Benito Mussolini

Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust (2024)

A portrait of Pope Pius XII (1876-1958), head of the Catholic Church from 1939 until his death, who, during World War II, and while European Jews were being exterminated by the Nazis, was accused of keeping a disconcerting and shameful silence. ...

Megalopolis (2024)

In a futuristic New York known as New Rome, visionary architect Cesar Catilina dreams of building "Megalopolis," a utopian city that redefines society's limits. Opposing him is the corrupt Mayor Franklyn Cicero, who clings to power and profit. Between them ...

Mussolini's Underground Refuge (2024)

Portugal: Carnations Against Dictatorship (2024)

In Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last government of the Estado Novo, the authoritarian regime established in 1933 by dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970), paving the way for full democra ...

A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History (2024)

A critical and objective look back at Ukraine's tumultuous and tragic history, from its mythical founding in the 10th century to the Russian invasion in 2022. ...

The Mistake that Killed Hitler (2023)

In April 1945, as Stalin's Red Army approach from the East and the Western Allied forces quickly approach through France and Belgium, Adolf Hitler awaits his fate in his bunker, reflecting on the mistakes that lost him the war. ...

The March on Rome (2022)

The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire world in the dark years to come. ...

Amsterdam (2022)

In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history. ...

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained (2021)

A tribute to Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci (1926-90), presented by American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. ...

Marx Can Wait (2021)

"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated days of 1968. This documentary is dedicated to his memory. ...

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita (2021)

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by Mussolini. Here, propaganda films would be produced to strengthen the dictator's position. ...

Goering's Catalogue: A Collection of Art and Blood (2021)

For more than a decade, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man during the infamous Third Reich, assembled a collection of thousands of works of art that were meticulously catalogued. ...

Stolen Kisses: Homosexual Love in Fascist Italy (2021)

Through letters, diaries and personal testimonies, an account of the complexity and variety of experiences of LGBT Italians during the Fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini (1922-43); intimate words that contrast with the lyrics of popular songs and the ...

Words for an End of the World (2020)

Spain, April 14, 1931. The Second Republic is born. From the beginning, the writer Miguel de Unamuno is considered one of the ethical pillars of the new regime. Five years later, on December 31, 1936, a few months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil Wa ...

The Most Dangerous Man in Europe: Otto Skorzeny's After War (2020)

Waffen-SS officer Otto Skorzeny (1908-75) became famous for his participation in daring military actions during World War II. In 1947 he was judged and imprisoned, but he escaped less than a year later and found a safe haven in Spain, ruled with an iron ha ...

All Against All (2019)

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 by a mi ...

The Phoney War (2019)

September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when the fate of the world changed forever, the Phoney War began: eight months of uncertainty, preparations, evacu ...

Игант (2019)

The Hitler–Stalin Pact (2019)

How could Hitler and Stalin, sworn ideological enemies, come to a secret pact in 1939? The captivating and detailed story of the diplomatic fiasco that led to the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact and its devastating consequences. ...

The Corporate Coup D'État (2018)

A democracy should protect its most vulnerable citizens, but increasingly the United States is failing to do so. This investigation blends the insights of experts with the experiences of citizens of the Rust Belt in the Midwest where the steel industry onc ...

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2018)

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

Franco on Trial: The Spanish Nuremberg? (2018)

Franco on Trial is the new film by Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios. After the success of Franco's Settlers, their first encounter with Franco's dictatorship, they are now setting their sights on one of the darkest chapters of European history: the presume ...

Agnelli (2017)

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

The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill (2017)

Winston Churchill, one of the most revered men of the twentieth century. Adolf Hitler, one of the most hated leaders in contemporary history. Between 1940 and 1945, these two enormously contradictory personalities faced each other in both politics and war. ...

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts (2017)

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful, magn ...

How to Stage a Coup (2017)

A guide to human history through its most audacious power grabs. From Julius Caesar to Napoleon; from Mussolini to the strongmen of the present day - we see how the world we know has been shaped by those who dream big. ...

Vedete, sono uno di voi (2017)

The film is the personal story of a protagonist of our times and traces Carlo Martini's actions and thoughts, as he has remained faithful to its vocation and ideals. Through dramatic events (terrorism, Tangentopoli, labor crisis, conflict, loneliness) Carl ...

Laissez-faire (2015)

A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our governments and our lives. ...

JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick (2014)

The real reasons and orchestrators behind Hitler, to an incredible theory of the JFK assassination, all the way to 9/11 and the current age of the terrorist. Taken from an historical perspective starting around World War 1 leading to present day. ...

Me ne frego! (2014)

Margherita, The Woman Who Invented Mussolini (2014)

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 woman who ...

Ilusión Nacional (2014)

A sport like football is primarily a passionate celebration, but one that is so massive (economically, politically and socially) that it, of course, also brings many problems. Olallo Rubio's third documentary (and fourth film in total), Ilusión Nacional, ...

Hitler's Girl (2012)

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. ...

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)

Alex Gibney explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from the first known protest against clerical sexual abuse in the United States and all way to the Vatican. ...

The Smile Of The Leader (2011)

Using astounding footage from the Luce archives (newsreels, but also true films) Il sorriso del capo/The Smile of the Leader shows how propaganda works, presents everyday life in its most revealing details, and describes a country's "education". Marco Bech ...

Il corpo del Duce (2011)

Pétain, such a popular hero (2010)

On October 24, 1940, Philippe Pétain met Adolf Hitler in Montoire and led the French into collaboration with the Nazis. A black page in the history of France, written by a man whom many then considered a hero: the winner of Verdun. ...

Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility (2009)

A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on each other. ...

The Athlete (2009)

Running the streets of Rome in 1960, an unknown, barefooted Ethiopian man stunned the world by winning Olympic gold in the marathon. Overnight, Abebe Bikila became a sports legend. A hero in his own country and to the continent, Bikila was the first Africa ...

Hitler und Mussolini - Eine brutale Freundschaft (2007)

Fascism in Colour (2006)

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist reformer, now obsessed with the idea of power, he founds the National Fascist Party in 1921 and assumes political power in 1922, becoming the Duce, dictato ...

Hitlers Berg (2006)

Adolf Hitler spent over 1,000 days on the Obersalzberg, his mountain holiday refuge near Berchtesgaden. It was there he made his decisions about war and destruction. The producers, through special permits, explore the abandoned concrete tunnels in search o ...

Saddam and the Third Reich (2005)

The key individuals of the Iraqi-Nazi connection. ...

Oh! Man (2004)

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 represen ...

Etiopia 1936: alla conquista dell'impero (2004)

By means of a chronological arrangement of historical video material from the Istituto Luce archives, it tells the story of Fascist Italy's ambitions in Africa and the role they played in shaping fascist ideology and the stance of the fascist regime in the ...

The Corporation (2003)

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examinatio ...

The Tramp and the Dictator (2002)

A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film "The Great Dictator," released in 1940. ...

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone (2000)

A short documentary based on Sergio Leone's life and career, and the making of the film "Once Upon a Time in America. ...

Frosset hjerte (1999)

Frozen heart tells the story of Roald Amundsen, a well known polar hero from Norway. ...

The Last Days (1998)

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 doctor w ...

Human Remains (1998)

Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of the 20th century's most reviled dictators. The film unveils the personal lives of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Franci ...

Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (1995)

A Louisiana governor becomes a controversial political kingpin during the Depression. ...

The Russian German War (1995)

This is a rare look at one of the worst horror stories in the long infamous history of warfare. This series features captured German and Russian film footage, much of which has never been seen before. For decades the Cold War prevented us from looking clos ...

Death Scenes 3 (1993)

Death Scenes 3 is a documentary film and presents a collection of archive photos from the LAPD's files, showcasing a range of early twentieth-century crime photos, including suicides, murders, fire-related deaths, and gangland-style murders. ...

Death Scenes 2 (1992)

DEATH SCENES II continues the exploration into the dark recesses of violence and rage that ended in such heinous crimes as the Manson Family's assault on society. You'll see the gruesome aftermath of mob reprisals, public executions and international terro ...

I 600 giorni di Salò (1991)

the italian social republic was born in september 1943 after the armistice with the allies and the liberation of mussolini, as an attempt to rebuild an italian state that would continue the work of fascism. the government of the new republic is based in sa ...

The Camps of Death (1983)

Human torture. Factories of death. War atrocities. The crimes that haunt the pagse of history are chronicled in the piercing documentary Camps of Death. Following Hitler's murderous career, the film traces his rise to power, his ultimate demise, and the su ...

Jasenovac: The Cruelest Death Camp of All Times (1983)

This film tells the story about the concentration camp run by Ustashas and was made on the 40th anniversary of the inmates' escape from the camp. ...

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! (1982)

A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions spanning from the 1930s through the 1980s. ...

Lion of the Desert (1981)

Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces of Benito Mussolini highlights the struggle for Libyan independence and the harsh tact ...

Faces of Death (1978)

What question has plagued mankind more than the mystery—and terror—of death? This forbidden pursuit has driven Dr. Frances B. Gröss to the brink of madness, but in his obsession, he has amassed a uniquely comprehensive collection of films that depict ...

A Special Day (1977)

Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome. ...

Hitler: A Career (1977)

A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse. ...

Songs for After a War (1976)

A particular reading of the hard years of famine, repression and censorship after the massacre of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), through popular culture: songs, newspapers and magazines, movies and newsreels. ...

Getúlio Vargas (1974)

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

Fascista (1974)

Based on the montage of excerpts from the Luce newsreels, from the March on Rome to the entry into the war, with commentary by Giorgio Bassani, Fascista favors the "cut out and mystified, ridiculous, sinister" relationship between Mussolini and his cheerin ...

Swastika (1974)

Comprised of footage shot during the Nazi regime, including propaganda, newsreels, broadcasts and even some of Eva Braun's colorized personal home movies, we explore the way in which the Third Reich infiltrated the lives of the German population, from 1933 ...

The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)

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

A Wall in Jerusalem (1968)

A brilliant documentary about the growth of Israel into the Jewish homeland. Seventy-three years of struggle for religious freedom is vividly recorded using rare archive film footage and photographs of historic events in the development of 20th century Isr ...

The Girls (1968)

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 fantasies b ...

Rita the Field Marshal (1967)

A waitress helps a scientist flee the Nazis. ...

The United States in the 20th Century 1932-1940 (1967)

Presents the history of the U S from the inauguration of Franklin D Roosevelt to the eve of World War II, including the Great Depression and New Deal legislation designed to overcome it. Emphasizes events that had lasting effects on the nation, such as the ...

Triumph Over Violence (1965)

Romm pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into absolute horror about fascism and nazism in the 1920s–1940s Europe, but also to a firm conviction that nothing of the sort should be allowed to happen ...

The Battle of France (1964)

A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940. ...

To Arms, We Are Fascists! (1962)

Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of modern Italian history from 1911 to 1961, centering on the conditions leading to Fascism and the post-WWII reaction to the Fascist experience. ...

Benito Mussolini (1962)

Benito Mussolini: Anatomy of a Dictator (1962)

The Aegean Tragedy (1961)

Documentary on the Greek history of the first half of the 20th century, from the Balkan wars until December events, with a special emphasis on the Asia Minor Catastrophe and its aftermath, through filmed documents by Joseph Hep, George Prokopiou, Achilleas ...

Halfway to Hell (1953)

Documentary of war atrocities with newsreel footage of concentration camps. ...

Wonderful Times (1950)

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

Will It Happen Again? (1948)

An account of Adolf Hitler's rise and fall, his relationship with Eva Braun and their days of leisure at the Berghof, their Bavarian residence. ...

Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then mu ...

The Fall of Berlin (1945)

A Soviet documentary chronicling the final assault on Nazi Germany's capital. More than forty frontline cameramen from the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts captured the battle and its aftermath, supplemented with seized German footage. The film rec ...

Know Your Ally: Britain (1944)

Know Your Ally: Britain was a 45-minute propaganda film made in 1944. It was narrated by Walter Huston and produced by the United States War Department and Signal Corp to solidify Anglo-American solidarity within the ranks as well as counter Nazi propagand ...

The Voice That Thrilled the World (1943)

This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from early sound pictures. ...

December 7th (1943)

"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese reinforcements. ...

The Gates of Italy (1943)

Canadian documentary on war time Italy. ...

The World at War (1942)

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

United We Stand (1942)

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 the verg ...

The Roaring Twenties (1939)

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd ...

The Fight For Peace (1939)

A documentary about the threat of war breaking out in Europe, focusing on Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini. ...

Word and Deed (1938)

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

Inside Nazi Germany (1938)

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

Mussolini in Deutschland (1937)

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 meetings t ...

Black Shirt (1933)

An Italian blacksmith who emigrated is wounded during the war on the French front, losing his memory. Hospitalized in a German hospital, he recovers it three years later and returns home from Tunisia, happy for the reclamation of the Pontine Marshes and th ...

Story of the Unknown Soldier (1932)

Built from 1928 newsreels—the year 60 nations vowed to outlaw war—Storck's razor-edged montage mocks the era's self-congratulation by cross-cutting speeches and parades with portents of renewed violence: nationalism, colonial repression, police brutali ...