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S1 E38- The Holy Grail

9.5

2017

7 Seasons

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.

Seasons

Episodes

1. The Defeat of the Dardanelles

40m

Episode dedicated to the Gallipoli campaign, that took place during World War I.

Passato e Presente

Seasons

Episodes

1. The Defeat of the Dardanelles

2. Nicolaj II, the Last Tsar

3. The Trains of the Sun: Italy's Internal Migration in the 1950s

4. Duce and America

5. Charlemagne

6. Caporetto: Before the Battle

7. Battle Name: Lenin

8. Italian Prisoners of the Allies

9. Discord's Final: 1976 Davis Cup in Chile

10. Caporetto: the Battle

11. Tucci, Duce's Explorer

12. Anne Frank, a Denied Memory

13. Trotsky, the Impossible Revolution

14. Charles VIII in Italy

15. Martin Luther, the Rebel

16. Caporetto's Refugees

17. Stalin, the Age of Terror

18. The Fascist Woman

19. Lawrence of Arabia, Prince of the Desert

20. Memoirs of Deportation

21. Dunkirk: "Operation Dynamo"

22. Pitigrilli, Writer and Spy

23. The Assembly Line

24. Lyndon B. Johnson

25. Nikita Khrushchev

26. Giorgio La Pira, Politics and Utopia

27. Ernest Hemingway

28. Elizabeth and Philip

29. The Inquisition and the Cathars' heresy

30. Italian Military Internees: Voices from Captivity

31. Gaddafi

32. Women During Italy's Economic Boom

33. Ippolito Nievo, Between Novels and Garibaldi

34. Pope Luciani

35. September 1943: an Army in Disarray

36. The Suez Canal

37. The Palazzo D'Accursio Massacre

38. The Holy Grail

39. Kennedy vs Nixon

40. Tina Anselmi, a Life For Democracy

41. Cavour's Legacy

42. Giotto and the Discovery of Reality

43. Khomeini's Iran

44. Tambroni and the Street Demonstrations

45. Evita Perón

46. The Women of Italy's Constituent Assembly

47. The Emigrants and Marcinelle

48. James of England and the Gunpowder Plot

49. When Lenin Sang with Mussolini

50. Dino Grandi, the Man Who Defeated Mussolini

51. Tunisia: Roots of the Uprising

52. Garibaldi and The Thousand

53. Italian Constitution: the Togliatti Case

54. Italo Balbo, an Inconvenient Fascist

55. The Conquest of the West

56. Qin Shi Huang, First Emperor of China

57. The 1968 Belice Earthquake

58. Emperor Hadrian

59. The Night of the Long Knives

60. The Battle of El Alamein

61. Rosie and the American Women at War

62. Arduin, King of Italy

63. Paul VI and the Rebel Priests of 1968

64. 1938: the Italian Racial Laws

65. Jews Escaping From Nazism

66. Eichmann, the Extermination Accountant

67. The Battle of Actium

68. Gandhi, the Great Soul

69. Stasi, GDR's Secret Eye

70. Alba de Céspedes, the Voice of Clorinda

71. The Montesi Affair, a Political Scandal

72. Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles

73. Edda Ciano, the Duce's Daughter

74. Churchill and His King

75. The Julian-Dalmatian Tragedy: From Massacres to Exodus

76. Piave River Was Murmuring

77. Diderot, Raynal and the Slave Trade