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

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

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" ...

In 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 ...

Generation Z is ready for a dictatorship. A survey by Channel 4 last month showed 52 per cent of Britons aged 13 to 27 would welcome a strong leader ‘who does not have to bother with parliament ...

Benito Mussolini premier of Italy, representing King Victor Emmanuel III, and Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, papal secretary of state, representing Pope Pius XI, signed the historic documents precisely ...

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.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Benito Mussolini is standing on a stage, taking in the cheers of a room full of boisterous men, when he ...

One day in April, 1926, three years into Benito Mussolini's fascist rule of Italy, he was making a speech to a crowd of supporters in Rome when a woman stepped out of the crowd, produced a pistol ...

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 ...