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1) Camorra
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (71 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
The mafia are not just the underworld and organized crime. It is a way of life, an overwhelming social phenomenon, the engine of the economy and true political class of an entire society. This was the Camorra in Naples between the sixties and the nineties, and this film is told through shocking but real archival materials (watch out for the Camorra children), terrifying and fascinating at the same time. Along with the Gomorrah by Saviano, this film...
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Researchers, historians, engineers, friends, and relatives describe the ups and downs of Corradino D’Ascanio, the man who invented the helicopter, the variable pitch propeller, and the most famous scooter in the world: the Vespa. This is the most accurate portrait that has ever been realized about this world-famous engineer. Italian with English subtitles.
Publisher
Audiovisiva
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
There are many ways of framing a landscape, a face. And many more as well to tell the story of a man, his life, his passions, his character and movements, sending a message to the world. “THE HIDDEN ANGLES OF LUCHINO VISCONTI” documentary deals with the man, the great man and director Visconti was, through the eyes of his closest collaborators and the never-before-seen images of Mario Tursi’s personal photographic archive. He was the photographer...
Publisher
Audiovisiva
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Boston, Massachusetts, 1920. Two Italians, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were sentenced to death, the only crime they were guilty of was of being anarchists. The whole world stood up, the people crowded into the town squares, not just the lives of two men were at stake but also the beliefs which they represented. Millions of voices in many languages were raised in protest. They sought justice for Sacco and Vanzetti, but nothing could save...
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Series
Night In… Collection volume 5
Language
Italiano
Description
With journalist Alberto Angela as an after-hours guide, we get the 'City of Popes' all to ourselves.
Author
Series
Night In… Collection volume 1
Language
Italiano
Description
Alberto Angela takes us on a private nighttime tour of the Egyptian Museum in Turin.
Author
Series
Night In… Collection volume 4
Language
Italiano
Description
We'll experience the eruption of Vesuvius minute by minute – a catastrophe that buried the settlement of Pompeii and surroundings in ash, rubble and incandescent lava.
Author
Series
Night In… Collection volume 2
Language
Italiano
Description
Join popular scientist Alberto Angela on a night tour of the city that gave birth to the Renaissance... and hear Andrea Bocelli sing in the Cathedral of Florence.
Author
Series
Night In… Collection volume 3
Language
Italiano
Description
It's Venice at night and the tourists are gone… join popular scientist Alberto Angelo as he explores one of Europe's most magical cities.
12) Superdesign
Publisher
Audiovisiva
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (63 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
SUPERDESIGN is a film about 19 players of the Italian Radical Movement. Through their words and their stories, we retrace the history and the heritage of the movement. They take us back to that time when everything seemed possible. We encountered Emilio Ambasz, Franco Audrito, Dario Bartolini, Lapo Binazzi, Andrea Branzi, Germano Celant, Gilberto Coretti, Pietro Derossi, Piero Gilardi, Ugo La Pietra, Roberta Meloni, Alessandro Mendini, Adolfo Natalini,...
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (73 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of first Italian cinematic divas and their sometimes dangerous relationships with politics, drugs, excesses in the shade of Cinecittà's Studios birth.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 500 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Fernando Di Leo was a prolific filmmaker who explored the political extremism and mafia corruption in Italy during the 1970's. Master of garish, intricately plotted, ultra-violent stories about pimps and petty gangsters, Di Leo has perfected the genre with an uncanny accuracy. Di Leo's films demonstrate the degradation of the working classes and how the mafia corrupted them. Though he slipped out of public consciousness after his death in 2003, his...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 59 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
In Japigia, a neighborhood in the periphery of Bari, Italy, a small community of Roma (Gypsies) carve out an existence in an illegal, ramshackle encampment. The local church has offered them a piece of land with prefabricated houses, but the town hall is preventing this offer due to their own plans for a future a railway station. Continually in danger of evacuation and making a living primarily by begging for money, the Roma still manage to foster...
16) Boccaccio '70
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 204 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Four legendary filmmakers direct some of Europe's biggest stars in Boccaccio '70, a landmark anthology film. Mario Monicelli (Big deal on Madonna Street), Federico Fellini (8 1/2), Luchino Visconti (The leopard) and Vittorio De Sica (Yesterday, today and tomorrow) direct Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider and more through four stories of unashamed eros. Modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron, they are comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding...
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
The incredibe story of Roger Tur Pallier, the honorary consul of France in Zaragoza from the pre-war period to the nineteen-seventies. Based on true events the story recounts his involvement spying on the Nazis in Spain before, during and after the Second World War and ending with his unfortunate death at the hands of left-wing terrorists shortly before he was due to retire.
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Series
Language
Italiano
Description
Questo eBook include contenuti adattati dall'audiolibro Harry Potter: A History of Magic - ispirato all'omonima mostra della British Library. È la collezione completa dei quattro eBook della serie Un viaggio attraverso e prende in esame i pittoreschi personaggi e i curiosi fatti accaduti nella storia della magia, illustrando come sono collegati al programma di Hogwarts del mondo di Harry Potter.
Non c'è nulla di pi magico di un incantesimo. Nel...
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
The first monographic publication focused on the “Florentine UFO group” (1968-1978), that conducts a historical analysis of its work, reveals its close relationship with the contemporary artistic, literary and architectural avant-garde and, finally, investigates its legacy for the contemporary project.
The contemporary context is defined by a unique conjuncture. On one hand, we witness the revival of the Radical Architecture that from the avant-garde...
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
This collection of essays aims to give a picture - albeit partial - of the history of the Jews in Italy from Unity to today. The Church's anti-Jewish policy is re-examined, as evidenced by the relevant traces in Renaissance figurative art, the position of the Jews from the Unification to the First World War and their participation in public affairs / social and political life, which studies confirm also important to the internal fascism until a few...
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