Albert Einstein

S08 E01 • Tuesday, Sep 13, 2005 • Sep 13 • 1h 52m

This episode is dedicated to a man who, with the help of pen and paper, managed to penetrate the great secrets of atoms and the universe: Albert Einstein.

Carlo Magno: la corona e la spada

S08 E02 • Wednesday, Dec 14, 2005 • Dec 14

Gengis Khan: il cavaliere dell'Apocalisse

S08 E03 • Wednesday, Dec 21, 2005 • Dec 21

Napoleone. Seguendo la Grande Armata

S08 E04 • Wednesday, Dec 28, 2005 • Dec 28 • 1h 38m

On November 9, 1799, a coup d'état took place in France that would change its history and that of Europe. Napoleon overthrew the parliamentary regime by force of arms and took power.

Chernobyl. Nel buio degli anni luce

S08 E05 • Wednesday, Apr 19, 2006 • Apr 19 • 2h 5m

Twenty years after the Chernobyl tragedy, Piero Angela and a crew from Superquark have produced a special dedicated to those places that are still isolated for a radius of 30 km. The nuclear reactor, which exploded on the night of April 26, 1986, is not yet turned off: the melted fuel is still incandescent. The emergency cover has cracks, and there are fears of a collapse if nothing is done soon. The Superquark crew went to the sites of the disaster: to the nuclear power plant and to the ghost town of Prypiat, hastily abandoned by its inhabitants and left as it was at the time. An English fiction will reconstruct with actors what happened that night in the control room, and all the lies that followed in the following 36 hours. With Paco Lanciano and with the help of models Piero Angela will explain why the reactor exploded.