"Actor: Mussolini"

• World War II - The British Movietone Newsreel Years | DVD | (21/09/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Hungry for news during World War II people flocked to cinemas to watch British Movietone News cover both the home front and overseas. For the first time many of these news reels have been remastered for this special Collector’s Edition - with some unseen since the war. Sometimes heroic sad or hilarious; this collection is a testament of British spirit and humour that will delight those who lived through it and also younger generations learning about this major event in British history.

• Mussolini - The History Of Italian Fascism | DVD | (29/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Available in a double disc set this eight-hour documentary features stunning unseen footage from the Italian government's archives depicting the key events and personalities in Il Duce's rise to power. From his early career as a socialist journalist to the Abyssinian war and an ill-fated alliance with Hitler Mussolini was driven by the desire to put Italy at the heart of European power and culture. He was a consummate politician who sought to win over the Italian peasant workers middle classes industry and army to his fascist ideology. Desperate to build relationships with England and France Mussolini's fascism was distinct from Hitler's Nazism but events in Europe would draw him inexorably closer to Germany. Acclaimed on its television broadcast Mussolini and the History of Italian Fascism is the definitive story of the rise and fall of fascism through the eyes of its people and leaders. Packaged in a 2 DVD collectors box this programme is the ultimate resource for those interested in the life and death of the man who shaped Italy in the 20th century. Includes: Mussolini the man and the politician and his rise to power. The Matteotti affair and the birth of the Totalitarian state Fascist policy at home and abroad The Vatican agreement and initial contact with Hitler The opponents and the intellectuals of the regime 'Modernisation' in Italy and the new African colonies The Italians in the 1930's and fascist support Defeat Civil War and the death of the duce

• Fascism In Colour | DVD | (28/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Before the iron fist of Stalin before Hitler before even Franco there was 'Il Duce' - Benito Mussolini master of the filmed image and his Blackshirts - his fascisti. Now for the first time on television the dramatic and violent story of the original Fascist movement is told... in colour.