Flying over Everest

For the first time ever, a man has flown over Everest on a hang-glider.
The story, the myth and the legend of this ancient Himalayan land will form the backdrop to a story that grows in tension as Angelo D'Arrigo approaches the moment of truth.
He will encounter winds of over 200 kilometres [...]

The sinking of the Andrea Doria

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 [...]

The mystery of the Wolf

The wolf, the last great European predator, has survived for thousands of years in the Pollino National Park in Italy. Surrounded by mystery, until recently little was known of its habits and its delicate relationship with man and his domestic animals. For the first time, a group of researchers [...]

Ortona 1943: a bloody Christmas

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 [...]

Blue Jeans and short skirts - American Trieste after the war

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 [...]

The battle of Montecassino: the shocking truth

The Benedictine abbey of Monte Cassino, halfway between Rome and Naples was one of the most important monuments in the whole of Christianity. During the Second World War the Allied forces decide to bomb the Abbey of Monte Cassino with such unprecedented violence. The battle resulted in one of the [...]

1943, Hitler orders: free Mussolini

For the first time, unpublished documents and photos reveal the secret of the most daring exploit of all time carried out by special forces: Operation Oak, the liberation of the Duce, Benito Mussolini.
The version of the blitz told by its hero, the SS Captain Otto Skorzeny, has continued to [...]

Going North: escape routes in time of global warming

This is not the first time that all living creatures have to face climate changes and the temperatures raise.
But this is the first time they cannot count on environment integrity.
In time of global warming, here and there on Earth there are few green highways left, that will let animals [...]

World Champions: man against beast

Imagine an amazing sporting competition open to all living beings on Earth. Mammals and birds, fish and insects, reptiles and amphibians… and, of course, human beings. Who would be the true champions in the different specialties? Who would score the most sensational records? Well, in such a tough [...]

A minority report

In June 1999, following the end of the three-month NATO military campaign against Yugoslavia, the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) was established. UNMIK was the first peace-building operation ever based on the idea of an UN administration fully governing a post-conflict territory. The [...]

The Middle Ages

An exciting and passionate homage to the historical period, a tribute to the atmospheres and the sensations of the Middle Ages: challenges based upon strenght and deftness, banquets, battles, ancient flavours.

To listen to the sounds and voices of the Middle Ages means to run backwards in [...]

Mumbai

Mumbai, the financial capital of the Indian sub-continent (producing 37% of India’s total earnings), home to Bollywood (the world’s largest film industry), a city of over 16 million inhabitants that is also home to the largest slum in Asia. “Why do people still live in Mumbai?” wonders the writer [...]

Diving Women

Jeju Island is the island of women, a subtropical coral reef of volcanic origin, off southern South Korean Peninsula.
The oasis of Jeju is inhabited by around 600,000 inhabitants, the aspects that distinguishes is the matriarchal structure of the family. Because of continuous wars, (still [...]

The throbbing desert

“The throbbing desert” by Marc Innaro and Sandro Vannini is the product of two months of filming spanning over ten thousand kilometers. It describes an Egypt that no tourist has ever seen, one still linked to ancient traditions and the arduous task of converting desert sand into fertile soil to [...]

The predators of the Blue River

More than 80 species of Kingfisher appeared millions of years ago in the Malaysian region, before spreading themselves all around the world.
Around 10,000 years ago, a number of Kingfishers from the Alcedo gender, began a long trip reaching Europe and colonizing the most adapt areas.
They [...]

Pacific against the wind

The Barca Pulita has to sail against the southeast Trade Winds that dominate the southern Pacific. In order to advance it has to wait for a sudden drop in wind caused by disturbances to the south. Thanks to a meteorological chart received by satellite, the passage of these disturbances can be [...]

Trieste - A ring on the Adriatic

Tiberio Mitri was born in Trieste on 12 July 1926 and rapidly became a star of Italian boxing.
It is the immediate post-war period and the background is Trieste, claimed by both Tito and Italy and recently occupied by the Americans and the British in an attempt to keep it from the [...]

Italian Parks - 2nd Season

The protected areas of Italy now cover around 10% of the country. National Parks are now a reality in Italy. But it is not just a question of size: they represent an extraordinary re source, much of it unknown. And yet this is the real face of Italy: the alpine landscapes, coniferous forests, mixed [...]

The kings of the Mediterranean Sea

A brief series at the discovery of some of the most known animals living the Mediterranean sea: sea turtles, doplhins and monk seals.

Nature: LIVE!

For the very first time, in the series "Nature: LIVE!", we'll follow - step by step - the shooting of a naturalistic documentary. Frencesco Petretti and Emanuele Coppola will guide us at the discovery of two extraordinary animals: the eagle of the snakes and the Marsican bear. Therefore we'll able [...]

Histrio's journey

Every underwater environment, even the seemingly barest one, gives thousands of small creatures the possibility to live and reproduce. This hostile habitat hosts a universe of small and big creatures that managed to find a safe life, by the means of surviving techniques evolving through the [...]

The art of defence

In the coral reef plankton is the tie which bounds open sea and coast, big fishes and micro-organisms living and performing a show that seems created by mere love of beauty. In reality, coral reefs are an immense and unique mouth where everyone’s effort is to eat and not been eaten. Some try to [...]

Hi Robot

Robots! Robots floating in our Solar system, and diving into the oceans; robot in hospitals and homes, in factories and schools; robots fighting fires, making goods and products, saving time and lives. Robots today are making a considerable impact on many aspects of modern life, from industrial [...]

Pacific off the beaten track

Barca Pulita’s expedition weighs anchor in western Samoa, with its houses without walls, multicoloured markets and spectacular blow holes, to then head west along an unknown route that, after 7 days, reaches Welagilala, the outermost of Fiji’s atolls: a remote and never visited place, an incredible [...]

The volcano tribes

In some of the villages of the Vanuatu islands, time stands still. There is no electricity, nor roads, nor money. With its eruptions and showers of black dust, the volcano Yasur conditions the life of the islanders that have learnt to respect and understand its spirit. The important stages of [...]

The eagle and the snakes

The Short-toed Eagle is one of the largest European raptor, with a wingspan of two meters. It feeds mainly on snakes which is able to spot and hunt in every area. It can kill large venomous vipers and when it returns in the Mediterranean, in spring, every pair settles in its former breeding [...]

Rome's Angels

An unusual portrait of Rome, the ancient town in Central Italy, which hosts it its old buildings, churches and monuments huge colonies of Herring Gulls which nest close to Kestrels, Parrots and other birds. By winter the town is invaded by million of Starlings .
The film describes the behaviour [...]

Extremadura

We are in the heart of Extremadura, in the natural park of Monfrague. Protected since thirty years, it’s an isolated land, with wide spaces and a rich biodiversity. It is a dry, untamed region where the rural culture has contributed to protecting an extraordinary biodiversity.
These harsh [...]

The Pharaohs' gate

The intent of this documentary is to travel along the egyptian coast of the Red Sea from the Sudanese border to Port Said, and discover an always more vital area for Egypt. Actually, it is just along the Red Sea coast that important projects of turistic development are taking shape (Gouna, Ain [...]

Myanmar

From the Irrawady river to the beautiful Pagodas of Bagan, Myanmar gives the visitor incomparable sights and ancient sensations. Our exploration of Burma started with the Ayeyarwady River, once known as the Irrawady, that rises in the Himalayas near the borders with Tibet and southeast China and [...]

A butterfly's life

The lively story of a butterfly, which becomes adult - and therefore able to fly - after two years. Through different stages of larva and countless dangers, we follow the life of this beautiful animal specie and of other animals living the same environment. All this documentary has been shot in [...]

Insulo de la Rozoj - Freedom is frightening

It is a little-known footnote in history that Italy fought its last territorial war just 40 years ago: against Respubliko de la Insulo de la Rozoj, or the Republic of Rose Island, a microstate in the Adriatic some 11 kilometers from the Italian coastal resort of Rimini.
The brainchild of [...]