agca? A mentally ill criminal who acted alone? A terrorist? Or is he the scapegoat for an international conspiracy? The attack, which was described as the "crime of the century", launched an unprecedented investigation that generated more questions than answers. After 35 years, this documentary, with exclusive eye-witness accounts and scientific reconstructions, seeks to put the pieces of the attack together to finally clarify an extremely complex affair.

At the end of the Second World War, Trieste, a city in the north of Italy that had remained in the shadows throughout the conflict, suddenly found itself the focus of great strategic interest. Caught between Italy and Yugoslavia, between the West and the Communist block, it was administrated by America and Britain for no less than nine years. These were the years of Philip Morris cigarettes, of the first blue jeans seen in Europe, of neon signs, nylon stockings, increasingly short skirts, of nights fuelled by martinis and boogie-woogie, and the first Hollywood movies. The American soldier Jim Herring and his Trieste wife Claudia witnessed it all and tell us about those incredible years with the help of never seen archive footage and historical reconstructions. Trieste appeared to be a happy island, but in reality it was revealed to be a powder keg and a nest of spies!

The fall of fascism and Mussolini on July 25, '43, a pivotal moment in Italy's history, revealed through rare color footage and unheard testimonies, unveils a web of unexpected alliances and secret plots behind the scenes.

The luxury ocean liner Baron Gautsch was the pride of the Austrian merchant fleet. It was the best, the safest and the fastest means of transport of the Habsburg Empire and was rightly considered the Austro-Hungarian Titanic.

La battaglia di Montecassino con filmati inediti, ricostruzioni 3D e racconti dei sopravvissuti. Scoprendo verità in tempo di guerra dove esplora la strategia e le scioccanti realtà della Seconda Guerra Mondiale.

It was the bloodiest and most mysterious battle of the Second World War in Italy. In Ortona, a small seaside town in the Abruzzo region, Germans and Canadians literally fought street by street, house by house, even room by room. Why did everyone want to conquer Ortona in December 1943? What was so important about it? And why was it forgotten so quickly afterwards? What embarrassing secret does Ortona hide until this day? Amazing library footage restored in HIGH DEFINITION, never before heard eyewitness accounts, documents that have remained secret until now, German photographs recently found and shown for the first time, astonishing computer reconstructions and moving re-enactments help us to relive not only the political and military climate of the time, but take us back to the narrow alleys of the time, standing side-by-side with the soldiers to discover the embarrassing truth that has remained hidden for over half a century.