2° Parte: La duplice strategia di Mussolini prevede la continuazione delle trattative per l'ingresso dei fascisti al governo con un ruolo do primo piano e l'organizzazione di una grande manifestazione armata, prevista a Roma per il 28 ottobre. Il Re, rientrato a Roma, invita Facta a sorvegliare i movimenti delle squadre fasciste.

Tecnica di un colpo di stato: la marcia su Roma è un sceneggiato Rai, diretta da Silvio Maestranzi e trasmessa in quattro puntate sulla Rete Due tra il 15 dicembre 1978 e il 5 gennaio 1979.

Lo sceneggiato ricostruisce gli avvenimenti che portarono alla marcia su Roma del 28 ottobre 1922 con la presa del potere del fascismo e la nomina di Benito Mussolini al ruolo di capo del governo. Il titolo si riferisce al libro di Curzio Malaparte Tecnica del colpo di stato (Technique du coup d'état) pubblicato in Francia nel 1931 e in Italia nel 1948.

Oltre ad una prova corale di ottimo livello da parte degli attori protagonisti, sono da segnalare l'inserimento di materiali visivi dell'epoca che conferiscono all'opera un taglio documentaristico e la conclusione affidata ad un dibattito tra esponenti dei partiti antifascisti degli anni '70: Umberto Terracini del PCI, testimone oculare dei fatti narrati, Enrico Manca del PSI e Marco Follini della DC.

Interpreti & personaggi (parziale):
Pietro Biondi: Benito Mussolini
Vittorio Congia: Vittorio Emanuele III
Elio Zamuto: Italo Balbo
Luigi Casellato: Cesare Maria De Vecchi
Enzo Consoli: Cesare Rossi
Pier Luigi Zollo: Michele Bianchi
Ennio Balbo: Antonio Salandra
Raoul Grassilli: Luigi Facta
Lucio Rama: Emilio De Bono
Carlo Alighiero: Alfredo Lusignoli
Mario Feliciani: generale Arturo Cittadini
Ivano Staccioli: Galeazzo Ciano
Gianni Musy: Ettore Conti
Giorgio Bonora: Giuseppe De Capitani
Arturo Dominici: Paolino Taddei
Carlo Reali: Efrem Ferraris
Sergio Rossi: Marcello Soleri
Piero Nuti: Luigi Albertini
Raffaele Giangrande: Gino Olivetti
Gianni Rizzo: Vincenzo Riccio
Gianni Solaro: Giovanni Giolitti
Marcello Bertini: generale Ambrogio Clerici
Vittorio Duse: Giuseppe Beneduce
Alessandro Haber: Enrico De Nicola
Renato Montalbano: Aldo Rossini
Aldo Barberito: Antonio Raimondi
Giovanni Brusatori: Pietro Nenni
Pietro Fumelli: Gustavo Fara
Mario Bardella: Luigi Federzoni

2° Parte: https://www.bitchute.com/video/lcc6gEI70hJ7/

Days of Glory is a 1944 American film, directed by Jacques Tourneur, which tells the story of a group of Soviet guerrillas fighting back during the 1941 Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.

It marked the film debut of Tamara Toumanova and Gregory Peck, as well as most of the other principal actors. It was also the first film produced by screen writer Casey Robinson, who in early January 1943 had been contracted by RKO Radio Pictures to write and produce the film under the working title This Is Russia. The film included the last screen appearance of actor Erford Gage, who subsequently entered the U.S. Army and was killed in action in 1945. Parts of the film were shot in Cedar City, Utah.

Days of Glory is one of a handful of Hollywood films made during American participation in World War II to increase public support for the country's alliance with the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany.

Cast & Characters:
Tamara Toumanova as Nina Ivanova
Gregory Peck as Vladimir
Alan Reed as Sasha
Maria Palmer as Yelena
Lowell Gilmore as Semyon
Hugo Haas as Fedor
Dena Penn as Olga, Mitya's young sister
Glen Vernon as Mitya (as Glenn Vernon)
Igor Dolgoruki as Dmitri
Edward L. Durst as Petrov (as Edward Durst)
Lou Crosby as Johann Staub

Il 7 dicembre 1970, in una notte flagellata dalla pioggia inizia l'operazione "Tora Tora". Siamo a Roma, e Tora Tora è un tentativo di colpo di Stato. A dirigerlo, il principe Junio Valerio Borghese (1906-1974), dalle stanze della sede romana del Fronte Nazionale, il movimento politico di estrema destra che lui stesso ha fondato due anni prima. Il complotto è stato pianificato nei minimi dettagli per dare l'assalto ai centri nevralgici del Paese.

I bersagli principali sono il ministero della Difesa, il ministero dell'Interno, la Rai, le centrali telefoniche e quelle telegrafiche. Obiettivo: scatenare il caos nel Paese colpendo il cuore dello Stato; il piano prevede infatti anche il rapimento del presidente della Repubblica Giuseppe Saragat e l'assassinio del capo della Polizia Angelo Vicari. Tra i congiurati ci sono figure affiliate ai movimenti neofascisti e membri di spicco dell'Esercito e del Corpo forestale. Il comando operativo è in un cantiere edile del quartiere di Montesacro, ma un altro gruppo aspetta ordini nella palestra dell'Associazione paracadutisti al comando dell'ex tenente Sandro Saccucci. Un commando si introduce nell'armeria del Viminale impossessandosi di armi e mitragliatrici.

Nel frattempo il generale dell'Aeronautica Giuseppe Casero e il colonnello Giuseppe Lo Vecchio hanno preso posizione al ministero della Difesa e una colonna di automezzi con a bordo 200 forestali armati è arrivata vicino al centro di produzione Rai di via Teulada. Anni dopo si verrà a sapere che per assassinare Saragat e Vicari erano arrivati apposta dalla Sicilia killer di Cosa Nostra. Il golpe era ormai in fase avanzata quando lo stesso Borghese fermò tutto. Le armi restarono al Viminale, la Forestale tornò a Cittaducale – da dov'era partita – e i paracadutisti rientrarono in palestra. Perché il contrordine? Qualcuno ipotizzò che fosse stata la pioggia scrosciante di quella notte a far saltare i piani. Le vere motivazioni furono politiche. Borghese scappò all'estero per evitare l'arresto e dalla tv svizzera rivendicò il progetto mancato.

Nell'immediato gli italiani rimasero all'oscuro del tentato golpe. L'8 dicembre il governo e i poteri dello Stato si comportarono come se niente fosse accaduto. L'ordine fu di non parlarne o di minimizzare. Si scoprì tutto tre mesi dopo, quando il quotidiano Paese Sera il 17 marzo 1971 uscì con il titolo: Scoperto piano di estrema destra. Il giorno dopo, il sostituto procuratore di Roma Claudio Vitalone firmò i mandati d'arresto per tentativo di insurrezione armata contro lo Stato nei confronti degli esponenti della destra extraparlamentare Mario Rosa e Sandro Saccucci, dell'affarista Giovanni De Rosa e dell'imprenditore edile Remo Orlandini. Il 19 marzo viene raggiunto da un mandato anche Borghese, che si era rifugiato nella Spagna franchista.

La Procura fu poi costretta ad archiviare l'indagine per mancanza di prove. L'istruttoria venne riaperta nel 1974, quando il ministro della Difesa Giulio Andreotti consegnò un rapporto del servizio segreto militare che gettava nuova luce sul piano eversivo. Il processo fu istituito solo tre anni più tardi e nel 1984 la Corte d'Assise d'appello assolse da tutte le accuse un'ottantina di imputati tra generali, colonnelli e neofascisti. La Cassazione confermò le assoluzioni sostenendo che il tentativo eversivo era riconducibile a un "conciliabolo di quattro o cinque sessantenni", e spiegò persino che la presenza di una colonna di mezzi militari e quasi 200 uomini della Forestale appostati davanti alla Rai era stata una coincidenza.

«Oggi possiamo sostenere con certezza il contrario», sostiene Tonietto. «Non fu quel gesto da operetta descritto dalla magistratura bensì un evento serio che, al pari di successivi, come la Rosa dei venti e il tentato golpe di Edgardo Sogno, va inserito nella "strategia della tensione" di quegli anni. Al golpe Borghese non parteciparono solo i gruppi di estrema destra intenzionati a prendere il potere, ma anche esponenti di alto livello dell'Esercito e dei servizi segreti».

In seguito sono emersi inquietanti retroscena. Le rivelazioni dei pentiti mafiosi al processo contro Andreotti e il rapporto conclusivo della Commissione parlamentare d'inchiesta sulla P2 hanno documentato il coinvolgimento di Cosa Nostra, della 'Ndrangheta e della loggia segreta di Licio Gelli. Il piano di Borghese fu il più grave attentato alla democrazia italiana organizzato nel Secondo dopoguerra.

3° Parte: https://www.bitchute.com/video/0EVZqIm63vnN/

La storia della CIA e delle sue guerre segrete nel mondo.

2° Parte: https://www.bitchute.com/video/9hYMsVwFmJg6/

A 2014 PBS History Documentary narrated by Michael Murphy, broadcasted as part of PBS American Experience series.

In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City's Hudson and East Rivers, connecting the railroad to New York and New England, knitting together the entire eastern half of the United States. The tunnels terminated in what was one of the greatest architectural achievements of its time, Pennsylvania Station. Penn Station covered nearly eight acres, extended two city blocks, and housed one of the largest public spaces in the world. But just 53 years after the station’s opening, the monumental building that was supposed to last forever, to herald and represent the American Empire, was slated to be destroyed.

Episode 6: The impulsive Emperor threatens everyone around him with sudden death and ramps up a campaign to squeeze funds, from not just rich Senators but also from common Romans. Will someone stop him?

Episode 5: Macro uses Caligula's romance with his wife to advance and helps end Tiberius's rule. What Macro hadn't expected was that, after a charm offensive, Caligula would call himself a god and terrorize many in court.

Episode 6: https://www.bitchute.com/video/L9CEI8glFOt4/

Episode 4: Retreating to Capri, Tiberius trusts Praetorian Guard captain Sejanus to run Rome but finds the latter is using his post to eliminate rivals in the Agrippina party. The Emperor devises Sejanus' precipitous downfall.

Episode 5: https://www.bitchute.com/video/VsTbhNZYlnV2/

Episode 3: The Emperor miscalculates by transferring Germanicus, to set up a puppet ruler in Armenia, and in creating a confusion in command with Syria's arrogant governor Piso. This error results in tragedy for Germanicus, Piso and Tiberius himself.

Episode 4: https://www.bitchute.com/video/LVa4dbPlFTAZ/

Episode 2: Tiberius stalls with Rome's consuls and senators whether he will become the next Emperor. Army mutinies break out in Colonia on the Rhine and Pannonia, testing Germanicus, Drusus and Sejanus.

Episode 3: https://www.bitchute.com/video/LQ7pfLsFBdqS/

The Caesars is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1968. Made in black-and-white and written and produced by Philip Mackie, it covered dramatic territory similar to that of the later BBC adaptation of I, Claudius, dealing with the lives of the early emperors of Ancient Rome, but differed in its less sensationalist depictions of historical characters and their motives; in particular, the Emperor Tiberius is portrayed much more sympathetically. All six episodes were written by Philip Mackie and directed by Derek Bennett.

Episode 1: As the first man to establish the Principate in Rome, Augustus nears death. Who will he choose as successor: his stepson Tiberius or his grandson Agrippa, who is in exile?

Episode 2: https://www.bitchute.com/video/Iuvxp7q6o4GE/

Major cast:
Roland Culver as Augustus
Eric Flynn as Germanicus
André Morell as Tiberius
Barrie Ingham as Sejanus
Ralph Bates as Caligula
Freddie Jones as Claudius
Sonia Dresdel as Livia
Nicola Pagett as Messalina
Suzan Farmer as Livilla
William Corderoy as Drusus Julius Caesar
Derek Newark as Agrippa Postumus
Caroline Blakiston as Agrippina the Elder
Martin Potter as Nero Julius Caesar
Jonathan Collins as Tiberius Gemellus
Pollyanna Williams as Julia Drusilla
Jenny White as Julia Livilla
Karol Keyes as Agrippina the Younger
Barbara Murray as Milonia Caesonia
Jerome Willis as Naevius Sutorius Macro
Kevin Stoney as Thrasyllus of Mendes
Donald Eccles as Marcus Cocceius Nerva
John Phillips as Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso
John Paul as Cassius Chaerea
Joan Heath as Munatia Plancina
Wanda Ventham as Ennia Thrasylla
Sean Arnold as Marcus Aemlius Lepidus
John Normington as Gaius Julius Callistus
John Woodvine as Publius Vitellius the Younger
Gerald Harper as Lucius Vitellius the Elder
Mark Hawkins as Mnester
Roger Rowland as Quintus Veranius
Charles Lloyd-Pack as Crispus
George Sewell as Ennius

Antonio Sebastiano Francesco Gramsci (Ales, 22 gennaio 1891 – Roma, 27 aprile 1937) è stato un politico, filosofo, politologo, giornalista, linguista e critico letterario italiano.

Nel 1921 fu tra i fondatori del Partito Comunista d'Italia, ricoprendone la carica di segretario dall'agosto 1924. Nel 1926 fu arrestato e incarcerato dal regime fascista. Nel 1934, in seguito al grave deterioramento delle sue condizioni di salute, ottenne la libertà condizionata e fu ricoverato in clinica a Roma, dove trascorse gli ultimi anni di vita.

Considerato uno dei più importanti pensatori del XX secolo, nei suoi scritti, tra i più originali della tradizione filosofica marxista, Gramsci analizzò la struttura culturale e politica della società. Elaborò in particolare il concetto d'egemonia, secondo il quale le classi dominanti impongono i propri valori politici, intellettuali e morali alla società, con l'obiettivo di saldare e gestire il potere intorno a un senso comune condiviso da tutte le classi sociali, soprattutto quelle subalterne.

Italo Balbo (Quartesana, 6 giugno 1896 – Tobruch, 28 giugno 1940) è stato un politico, generale e aviatore italiano.

Iscritto al Partito Nazionale Fascista dal 1920, fu prima squadrista e poi uno dei quadrumviri della marcia su Roma, diventando in seguito comandante generale della Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale, quindi nel 1925 sottosegretario all'economia nazionale e poi alla Regia Aeronautica. Nel 1929 assunse l'incarico di ministro dell'aeronautica, veste in cui promosse e guidò diverse crociere aeree come la crociera aerea transatlantica Italia-Brasile e la crociera aerea del Decennale. Fu insignito del grado di Maresciallo dell'aria. Considerato un potenziale rivale politico di Benito Mussolini a causa della grande popolarità raggiunta, Balbo fu nominato nel 1934 governatore della Libia.

Allo scoppio della seconda guerra mondiale organizzò voli di guerra per catturare alcuni veicoli del Regno Unito, e proprio durante il ritorno da uno di questi voli, il 28 giugno 1940, fu abbattuto per errore dalla contraerea italiana sopra Tobruch.

La vedova di Balbo, Emanuela Florio, sostenne che la morte del marito fosse dovuta a un ordine giunto da Roma; l'insistenza nelle accuse portò Temistocle Testa, prefetto di Ferrara (dove la donna viveva), a sollecitare l'intervento del capo della polizia Bocchini «...perché si lascia andare a dichiarazioni compromettenti».

"La Storia siamo Noi" di Giovanni Minoli analizza, attualizzandoli, i grandi avvenimenti del passato: fatti, luoghi, personaggi, protagonisti e non della nostra storia. In questa puntata la storia del processo che portò alla fucilazione di alcuni gerarchi fascisti accusati di tradimento, l'11 gennaio 1944. Tra di loro anche il genero di Mussolini, marito di Edda, Galeazzo Ciano.

Il processo di Verona fu un procedimento giudiziario avvenuto, dall'8 al 10 gennaio 1944, nell'omonima città veneta che, all'epoca, era sotto la giurisdizione della Repubblica Sociale Italiana (RSI). Il processo si tenne a Verona in Castelvecchio, nella sala da concerto degli Amici della Musica dove, nel novembre dell'anno precedente, aveva avuto luogo il I Congresso nazionale del Partito Fascista Repubblicano (PFR). Esso vide sul banco degli imputati sei membri del Gran consiglio del fascismo che, nella seduta del 25 luglio 1943, avevano sfiduciato Benito Mussolini dalla carica di Presidente del Consiglio.

Le condanne a morte furono eseguite l'11 gennaio 1944 al poligono di tiro di forte San Procolo da un plotone di 30 militi fascisti comandati da Nicola Furlotti. Di tale esecuzione resta anche un filmato. Dei diciannove membri del Gran Consiglio del Fascismo accusati, soltanto sei erano presenti al processo: tra questi Tullio Cianetti, che, dopo aver ritrattato, venne condannato a 30 anni di reclusione. Gli altri cinque, vale a dire Galeazzo Ciano, Emilio De Bono, Luciano Gottardi, Giovanni Marinelli e Carlo Pareschi, furono condannati a morte e fucilati alla schiena.

Gli imputati assenti, condannati a morte in contumacia, furono Dino Grandi, Giuseppe Bottai, Luigi Federzoni, Cesare Maria De Vecchi, Umberto Albini, Giacomo Acerbo, Dino Alfieri, Giuseppe Bastianini, Annio Bignardi, Giovanni Balella, Alfredo De Marsico, Alberto De Stefani ed Edmondo Rossoni; nessuno di loro venne catturato dalle autorità repubblichine e tutti sopravvissero alla Seconda guerra mondiale.

Volume 3: With the defeat at Stalingrad, the belated need for total mobilization was accepted by Hitler and the slack in German production capacity was taken up in an attempt to produce the equipment needed to service a wider and much longer war. For Doenitz, now Commander in Chief of the Kriegsmarine, the sea was now the U-boat war. A new program for increased production was introduced - 27 Type VII boats a month by the end of 1943 and is illustrated on this film by the activities of the Blohm and Voss yards. However, it was already too late for the U-boat arm, for the allies had moved to close the 'gap'. Large numbers of long-range aircraft, new radar, new weapons and new tactics served only to raise U-boat losses in the Atlantic after mid 1943. By the end of that year Doenitz had lost 237 submarines, 242 in 1944 and 151 in 1945. Increased production and expansion in training could not service such losses. Even investment in new technology -- the revolutionary Type XXI boat and adoption of the schnorkel device - all came too late to make any impact on Germany's declining military situation after late 1943.

This final chapter of the 'Grey Wolves' war is told with fascinating footage covering all aspects of this story. It ends with film of the one man 'Biber' submarine - a last ditch weapon in the face of imminent defeat and the arrest of Doenitz in 1945 - as Hitler's nominated successor and Germany's last Fuehrer.

Volume 2: The first six months of 1942 saw the war assume a truly global dimension with the entry of the United States into the conflict. For the U-boat arm, the heavy coastal traffic off the eastern seaboard of the U.S. provided such fertile hunting ground that the high number of vessels sunk led this period to be christened by the submarine crews as the 'second happy time'. The belated introduction of convoy tactics by the US Navy saw U-boat victories off the U.S. coast sink to a low of just three in July 1942. While U-boat numbers had increased - 249 on operations and in training - this figure disguised a dispersion of effort with submarines in action in the Arctic, in the Mediterranean, in the South Atlantic. With the bulk of this total in training and many others in dock Doenitz still had the problem of having too few submarines actually on station in the decisive North Atlantic. He now set out to exploit the 'gap' in the mid-Atlantic where convoys were beyond the range and protection of long range allied aircraft. By 1943 with more boats available 'Wolf Packs' exploited this 'gap' to inflict heavy losses on the convoys with 120 ships sunk in March - the high point of the U-boat campaign in World War II.

In volume two of the 'Grey Wolves' this story will be related with film covering the building of U-boat pens in France, the training of the new crews in the Baltic, 'Milch Cow' operations, Japanese subs in St. Nazaire and all the other elements that go to help understand the on-going battle between hunter and hunted above and beneath the cold, grey waters of the North Atlantic - the most decisive theatre of World War II.

Volume 3: https://www.bitchute.com/video/46qbh72zt11x/

A 1998 Chronos Productions War Documentary narrated by Brian Matthews.

This War Archive programs presents the most comprehensive and definitive archive of Germany's U-boats and their warfare strategies ever compiled as a series. These footage helps us understand the on-going battle between the hunter and the hunted beneath the cold gray waters of the North Atlantic. These programs depict the course of the U-boat's war throughout WW2 from footage taken by German cameramen. We look at the U-boat's important contribution to Germany's war effort, as the menace posed by these silent killers seemed insuperable.

Volume 1: The outbreak of war between Germany and the United Kingdom in September 1939 found the submarine arm of the Kriegsmarine unready for conflict. As a former submariner in the Great War Karl Doenitz was the vocal champion of the building of a large U-boat arm in the new German Navy but had to watch as the bulk of actual and planned naval re-armament after 1933 was directed towards the construction of a large surface fleet. He remained convinced that only a powerful U-boat arm could defeat Great Britain, the numbers available to him to set about this task in 1939 was paltry. In the first part of the war Germany thus conducted its submarine campaign against the UK with a limited number of boats. Nevertheless, Doenitz's 'Grey Wolves' were still able to inflict substantial losses on vessels carrying Britain's lifeblood, especially after May 1940 when occupation of ports on the French Biscay coast transformed Germany's strategic position and gave the submarines direct access to the Atlantic shipping lanes.

This film depicts the course of the U-boat war in it's initial phase in vivid images captured primarily by German cameramen with much being presented to the viewer for the first time. Aces such as Kretschmer, Prien and others are seen both at sea and being feted at home where they accorded the status of national heroes. Naval strategy, intelligence coups, tactics and equipment employed by both hunter and hunted, above and below the waves are examined in detail and also serves as a backdrop to coverage of the much wider U-boat war that emerged from late 1942.

Volume 2: https://www.bitchute.com/video/gHjYoAnhPUZz/

Danton is a 1983 French-Polish film depicting the last weeks of Georges Danton, one of the leaders of the French Revolution. It is an adaptation of the 1929 play The Danton Case by Stanisława Przybyszewska. Audio in French with English subtitles.

Danton takes place in the spring of 1794, almost five years after the fall of the Bastille and immediately following a period when the revolutionary government, facing internal enemies, conspirators, and the advance of foreign armies on French territory, created the Committee of Public Safety and the Revolutionary Tribunal to repress its enemies and raise additional military forces. Robespierre and Danton became the Revolution’s leading figures, and huge numbers of suspects were arrested and executed, including Marie Antoinette and the liberal-thinking Duc d’Orléans, during what became known as the Reign of Terror.

But the Revolution began to turn on itself, with Robespierre gradually gaining ascendancy over Danton and establishing dictatorial control through the tribunal and the committee. Robespierre believed that “terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible,” while Danton and his faction gradually turned against the Terror and the dictatorship. Soon after the committee had eliminated the extremists under Jacques-René Hébert (an atheist and proponent of the working class), it turned on Danton and his faction, the Indulgents.

The film barely touches on these historical facts, however, except for Danton’s execution, focusing instead on the conflict between Robespierre and Danton.

The film stars Gérard Depardieu in the title role, with Wojciech Pszoniak as Maximilien Robespierre, and Patrice Chéreau as Camille Desmoulins. It was directed by the Polish director Andrzej Wajda and was an international co-production between companies in France, Poland and West Germany. All supporters of Danton (with the exception of Bourdon, who would later betray him) are played by French actors, while Robespierre's allies are played by Poles.

Principal Cast & Characters:
Gérard Depardieu as Georges Danton
Wojciech Pszoniak as Maximilien Robespierre
Patrice Chéreau as Camille Desmoulins
Bogusław Linda as Louis de Saint-Just
Angela Winkler as Lucile Desmoulins
Emmanuelle Debever as Louison Danton
Andrzej Seweryn as François Louis Bourdon
Serge Merlin as Pierre Philippeaux
Roland Blanche as Jean-François Delacroix
Jacques Villeret as François Joseph Westermann
Anne Alvaro as Éléonore Duplay
Roger Planchon as Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville
Franciszek Starowieyski as Jacques-Louis David
Alain Macé as François Héron

Episode 7: Trajan, the optimus princeps, the emperor who led Rome to its maximum territorial expansion, had magnificent buildings built in the city, entrusting them to the brilliant architect Apollodorus of Damascus. Evidence of this is the Trajan's Market, a vast complex of buildings serving as an administrative centre, which stands out behind Trajan's Forum, on the slope of the Quirinal hill.

Trajan's Markets take the circular shape of the exedra and are built with the opus latericium technique, Roman concrete covered with bricks. Opposite the Markets was the sumptuous Forum of Trajan, the largest of the Forums, built to celebrate Rome's victory in the Dacian War. In the Forum, the Basilica Ulpia, dedicated to the emperor's family, and Trajan's Column, an unsurpassed work of art of Roman bas-relief, stood out for their beauty. The imprint of the Trajan era in the Imperial Forums is also visible in other buildings such as the Temple of Venus Genetrix, the Basilica Argentaria in the Forum of Caesar.

Trajan and Apollodorus, emperor and architect, created an exciting show that can be admired while walking along Via dei Fori Imperiali, one of the most beautiful and significant streets in the world.

Episode 6: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, a great engraver and architectural theorist, achieved great European fame thanks to his famous Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome), influencing his contemporaries with his projects, drawings and treatises. In 1761 he dedicated the treatise On the Magnificence and Architecture of the Romans to the Venetian Rezzonico family. Three years later, Giovanni Rezzonico, who had become Roman Grand Prior of the Order of Malta, commissioned Piranesi with the restoration of the Church of Santa Maria del Priorato, the square, the villa and the adjacent gardens on the Aventine Hill.

Piranesi carried out the works from 1764 to 1766, creating a splendid facade with an extraordinary iconographic apparatus and magnificent stucco decorations for the interior. The church was left to neglect for years, but after recent restoration works the Church has returned to its original splendor. The value of these buildings is inestimable, as they are the only ones ever built by Piranesi, who for the first time transformed the numerous drawings and projects into concrete objects.

Episode 7: https://www.bitchute.com/video/Z9MpI2vz4Imo/

Episode 5: The Pantheon is one of the most famous buildings in the world. Thanks to its proportions, and the engineering with which it was built, it rightfully enters the history of architecture. A symbol of this is the dome with the oculus, the only opening through which light enters, which was the largest in history until Brunelleschi created the one in the Florence Cathedral. The architect was Apollodorus of Damascus, who in 118 AD. designed the Pantheon at the behest of the emperor Hadrian, who was also passionate about architecture, who wanted to build the temple following the destruction of the temple that Agrippa had built under the emperor Augustus.

The history of the Pantheon and the neighborhood in which it is located, the Campus Martius, links these two emperors through a fascinating scenographic use of sunlight. But the Pantheon is not only linked to ancient Rome, the church has a long Christian tradition thanks to which it escaped the destruction of pagan temples. In the Renaissance, the charm and fame of the building was increased by the choice of the divine Raffaello Sanzio to be buried right inside the Pantheon.

Episode 6: https://www.bitchute.com/video/ok3Hor2VjoY8/

Episode 4: Mausoleum, fortified bastion, papal residence, prison, museum: Castel Sant'Angelo is all this, an architectural body that over the centuries has changed its nature and function without ever losing its centrality in Rome. Going up its 7 levels - including prisons, lodges, courtyards, bathrooms and halls - it is possible to retrace some salient moments in the history of Rome, from its foundation almost up to the present day.

Built in 128 AD. C. on the banks of the Tiber by Emperor Hadrian, the building became a crossroads between St. Peter's Basilica and the City. Thanks to its strategic position it took on the function of a fortress at the end of the 3rd century, and famous prisons were built inside it, from which the great sculptor Benvenuto Cellini escaped in the 16th century. During the Renaissance the building was transformed into a papal residence and began to be enriched with works of art and magnificent frescoes. In particular, thanks to the commission of Paul III, artists of the caliber of Perin del Vaga, Domenico Zaga and Pellegrino Tibaldi worked in the rooms of Castel Sant'Angelo.

Episode 5: https://www.bitchute.com/video/cigDT89TyIzC/