The series chronicles Benito Mussolini's rise to power and is particularly timely as populist leaders are sprouting up all over the world. Based on Italian author ...

Director Joe Wright signals his intent early on in Mussolini: Son of the Century, his eight-part series on the rise of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. “Follow me,” Luca Marinelli, as the ...

In the Marx Brothers’ 1933 comedy Duck Soup, a strongman is named president of the fictional country of Freedonia. Chaos ensues, culminating in a war with the neighboring country of Sylvania.

Mussolini began to use state powers to surveil all non-fascist political parties. In the 1924 general election, with fascist militia menacingly manning the polls , Il Duce won 65% of the vote.

Officials crafted a constitution crammed with checks and balances with the goal of preventing the rise of another dictator. But avowed fascists were allowed to remain in positions of power, and ...

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The political success of Mussolini’s fascist ideals, however, was neither instant nor inevitable. In the 1919 Italian elections, Mussolini received so few votes that, communists held a mock ...

I n the opening moments of Sky’s new, eight-part biopic Mussolini: Son of the Century, we hear the man himself speak.“For 20 years you adored me and feared me, as a god. Then you madly hated ...

Joe Wright talks about conceiving his Benito Mussolini TV series ‘M’ as a 'howl against the current rise of the far-right.' Continue to Variety SKIP AD You will be redirected back to your ...

Joe Wright talks about conceiving his Benito Mussolini TV series ‘M’ as a 'howl against the current rise of the far-right.' ...

This Monday marks 80 years since Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was killed in an Italian village towards the end of the Second World War in 1945.