The Best TV Shows on Rai Storia

Program about historical dissemination, presented by Paolo Mieli. Each episode sees a historian interacting with the presenter and three young university students.

La Storia siamo noi was a TV show dedicated to history. Was aired on Rai Channels from 1997 to 2013.

A series of documentaries about the ancient Western world, trying to disentangle history from myth.

A magazine that explores a common theme, analysing its perception and its evolution throughout history.

A series of documentaries about the Middle Ages, focusing on some of the most important events happened in the Italian peninsula.

Following the steps of four illustrious vintage travelers (Mary Shelley, the Marquis De Sade, Herman Melville and J.W. Goethe) engaged in the Grand Tour, with the help of British writer Tobias Jones.

The story of the 1986-87 "Maxi-trial" against Cosa Nostra in Palermo, Italy. Instructed by the Anti-Mafia pool, led by Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the story of this historical process and of its exceptional numbers is recounted through the real images from court audiences enriched by reconstructions with fictional scenes.

Liliana Cavani, before becoming an established filmmaker in Italy and in the world, was a young and brilliant documentary filmmaker in Ettore Bernabei's Rai. Just graduated from the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia, in just five years, from 1961 to 1966, Cavani produced over ten memorable programs, ranging from the editing documentary on the great history of the twentieth century to the investigation into the social, economic and cultural transformations of our country. A little-known image journey with a very high documentary and artistic value that reaches up to the TV film on Francesco d'Assisi, the first of his trilogy on the saint is the trait d'union between her documentary career and the debut of her cinematographic career.

Six episodes focused on places fundamental to telling the story of Italy