Learn Italian with documentaries

Points of Interest

• Agnone, the home of bell-making [4 min]
• Anacapri, a small town on the island of Capri [14 min]
• St. Ansano's church, Pescia [4 min]
• Ara Pacis Augustae [11 min]
• Bassano del Grappa [4 min]
• Bocca della Verità
• Bologna, city of towers and waters
• Castel del Monte [4 min]
• Cellino San Marco: Al Bano's Dream
• A visit to the Coliseum [8 min]
• Corona Ferrea (Iron Crown of Lombardy) in Monza [3 min]
• Esoteric Turin [14 min]
• Ferrara, an ideal movie setting [20 min]
• Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi [4 min]
• Foresta Umbra [4 min]
• The castle of Fumone and its mysteries [10 min]
• A tour of Gaeta
• St. Galgano and the sword in the stone [5 min]
• The giants of Monte Prama [4 min]
• Giardini Arimei [4 min]
• Italy's Wonders: Abruzzo [7 min]
• Italy's Wonders: Sardinia [7 min]
• Italy's Wonders: Sicily [8 min]
• Italy's Wonders: Umbria [7 min]
• Lecce, a city of sand [6 min]
• St. Michael the Archangel, the Gargano shrine [9 min]
• Milano: Duomo and Madonnina [7 min]
• The mystery of the Holy House of Loreto, part 1 (9.55 minutes)
• Lake Maggiore and Isole Borromee [7 min]
• The Montevecchia pyramids
• Paestum and the Tomb of the Diver
• Sacra Sindone - Holy Shroud of Turin
• San Vincenzo al Volturno [5 min]
• Sardinia as the mythical Atlantis, Part 1 [12 min] and Sardinia as the mythical Atlantis, Part 2 [14 min]
• Sciacca, a film set for Pietro Germi's 1947 movie [4 min]
• Spello (36 minutes)
• Terme di Caracalla, a documentary reconstructing life in the time of the Romans [7 min]
• Venice: the Grand Canal and Palazzo Ducale
• The Verruca castle [4 min]
• Villa of Livia
• Volterra

Events and Traditions

• 1st November at Orsara [3 min]
• Giostra Cavalleresca di Sulmona [3.30 min]
• History of Pandoro [2 min]
• History of Panettone [4 min]
• Saffron cultivation at Navelli [10 min]
• The treasure of the Knights Templar [27 min]

People

• Dante Alighieri's mysteries (36 minutes)
• Gian Luigi Bonelli, Tex Willer's father
• Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio's father [5 min]
• Enzo Ferrari and the Prancing Horse
• Interview to Federico Fellini in 1959 [12 min]
• Pope John XXIII [6 min]
• Alice and Helen Kessler [6 min]
• Anna Magnani's Retrospective [5 min]
• Filippo Mazzei and Thomas Jefferson
• A Palermitana arrives in Milan
• Gigi Proietti: An old man's fairy tales
• Giacomo Puccini: an episode in his life [7 min]
• Ignazio Silone, Sono un Terrone [4 min]
• Luisa Spagnoli [5 min]
• Tampax Ad: A prova di uomo

Culture

• Bikini e tamurè
• Fascination of foreign words [5 min]
• L'Angelo Muto, an interview to Luisa Nardecchia about memories after the 2009 earthquake [9 min]
• Was William Shakespeare Italian? Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
• Smart foods for longevity
• The mythical Vespa [4 min]
• Viva Verdi: success of the Nabucco [8 min]

History

• Amerigo Vespucci [3 min]
• Ancient Rome: the Origins (10 minutes)
• Azzurrina [5 min]
• Roberto Benigni speaks at the Quirinale, on the 150th anniversary of Italian Unification
• Farms in ancient Rome [12 min]
• The Capestrano Warrior [4 min]
• Life of St. Francis of Assisi [10 min]
• Garibaldi's retreat in Caprera [4 min]
• The Great Torino and the Superga tragedy [5 min]
• The history of extra-virgin olive oil
• Italian Americans in the 1950s [8 min]
• Leonardo da Vinci's life
• The Fortune of Machiavelli's Il Principe [13 min]
• The Massacre of Monte Sole (Marzabotto)
• Ötzi, the Similaun Mummy (Iceman) [14 min]
• Oil use in ancient Rome
• The mystery of the Etruscans
• Could World War One be avoided? [11 min]

Art and Architecture

• Francesco Borromini
• Sandro Botticelli's life and works [24 min]
• Cappella degli Scrovegni, painting fresco cycle, a masterpiece of Giotto's maturity [12 min]
• Caravaggio in Malta [8 min]
• Filippino Lippi, Virgin with child (Tondo Corsini) [4 min]
• Flagellation of Christ, Piero della Francesca [5 min]
• Giotto, the birth of Western painting [18 min]
• Leonardo da Vinci's ideal city [7 min]
• Leonardo da Vinci's life [40 min]
• Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper
• Lorenzo Lotto: the 1534 Recanati Annunciation [3 min]
• Masaccio: the Cappella Brancacci
• Michelangelo, part 1 [15 min]
• Michelangelo, the Marble Genius [10 min]
• The Mona Lisa landscape [4 min]
• A guided tour of the Pantheon in Rome [6 min]
• Reggia di Caserta (Royal Palace of Caserta) [16 min]
• St. Peter's Basilica, Rome [10:50 min]
• The attack on the Pieta [5 min]
• Pozzo di San Patrizio, Orvieto [10 min]
• Prato and Filippo Lippi [9 min]
• Raphael: the School of Athens [4 min]
• Finding of the Riace bronzes [4 min]
• Templum Pacis
• Three precursors of the Renaissance
• Titian, the color master [22 min]

Italy Seen from the Sky

• Abruzzo and Molise [36 min]
• Basilicata and Calabria [43 min]
• Campania [37 min]
• Lazio [1h 17 min]
• Liguria [43 min]
• Puglia [45 min]
• Sardegna [53 min]
• Sicilia [43 min]
• Umbria [42 min]
• Tuscany [66 min]
• Veneto [39 minutes]