Let the victims speak, but only late at night. A longitudinal analysis of 129 TV Italian documentaries on past Italian terrorism.
The paper aims to describe how terrorist violence occurred in Italy in a period ranging from 1969 to 1983 has been represented by the documentaries broadcasted by the Italian public television. 129 documentaries, broadcasted by RAI, the Italian public television, from 1971 until now, were analyzed. The analysis showed that only recently (from 2000) documentaries finally allowed victims and their relatives to witness.