Rai Storia is the Italian public television channel dedicated to history that uses over 1 million hours of audiovisual material from the Rai archives in its programming. Rai Storia produces documentaries and other programs using archive footage in innovative ways to popularize and substantiate history. It also creates productions using only archive material. Rai Storia shares its content on social media and cooperates internationally by exchanging archive materials with other public broadcasters to share the past and build connections between populations.

1. Models and Approaches for Audiovisual Archives Exploitation
The Case of Rai Storia

2. The Italian public tv
channel dedicated
to world history
and the largest user
of over one million
hours of audio-
visual material
stored in the Rai
archives.

3. A new
season on
Rai Storia

4. The use of the archive materials
is fundamental in Rai Storia
programming.
Our productions and
programmes exploit footage in
very different ways.
New languages and innovative
popularization, documentation
and substantiation methods.

5. Productions
made from
archive
material
(or Found
Footage)

6. Productions
made with
archive
material
- Italiani
- Passato e
Presente

7. Rai Storia content
on social media:
• 453,000 followers on Facebook
• 62,000 on Twitter
• 45,000 on Instagram

8. Rai Storia was the official channel tasked
with covering the 100th anniversary of
World War I.
“going beyond the style of classic
documentaries built on the accounts of
people who had lived the events in first
person, since all of these people were no
longer living.”
Work in a creative fashion on the filmed
material integration with other media: 60
webdocs were made for educational use,
then collected and catalogued on our
website www.grandeguerra.rai.it.

10. Docufiction:
The Maxi Trial
Against Cosa
Nostra
integrates
archive
material from
the biggest
Mafia trial of
all time – held
in Palermo in
1986 and
documented
by Rai – where
journalists
recreate the
scenario and
tell about the
trial.

11. Rai Storia
firmly
believes in
international
cooperation
and in the
exchange of
archive
material with
public
broadcasters.
The example
of the RAI and
NHK project
“So Far – So
Close”.

12. An excellent way to share the
past and build bridges between
populations
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