Biography
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and dictator who led the Kingdom of Italy as a fascist dictatorship from 1922 until his overthrow in 1943. Known under his rule as Il Duce, he founded fascism in 1919 with the creation of the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, which became the National Fascist Party (PNF) in 1921. Mussolini was appointed Prime Minister of Italy after the March on Rome in 1922, establishing a totalitarian dictatorship. He oversaw Italy's participation in World War II as a prominent member of the Axis Powers, and was executed by the Italian resistance near the end of the war in 1945.
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Awards & recognition
- Collar of the Imperial Order of the Red Arrows · 1937
- Honorary doctor of the University of Lausanne · 1937
- Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of Savoy · 1936
- Goethe Medal — Art and Science · 1932
- Royal Order of the Seraphim · 1930
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- Grand Cross of Naval Merit with white badge · 1926
- Grand cross of the Order of the White Lion · 1926
- National Order of Merit Carlos Manuel de Céspedes · 1926
- Cross of Liberty
- Cross of Vytis
- Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre
- Grand Collar of the Military Order of the Tower and Sword
- Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum
- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
- Grand Cross of the Military Order of the Tower and Sword
- Inter-Allied Victory Medals
- Knight Grand Cross of the Colonial Order of the Star of Italy
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
- Knight grand cross of the order of the crown of Italy
- Knight of the Order of the Most Holy Annunciation
- Order of Lāčplēsis
- Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius Equal-to-apostles
- Order of Skanderbeg
- Order of Solomon
- Order of the Bath
- Order of the Chrysanthemum
- Order of the Elephant
- Order of the German Eagle
- Order of the Golden Spur
- Order of the Liberator
- Order of the Quetzal
- Order of the Roman Eagle
- Order of the Southern Cross
- Order of the Star of Nepal
- Order of the White Eagle
- Sovereign Military Order of Malta
- Nobel Peace Prize · 1935 · nominated
Filmography33 titles
The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill
Apocalypse: The Second World War
Mussolini: The First Fascist
A Special Day
Greatest Events of WWII in Colour
A Wall in Jerusalem
Monsieur Verdoux
Churchill at War
Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler
World War II in Colour
The Corporation
Agnelli
The Roaring Twenties
The Last Days
Lion of the Desert
Hitler: A Career
Marx Can Wait
Goering's Catalogue: A Collection of Art and Blood
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
Crusade in Europe
FDR
Django & Django
The Tramp and the Dictator
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
The World at War
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
Amsterdam
The Girls
December 7th
Megalopolis
Faces of Death
The Mistake that Killed Hitler