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The Worst Episodes of Passato e Presente

Every episode of Passato e Presente ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Passato e Presente!

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

Worst Episodes Summary

"The Defeat of the Dardanelles" is the worst rated episode of "Passato e Presente". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/10/2017. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Nicolaj II, the Last Tsar".

  • The Defeat of the Dardanelles
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    #1 - The Defeat of the Dardanelles

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/2017

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

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  • Nicolaj II, the Last Tsar
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    #2 - Nicolaj II, the Last Tsar

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/2017

    Episode dedicated to the life and death of Nicolaj II, the last Tsar of Russia: from his initial attempts at solving the needs of the people, passing through the tragic choice to join WWI, up to his arrest and execution, together with his family, by the Bolsheviks in 1917.

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  • The Trains of the Sun: Italy's Internal Migration in the 1950s
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    #3 - The Trains of the Sun: Italy's Internal Migration in the 1950s

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/2017

    Episode dedicated to the phenomenon of Italy's internal migration, from Southern Italy to the North that took place during 1950s and 1960s, recounting the reasons behind and the effects this phenomenon had on Italian society.

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  • Duce and America
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    #4 - Duce and America

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/2017

    Episode dedicated to the relations between Fascist Italy and the United States: from the initial harmony between the American democracy and the dictatorial regime, passing through the 1936 Italo-Ethiopian War and the approach to Nazi Germany, until 1940 (the date on which Italy enters World War II alongside the Axis).

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  • Charlemagne
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    #5 - Charlemagne

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/2017

    Episode dedicated to Charlemagne, historical leader and first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire: from his rise to power to the relations with the Arab and Byzantine world, passing through the creation of what became the core of modern Europe.

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  • Caporetto: Before the Battle
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    #6 - Caporetto: Before the Battle

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/17/2017

    First of three episodes dedicated to the centenary of the Battle of Caporetto (1917): an analysis of how Italy and Austria-Hungary approach the clash, from the internal to the military situation on the field, passing through the reconstruction of the 1917 war events.

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  • Battle Name: Lenin
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    #7 - Battle Name: Lenin

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/18/2017

    Episode dedicated to Vladimir Ilic Uljanov, better known as Lenin: from his exile in Switzerland and his return home (which took place with the help of Germany), passing through the failure of the first revolutionary attempt in July 1917, until the success of the October Revolution and the first steps of what will become the Soviet Union.

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  • Italian Prisoners of the Allies
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    #8 - Italian Prisoners of the Allies

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/19/2017

    Episode dedicated to the vicissitudes of Italian soldiers who were taken prisoner during World War II: the living conditions of prisoners before and after Italy's surrender, the relationship with the Badoglio Government and their difficult return home after the war.

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  • Discord's Final: 1976 Davis Cup in Chile
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    #9 - Discord's Final: 1976 Davis Cup in Chile

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/20/2017

    Episode dedicated to the 1976 Davis Cup final, played in Santiago between Chile and Italy: from the tight debate on whether or not to boycott the final, in protest against the newborn Pinochet regime, to the decision to participate, marked by the Italian victory and by the "protest" of Panatta and Bertolucci's double.

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  • Caporetto: the Battle
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    #10 - Caporetto: the Battle

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/23/2017

    Second of the three episodes dedicated to the centenary of the Battle of Caporetto (1917): a detailed analysis of the clash, resulted in the clamorous defeat of the Italians and in their tragic fall back to the Piave river.

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  • Tucci, Duce's Explorer
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    #11 - Tucci, Duce's Explorer

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 10/24/2017

    Episode dedicated to the figure of Giuseppe Tucci, a scholar of the East, a great connoisseur of languages and civilizations such as Indian, Tibetan or Nepalese, but also an indomitable explorer of regions that were still largely unexplored.

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  • Anne Frank, a Denied Memory
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    #12 - Anne Frank, a Denied Memory

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 10/25/2017

    Episode dedicated to the figure of Anne Frank, a young Dutch Jew who went down in history thanks to her diaries, in which she tells her life as a teenager before and during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

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  • Trotsky, the Impossible Revolution
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    #13 - Trotsky, the Impossible Revolution

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 10/26/2017

    Episode dedicated to Lev Davidovic Bronstein, better known as Trotsky: refined intellectual and theoretician of permanent revolution, father of the October Revolution, hated, fought, deported, exiled and then chased all over the world, until a hitman reaches him in Mexico.

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  • Charles VIII in Italy
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    #14 - Charles VIII in Italy

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 10/27/2017

    Episode dedicated to the Charles VIII's 1495 military campaign in Italy: from the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples to the coalition of the major and minor Italian states (helped by Ferdinand II of Aragon and Maximilian I of Habsburg), created for the purpose of defeating the French king.

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  • Martin Luther, the Rebel
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    #15 - Martin Luther, the Rebel

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 10/30/2017

    Episode dedicated to Martin Luther, "father" of the Protestant Reformation: from his initial studies in Germany to his growing opposition to the practice of indulgences and to the Vatican's practices of the time, culminating in the publication of the 95 theses.

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  • Caporetto's Refugees
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    #16 - Caporetto's Refugees

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 10/31/2017

    Last of the three episodes dedicated to the centenary of the Battle of Caporetto (1917): an analysis of the massive and disorganized exodus of the Italian population, after the German-Austro-Hungarian occupation of almost all Veneto, and the repercussions on the new war front on the Piave river.

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  • Stalin, the Age of Terror
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    #17 - Stalin, the Age of Terror

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 11/1/2017

    Episode dedicated to Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, better known as Stalin, that went down to history as one of the bloodiest dictators of the 20th century: from his youth in the seminary, passing through his rise to power in the years following Lenin's death, his contribution in transforming the USSR into a military and industrial power, the non-aggression pact with Hitler, to the post-war years of terror and gulags.

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  • The Fascist Woman
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    #18 - The Fascist Woman

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 11/2/2017

    Episode dedicated to women under Fascism: a status poised between dictatorship's attempt to force them to stay at home and be prolific mothers (discouraging their employment as much as possible) and the regime's drive towards a new "self-consciousness" through Fascist associationism.

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  • Lawrence of Arabia, Prince of the Desert
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    #19 - Lawrence of Arabia, Prince of the Desert

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 11/3/2017

    Episode dedicated to Thomas Edward Lawrence, better known as "Lawrence of Arabia": history and myth of the British colonel, secret agent and principal architect of the Arab revolt against Ottoman domination (for the benefit of the British), who died in a motorcycle accident in May 1935.

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  • Memoirs of Deportation
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    #20 - Memoirs of Deportation

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 11/7/2017

    Episode dedicated to the reconstruction of the deportations of Jews and other prisoners during World War II: the stages through which the memory in Italy of these events was formed, starting from the Nuremberg trial to the publication of the testimonies of the survivors, first among them Primo Levi's memoirs.

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  • Dunkirk: "Operation Dynamo"
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    #21 - Dunkirk: "Operation Dynamo"

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 11/8/2017

    Episode dedicated to the so-called "Operation Dynamo", the gigantic evacuation operation of Anglo-French troops from Dunkirk beach in the early months of World War II.

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  • Pitigrilli, Writer and Spy
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    #22 - Pitigrilli, Writer and Spy

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 11/9/2017

    Episode dedicated to Dino Segre, also known as "Pitigrilli": one of Turin's most read writers who, in 1930s, became a spy for OVRA (the Fascist regime's political police), although he himself often had problems with the regime, that considered him "immoral" and his novels "not very Italian".

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  • The Assembly Line
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    #23 - The Assembly Line

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 11/10/2017

    Episode dedicated to the assembly line, the innovation in the industrial production by Frederick Taylor, at the base of the incredible productivity growth of nowadays "consumer society", but also of the workers' protests against the alienation and the ever-increasing use of machines.

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  • Lyndon B. Johnson
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    #24 - Lyndon B. Johnson

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 11/14/2017

    Episode dedicated to Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States: from his first political experiences, passing through the election as senator and the vice-presidency under Kennedy, until his unexpected appointment as president, his commitment to civil rights, his management of university protests and his involvement in the Vietnam War.

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  • Nikita Khrushchev
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    #25 - Nikita Khrushchev

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 11/15/2017

    Episode dedicated to Nikita Khrushchev, Secretary of the CPSU and successor of Stalin to the leadership of the USSR: from the denunciation of Stalinism, passing through the suppression of the Hungarian uprising of 1956, up to the Cuban missile crisis, after which it will be ousted and confined to a dacha until his death.

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