Best Italian documentary series

Passato e Presente (2017)

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

Italy at War: 1940-1942 Battles (1983)

A 1983 six-episodes series, made by Massimo Sani, which recounts the WW2 battles involving Italy between 1940 and 1942: from the attacks to France and Greece to the clashes in Africa and the disastrous expedition to Russia.

War at the Peace Table (1975)

A RAI television miniseries that reconstructs the Allied Conferences held during the World War II, from Placentia Bay (1941) to Potsdam (1945).

Courage and Mercy (1986)

1986 documentary by Nicola Caracciolo on the persecution of Jews in Italy

Images from Fascism: All the Duce's Men (1982)

1982 documentary about the Italian Fascist regime by Nicola Caracciolo

The Little King (1979)

1976 documentary by Nicola Caracciolo about the life of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III

La Storia siamo noi (2007)

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

Te la do io l'America (1981)

Beppe Grillo holidays commented

Condominio Mediterraneo (1997)

In an exotic loft, the two accidental tourists Syusy Blady and Patrizio Roversi receive from this evening on Raitre, in prime time, a large and picturesque group of friends to comment on the films of their travels.

Pompeii (2007)

Forbidden love blossoms in the city of Pompeii, which until the eruption of volcano Vesuvius in 79 AD, is one of the empire's most powerful cities.

First Team: Juventus (2018)

Follow renowned soccer club Juventus on and off the pitch as they attempt to win a seventh straight Italian title and achieve Champions League glory.

Dawid Andres z buta (2021)

Untraditional (2016)

Filmed in Milan and New York, the series tells the Fabio efforts to find a balance between work and private life and the desire to create their own television project, he cares very much, which would enable him to move with his family to New York. Albeit through the world's most "golden" a star of the world of entertainment, the episodes tell so original and fun of the difficulty for all of us to realize their dreams.

I Am Ilary (2025)

Follow TV host Ilary Blasi as she defines her life post-divorce, balancing personal growth, career opportunities and a new love.

Pericolo Verticale (2014)

Aracataca. Non voglio cambiare pianeta 2 (2023)

Il Salone delle Meraviglie (2019)

È uno sporco lavoro (2017)

#Riccanza (2016)

Voyager (2003)

Takes us to the borders of knowledge, on the mysteries of the past, present and future of our world.

La Sposa (2022)

La clinica per rinascere: Obesity Center Caserta (2018)

The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (1971)

La vita di Leonardo da Vinci — in English, The Life of Leonardo da Vinci — is a 1971 Italian television miniseries dramatizing the life of the Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci.The Golden Globe-winning miniseries was directed by Renato Castellani, and produced by RAI and distributed in the United States by CBS, which aired it from August 13, 1972 to September 10, 1972. Castellani wrote the screenplay. It was filmed entirely on location in Italy and France. The total runtime of the five episodes is nearly five hours.

Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi (2022)

Rome, 1983. After leaving a music lesson, 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi vanishes — embroiling the Vatican in a decades-long mystery.

The Yara Gambirasio Case: Beyond Reasonable Doubt (2024)

This docuseries digs into the disappearance of 13-year-old Yara and the disconcerting investigation that shattered the peace of a small Italian town.

Madagascar (2011)

Over 80 per cent of Madagascar's animals and plants are found nowhere else on Earth. Discover what made Madagascar so different from the rest of the world, and how evolution ran wild here.

SanPa: Sins of the Savior (2020)

Amidst a heroin crisis, Vincenzo Muccioli cared for the addicted, earning him fierce public devotion — even as charges of violence began to mount.

Fortune Seller: A TV Scam (2022)

Follow controversial slimming cream sellers turned con artists Wanna Marchi and Stefania Nobile, from their TV success to their scam and jail time.

Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days (1989)

Michael Palin attempts to copy the exploits of fictional character Phileas Fogg, by trying to travel around the world (without flying) in 80 days.

Veleno (2021)

In 1997 a peaceful provincial community is disrupted by a number of cases of pedophilia and Satanism.