Fascism – its roots, legacy and contemporary manifestations – is a leitmotif running throughout the 79th Venice Film Festival as Italy marks the centenary of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s ...

ROMEROME — A new documentary about Benito Mussolini examines the near cult-like fascination that many Italians had with the fascist dictator – and how his body became a focus for the fixation. “Il ...

ROME (AP) — A new film that comically imagines dictator Benito Mussolini returning to present-day Italy and trying to stage a comeback opened Thursday, in the middle of an election campaign that has ...

Mussolini's secret mistress and their love child come to life in a film by Italian director Marco Bellocchio showing in competition at the Cannes film festival. "Vincere" recounts the ends to which ...

A new docu-drama examining the life of an Irish woman who shot Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini in the face as he addressed a crowd in Rome has debuted at this year's Kerry International Film ...

Vincere is a docudrama portraying the events surrounding Benito Mussolini (Filippo Timi) in his youth, beginning in 1907 when he was a member of the Socialist Party. Mussolini was a revolutionary when ...

Joe Wright on set of 'M. Son of the Century' Fremantle Italia Filmmaker Joe Wright takes a 180 in the portrayal of World War II prime ministers, pivoting from the wise and measured Winston Churchill ...

In “The March on Rome,” which world premiered in the Venice Days sidebar of Venice Film Festival, Northern Irish-Scottish filmmaker Mark Cousins tracks the ascent of fascism in Italy in the 1920s, and ...

Alessandra Mussolini, the granddaughter of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, has threatened to sue the makers of a film that claims she wants to have Romanian immigrants killed. Mussolini is seeking ...

Directed by Roman helmer Fabrizio Laurentini, the film examines Italy's fascination with the fascist dictator. By Eric J. Lyman Mussolini Portrait - P 2011 A controversial new documentary exploring ...

ROME (AP) - A new film that comically imagines dictator Benito Mussolini returning to present-day Italy and trying to stage a comeback opened Thursday, in the middle of an election campaign that has ...