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" ...

So I was rather excited to be asked to review the new Sky Atlantic TV series Mussolini: Son of the Century. The series ...

Luca Marinelli plays the infamous Benito Mussolini in this eight-part series, charting the leader's ascent to power during the 1920s. In the original teaser trailer, a voice thunders: "My name is ...

Conventional progressive wisdom says that Nazism and Fascism were polar opposites to Communism. Yet, all of these totalitarian worldviews came from the same ...

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 ...

Il Duce: Benito Mussolini in Rome in February 1927. World History Archive / Alamy It is impossible to ignore the contemporary relevance of this series, and it is clearly intended as a warning.

The term was first used by members of Benito Mussolini's movement, the Fasci Italiani organisation, which transitioned into the National Fascist Party and largely inspired the international spread ...

This straight-arm gesture was first popularized by the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. There’s no evidence that there was ever such a thing as a ‘Roman salute’ in antiquity.