The best Benito Mussolini’s documentary movies

Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini

28/07/1883- 28/04/1945
Today we present the best Benito Mussolini’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Benito Mussolini’s movies.
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The Corporation

The Corporation
8/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 10/09/2003
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
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 examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.

Lasciateci Fare Vol. 1

Lasciateci Fare Vol. 1
8.8/10
In the last 250 years, free-market ideology has played a central role in the development of the logic and rhetoric that have influenced the daily life of populations throughout the Western world. It was cornered for a few decades during the twentieth century in favor of a social economy for the public interest, and then returned to the limelight in the last thirty years of the century to dominate the logics that drive world economies, doing the favor of the elites at the expense of 99%. Through the testimony of six people informed about the facts, Lasciateci Fare Vol. 1 offers a historical and ideological perspective through which to identify the fundamental problems of the economic mechanism on which Western societies are based.

Agnelli

Agnelli
7.5/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 18/12/2017
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
Documentary about the life of Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli, an influential Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat.

The Most Dangerous Man in Europe

The Most Dangerous Man in Europe
6.7/10
  • Genre: DocumentaryHistory
  • Release: 29/01/2020
  • Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
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 hand by General Francisco Franco. What did he do during the many years he spent there?

Cinecittà Babylon

Cinecittà Babylon
6.1/10
  • Genre: DocumentaryHistory
  • Release: 14/06/2017
  • Character: Himself - Politician (archive footage)
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, magnetic, special actresses; a dark story of war, drugs, sex, censorship and tragedy.

Human Remains

Human Remains
7.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 21/03/1998
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
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, Francisco Franco and Mao Tse Tung. We learn the private and mundane details of their everyday lives -- their favorite foods, films, habits and sexual preferences. There is no mention of their public lives or of their place in history. The intentional omission of the horrors for which these men were responsible hovers over the film.

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
8/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 16/11/2012
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
Academy Award®–winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) 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 Hitler–Stalin Pact

The Hitler–Stalin Pact
7.9/10
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.

Death Scenes 2

Death Scenes 2
4.9/10
  • Genre: DocumentaryHorror
  • Release: 01/01/1992
  • Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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 terrorism. DEATH SCENES II uniquely ushers the brave and curious into a spellbinding trip through the reality that is our world today.

Oh! Uomo

Oh! Uomo
7.3/10
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 representation of man's rampaging violence to draw up an anatomical inventory of the damaged body and examine the consequences of the conflict on children, from 1919 to 1921. From the deconstruction to the artificial reconstruction of the human body, they try to understand how humanity can forget itself and perpetuate these horrors.

The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill

The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill
7.7/10
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. A clash of giants whose story begins in the trenches of the World War I and ends with the debacle of the World War II.

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

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, 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.

Goering's Catalogue

Goering's Catalogue
6.5/10
For more than a decade, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man during the infamous Third Reich, assembled a collection of thousands of works of art that were meticulously catalogued. Why did he steal entire collections, mainly those belonging to Jewish families, ultimately victims of the Shoah? Was it to satisfy his aesthetic ambitions and his insatiable personal greed or was he acting in the common interest of the Nazi rulers?

Herrliche Zeiten

Herrliche Zeiten
5.5/10
Compilation film about a very German first half of the 20th century.

The Tramp and the Dictator

The Tramp and the Dictator
7.8/10
  • Genre: DocumentaryTV Movie
  • Release: 14/02/2002
  • Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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.

The Corporate Coup D'État

The Corporate Coup D'État
7.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 18/11/2018
  • Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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 once flourished, but where closures and outsourcing have left urban areas desolate. It is here where Donald Trump finds some of his most fervent supporters.

The Phoney War

The Phoney War
7.4/10
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, evacuations and skirmishes.

BENITO MUSSOLINI, ANATOMIA DI UN DITTATORE

BENITO MUSSOLINI, ANATOMIA DI UN DITTATORE
6.8/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 20/01/1962
  • Character: Benito Mussolini

Stolen Kisses: Homosexual Love in Fascist Italy

Stolen Kisses: Homosexual Love in Fascist Italy
  • Genre: DocumentaryHistory
  • Release: 14/02/2021
  • Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
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 propaganda of the time, obsessed with extolling the myths of virility, femininity and motherhood and constrained by sexual repression.

Halfway to Hell

Halfway to Hell
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 21/02/1953
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
Documentary of war atrocities with newsreel footage of concentration camps.

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