Uses an extensive array of archival material, including letters, diary entries, newspaper accounts, secret memos, and expert interviews combined with rare archival film and photographs. Among the revelations told for the first time is the role of a strong Jewish wing of Mussolini's fascist movement and how that wing was sold out when Il Duce climbed into bed with Nazi Germany. A two-part program that follows the birth of fascism after World War I to its full flowering in the mid-1930s. By 1936, Mussolini was riding high with many foreign admirers. Then the collapse of fascism brought on by ill-advised military adventures.

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Originally released in 2005.