Passato e Presente · SEASON 1
The Suez Canal
Episode 36 · 2017-11-30

- Documentary
- War & Politics
Episode overview
Episode dedicated to the Suez Canal, the pharaonic work that connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea: from its construction in the 19th century until 1956, the year in which Egyptian president Nasser decided to nationalize it; this decision is followed by the so-called "Suez crisis", which marked the definitive decline of France and the United Kingdom as World powers and the escalation of the clash between Arab countries and Israel.
40 minutes
Season 1 episodes
1. The Defeat of the Dardanelles2017-10-10
2. Nicolaj II, the Last Tsar2017-10-11
3. The Trains of the Sun: Italy's Internal Migration in the 1950s2017-10-12
4. Duce and America2017-10-13
5. Charlemagne2017-10-16
6. Caporetto: Before the Battle2017-10-17
7. Battle Name: Lenin2017-10-18
8. Italian Prisoners of the Allies2017-10-19
9. Discord's Final: 1976 Davis Cup in Chile2017-10-20
10. Caporetto: the Battle2017-10-23
11. Tucci, Duce's Explorer2017-10-24
12. Anne Frank, a Denied Memory2017-10-25
13. Trotsky, the Impossible Revolution2017-10-26
14. Charles VIII in Italy2017-10-27
15. Martin Luther, the Rebel2017-10-30
16. Caporetto's Refugees2017-10-31
17. Stalin, the Age of Terror2017-11-01
18. The Fascist Woman2017-11-02
19. Lawrence of Arabia, Prince of the Desert2017-11-03
20. Memoirs of Deportation2017-11-07
21. Dunkirk: "Operation Dynamo"2017-11-08
22. Pitigrilli, Writer and Spy2017-11-09
23. The Assembly Line2017-11-10
24. Lyndon B. Johnson2017-11-14
25. Nikita Khrushchev2017-11-15
26. Giorgio La Pira, Politics and Utopia2017-11-16
27. Ernest Hemingway2017-11-17
28. Elizabeth and Philip2017-11-20
29. The Inquisition and the Cathars' heresy2017-11-21
30. Italian Military Internees: Voices from Captivity2017-11-22
31. Gaddafi2017-11-23
32. Women During Italy's Economic Boom2017-11-24
33. Ippolito Nievo, Between Novels and Garibaldi2017-11-27
34. Pope Luciani2017-11-28
35. September 1943: an Army in Disarray2017-11-29
36. The Suez Canal2017-11-30
37. The Palazzo D'Accursio Massacre2017-12-01
38. The Holy Grail2017-12-04
39. Kennedy vs Nixon2017-12-05
40. Tina Anselmi, a Life For Democracy2017-12-07
41. Cavour's Legacy2017-12-08
42. Giotto and the Discovery of Reality2017-12-11
43. Khomeini's Iran2017-12-12
44. Tambroni and the Street Demonstrations2017-12-13
45. Evita Perón2017-12-14
46. The Women of Italy's Constituent Assembly2017-12-15
47. The Emigrants and Marcinelle2017-12-18
48. James of England and the Gunpowder Plot2017-12-19
49. When Lenin Sang with Mussolini2017-12-20
50. Dino Grandi, the Man Who Defeated Mussolini2017-12-21
51. Tunisia: Roots of the Uprising2017-12-22
52. Garibaldi and The Thousand2018-01-08
53. Italian Constitution: the Togliatti Case2018-01-09
54. Italo Balbo, an Inconvenient Fascist2018-01-10
55. The Conquest of the West2018-01-11
56. Qin Shi Huang, First Emperor of China2018-01-12
57. The 1968 Belice Earthquake2018-01-15
58. Emperor Hadrian2018-01-16
59. The Night of the Long Knives2018-01-17
60. The Battle of El Alamein2018-01-18
61. Rosie and the American Women at War2018-01-19
62. Arduin, King of Italy2018-01-22
63. Paul VI and the Rebel Priests of 19682018-01-23
64. 1938: the Italian Racial Laws2018-01-24
65. Jews Escaping From Nazism2018-01-25
66. Eichmann, the Extermination Accountant2018-01-26
67. The Battle of Actium2018-01-29
68. Gandhi, the Great Soul2018-01-30
69. Stasi, GDR's Secret Eye2018-01-31
70. Alba de Céspedes, the Voice of Clorinda2018-02-01
71. The Montesi Affair, a Political Scandal2018-02-02
72. Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles2018-02-06
73. Edda Ciano, the Duce's Daughter2018-02-07
74. Churchill and His King2018-02-08
75. The Julian-Dalmatian Tragedy: From Massacres to Exodus2018-02-09
76. Piave River Was Murmuring2018-02-12
77. Diderot, Raynal and the Slave Trade2018-02-13
78. Nenni and Mussolini2018-02-14
79. Sadat, New Egypt's Rais2018-02-15
80. Giacomo Lercaro, the Deposed Cardinal2018-02-16
81. Masaniello and the Revolt of Naples2018-02-19
82. The Merlin Act2018-02-20
83. The London Blitz2018-02-21
84. Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady2018-02-22
85. The Ruse of the Trojan Horse2018-02-26
86. Saddam Hussein2018-02-27
87. The America of Jazz: From New Orleans to the World2018-02-28
88. 1968: the Battle of Valle Giulia2018-03-01
89. D'Annunzio, the Aesthete of Politics2018-03-02
90. Silvio Pellico and His Imprisonment2018-03-05
91. Gino Bartali, the National Righteous2018-03-06
92. Cinecittà, Hollywood on the Tiber River2018-03-07
93. Carla Lonzi and Feminism2018-03-08
94. Anita Garibaldi, Heroine of the Italian Risorgimento2018-03-09
95. 1527: the Sack of Rome2018-03-12
96. Edward and Wallis, a Forbidden Love2018-03-13
97. Pope Paul VI2018-03-14
98. Housing in Italy's 1960s2018-03-15
99. Aldo Moro: the Negotiation2018-03-16
100. The Five Days of Milan2018-03-19
101. The Balfour Declaration: the Origins of Israel2018-03-20
102. The Trial of Giordano Bruno2018-03-21
103. Lenin and the Defeat of Socialism in Italy2018-03-22
104. The Orthodox Church2018-03-29
105. The Holy Sepulchre2018-03-30
106. The Spring Festivals2018-04-02
107. 1968 in the Eastern Bloc2018-04-03
108. Martin Luther King2018-04-04
109. The 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis2018-04-05
110. Orazio Antinori and Colonial Exploration2018-04-06
111. Luigi Giussani, Servant of God2018-04-10
112. Workers between 1968 and the "Hot Autumn"2018-04-11
113. The Attempted Murder of Togliatti2018-04-12
114. The 1948 Italian General Elections2018-04-13
115. Roberto Ruffilli, Killed by Red Brigades2018-04-16
116. Louis XIV, the Sun King2018-04-17
117. Radios of Free Italy2018-04-18
118. Pope Benedict XVI2018-04-19
119. The Red Scare2018-04-20
120. Southern Italy and the Italian Unitary State2018-04-23
121. The 1938 Football World Championship2018-04-24
122. The Scouts and the Resistance2018-04-25
123. The Chernobyl Catastrophe2018-04-26
124. The Battle of Stalingrad2018-04-27
125. Charles Albert, the Reformer Sovereign2018-04-30
126. 1968 in Milan2018-05-01
127. 1938: Hitler in Italy2018-05-02
128. France's May 682018-05-03
129. Karl Marx: Revolutionary Thinking2018-05-04
130. The Fall of the Western Roman Empire2018-05-07
131. Prague Spring and Dubcek's Socialism2018-05-08
132. Killing of Aldo Moro: the Day After2018-05-09
133. Pearl Harbour, 1941: Attack to America2018-05-10
134. Law 180: the Basaglia Revolution2018-05-11
135. Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits2018-05-14
136. Giovanni Giolitti: the Statesman2018-05-15
137. The Church of John Paul II2018-05-16
138. Guglielmo Giannini, the Ordinary Man2018-05-17
139. Propaganda During the Great War2018-05-18
140. Nero, Emperor of Rome2018-05-21
141. 194: the Law of Discord2018-05-22
142. The 1992 Mafia Bombings2018-05-23
143. 1918: the Explosion of a Factory2018-05-24
144. 1848 and the Roman Republic2018-05-25