[8] Since 1970, he was the author of numerous articles for the Boomerang television magazine and since 1974 shot several documentaries together with Emanuele Vittorio Marino, most of which deal with themes of contemporary and historical Italy and have been well received by both the public and critics.
[11] An avid passionate of cinema, Caracciolo was known for his TV appearances narrating the histories of World War II, the Holocaust, and the Italian Social Republic for RAI, being an avid passionate for history from an early age; they included documentaries, such as I 600 giorni di Salò (1991), Succede un quarantotto (1993), Galeazzo Ciano una tragedia fascista (1997), and Hitler e Mussolini: Gli anni degli incontri (1998).
[12] In the 1980s and 1990s, he had also signed television investigations for RAI and the screenplay for Fuga degli innocenti (2004) by Leone Pompucci, a 2004 film about Italian Jewish children who escaped Nazi persecution and took refuge in the Palestine region.
For RAI, he edited the series Il coraggio e la pietà, which was created with the advice of fellow historian and personal friend Renzo De Felice.
[13] Caracciolo was married to Rossella Sleiter, who worked as a journalist at La Repubblica and continues to edit the Friday column "Nature".