Benito Mussolini
Birthday: 1883-07-29
Place of Birth: Predappio, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Biography: Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who was the Prime Minister of Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until his overthrow in 1943. He was also Duce of Italian fascism from the establishment of the Italian Fasces of Combat in 1919, until his summary execution in 1945. He founded and led the National Fascist Party (PNF). As a dictator and founder of fascism, Mussolini inspired the international spread of fascist movements during the interwar period.
Movies
Exploring Hitler's Mountain
Adolf Hitler spent over 1,000 days on the Obersalzberg, his mountain holiday refuge near Berchtesgad...
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Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
A short documentary based on Sergio Leone's life and career, and the making of the film "Once Upon a...
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Laissez-faire
A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so pr...
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A Special Day
Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day o...
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To Arms, We Are Fascists!
Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of modern...
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Inside Nazi Germany
Short documentary film in the newsreel series 'The March of Time'....
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Human Remains
Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate ...
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Getúlio Vargas
Documentary on one of Brazil's most controversial personalities: Getúlio Vargas, an ex-president....
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Jasenovac: The Cruelest Death Camp of All Times
This film tells the story about the concentration camp run by Ustashas and was made on the 40th anni...
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Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions sp...
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Mussolini in Deutschland
The center piece of the this propaganda film is Mussolini's visit to the the German Olympic Stadium ...
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Word and Deed
Nazi propaganda film contrasting Germany in the days of the Weimar Republic with contemporary German...
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Hitler: A Career
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the T...
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Marx Can Wait
"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met befor...
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Words for an End of the World
Spain, April 14, 1931. The Second Republic is born. From the beginning, the writer Miguel de Unamuno...
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A noi! Dalla sagra di Napoli al trionfo di Roma
Official film of the days of the March on Rome and the born of Fascism....
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The March on Rome
The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922...
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The Girls
As they tour Sweden in a theatrical production of "Lysistrata", performing to often uncomprehending ...
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Frosset hjerte
Frozen heart tells the story of Roald Amundsen, a well known polar hero from Norway....
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The Roaring Twenties
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally...
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The World at War
Documentary examining the events which led up to the Second World War....
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United We Stand
Using newsreel footage, this film reviews world events from the end of World War I to the American e...
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The Fight For Peace
A documentary about the threat of war breaking out in Europe, focusing on Hitler, Stalin and Mussoli...
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Margherita, The Woman Who Invented Mussolini
Margherita Sarfatti, Mussolini's lover and advisor, was a woman who exerted a great influence on the...
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Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...
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A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History
A critical and objective look back at Ukraine's tumultuous and tragic history, from its mythical fou...
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Know Your Ally: Britain
Know Your Ally: Britain was a 45-minute propaganda film made in 1944. It was narrated by Walter Hust...
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The Battle of France
A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940....
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Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on ...
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A Wall in Jerusalem
A brilliant documentary about the growth of Israel into the Jewish homeland. Seventy-three years of ...
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Oh! Man
After Prisoners of the war and On the Heights all is Peace, this film concludes Yervant Gianikian an...
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The Mistake that Killed Hitler
In April 1945, as Stalin's Red Army approach from the East and the Western Allied forces quickly app...
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Monsieur Verdoux
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining inco...
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Vedete, sono uno di voi
The film is the personal story of a protagonist of our times and traces Carlo Martini's actions and ...
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Amsterdam
In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects the...
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Ilusión Nacional
A sport like football is primarily a passionate celebration, but one that is so massive (economicall...
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Pétain, such a popular hero
On October 24, 1940, Philippe Pétain met Adolf Hitler in Montoire and led the French into collaborat...
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The Athlete
Running the streets of Rome in 1960, an unknown, barefooted Ethiopian man stunned the world by winni...
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Story of the Unknown Soldier
Built from 1928 newsreels—the year 60 nations vowed to outlaw war—Storck’s razor-edged montage mocks...
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The Aegean Tragedy
Documentary on the Greek history of the first half of the 20th century, from the Balkan wars until D...
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The Camps of Death
Human torture. Factories of death. War atrocities. The crimes that haunt the pagse of history are ch...
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Agnelli
Documentary about the life of Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli, an influential Italian industrialist and pr...
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Ways to Strength and Beauty
The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of...
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Fascism in Colour
After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...
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The Tramp and the Dictator
A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creat...
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Halfway to Hell
Documentary of war atrocities with newsreel footage of concentration camps....
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The Corporate Coup D'État
A democracy should protect its most vulnerable citizens, but increasingly the United States is faili...
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The Hitler–Stalin Pact
How could Hitler and Stalin, sworn ideological enemies, come to a secret pact in 1939? The captivati...
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December 7th
"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering ...
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The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill
Winston Churchill, one of the most revered men of the twentieth century. Adolf Hitler, one of the mo...
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The Russian German War
This is a rare look at one of the worst horror stories in the long infamous history of warfare. This...
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Will It Happen Again?
An account of Adolf Hitler's rise and fall, his relationship with Eva Braun and their days of leisur...
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The Voice That Thrilled the World
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's e...
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The Phoney War
September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmac...
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The Corporation
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...
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Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Academy Award®–winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) explores the charge...
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All Against All
This richly illustrated historical documentary investigates the mechanism of nationalist feelings th...
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The Most Dangerous Man in Europe: Otto Skorzeny's After War
Waffen-SS officer Otto Skorzeny (1908-75) became famous for his participation in daring military act...
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Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding o...
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Franco on Trial: The Spanish Nuremberg?
Franco on Trial is the new film by Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios. After the success of Franco's Se...
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I 600 giorni di Salò
the italian social republic was born in september 1943 after the armistice with the allies and the l...
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JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick
The real reasons and orchestrators behind Hitler, to an incredible theory of the JFK assassination, ...
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A Real Nave Itália no Rio Grande do Sul
Photograph of King Vittorio Emanuele III. The ship Italia, formerly König Albert, under the command ...
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Goering's Catalogue: A Collection of Art and Blood
For more than a decade, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man during the in...
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Death Scenes 2
DEATH SCENES II continues the exploration into the dark recesses of violence and rage that ended in ...
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Stolen Kisses: Homosexual Love in Fascist Italy
Through letters, diaries and personal testimonies, an account of the complexity and variety of exper...
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The United States in the 20th Century 1932-1940
Presents the history of the U S from the inauguration of Franklin D Roosevelt to the eve of World Wa...
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Triumph Over Violence
Romm pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only in...
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Megalopolis
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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...
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Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
A tribute to Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci (1926-90), presented by American filmmaker Quentin Ta...
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The Extraordinary Seaman
Marooned sailors discover a World War II ship haunted by its late captain....
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Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
A Louisiana governor becomes a controversial political kingpin during the Depression....
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Hitler's Girl
Sadly our world is divided on the basis of race, religion, region and caste and violence became the ...
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Wie konnte es geschehen? - Teil 1: "Deutschland erwache..." (1914 - 1938)
In 1945, 160 German cities lay in ruins and the loss of millions of lives, billions in material asse...
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Black Shirt
An Italian blacksmith who emigrated is wounded during the war on the French front, losing his memory...
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Portugal: Carnations Against Dictatorship
In Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last gover...
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Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
A portrait of Pope Pius XII (1876-1958), head of the Catholic Church from 1939 until his death, who,...
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The Last Days
Five Jewish Hungarians, now US citizens, tell their stories: before March 1944, when Nazis began to ...
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Songs for After a War
A particular reading of the hard years of famine, repression and censorship after the massacre of th...
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Salò: The Republic of Silence
Short documentary about the Italian town of Salò during World War 2 and what it endured....
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Mussolini: Italy's Nightmare
The career and personal life of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. He quickly became one of Italy's ...
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The Fall of Berlin
A Soviet documentary chronicling the final assault on Nazi Germany’s capital. More than forty frontl...
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