OUR HISTORY

SD CINEMATOGRAFICA was formed in 1961 as a production company. Since its founding, the company has produced Films, Variety Programmes, and Science and Cultural documentaries for the Italian public broadcaster RAI and other leading international television companies. In recent years the company has focused on wildlife, Science and History documentaries with such success that it now counts National Geographic Channels, Discovery Channels, TF1, ARTE, NHK, TSR, ARD/BR, PBS and ZDF, as well as RAI and Mediaset, among its clients. Many SD documentaries have won major international prizes at the world’s leading festivals, including Academy Award, Emmy and Banff nominations. Today SD Cinematografica has over 800 hours of programming to its name. [abs]

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The Gold of Venice

The documentary traces the very close and ancient link between Venice and "its" woods

The body and the name - The unknown of the Fosse Ardeatine

The massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine, one of the most atrocious pages of the German occupation, told through a forensic investigation aimed at identifying some bodies remained unknown..

The Pope and the Devil

Silence can be complicit, or a weapon to fight someone in secret. Pius XII has been called the Pope of Silence because of his relationship with Hitler. But what kind of silence? Was Pius XII an accomplice or an adversary of the Führer? Only the millions of documents desegregated by the Vatican in 2019 can give us the definitive answer.

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The SD Cinematografica archive consists of images collected over 50 years of production, available with a single click

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The Great Beauty

Duration: 78 x 26 min.
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SACRIFICE CASSINO!

Duration: 120 Min.
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Through the unknown

Duration: 75 Min.
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ANI, the nuns of Yaqen gar

Duration: 52 Min.
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The Gold of Venice

Duration: 52 Min.
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TRAINED TO SEE – Three Women and the War

Duration: 106 min / 52 min
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The body and the name - The unknown of the Fosse Ardeatine

Duration: 53 Min
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The Pope and the Devil

Duration: 4 Eps. x 52 min.
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Dictators hideouts

Duration: 6 x 45 min.
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