Last night I finished a very good Italian series (English subtitles) called "The War is Over" or La Guerra e' Finita") on MHG (I get the station through amazon, but if you're an English speaker who wants to see "foreign" media, you can sign up independently.
It's set in the immediate post war period when for many Italians, and certainly for the displaced, the war isn't really over yet. The background is particularly the Holocaust and what was to be done with the Italian Jewish children (and later Jewish children of other nationalities) who had been in the camps and whom no relative had claimed.
The adults who cared for them, particularly a Jewish Italian engineer who had been a partisan, and a Christian woman psychologist from a family of collaborators, did my heart good. Far from depressing me, it helped restore a bit of my faith in humanity.
It's loosely based on a true story, and from everything I know about the period in Italy it's totally realistic.