Movies: Benito Mussolini

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Marooned sailors discover a World War II ship haunted by its late captain....

Documentary examining the events which led up to the Second World War....

This richly illustrated historical documentary investigates the mechanism of nationalist feelings that radicalise. It shows how fascism was on the rise even a decade before the founding of the NSB, due to a number of anti-democratic initiatives led b...

Sadly our world is divided on the basis of race, religion, region and caste and violence became the norm of the day. What can we do to stop the violence that is committed by bigotry? One thing...if we imagine ourselves in the shoes of our victims....

Margherita Sarfatti, Mussolini's lover and advisor, was a woman who exerted a great influence on the Duce and on Italian cultural life. Through archival documents, autobiographical texts and love letters, the documentary paints a portrait of the woma...

The center piece of the this propaganda film is Mussolini's visit to the the German Olympic Stadium in 1937, where he was greeted that 1 million people jammed into the stadium to hear him speak. Also features speeches in nearby Mayfield, various meet...

Official film of the days of the March on Rome and the born of Fascism....

As they tour Sweden in a theatrical production of "Lysistrata", performing to often uncomprehending audiences, three women find their own lives and marriages mirrored in Aristophanes’s play. Soon, onstage drama, offstage reality, and surrealist fanta...

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After Prisoners of the war and On the Heights all is Peace, this film concludes Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi's trilogy on the first world war. From the emblem of totalitarianism to individual physical suffering, the directors use this re...

Short documentary film in the newsreel series 'The March of Time'....

Using newsreel footage, this film reviews world events from the end of World War I to the American entry into World War II and, according to the narration, shows "how, through their disunity, democracies were led, some to destruction and others to th...

Documentary on one of Brazil's most controversial personalities: Getúlio Vargas, an ex-president....

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The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr....

Five Jewish Hungarians, now US citizens, tell their stories: before March 1944, when Nazis began to exterminate Hungarian Jews, months in concentration camps, and visiting childhood homes more than 50 years later. An historian, a Sonderkommando, a do...

Documentary about the life of Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli, an influential Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat....

Compilation film about a very German first half of the 20th century....

Nazi propaganda film contrasting Germany in the days of the Weimar Republic with contemporary Germany under Adolf Hitler....