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Documentary with rich archive of films and photos along with footage from the 1962 film Le quattro giornate di Napoli depicting the uprising in Naples against Nazi occupation during World War II.

“La Valanga Azzurra” traces the unparalleled journey of the Italian national alpine skiing team of the 1970s, led by the legendary coach Mario Cotelli and spearheaded by champions like Gustav Thöni and Piero Gros. Through victories that rewrote the history of Italian sports, such as the conquest of five World Cups and numerous medals across the Olympics and World Championships, the documentary celebrates internal rivalries, contrasting personalities, and the sacrifices that made this team invincible. The previously unseen testimonies of the protagonists, intertwined with the narration of Giovanni Veronesi, who, in this context, reveals his past as an aspiring champion, bring to life the unique saga of a sporting cyclone, from its glorious beginnings to its inevitable decline.

Dante Alighieri was a poet, philosopher and politician in 1300 Florence. The visionary author of "Inferno", the first book of the "Divine Comedy", he was both a direct witness and a narrator of his times and his poem is a remarkable geopolitical chronicle of a tumultuous period of the Middle Ages from 1300 to 1320, a time when Kings, Popes, rulers and warlords played a deadly chess game for the control of Europe. In this high end docudrama, some of the world's finest scholars will help provide historical context to the unfolding of events, making them accessible to a wide audience, and giving us a privileged viewpoint over one of the most eventful and funding chapters of European history.

In 1061, a handful of Norman mercenaries, led by the son of a noble family from Hauteville-la-Guichard, a village in the Normandy bocage, set foot on the Sicilian coast. Roger de Hauteville and his troops had been commissioned by the Pope to reconquer the island from the Arabs, who had seized it in 831. These fearsome warriors took thirty years to achieve their goal, but when they finally entered Palermo in 1071, their leader became an enlightened ruler. Relying on the high quality of the local Arab administration, particularly in tax matters, he set about building what was to become one of the most prosperous and advanced kingdoms of his time.

A docufilm retracing the life, successes, and great eras of Italy’s most beloved and longest-running band. A story told in chapters, each corresponding to a major theme explored by the group in their songs: love, children, and more. An exceptional and often unreleased repertoire ties together the story of Pooh—from their beginnings to their rise to fame, from their toughest choices to their commitment to environmental causes, from legendary live concerts to the moment they decided to bring this incredible journey to an end. Roby Facchinetti, Dodi Battaglia, and Red Canzian guide us through a musical and cultural legacy that has united multiple generations of fans, joined by the voices of the late drummer Stefano D’Orazio and Riccardo Fogli.

Shortly after the end of the Second World War: In 1945 and 1946, the men of the British "War Crimes Investigation Unit" drove through northern Germany on the hunt for Nazi criminals. One of them is Captain Anton Walter Freud, the grandson of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. Anton Walter Freud fled to London with his family from the Nazis in 1938. Now an intelligence officer, he's back to track down killers on Allied wanted lists: hitmen in pinstripes, brutal SS henchmen, and ruthless doctors who conducted medical experiments even on children. The soldiers who witnessed the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp months earlier are not squeamish about it. 24-year-old Freud is a free spirit known for his unorthodox methods. He knows how to make war criminals talk. So he comes across a crime that has hardly been known before, the murder of 20 children in Hamburg in the last days of the war.

At just nineteen years old, Matilde Villa is already a phenomenon in Italian and international basketball: the youngest Italian ever to be drafted by a WNBA team directly from the Italian league, without going through college. Her passion and dedication light up every game, making the power of this sport truly tangible.

The human and sporting experience of a group of "scugnizzi" from Caserta who, in Italy in the 80s and 90s, dared to challenge the Olympus of Italian basketball.