La Storia siamo Noi: Aldo Moro - A man like that (ENG SUB)

La Storia siamo Noi (English: We Are History) is a RAI television program exploring history created in 1997 by Renato Parascandolo, who at the time headed Rai Educational. The program has been hosted by Maurizio Maggiani, Corrado Augias, Michele Mirabella, and Marino Sinibaldi from 1997 to 2002, and currently by Giovanni Minoli from 2002 to 2010 and since 2024.

The show's title is taken from the opening line of Francesco De Gregori's song "La storia," (The History) from the album "Scachi e tarocchi." De Gregori's tune also served as the program's theme song during Renato Parascandolo's direction. Currently, the program's theme song is the opening theme of the first movement of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto.

Each episode addresses a theme related to events in 20th-century history through documentaries, films, and contemporary interviews, sometimes combined with reconstructions. The program's presentation and investigation method is analytical, and the events, especially those that shaped the country's transformation, are presented in chronological order. In addition to strictly historical events, the program also covers famous unsolved mysteries, current affairs, and the figures who shaped the 20th century, all supported by the vast Rai archive. The project consists of 240 hours of history per year. Particular emphasis is placed on the sociological aspect of history.

Aldo Moro (September 1916 – 9 May 1978) was an Italian statesman and prominent member of Christian Democracy (DC) and its centre-left wing. He served as prime minister of Italy for five terms from December 1963 to June 1968 and from November 1974 to July 1976.

Moro served as Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs from May 1969 to July 1972 and again from July 1973 to November 1974. During his ministry, he implemented a pro-Arab policy. He was Italy's Minister of Justice and of Public Education during the 1950s. From March 1959 until January 1964, he served as secretary of the DC. On 16 March 1978, he was kidnapped by the far-left terrorist group Red Brigades; he was killed after 55 days of captivity.

Moro was one of Italy's longest-serving post-war prime ministers, leading the country for more than six years. Moro implemented a series of social and economic reforms that modernized the country. Due to his accommodation with the Italian Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer, known as the Historic Compromise, Moro is widely considered to be one of the most prominent fathers of the modern Italian centre-left.

On 16 March 1978, on via Fani, in Rome, a unit of the militant far-left organization known as Red Brigades (BR) blocked the two-car convoy that was carrying Moro and kidnapped him, murdering his five bodyguards. On the day of his kidnapping, Moro was on his way to a session of the Chamber of Deputies, where a discussion was to take place regarding a vote of confidence for a new government led by Andreotti, that would for the first time have the support of the PCI. It was to be the first implementation of Moro's strategic political vision. Additionally, he was considered to be the frontrunner for the 1978 Italian presidential election.

In the following days, trade unions called for a general strike, while security forces made hundreds of raids in Rome, Milan, Turin, and other cities searching for Moro's location, as places linked to Moro and the kidnapping became centres of minor pilgrimage. An estimated 16 million Italians took part in the mass public demonstrations. After a few days, even Pope Paul VI, a close friend of Moro's, intervened, offering himself in exchange for Moro. Despite the 13,000 police officers mobilized, 40,000 house searches, and 72,000 roadblocks, the police did not carry out any arrests.

The event has been compared to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and referred to as Italy's 9/11. Although Italy was not the sole European country to experience terrorism, the list including France, Germany, Ireland, and Spain, the murder of Moro was the apogee of Italy's Years of Lead. Many details of Moro's kidnapping remain heavily disputed and unknown.