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

By Gianmaria Tammaro, Georg Szalai M. Son of the Century, which premieres on Sky in the U.K. on Feb. 4, covers a span of time in the life of Benito Mussolini, the founder of fascism. It ranges ...

Another historical fiction recommendation is the new book from the Nobel literature prize-winning South Korean author Han ...

The first half of the 20th century was a period of drastic change in Europe, as fascism began to rise to prominence. In Italy ...

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 ...

Bracingly unconventional Sky drama charts the fascist leader’s rise from obscurity to power in just three years ...

The series tells the story of the birth of fascism in Italy and the rise to power of Benito Mussolini ... of Bertolt Brecht's famous play Life of Galileo, an experience I really enjoyed.