Director Joe Wright talks to Christiane Amanpour about his new series following the rise of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and why he thinks it’s incredibly timely for today’s audiences.

Wright, 52, started off political. As a teenager in the 1980s, he went on anti-nuclear marches and deployed the term fascist ...

As a historian who has studied and taught courses on Italian fascism, I have spent many hours watching footage and listening ...

The period drama that sees Luca Marinelli transform into the Italian wartime dictator, Benito Mussolini is available to watch ...

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" ...

Duce,” which was the name used to praise former fascist Italian leader Benito Mussolini. “I admire him so much,” Bernabè added in Monday’s radio interview.

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 ...

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

Sky Atlantic’s blistering Italian drama brings more than a dash of Peaky Blinders to the story of the fascist’s rise to power ...

You’ll also find Mussolini: Son of the Century available to stream via the Sky Go service, which has dedicated apps for iOS, iPadOS and Android devices, along with Xbox and PlayStation consoles. And, ...

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