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A Brief History of Italian Dialect
Don't be a mooshamoosh -- share those southern Italian dialect words!
Pro-Obama supporters have been a popular Italian phenomenon this past summer...
Venetian Gondoliers for Obama (Venice: September 12, 2008)
Chiara Barbo, Andrea Magnani: "Le ragazze di Trieste" (Triestine Girls) Part 1
Estratto dal documentario di Chiara Barbo e Andrea Magnani
Chiara Barbo, Andrea Magnani: "Le ragazze di Trieste" (Triestine Girls) Part 2
Estratto dal documentario di Chiara Barbo e Andrea Magnani
RADIO/Giulia Guarnieri: The American Mith Through Architecture
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute presents: The Philip V. Cannistraro Seminar Series in Italian American Studies (April 8, 2008).
RADIO/Fred Gardaphe: Beyond the Immigrant Paradigm
Fred Gardaphe's keynote lecture "Beyond the Immigrant Paradigm: Identities and the Future of Italian-American Studies" at the Calandra Institute's conference "Italians in the...
RADIO/Laura Ruberto: Gramsci, Migration, and the Representation of Women at Work
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute. The Philip V. Cannistraro Seminar Series in Italian American Studies presents: Laura E. Ruberto, Berkeley City College, “Gramsci,...
June, 2008. Italy's Republic Day Commemorated at Cipriani on Wall Street
Festa della Repubblica / Italian National Day - New York June 2 2008 - Cipriani New York
Messaggio del Presidente Giorgio Napolitano per la Festa Nazionale della Repubblica (dal sito del Quirinale)
Palazzo del Quirinale, 1° giugno 2008 (dal Sito del Quirinale)
Al Gore Launches "Current TV Italia" in Rome
Le domande di bloggers ed internauti italiani poste al co-fondatore di Current tv, Al Gore. L'evento si è svolto l'8 maggio 2008 presso il teatro Ambra Jovinelli di Roma. Il...
Israel at 60. Centro Primo Levi & the General Consulate of Italy in NYC
On May 13 at 7:30 Centro Primo Levi dedicated an evening to the presence of Italians in the early stage of the formation of Zionism and in Israel today.
Xenophobic Italy? A Gypsy Camp Set to Fire in Naples After the Attempted Kidnapping of a Baby
May 2008. Around 400 gypsies in Ponticelli (east of Naples) have been forced to flee after residents entered their camps armed with iron bars and threw Molotov cocktails and...
Pen American Center - "Gomorrah" Roberto Saviano (English)
Roberto Saviano, interviewed by Antonio Monda, talks about his book "Gomorrah" (Cuny Graduate Center - May 2008) Produced by Lucia Grillo and Letizia Airos Soria
ENIT-IACE. Piccoli giornalisti intervistano in italiano l'assessore della regione Sardegna
Gli studenti dello Iace intervistano nella sede dell'Enit di New York, il direttore Riccardo Strano e l'Assessore della Sardegna Luisa Anna Depau. Incontro realizzato, nell'ambito...
ANNIVERSARY / 10 Years Ago Sinatra Died. He lived in a very different world...
Frank is accompanied by his cohorts from "Your Hit Parade," including conductor Mark Warnow. This public domain footage comes from the "Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco"...
1968 and Beyond: Italy's Years of Hope and Lead
From 1968, the year of "hope and revolution" all around the world, to 1978, when Aldo Moro, the president of the Christian Democratic party, was murdered by the Red Brigates. Ten...
Pen American Center - "Gomorra" Roberto Saviano (Italiano)
Roberto Saviano, intervsitato da Antonio Monda, parla del suo libro "Gomorra" (Cuny Graduate Center - May 2008) Prodotto da Lucia Grillo e Letizia Airos Soria
Roberto Saviano: "Camorra is a European problem, not just a Neapolitan one"
The European webzine cafebabel.com interviewed Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorra, a book that denounces how the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia, has changed by becoming a...
Aspettando il Genio Fiorentino
Matteo Renzi, Presidente della Provincia di Firenze, presenta il "Genio Fiorentino", edizione 2008.
Louis Prima - I "Wan'na Be Like You" (movie "The Jungle Book")
Louis Prima singing and dubbing the famous Disney's movie "The Jungle Book" inspired by the Rudyard Kipling’s "Mowgli" story.
Neapolitan Music Society - New York World Premiere
A brief preview from the Neapolitan Music Society of one of their recovered pieces, presented in world premiere at NYU's Skirball Center
The Consul General Talò: "Join the Italian AP Program"
An Urgent Call for the AP Program by Francesco Maria Talò, Consul General of Italy in New York
Il Console Generale Talò: "Partecipate all'AP Program di Italiano"
Un appello per il "Programma AP" di Francesco Maria Talò, Console Generale d'Italia a New York
How To Cook a Heart, Trapeze at Mario's Meat Market
1997 Il Giornata di San Valentino. Annie Lanzillotto paired artist Tanya Gagne with butcher Mario Ribaudo to learn how to clean tripe. The counter is the stage. Here is the...
EGGS and BELLS, Directed by Annie Lanzillotto
Eggs and Bells: Egg breaking by Grandma Rose, Directed by Annie Lanzillotto, Cinematography by Audrey Kindred, Bells by The Church Bells of England, Farm sounds by Scaramooch and...
Italy's Consul General in New York, Francesco M. Talò, Addresses i-Italy
Address to the inaugural conference of i-Italy, March 17, 2008
Il Console Generale a New York, Francesco M. Talò, saluta i-Italy
Intervento al convegno inaugurale di i-Italy - New York, 17 marzo, 2008
Renato Miracco, Direttore dell'Istituto Italiano di Cultura, saluta i-Italy
Saluto alla conferenza inaugurale di i-Italy, New York, March 17, 2008
Renato Miracco, Director of the Italian Culture Institute, on i-Italy
Address to the i-Italy conference, March 17, 2008
Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich
Mario Batali talks wine pairing with his business partner, Joe Bastianich. The dish is Mario's Ragu Bolognese, which matches beautifully --and rhymes-- with Sangiovese. But what...
Bollani & Rava: Italian Jazz
Stefano Bollani and Enrico Rava playing at Teatro Regio di Torino, January 21, 2008.
Palazzi's international debut solo album
Internationally acclaimed bass Mirco Palazzi, a promising young artist from Morciano di Romagna (Rimini), has recently released his debut album "Recital d'arie d'opera e da...
La Signora and The Soprano
Opera duet in Annie Lanzillotto's "a'Schapett!" at The Arthur Avenue Retail Market in the Bronx.
"Neapolitan Mouse". Cute Hollywood Stereotyping
The 86th episode of Hanna and Barbera's "Tom & Jerry" cartoon (1954) develops in Naples, where a mouse named Guillermo brings his two Hollywood heroes around in a tourist trip..
IMMIGRATION. An Instructional Film (1946)
Encyclopedia Britannica Films inc. produced this Immigration video, which shows a brief history of immigration in the U.S. until 1946, in collaboration with Henry S. Commager,...
Europe vs. Italy
The famous Italian cartoon animator Brono Bozzetto explains the difference between "Europeans" and "Italians" and plays with stereotypes...
Russell Peters About Italy, Italians and Italian
The Anglo-Indian comic and actor in a hilarious clip about Italians...
SOLIDARITY. Africa's Grand Hotel in Milan, Viale Forlanini.
Illegal African immigrants living in a former military establishment in Viale Forlanini, Milan. Produced by La Svolta Umanista, a social organization that manages a "neighborood...
REJECTION. Rome As Calcutta. "Let's Free Ourselves of These People..."
This video is from Circolo Roma Liberale, a grass-roots organization affiliated with Berlusconi's right-wing party Forza Italia. One comment on it's YouTube page demands...
MEMORY. "Italian ... Nobody's Perfect"
In "Pane e cioccolata" (1973), the popula actor Nino Manfredi plays an Italian immigrant in Switzerland who is questioned by the police and confronts not only stereotypes and...
MEMORY. The Struggle of Boston's Italian Immigration
A National History Day Documentary about the many hardships of Boston's Italian Immigration. Created by three young people in their college age and posted on YouTube, it is based...
MEMORY. "Questo paese è stranzo!"
A short video made for a high school Italian class purports to illustrate an Italian family emigrating to the U.S. in the 1920's. Despite its uncertain Italian, it captures the...
MEMORY. No Italians Wanted
Excerpt from a one-man show by San Francisco performer Tommi Avicolli Mecca. "Contrary to popular belief, no immigrants were ever welcomed to America. Like the Irish and Eastern...
REJECTION. Basta! Italy Belongs to Italians
A collection of anti-immigrant posters, leaflets and pictures used by Italy's political movement Lega Nord and other minor right-wing organizations to demand expulsion of...
REJECTION. "They Invade Rome and Terrorize Our Neighborood at Nights"
An exasperated young father shot this video to expose Romanian gipsies who "install themselves under these bridges, undisturbed, and during the night come and steal from my store...
Interview: Tenor Giuseppe Giacomini - I - Published on YouTube by Agatarco
Tenor Giuseppe Giacomini released an interview on July 8th 2006 that has been divided in five parts and published on YouTube by Agatarco. The interview, of course, is in Italian....
SOLIDARITY. From Eritrea to Lampedusa: A Tragic Journey
August 2006. Dozens of illegal migrants reach tiny Sicilian island of Lampedusa. Several are reported missing. Many of the illegal immigrants are Eritrean people. A YouTube...
SOLIDARITY. Squatting in the Fashion City. Immigtant Life in Milan
Immigrant's life in Milan, the "Fashion City" also dubbed sometimes Italy's Moral Capital... This 2007 video with rap soundtrack tells how African immigrats live in Milan's Viale...
SOLIDARITY. Gliugliano: A Sunny Inferno on the Outskirts of Naples
Giugliano, a few miles from the "City of Sun". A modern inferno for Slavs, Romanians, Gipsies, Africans... A reportage by Nicola Angrisano, founder of the independent...
Canvas. Written and Directed by Joseph Greco
This story of one family's struggle with mental illness is written and directed by Joseph Greco. Starring Emmy Award Winning Actor Joe Pantoliano, Academy Award Winning Actress...
The Inside Reel: Tom DiCillo Delirious Interview
Director Tom DiCillo talks about how Steve Buscemi's performance in his latest film Delirious differs from any of his other roles and why he created the character.
’Tis Autumn – The Search for Jackie Paris, by Raymond De Felitta
An enlightening exploration into the mysterious life of the late jazz vocalist Jackie Paris, this documentary premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. It won the Best...
A Scene from Outside Providence, by Michael Corrente
Flashback Scene from the Farrely Brothers early pic, "Outside Providence" featuring Seth William Meier, Shawn Hatosy & Jay Ferver. Directed by Michael Corrente for Miramax.
Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King, based on a script by Richard La Gravenese
This 1991 film, featuring Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, and Mercedes Ruehl, was based on an astonishing screenplay by Richard La Gravenese (who has a blink-n-miss cameo in the...
Richard LaGravenese at "Freedom Writers"
This clip features highlights from a "Freedom Writers" event where a cast and crew members was reunited, including Oscar nominated writer/director Richard LaGravenese ("Fisher...
Local Color, by George Gallo
A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974. A talented, but troubled eighteen year old art student befriends an elderly alcoholic...
i-Italy gets on the Italian Television
October 31, 2007: RAI International interviews prof. Patrizio Di Nicola of "La Sapienza", director of the EUSIC project, and Letizia Airos, member of i-Italy's editorial board in...
One Last Ride, directed by Tony Vitale
Variety review: "ONE LAST RIDE places the viewer inside the mind of a gambler on a downward spiral and then grasping at straws to deliver a hopeful resolution." Ang Lee –...
Nancy Pelosi on her Italian American roots
The Speaker of the House speaks in Baltimore about her Italian/American roots
Luciano Pavarotti & Liza Minelli: two Italian American icons
Italian/American icons Luciano Pavaotti & Liza Minelli singing New York, New York
Luciano Pavarotti: La Donna è Mobile
Luciano Pavarotti sings "La Donna è Mobile", from Giueppe Verdi's Rigoletto
Luciano Pavarotti: Nessun Dorma
Luciano Pavarotti sings "Nessun Dorma", from Giacomo Puccini's Turandot
Little Italy, San Francisco
A funny documentary recorded in San Francisco, California. It shows the so-called North Beach, San Francisco's Little Italy.
Little Italy, Niagara Falls
A number of interviews made by a local Italian/American politician in Niagara Falls' Little Italy, New York
Venetian glass blowng
Glass blowing is a typical activity from Venice, here's how te famous Murano Glass comes to life!
Tourists having fun in Venice: the gondola ride
Venice is really unique, a real "must" in any trip to Italy or Europe!
Nancy Pelosi elected Seaker of the House
The election of Nancy Pelosi as the first woman and the first Italian/American Speaker of the House of Representatives
Nancy Pelosi: acceptance spech
The acceptance speech of Nancy Pelosi, about to become the first woman - and Italian/American - Speaker of the House of Representatives
Nancy Pelosi: interview o renewable fuels
Nancy Pelosi talks about the important issue of renewable fuels
Nancy Pelosi on the Iraq war
Nancy Pelosi speaks about the war in Iraq at the House of Representatives (2005)
Nancy Pelosi: take back America 2006
The future Speaker of the House of Representatives at the "Take Back America" Democratic rally
Rudolph Giuliani's 12 commitments: hold people accountable
Rudy Giuliani explains his 12 points political manifesto
Rudolph Giuliani's 12 commitments: prepare for national disasters
Rudy Giuliani explains his 12 points political manifesto
Rudolph Giuliani's 12 commitments: constructionist judiciary
Rudy Giuliani explains his 12 points political manifesto
Rudolph Giuliani's 12 commitments: fiscal discipline
Rudy Giuliani explains his 12 points political manifesto
Rudolph Giuliani's 12 commitments: illegal immigration
Rudy Giuliani explains his 12 points political manifesto
Rudolph Giuliani's 12 commitments: quality of life
Rudy Giuliani explains his 12 points political manifesto
Rudolph Giuliani's 12 commitments: war on terror
Rudy Giuliani explains his 12 points political manifesto
