The Vatican will face demands to return Christian treasures looted from Ethiopia. Ethiopia hopes to reclaim artefacts taken during the Italian fascist occupation that began in 1936, as well as items ...

In 1937, when Benito Mussolini, then Italy’s fascist leader, opened Cinecittà, a sprawling film complex in Rome, his government adopted a variant of a slogan first ascribed to Lenin ...

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In the opening moments of Sky’s new, eight-part biopic Mussolini: Son of the Century ... the actor playing the Italian fascist leader, over archive footage tracing the strongman’s rise ...

We are working on the mechanism of how to get them back.” Italian forces invaded Ethiopia in 1935 under Benito Mussolini and subdued the Ethiopian Empire led by Haile Selassie, later considered ...

Director Joe Wright and actor Luca Marinelli talk about "Mussolini: The Son of the Century" - a series tracking the rise of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini - and discuss how the show echoes ...

The Italian star of the Sky series, launching soon in the U.K., discusses the burden of transforming into the infamous fascist, the joy of working with Joe Wright, and that "make Italy great again" ...

As a historian who has studied and taught courses on Italian fascism, I have spent many hours watching footage and listening to the speeches of dictator Benito Mussolini, who ruled over the country ...

“Make Italy Great Again!” booms Mussolini, in English, at the camera, smirk firmly in place. There are some negatives. It’s so claustrophobic (you barely see the sun or the sky) and so ...