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Season 1 · Episode 21

Dunkirk: "Operation Dynamo"

0.040mNovember 8, 2017

Episode dedicated to the so-called "Operation Dynamo", the gigantic evacuation operation of Anglo-French troops from Dunkirk beach in the early months of World War II.

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Episode 1The Defeat of the Dardanelles
Episode 2Nicolaj II, the Last Tsar
Episode 3The Trains of the Sun: Italy's Internal Migration in the 1950s
Episode 4Duce and America
Episode 5Charlemagne
Episode 6Caporetto: Before the Battle
Episode 7Battle Name: Lenin
Episode 8Italian Prisoners of the Allies
Episode 9Discord's Final: 1976 Davis Cup in Chile
Episode 10Caporetto: the Battle
Episode 11Tucci, Duce's Explorer
Episode 12Anne Frank, a Denied Memory
Episode 13Trotsky, the Impossible Revolution
Episode 14Charles VIII in Italy
Episode 15Martin Luther, the Rebel
Episode 16Caporetto's Refugees
Episode 17Stalin, the Age of Terror
Episode 18The Fascist Woman
Episode 19Lawrence of Arabia, Prince of the Desert
Episode 20Memoirs of Deportation
Episode 21Dunkirk: "Operation Dynamo"
Episode 22Pitigrilli, Writer and Spy
Episode 23The Assembly Line
Episode 24Lyndon B. Johnson
Episode 25Nikita Khrushchev
Episode 26Giorgio La Pira, Politics and Utopia
Episode 27Ernest Hemingway
Episode 28Elizabeth and Philip
Episode 29The Inquisition and the Cathars' heresy
Episode 30Italian Military Internees: Voices from Captivity
Episode 31Gaddafi
Episode 32Women During Italy's Economic Boom
Episode 33Ippolito Nievo, Between Novels and Garibaldi
Episode 34Pope Luciani
Episode 35September 1943: an Army in Disarray
Episode 36The Suez Canal
Episode 37The Palazzo D'Accursio Massacre
Episode 38The Holy Grail
Episode 39Kennedy vs Nixon
Episode 40Tina Anselmi, a Life For Democracy
Episode 41Cavour's Legacy
Episode 42Giotto and the Discovery of Reality
Episode 43Khomeini's Iran
Episode 44Tambroni and the Street Demonstrations
Episode 45Evita Perón
Episode 46The Women of Italy's Constituent Assembly
Episode 47The Emigrants and Marcinelle
Episode 48James of England and the Gunpowder Plot
Episode 49When Lenin Sang with Mussolini
Episode 50Dino Grandi, the Man Who Defeated Mussolini
Episode 51Tunisia: Roots of the Uprising
Episode 52Garibaldi and The Thousand
Episode 53Italian Constitution: the Togliatti Case
Episode 54Italo Balbo, an Inconvenient Fascist
Episode 55The Conquest of the West
Episode 56Qin Shi Huang, First Emperor of China
Episode 57The 1968 Belice Earthquake
Episode 58Emperor Hadrian
Episode 59The Night of the Long Knives
Episode 60The Battle of El Alamein
Episode 61Rosie and the American Women at War
Episode 62Arduin, King of Italy
Episode 63Paul VI and the Rebel Priests of 1968
Episode 641938: the Italian Racial Laws
Episode 65Jews Escaping From Nazism
Episode 66Eichmann, the Extermination Accountant
Episode 67The Battle of Actium
Episode 68Gandhi, the Great Soul
Episode 69Stasi, GDR's Secret Eye
Episode 70Alba de Céspedes, the Voice of Clorinda
Episode 71The Montesi Affair, a Political Scandal
Episode 72Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles
Episode 73Edda Ciano, the Duce's Daughter
Episode 74Churchill and His King
Episode 75The Julian-Dalmatian Tragedy: From Massacres to Exodus
Episode 76Piave River Was Murmuring
Episode 77Diderot, Raynal and the Slave Trade
Episode 78Nenni and Mussolini
Episode 79Sadat, New Egypt's Rais
Episode 80Giacomo Lercaro, the Deposed Cardinal
Episode 81Masaniello and the Revolt of Naples
Episode 82The Merlin Act
Episode 83The London Blitz
Episode 84Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady
Episode 85The Ruse of the Trojan Horse
Episode 86Saddam Hussein
Episode 87The America of Jazz: From New Orleans to the World
Episode 881968: the Battle of Valle Giulia
Episode 89D'Annunzio, the Aesthete of Politics
Episode 90Silvio Pellico and His Imprisonment
Episode 91Gino Bartali, the National Righteous
Episode 92Cinecittà, Hollywood on the Tiber River
Episode 93Carla Lonzi and Feminism
Episode 94Anita Garibaldi, Heroine of the Italian Risorgimento
Episode 951527: the Sack of Rome
Episode 96Edward and Wallis, a Forbidden Love
Episode 97Pope Paul VI
Episode 98Housing in Italy's 1960s
Episode 99Aldo Moro: the Negotiation
Episode 100The Five Days of Milan
Episode 101The Balfour Declaration: the Origins of Israel
Episode 102The Trial of Giordano Bruno
Episode 103Lenin and the Defeat of Socialism in Italy
Episode 104The Orthodox Church
Episode 105The Holy Sepulchre
Episode 106The Spring Festivals
Episode 1071968 in the Eastern Bloc
Episode 108Martin Luther King
Episode 109The 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis
Episode 110Orazio Antinori and Colonial Exploration
Episode 111Luigi Giussani, Servant of God
Episode 112Workers between 1968 and the "Hot Autumn"
Episode 113The Attempted Murder of Togliatti
Episode 114The 1948 Italian General Elections
Episode 115Roberto Ruffilli, Killed by Red Brigades
Episode 116Louis XIV, the Sun King
Episode 117Radios of Free Italy
Episode 118Pope Benedict XVI
Episode 119The Red Scare
Episode 120Southern Italy and the Italian Unitary State
Episode 121The 1938 Football World Championship
Episode 122The Scouts and the Resistance
Episode 123The Chernobyl Catastrophe
Episode 124The Battle of Stalingrad
Episode 125Charles Albert, the Reformer Sovereign
Episode 1261968 in Milan
Episode 1271938: Hitler in Italy
Episode 128France's May 68
Episode 129Karl Marx: Revolutionary Thinking
Episode 130The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
Episode 131Prague Spring and Dubcek's Socialism
Episode 132Killing of Aldo Moro: the Day After
Episode 133Pearl Harbour, 1941: Attack to America
Episode 134Law 180: the Basaglia Revolution
Episode 135Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits
Episode 136Giovanni Giolitti: the Statesman
Episode 137The Church of John Paul II
Episode 138Guglielmo Giannini, the Ordinary Man
Episode 139Propaganda During the Great War
Episode 140Nero, Emperor of Rome
Episode 141194: the Law of Discord
Episode 142The 1992 Mafia Bombings
Episode 1431918: the Explosion of a Factory
Episode 1441848 and the Roman Republic