Nasiriyah, A True Story from Iraq - Episode 1
Episode #10

The biggest TV productions from different countries come to your screen in our miniseries. Biographies, literary adaptations and the most amazing stories are told in an appealing way in this world-class shows.
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Tuesday , November, 17, 2009
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Nasiriyah, A True Story from Iraq - Episode 1
Episode #10

The biggest TV productions from different countries come to your screen in our miniseries. Biographies, literary adaptations and the most amazing stories are told in an appealing way in this world-class shows.
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Monday , November, 16, 2009
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Corleone- Episodio 12
Episode #27


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Tuesday , November, 10, 2009
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Corleone- Episodio 11
Episode #26


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Tuesday , November, 10, 2009
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Corleone- Episodio 12
Episode #27


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Monday , November, 09, 2009
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Corleone- Episodio 11
Episode #26


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Monday , November, 09, 2009
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Corleone- Episodio 10
Episode #25


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Saturday , November, 07, 2009
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Corleone- Episodio 9
Episode #24


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Saturday , November, 07, 2009
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Corleone- Episodio 10
Episode #25


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Tuesday , November, 03, 2009
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Corleone- Episodio 9
Episode #24


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Tuesday , November, 03, 2009
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Corleone- Episodio 10
Episode #25


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Monday , November, 02, 2009
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Corleone- Episodio 9
Episode #24


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Monday , November, 02, 2009
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Corleone- Episodio 8
Episode #23


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Saturday , October, 31, 2009
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Corleone- Episodio 7
Episode #22


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Saturday , October, 31, 2009
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Corleone- Episodio 8
Episode #23


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Tuesday , October, 27, 2009
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Corleone- Episodio 7
Episode #22


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Tuesday , October, 27, 2009
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Corleone- Episodio 8
Episode #23


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Monday , October, 26, 2009
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Corleone- Episodio 7
Episode #22


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Monday , October, 26, 2009
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Corleone - Episode 6
Episode #21

Palermo. The end of the 1980s. Biagio (Daniele Liotti) has all but recovered from the ambush, his leg however seems irreparably compromised. Teresa (Simona Cavallari), who Falcone has found a position for at the Courthouse, is by his side and Antonio, his son, is studying for his school leaving exams. Straight after, the boy informs his parents - to their astonishment - that he also wants to join the police. In the meantime, Riina seeks a solution to the fact that Falcone will soon be appointed as head of an important office. He therefore considers it his victory that, by contrast, the more senior judge, Meli, is appointed who, with his bureaucratic approach, in fact hinders the work of the pool.The Corleonesi family, however, no longer seem to be so compact. The killer Scarpuzzedda organizes robberies on his own account, provoking the reproof of Provenzano (Salvatore Lazzaro), and for this reason he is eliminated. In Rome, in the meantime, the Supreme Court rejects the appeals made and confirms the life sentences for all the Corleonesi. Riina is furious with the politicians who have always supported him in Sicily and arranges for Salvo Lima and then Ignazio Salvo to be killed, then he orders Brusca to deal with Falcone and Borsellino.Just over two months later, both are killed, and with them their escorts and the judge Francesca Morvillo are massacred. Provenzano is sceptical of this increasingly violent attack against the State. There no longer seems to be the original feeling between the two men. Riina thunders that in Sicily it is the Corleonesi who rule, and, via Ciancimino sends the State, represented by the captain of the Carabinieri Li Donni a "screed" with his conditions for bringing the massacres to an end.Ciancimino, however, reveals to the captain that the Corleonesi are no longer a united family. Shortly after, during an apparent routine control, a man with a gun on the dashboard is stopped at a road block. It is Balduccio Di Maggio, a foot soldier of Riina's, he want to talk. Ambushes, controls and, shortly after, Riina is arrested by the men of captain Ultimo. At the police barracks, the old godfather denies his identity. His identification is hard going, the photographs in the possession of the Carabinieri date back to 1948 and the fingerprints held at Ucciardone have disappeared.It will be Biagio who identifies Totò, in a hard confrontation, while in Palermo, Bagarella and Provenzano make Riina's family disappear from their home along with their traces.
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Saturday , October, 24, 2009
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Corleone - Episode 5
Episode #20

It is the 1980s. Totò Riina is by now the undisputed head of Cosa Nostra and the new Commission is peopled by his faithful followers alone: Michele Greco, Brusca, Di Maio and naturally Binnu Provenzano. Riina, heedless of Binnu's requests for moderation, savagely wipes out any opposition and when Apuzzo, one of the old guard bosses, contacts Buscetta, worried about the turn which the business is taking after the latest deaths decreed by Totò - the member of parliament Pio La Torre, the prefect Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa and the judge Rocco Chinnici - arranges for him to be eliminated and also wipes out the Buscetta clan and all its affiliates, dissolving their bodies in acid.In the meantime, Biagio unexpectedly receives a visit from Mangano, now in retirement, who, aware of his experience of the Corleonesi, places him in contact with the judges Falcone and Borsellino, who, co-ordinated by the Judge Caponnetto, have set up an anti-mafia pool. The judge's intention is to unite all the mafia investigations and dig into the assets of the bosses. Biagio works alongside two valid police officers, Montana and Cassarà, and the hope of finally seeing Riina caught is revived in him. In the meantime, Falcone obtains the extradition of Masino Buscetta, captured in Brazil. Biagio, sent along with other police officers to collect the boss, saves his life on the plane. Once landed, Buscetta agrees to collaborate. Buscetta's revelations permit Falcone to issue 366 warrants, but the arrest which encourages Biagio more than any other is that of the member of parliament Vito Ciancimino.Falcone and Borsellino, isolated for reasons of security at Asinara, prepare the preliminary trial proceedings. In the meanwhile, Riina, worried, commissions his killer Scarpuzzedda to kill Montana, and Cassarà. Antonio, Biagio's son, struck by the dramatic events, escapes from Rome to stay by his father's side. Teresa, moved by his courage, follows him to Palermo and accepts to return to Biagio. It is 1986 when the maxi-trial against Cosa Nostra commences, an important trial which ended on 16 December 1987 with 2665 years of imprisonment and 19 life sentences, the foremost being the life sentencing of Riina, Provenzano and the allied bosses.While the judge reads the sentence out, Biagio realizes he is being followed, shoots the killers who want to catch him and take him to Totò, who has asked for him, but is seriously wounded.
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Saturday , October, 24, 2009
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Corleone - Episode 6
Episode #21

Palermo. The end of the 1980s. Biagio (Daniele Liotti) has all but recovered from the ambush, his leg however seems irreparably compromised. Teresa (Simona Cavallari), who Falcone has found a position for at the Courthouse, is by his side and Antonio, his son, is studying for his school leaving exams. Straight after, the boy informs his parents - to their astonishment - that he also wants to join the police. In the meantime, Riina seeks a solution to the fact that Falcone will soon be appointed as head of an important office. He therefore considers it his victory that, by contrast, the more senior judge, Meli, is appointed who, with his bureaucratic approach, in fact hinders the work of the pool.The Corleonesi family, however, no longer seem to be so compact. The killer Scarpuzzedda organizes robberies on his own account, provoking the reproof of Provenzano (Salvatore Lazzaro), and for this reason he is eliminated. In Rome, in the meantime, the Supreme Court rejects the appeals made and confirms the life sentences for all the Corleonesi. Riina is furious with the politicians who have always supported him in Sicily and arranges for Salvo Lima and then Ignazio Salvo to be killed, then he orders Brusca to deal with Falcone and Borsellino.Just over two months later, both are killed, and with them their escorts and the judge Francesca Morvillo are massacred. Provenzano is sceptical of this increasingly violent attack against the State. There no longer seems to be the original feeling between the two men. Riina thunders that in Sicily it is the Corleonesi who rule, and, via Ciancimino sends the State, represented by the captain of the Carabinieri Li Donni a "screed" with his conditions for bringing the massacres to an end.Ciancimino, however, reveals to the captain that the Corleonesi are no longer a united family. Shortly after, during an apparent routine control, a man with a gun on the dashboard is stopped at a road block. It is Balduccio Di Maggio, a foot soldier of Riina's, he want to talk. Ambushes, controls and, shortly after, Riina is arrested by the men of captain Ultimo. At the police barracks, the old godfather denies his identity. His identification is hard going, the photographs in the possession of the Carabinieri date back to 1948 and the fingerprints held at Ucciardone have disappeared.It will be Biagio who identifies Totò, in a hard confrontation, while in Palermo, Bagarella and Provenzano make Riina's family disappear from their home along with their traces.
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Tuesday , October, 20, 2009
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Corleone - Episode 5
Episode #20

It is the 1980s. Totò Riina is by now the undisputed head of Cosa Nostra and the new Commission is peopled by his faithful followers alone: Michele Greco, Brusca, Di Maio and naturally Binnu Provenzano. Riina, heedless of Binnu's requests for moderation, savagely wipes out any opposition and when Apuzzo, one of the old guard bosses, contacts Buscetta, worried about the turn which the business is taking after the latest deaths decreed by Totò - the member of parliament Pio La Torre, the prefect Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa and the judge Rocco Chinnici - arranges for him to be eliminated and also wipes out the Buscetta clan and all its affiliates, dissolving their bodies in acid.In the meantime, Biagio unexpectedly receives a visit from Mangano, now in retirement, who, aware of his experience of the Corleonesi, places him in contact with the judges Falcone and Borsellino, who, co-ordinated by the Judge Caponnetto, have set up an anti-mafia pool. The judge's intention is to unite all the mafia investigations and dig into the assets of the bosses. Biagio works alongside two valid police officers, Montana and Cassarà, and the hope of finally seeing Riina caught is revived in him. In the meantime, Falcone obtains the extradition of Masino Buscetta, captured in Brazil. Biagio, sent along with other police officers to collect the boss, saves his life on the plane. Once landed, Buscetta agrees to collaborate. Buscetta's revelations permit Falcone to issue 366 warrants, but the arrest which encourages Biagio more than any other is that of the member of parliament Vito Ciancimino.Falcone and Borsellino, isolated for reasons of security at Asinara, prepare the preliminary trial proceedings. In the meanwhile, Riina, worried, commissions his killer Scarpuzzedda to kill Montana, and Cassarà. Antonio, Biagio's son, struck by the dramatic events, escapes from Rome to stay by his father's side. Teresa, moved by his courage, follows him to Palermo and accepts to return to Biagio. It is 1986 when the maxi-trial against Cosa Nostra commences, an important trial which ended on 16 December 1987 with 2665 years of imprisonment and 19 life sentences, the foremost being the life sentencing of Riina, Provenzano and the allied bosses.While the judge reads the sentence out, Biagio realizes he is being followed, shoots the killers who want to catch him and take him to Totò, who has asked for him, but is seriously wounded.
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Tuesday , October, 20, 2009
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Corleone - Episode 6
Episode #21

Palermo. The end of the 1980s. Biagio (Daniele Liotti) has all but recovered from the ambush, his leg however seems irreparably compromised. Teresa (Simona Cavallari), who Falcone has found a position for at the Courthouse, is by his side and Antonio, his son, is studying for his school leaving exams. Straight after, the boy informs his parents - to their astonishment - that he also wants to join the police. In the meantime, Riina seeks a solution to the fact that Falcone will soon be appointed as head of an important office. He therefore considers it his victory that, by contrast, the more senior judge, Meli, is appointed who, with his bureaucratic approach, in fact hinders the work of the pool.The Corleonesi family, however, no longer seem to be so compact. The killer Scarpuzzedda organizes robberies on his own account, provoking the reproof of Provenzano (Salvatore Lazzaro), and for this reason he is eliminated. In Rome, in the meantime, the Supreme Court rejects the appeals made and confirms the life sentences for all the Corleonesi. Riina is furious with the politicians who have always supported him in Sicily and arranges for Salvo Lima and then Ignazio Salvo to be killed, then he orders Brusca to deal with Falcone and Borsellino.Just over two months later, both are killed, and with them their escorts and the judge Francesca Morvillo are massacred. Provenzano is sceptical of this increasingly violent attack against the State. There no longer seems to be the original feeling between the two men. Riina thunders that in Sicily it is the Corleonesi who rule, and, via Ciancimino sends the State, represented by the captain of the Carabinieri Li Donni a "screed" with his conditions for bringing the massacres to an end.Ciancimino, however, reveals to the captain that the Corleonesi are no longer a united family. Shortly after, during an apparent routine control, a man with a gun on the dashboard is stopped at a road block. It is Balduccio Di Maggio, a foot soldier of Riina's, he want to talk. Ambushes, controls and, shortly after, Riina is arrested by the men of captain Ultimo. At the police barracks, the old godfather denies his identity. His identification is hard going, the photographs in the possession of the Carabinieri date back to 1948 and the fingerprints held at Ucciardone have disappeared.It will be Biagio who identifies Totò, in a hard confrontation, while in Palermo, Bagarella and Provenzano make Riina's family disappear from their home along with their traces.
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Monday , October, 19, 2009
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Corleone - Episode 5
Episode #20

It is the 1980s. Totò Riina is by now the undisputed head of Cosa Nostra and the new Commission is peopled by his faithful followers alone: Michele Greco, Brusca, Di Maio and naturally Binnu Provenzano. Riina, heedless of Binnu's requests for moderation, savagely wipes out any opposition and when Apuzzo, one of the old guard bosses, contacts Buscetta, worried about the turn which the business is taking after the latest deaths decreed by Totò - the member of parliament Pio La Torre, the prefect Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa and the judge Rocco Chinnici - arranges for him to be eliminated and also wipes out the Buscetta clan and all its affiliates, dissolving their bodies in acid.In the meantime, Biagio unexpectedly receives a visit from Mangano, now in retirement, who, aware of his experience of the Corleonesi, places him in contact with the judges Falcone and Borsellino, who, co-ordinated by the Judge Caponnetto, have set up an anti-mafia pool. The judge's intention is to unite all the mafia investigations and dig into the assets of the bosses. Biagio works alongside two valid police officers, Montana and Cassarà, and the hope of finally seeing Riina caught is revived in him. In the meantime, Falcone obtains the extradition of Masino Buscetta, captured in Brazil. Biagio, sent along with other police officers to collect the boss, saves his life on the plane. Once landed, Buscetta agrees to collaborate. Buscetta's revelations permit Falcone to issue 366 warrants, but the arrest which encourages Biagio more than any other is that of the member of parliament Vito Ciancimino.Falcone and Borsellino, isolated for reasons of security at Asinara, prepare the preliminary trial proceedings. In the meanwhile, Riina, worried, commissions his killer Scarpuzzedda to kill Montana, and Cassarà. Antonio, Biagio's son, struck by the dramatic events, escapes from Rome to stay by his father's side. Teresa, moved by his courage, follows him to Palermo and accepts to return to Biagio. It is 1986 when the maxi-trial against Cosa Nostra commences, an important trial which ended on 16 December 1987 with 2665 years of imprisonment and 19 life sentences, the foremost being the life sentencing of Riina, Provenzano and the allied bosses.While the judge reads the sentence out, Biagio realizes he is being followed, shoots the killers who want to catch him and take him to Totò, who has asked for him, but is seriously wounded.
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Monday , October, 19, 2009
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Corleone - Episode 4
Episode #19

During the 1980s in Palermo, the new and extremely lucrative business of the mafia is the drug trade which the bosses import from Thailand, refining them and then sending them under the form of heroine to their relatives in America. The Corleonesi who do not have contacts in the USA are forced to rely on the Palermo bosses so as to gain a slice of the action from time to time. This subjection does not go down well with Riina. His anxiety does not escape the mafia heads Bontate and Inzerillo who rebuke Masino Buscetta for having brought u Curtu, as they contemptibly call him, into the Commission. Riina, who has ingratiated himself with the lower level Mafiosi belonging to the other families in the province by means of money and gifts, is ready to go to war.Biagio, in the meanwhile, is working alongside Boris Giuliano whose investigations lead to the discovery of the mafia refineries and the arrest of the mafia chemist Francesco Marino Mannoia. When, however, Giuliano tries to turn the screws on and obtains authorization to inspect the bank accounts of the bosses, Riina orders his brother-in-law, Luchino Bagarella, to kill him. The death of the police chief, Boris Giuliano, throws Biagio into turmoil. In the meantime Teresa, who has just discovered that she is pregnant, goes to a clinic in Palermo for an appointment. But she finds Ninetta Bagarella in the same hospital, who has just given birth to her third child, and the two women meet in the corridor. Teresa, in a panic, calls Biagio while she escapes through the streets of Palermo. Ninetta, in turn, abandons the hospital in a hurry. Due to the shock, Teresa loses the baby but this time leaves Palermo and moves to Rome with little Antonio.In the meantime, the mafia war against the State continues, grimly marked by the murder of the judges Terranova and Costa, and Riina, despite the perplexities expressed by Binnu, also kills the bosses Bontate and Inzerillo wiping out the families thanks to the information of their lower ranks. Buscetta, who had for some time foretold the end of Cosa Nostra, escapes to Brazil. While Biagio is totally alienated at police headquarters and must return to the Corleone passport office, Riina has achieved his goal: he is now the greatly feared boss of the Sicilian mafia and with Michele Greco meets John Gambino who is the head of the American mafia. Together with the latter, who is passing through Sicily, he comes to terms and suggests alliances.
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Saturday , October, 17, 2009
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Corleone - Episode 3
Episode #18

December 1969, in Corleone Teresa, with Biagio, gives birth to little Antonio. During the same hours, in Palermo, in secret from the other mafia family heads, Totò Riina, Binnu Provenzano and Calogero Bagarella, disguised as policemen burst into the Moncada construction company with the intention of killing the boss Michele Cavataio. They succeed but Calogero, in turn, is killed. Binnu and Totò secretly bury their friend in Corleone also so as to avoid leaving their calling card on the umpteenth massacre. The young head of police Boris Giuliano investigates with Mangano and senses that a body is missing from the crime scene. It is Biagio, who in the meantime has accepted a transfer to Palermo, who realizes that it is Bagarella but it is impossible to prove it: the Corleonesi have killed the witnesses.Riina in the meantime, like the Palermo bosses, wants a part of the big business run by Vito Ciancimino, the Corleonese who has become mayor of Palermo, but needs greater funds. Therefore, Provenzano and he, without Liggio's approval, kidnap the thirteen year-old Antonino Caruso, whose family is strongly linked to the member of parliament Bernardo Mattarella. Despite the freeing of the adolescent, the mafia bosses fear the heavy reprisals of the Public Prosecutor against the families, thus Riina, without any hesitation, arranges for the Public Prosecutor to be killed and, with the support of Badalamenti and Buscetta, joins the regional mafia "Commission" while Liggio, who starts to be a burden to Riina, thanks to a tip-off, is soon arrested.Ninetta in turn is called before the court, the judges want to send her to the border in North Italy accused of aiding and abetting the Corleonesi mafia band. While the young woman is questioned, Teresa and little Antonio are intimidated by Riina's men.Ninetta is finally released to her home town and condemned to special surveillance but in concurrence with her marriage - celebrated secretly - to Totò she disappears and also becomes a fugitive. Biagio, with his friend and colleague Silvio, try in every way to hunt down Riina who, seeing danger draw near, decides to go on the counterattack. He kills Silvio and beats up Biagio, threatening him to stay away from him. Riina in fact is invincible and continues to extend his power in Sicily. In order to achieve his aims, in 1978 he arranges for Peppe Di Cristina from Caltanissetta and Pippo Calderone from Catania -another two bosses and his bitter opponents - to be killed.
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Saturday , October, 17, 2009
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Corleone - Episode 4
Episode #19

During the 1980s in Palermo, the new and extremely lucrative business of the mafia is the drug trade which the bosses import from Thailand, refining them and then sending them under the form of heroine to their relatives in America. The Corleonesi who do not have contacts in the USA are forced to rely on the Palermo bosses so as to gain a slice of the action from time to time. This subjection does not go down well with Riina. His anxiety does not escape the mafia heads Bontate and Inzerillo who rebuke Masino Buscetta for having brought u Curtu, as they contemptibly call him, into the Commission. Riina, who has ingratiated himself with the lower level Mafiosi belonging to the other families in the province by means of money and gifts, is ready to go to war.Biagio, in the meanwhile, is working alongside Boris Giuliano whose investigations lead to the discovery of the mafia refineries and the arrest of the mafia chemist Francesco Marino Mannoia. When, however, Giuliano tries to turn the screws on and obtains authorization to inspect the bank accounts of the bosses, Riina orders his brother-in-law, Luchino Bagarella, to kill him. The death of the police chief, Boris Giuliano, throws Biagio into turmoil. In the meantime Teresa, who has just discovered that she is pregnant, goes to a clinic in Palermo for an appointment. But she finds Ninetta Bagarella in the same hospital, who has just given birth to her third child, and the two women meet in the corridor. Teresa, in a panic, calls Biagio while she escapes through the streets of Palermo. Ninetta, in turn, abandons the hospital in a hurry. Due to the shock, Teresa loses the baby but this time leaves Palermo and moves to Rome with little Antonio.In the meantime, the mafia war against the State continues, grimly marked by the murder of the judges Terranova and Costa, and Riina, despite the perplexities expressed by Binnu, also kills the bosses Bontate and Inzerillo wiping out the families thanks to the information of their lower ranks. Buscetta, who had for some time foretold the end of Cosa Nostra, escapes to Brazil. While Biagio is totally alienated at police headquarters and must return to the Corleone passport office, Riina has achieved his goal: he is now the greatly feared boss of the Sicilian mafia and with Michele Greco meets John Gambino who is the head of the American mafia. Together with the latter, who is passing through Sicily, he comes to terms and suggests alliances.
Rebroadcast

Tuesday , October, 13, 2009
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Corleone - Episode 3
Episode #18

December 1969, in Corleone Teresa, with Biagio, gives birth to little Antonio. During the same hours, in Palermo, in secret from the other mafia family heads, Totò Riina, Binnu Provenzano and Calogero Bagarella, disguised as policemen burst into the Moncada construction company with the intention of killing the boss Michele Cavataio. They succeed but Calogero, in turn, is killed. Binnu and Totò secretly bury their friend in Corleone also so as to avoid leaving their calling card on the umpteenth massacre. The young head of police Boris Giuliano investigates with Mangano and senses that a body is missing from the crime scene. It is Biagio, who in the meantime has accepted a transfer to Palermo, who realizes that it is Bagarella but it is impossible to prove it: the Corleonesi have killed the witnesses.Riina in the meantime, like the Palermo bosses, wants a part of the big business run by Vito Ciancimino, the Corleonese who has become mayor of Palermo, but needs greater funds. Therefore, Provenzano and he, without Liggio's approval, kidnap the thirteen year-old Antonino Caruso, whose family is strongly linked to the member of parliament Bernardo Mattarella. Despite the freeing of the adolescent, the mafia bosses fear the heavy reprisals of the Public Prosecutor against the families, thus Riina, without any hesitation, arranges for the Public Prosecutor to be killed and, with the support of Badalamenti and Buscetta, joins the regional mafia "Commission" while Liggio, who starts to be a burden to Riina, thanks to a tip-off, is soon arrested.Ninetta in turn is called before the court, the judges want to send her to the border in North Italy accused of aiding and abetting the Corleonesi mafia band. While the young woman is questioned, Teresa and little Antonio are intimidated by Riina's men.Ninetta is finally released to her home town and condemned to special surveillance but in concurrence with her marriage - celebrated secretly - to Totò she disappears and also becomes a fugitive. Biagio, with his friend and colleague Silvio, try in every way to hunt down Riina who, seeing danger draw near, decides to go on the counterattack. He kills Silvio and beats up Biagio, threatening him to stay away from him. Riina in fact is invincible and continues to extend his power in Sicily. In order to achieve his aims, in 1978 he arranges for Peppe Di Cristina from Caltanissetta and Pippo Calderone from Catania -another two bosses and his bitter opponents - to be killed.
Rebroadcast

Tuesday , October, 13, 2009
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Corleone - Episode 4
Episode #19

During the 1980s in Palermo, the new and extremely lucrative business of the mafia is the drug trade which the bosses import from Thailand, refining them and then sending them under the form of heroine to their relatives in America. The Corleonesi who do not have contacts in the USA are forced to rely on the Palermo bosses so as to gain a slice of the action from time to time. This subjection does not go down well with Riina. His anxiety does not escape the mafia heads Bontate and Inzerillo who rebuke Masino Buscetta for having brought u Curtu, as they contemptibly call him, into the Commission. Riina, who has ingratiated himself with the lower level Mafiosi belonging to the other families in the province by means of money and gifts, is ready to go to war.Biagio, in the meanwhile, is working alongside Boris Giuliano whose investigations lead to the discovery of the mafia refineries and the arrest of the mafia chemist Francesco Marino Mannoia. When, however, Giuliano tries to turn the screws on and obtains authorization to inspect the bank accounts of the bosses, Riina orders his brother-in-law, Luchino Bagarella, to kill him. The death of the police chief, Boris Giuliano, throws Biagio into turmoil. In the meantime Teresa, who has just discovered that she is pregnant, goes to a clinic in Palermo for an appointment. But she finds Ninetta Bagarella in the same hospital, who has just given birth to her third child, and the two women meet in the corridor. Teresa, in a panic, calls Biagio while she escapes through the streets of Palermo. Ninetta, in turn, abandons the hospital in a hurry. Due to the shock, Teresa loses the baby but this time leaves Palermo and moves to Rome with little Antonio.In the meantime, the mafia war against the State continues, grimly marked by the murder of the judges Terranova and Costa, and Riina, despite the perplexities expressed by Binnu, also kills the bosses Bontate and Inzerillo wiping out the families thanks to the information of their lower ranks. Buscetta, who had for some time foretold the end of Cosa Nostra, escapes to Brazil. While Biagio is totally alienated at police headquarters and must return to the Corleone passport office, Riina has achieved his goal: he is now the greatly feared boss of the Sicilian mafia and with Michele Greco meets John Gambino who is the head of the American mafia. Together with the latter, who is passing through Sicily, he comes to terms and suggests alliances.
Rebroadcast

Monday , October, 12, 2009
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Corleone - Episode 3
Episode #18

December 1969, in Corleone Teresa, with Biagio, gives birth to little Antonio. During the same hours, in Palermo, in secret from the other mafia family heads, Totò Riina, Binnu Provenzano and Calogero Bagarella, disguised as policemen burst into the Moncada construction company with the intention of killing the boss Michele Cavataio. They succeed but Calogero, in turn, is killed. Binnu and Totò secretly bury their friend in Corleone also so as to avoid leaving their calling card on the umpteenth massacre. The young head of police Boris Giuliano investigates with Mangano and senses that a body is missing from the crime scene. It is Biagio, who in the meantime has accepted a transfer to Palermo, who realizes that it is Bagarella but it is impossible to prove it: the Corleonesi have killed the witnesses.Riina in the meantime, like the Palermo bosses, wants a part of the big business run by Vito Ciancimino, the Corleonese who has become mayor of Palermo, but needs greater funds. Therefore, Provenzano and he, without Liggio's approval, kidnap the thirteen year-old Antonino Caruso, whose family is strongly linked to the member of parliament Bernardo Mattarella. Despite the freeing of the adolescent, the mafia bosses fear the heavy reprisals of the Public Prosecutor against the families, thus Riina, without any hesitation, arranges for the Public Prosecutor to be killed and, with the support of Badalamenti and Buscetta, joins the regional mafia "Commission" while Liggio, who starts to be a burden to Riina, thanks to a tip-off, is soon arrested.Ninetta in turn is called before the court, the judges want to send her to the border in North Italy accused of aiding and abetting the Corleonesi mafia band. While the young woman is questioned, Teresa and little Antonio are intimidated by Riina's men.Ninetta is finally released to her home town and condemned to special surveillance but in concurrence with her marriage - celebrated secretly - to Totò she disappears and also becomes a fugitive. Biagio, with his friend and colleague Silvio, try in every way to hunt down Riina who, seeing danger draw near, decides to go on the counterattack. He kills Silvio and beats up Biagio, threatening him to stay away from him. Riina in fact is invincible and continues to extend his power in Sicily. In order to achieve his aims, in 1978 he arranges for Peppe Di Cristina from Caltanissetta and Pippo Calderone from Catania -another two bosses and his bitter opponents - to be killed.
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Monday , October, 12, 2009
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Corleone - Episode 2
Episode #17

Palermo. The 1960s. Liggio, thanks to the support of Vito Ciancimino son of Corleone's barber, a law graduate and councillor for public works - comes to an agreement with the Palermo boss La Barbera for the control of the meat trade and the trafficking of cigarettes and leaves Riina in the city with his friends to run their business. The murder of La Barbera by Michele Cavataio, however, unleashes a war between the mafia clans which divides the control of the city. Riina senses that it is better to withdraw and hides out with Binnu and Calò near Corleone; while Luciano Raia asks for help from Maria, his lover. Tommaso Buscetta, linked to La Barbera, Stefano Bontate and admirer of Totò, also leaves Palermo.In the meantime in Corleone, Biagio, together with the Head of Police Mangano, continues to pursue Riina. He imagines that his "old friend" will pay a visit to his girlfriend Ninetta Bagarella and manages to convince his girlfriend Teresa, a schoolmate and friend of Ninetta' s, to help him. The raid at the Bagarella home however does not produce the expected results and Ninetta, even if she asks Totò not to take revenge on Teresa, breaks off her friendship with her. However Totò, who is hiding out in the countryside, is arrested while he tries to flee a police block. It is Biagio who recognizes the dangerous fugitive Riina, who claims that he is a harmless peasant.In the meanwhile, things seem to be going better for Biagio Schirò: Teresa graduates and finally the two youngsters can get married. Furthermore, Luciano Raia, convinced by Maria after a hard internal conflict, decides to give himself up and collaborate with the law. Riina, who has also gained importance inside prison, is warned that there is a grass outside.Thanks to Raia, Judge Terranova can however prepare a case for trial against Liggio, Riina, Bagarella and Provenzano. Then thanks to Biagio's intuition, Liggio is also arrested.On 10 June 1969, the trial is finally commenced. In the courtroom, Raia confirms his accusations but the members of the court undergo terrible threats and the accused are acquitted since they are found not guilty" of the crimes they were charged with. Raia desperate, commits suicide.While Riina, who Terranova wants to send to the border in North Italy, informs Binnu that he wants to become a fugitive so as not to leave the island, Teresa asks Biagio to leave Sicily so as to try and have a normal life.
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Saturday , October, 10, 2009
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Corleone - Episode 1
Episode #16

Sicily, 1993. Totò Riina has just been captured and receives a visit in prison from a man, it is his childhood friend Biagio Schirò, a presence which forces him to recollect...It is the post-war years in Corleone, Totò is still a small boy when his father and younger brother die following the explosion of an American bomb found in the fields where they were working, a bomb from which his father wanted to recover the gunpowder to sell so as to feed his children.It is Totò, the oldest, just thirteen years old who must now take care of the family. Together with his friend, Biagio, he takes the grain to be milled and suffers the tyranny of the miller who steals his flour. The miller's boy, Binnu Provenzano, and the young Calogero Bagarella, who share the same fate as the poor devils, intervene in favour of Totò and Biagio. When the four become a band, Luciano Liggio, the right-hand man of Dr. Navarra, the Corleone mafia boss, notes Totò's courage and determination, and thus recruits him and launches him, together with his friends, in his mafia career.Biagio, however, following the murder of the trade unionist Placido Rizzotto moves away from the group and resumes his studies even if it is Biagio who will save Totò taking him to hospital after a settling of scores with the son of the miller. Totò is arrested for this murder and sentenced to pass his term in the prison of Ucciardone where he gains his primary school leaving certificate. When he comes out of prison he finds his friends, who have also grown, and is joined by a new mafia contingent, Luciano Raia.With their help, Liggio double-crosses Navarra who, at the end of a hard feud, is killed together with his men. Now the young Corleonesi have control over their town. Biagio has instead become a police officer and is on the trail of Totò, but when the two meet face-to-face at the cemetery, in front of Riina's father's tomb, Biagio is not able to shoot his childhood friend who escapes arrest and, together with his men, starts to look to Palermo. It is a city to conquer.
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Saturday , October, 10, 2009
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Corleone - Episode 2
Episode #17

Palermo. The 1960s. Liggio, thanks to the support of Vito Ciancimino son of Corleone's barber, a law graduate and councillor for public works - comes to an agreement with the Palermo boss La Barbera for the control of the meat trade and the trafficking of cigarettes and leaves Riina in the city with his friends to run their business. The murder of La Barbera by Michele Cavataio, however, unleashes a war between the mafia clans which divides the control of the city. Riina senses that it is better to withdraw and hides out with Binnu and Calò near Corleone; while Luciano Raia asks for help from Maria, his lover. Tommaso Buscetta, linked to La Barbera, Stefano Bontate and admirer of Totò, also leaves Palermo.In the meantime in Corleone, Biagio, together with the Head of Police Mangano, continues to pursue Riina. He imagines that his "old friend" will pay a visit to his girlfriend Ninetta Bagarella and manages to convince his girlfriend Teresa, a schoolmate and friend of Ninetta' s, to help him. The raid at the Bagarella home however does not produce the expected results and Ninetta, even if she asks Totò not to take revenge on Teresa, breaks off her friendship with her. However Totò, who is hiding out in the countryside, is arrested while he tries to flee a police block. It is Biagio who recognizes the dangerous fugitive Riina, who claims that he is a harmless peasant.In the meanwhile, things seem to be going better for Biagio Schirò: Teresa graduates and finally the two youngsters can get married. Furthermore, Luciano Raia, convinced by Maria after a hard internal conflict, decides to give himself up and collaborate with the law. Riina, who has also gained importance inside prison, is warned that there is a grass outside.Thanks to Raia, Judge Terranova can however prepare a case for trial against Liggio, Riina, Bagarella and Provenzano. Then thanks to Biagio's intuition, Liggio is also arrested.On 10 June 1969, the trial is finally commenced. In the courtroom, Raia confirms his accusations but the members of the court undergo terrible threats and the accused are acquitted since they are found not guilty" of the crimes they were charged with. Raia desperate, commits suicide.While Riina, who Terranova wants to send to the border in North Italy, informs Binnu that he wants to become a fugitive so as not to leave the island, Teresa asks Biagio to leave Sicily so as to try and have a normal life.
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Tuesday , October, 06, 2009
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Corleone - Episode 2
Episode #17

Palermo. The 1960s. Liggio, thanks to the support of Vito Ciancimino son of Corleone's barber, a law graduate and councillor for public works - comes to an agreement with the Palermo boss La Barbera for the control of the meat trade and the trafficking of cigarettes and leaves Riina in the city with his friends to run their business. The murder of La Barbera by Michele Cavataio, however, unleashes a war between the mafia clans which divides the control of the city. Riina senses that it is better to withdraw and hides out with Binnu and Calò near Corleone; while Luciano Raia asks for help from Maria, his lover. Tommaso Buscetta, linked to La Barbera, Stefano Bontate and admirer of Totò, also leaves Palermo.In the meantime in Corleone, Biagio, together with the Head of Police Mangano, continues to pursue Riina. He imagines that his "old friend" will pay a visit to his girlfriend Ninetta Bagarella and manages to convince his girlfriend Teresa, a schoolmate and friend of Ninetta' s, to help him. The raid at the Bagarella home however does not produce the expected results and Ninetta, even if she asks Totò not to take revenge on Teresa, breaks off her friendship with her. However Totò, who is hiding out in the countryside, is arrested while he tries to flee a police block. It is Biagio who recognizes the dangerous fugitive Riina, who claims that he is a harmless peasant.In the meanwhile, things seem to be going better for Biagio Schirò: Teresa graduates and finally the two youngsters can get married. Furthermore, Luciano Raia, convinced by Maria after a hard internal conflict, decides to give himself up and collaborate with the law. Riina, who has also gained importance inside prison, is warned that there is a grass outside.Thanks to Raia, Judge Terranova can however prepare a case for trial against Liggio, Riina, Bagarella and Provenzano. Then thanks to Biagio's intuition, Liggio is also arrested.On 10 June 1969, the trial is finally commenced. In the courtroom, Raia confirms his accusations but the members of the court undergo terrible threats and the accused are acquitted since they are found not guilty" of the crimes they were charged with. Raia desperate, commits suicide.While Riina, who Terranova wants to send to the border in North Italy, informs Binnu that he wants to become a fugitive so as not to leave the island, Teresa asks Biagio to leave Sicily so as to try and have a normal life.
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Monday , October, 05, 2009
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Corleone - Episode 1
Episode #16

Sicily, 1993. Totò Riina has just been captured and receives a visit in prison from a man, it is his childhood friend Biagio Schirò, a presence which forces him to recollect...It is the post-war years in Corleone, Totò is still a small boy when his father and younger brother die following the explosion of an American bomb found in the fields where they were working, a bomb from which his father wanted to recover the gunpowder to sell so as to feed his children.It is Totò, the oldest, just thirteen years old who must now take care of the family. Together with his friend, Biagio, he takes the grain to be milled and suffers the tyranny of the miller who steals his flour. The miller's boy, Binnu Provenzano, and the young Calogero Bagarella, who share the same fate as the poor devils, intervene in favour of Totò and Biagio. When the four become a band, Luciano Liggio, the right-hand man of Dr. Navarra, the Corleone mafia boss, notes Totò's courage and determination, and thus recruits him and launches him, together with his friends, in his mafia career.Biagio, however, following the murder of the trade unionist Placido Rizzotto moves away from the group and resumes his studies even if it is Biagio who will save Totò taking him to hospital after a settling of scores with the son of the miller. Totò is arrested for this murder and sentenced to pass his term in the prison of Ucciardone where he gains his primary school leaving certificate. When he comes out of prison he finds his friends, who have also grown, and is joined by a new mafia contingent, Luciano Raia.With their help, Liggio double-crosses Navarra who, at the end of a hard feud, is killed together with his men. Now the young Corleonesi have control over their town. Biagio has instead become a police officer and is on the trail of Totò, but when the two meet face-to-face at the cemetery, in front of Riina's father's tomb, Biagio is not able to shoot his childhood friend who escapes arrest and, together with his men, starts to look to Palermo. It is a city to conquer.
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Monday , October, 05, 2009
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The Other Boylen Girl
Episode #7

The biggest TV productions from different countries come to your screen in our miniseries. Biographies, literary adaptations and the most amazing stories are told in an appealing way in this world-class shows.
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Saturday , October, 03, 2009
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