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Season 1, Episode 90: Silvio Pellico and His Imprisonment
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Episode 1
The Defeat of the Dardanelles
Episode 2
Nicolaj II, the Last Tsar
Episode 3
The Trains of the Sun: Italy's Internal Migration in the 1950s
Episode 4
Duce and America
Episode 5
Charlemagne
Episode 6
Caporetto: Before the Battle
Episode 7
Battle Name: Lenin
Episode 8
Italian Prisoners of the Allies
Episode 9
Discord's Final: 1976 Davis Cup in Chile
Episode 10
Caporetto: the Battle
Episode 11
Tucci, Duce's Explorer
Episode 12
Anne Frank, a Denied Memory
Episode 13
Trotsky, the Impossible Revolution
Episode 14
Charles VIII in Italy
Episode 15
Martin Luther, the Rebel
Episode 16
Caporetto's Refugees
Episode 17
Stalin, the Age of Terror
Episode 18
The Fascist Woman
Episode 19
Lawrence of Arabia, Prince of the Desert
Episode 20
Memoirs of Deportation
Episode 21
Dunkirk: "Operation Dynamo"
Episode 22
Pitigrilli, Writer and Spy
Episode 23
The Assembly Line
Episode 24
Lyndon B. Johnson
Episode 25
Nikita Khrushchev
Episode 26
Giorgio La Pira, Politics and Utopia
Episode 27
Ernest Hemingway
Episode 28
Elizabeth and Philip
Episode 29
The Inquisition and the Cathars' heresy
Episode 30
Italian Military Internees: Voices from Captivity
Episode 31
Gaddafi
Episode 32
Women During Italy's Economic Boom
Episode 33
Ippolito Nievo, Between Novels and Garibaldi
Episode 34
Pope Luciani
Episode 35
September 1943: an Army in Disarray
Episode 36
The Suez Canal
Episode 37
The Palazzo D'Accursio Massacre
Episode 38
The Holy Grail
Episode 39
Kennedy vs Nixon
Episode 40
Tina Anselmi, a Life For Democracy
Episode 41
Cavour's Legacy
Episode 42
Giotto and the Discovery of Reality
Episode 43
Khomeini's Iran
Episode 44
Tambroni and the Street Demonstrations
Episode 45
Evita Perón
Episode 46
The Women of Italy's Constituent Assembly
Episode 47
The Emigrants and Marcinelle
Episode 48
James of England and the Gunpowder Plot
Episode 49
When Lenin Sang with Mussolini
Episode 50
Dino Grandi, the Man Who Defeated Mussolini
Episode 51
Tunisia: Roots of the Uprising
Episode 52
Garibaldi and The Thousand
Episode 53
Italian Constitution: the Togliatti Case
Episode 54
Italo Balbo, an Inconvenient Fascist
Episode 55
The Conquest of the West
Episode 56
Qin Shi Huang, First Emperor of China
Episode 57
The 1968 Belice Earthquake
Episode 58
Emperor Hadrian
Episode 59
The Night of the Long Knives
Episode 60
The Battle of El Alamein
Episode 61
Rosie and the American Women at War
Episode 62
Arduin, King of Italy
Episode 63
Paul VI and the Rebel Priests of 1968
Episode 64
1938: the Italian Racial Laws
Episode 65
Jews Escaping From Nazism
Episode 66
Eichmann, the Extermination Accountant
Episode 67
The Battle of Actium
Episode 68
Gandhi, the Great Soul
Episode 69
Stasi, GDR's Secret Eye
Episode 70
Alba de Céspedes, the Voice of Clorinda
Episode 71
The Montesi Affair, a Political Scandal
Episode 72
Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles
Episode 73
Edda Ciano, the Duce's Daughter
Episode 74
Churchill and His King
Episode 75
The Julian-Dalmatian Tragedy: From Massacres to Exodus
Episode 76
Piave River Was Murmuring
Episode 77
Diderot, Raynal and the Slave Trade
Episode 78
Nenni and Mussolini
Episode 79
Sadat, New Egypt's Rais
Episode 80
Giacomo Lercaro, the Deposed Cardinal
Episode 81
Masaniello and the Revolt of Naples
Episode 82
The Merlin Act
Episode 83
The London Blitz
Episode 84
Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady
Episode 85
The Ruse of the Trojan Horse
Episode 86
Saddam Hussein
Episode 87
The America of Jazz: From New Orleans to the World
Episode 88
1968: the Battle of Valle Giulia
Episode 89
D'Annunzio, the Aesthete of Politics
Episode 90
Silvio Pellico and His Imprisonment
Episode 91
Gino Bartali, the National Righteous
Episode 92
Cinecittà, Hollywood on the Tiber River
Episode 93
Carla Lonzi and Feminism
Episode 94
Anita Garibaldi, Heroine of the Italian Risorgimento
Episode 95
1527: the Sack of Rome
Episode 96
Edward and Wallis, a Forbidden Love
Episode 97
Pope Paul VI
Episode 98
Housing in Italy's 1960s
Episode 99
Aldo Moro: the Negotiation
Episode 100
The Five Days of Milan
Episode 101
The Balfour Declaration: the Origins of Israel
Episode 102
The Trial of Giordano Bruno
Episode 103
Lenin and the Defeat of Socialism in Italy
Episode 104
The Orthodox Church
Episode 105
The Holy Sepulchre
Episode 106
The Spring Festivals
Episode 107
1968 in the Eastern Bloc
Episode 108
Martin Luther King
Episode 109
The 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis
Episode 110
Orazio Antinori and Colonial Exploration
Episode 111
Luigi Giussani, Servant of God
Episode 112
Workers between 1968 and the "Hot Autumn"
Episode 113
The Attempted Murder of Togliatti
Episode 114
The 1948 Italian General Elections
Episode 115
Roberto Ruffilli, Killed by Red Brigades
Episode 116
Louis XIV, the Sun King
Episode 117
Radios of Free Italy
Episode 118
Pope Benedict XVI
Episode 119
The Red Scare
Episode 120
Southern Italy and the Italian Unitary State
Episode 121
The 1938 Football World Championship
Episode 122
The Scouts and the Resistance
Episode 123
The Chernobyl Catastrophe
Episode 124
The Battle of Stalingrad
Episode 125
Charles Albert, the Reformer Sovereign
Episode 126
1968 in Milan
Episode 127
1938: Hitler in Italy
Episode 128
France's May 68
Episode 129
Karl Marx: Revolutionary Thinking
Episode 130
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
Episode 131
Prague Spring and Dubcek's Socialism
Episode 132
Killing of Aldo Moro: the Day After
Episode 133
Pearl Harbour, 1941: Attack to America
Episode 134
Law 180: the Basaglia Revolution
Episode 135
Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits
Episode 136
Giovanni Giolitti: the Statesman
Episode 137
The Church of John Paul II
Episode 138
Guglielmo Giannini, the Ordinary Man
Episode 139
Propaganda During the Great War
Episode 140
Nero, Emperor of Rome
Episode 141
194: the Law of Discord
Episode 142
The 1992 Mafia Bombings
Episode 143
1918: the Explosion of a Factory
Episode 144
1848 and the Roman Republic