Sky Arte miniseries 'Buffa racconta il 1968' explores sport and social change

Sky Arte and Sky Sport's original production 'Buffa racconta il 1968' is a five-episode miniseries hosted by Federico Buffa. It examines the pivotal year 1968 through the lens of sports legends and their connection to global social upheavals. The series covers student protests at Berkeley, the Sorbonne, and Valle Giulia in Rome, the Vietnam War, America's racial and civil rights struggles, and the Prague Spring. It juxtaposes the activism of Daniel Cohn-Bendit with the skiing triumphs of Jean-Claude Killy, the Black Power salute of Tommie Smith and John Carlos with the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Soviet tanks in Prague are contrasted with Czechoslovakia's ice hockey victory over the USSR. Other figures include Mao Zedong, Che Guevara, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Manchester United's Matt Busby and George Best, Ajax's Johan Cruijff, and the Trnava football club. Italian cultural figures like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Don Lorenzo Milani (Ciotti), and Oriana Fallaci appear alongside footballer Gigi Riva. The episode airing Friday, April 27 focuses on youth protests in America, highlighting activist Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, as well as the death of Martin Luther King.