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October 27 marks the 100th anniversary of the historic March on Rome. It was an armed demonstration organized by the National Fascist Party in 1922. The action was intended to promote Benito Mussolini’s political rise to government and did not end until October 30 of the same year, when King Vittorio Emanuele III instructed him to form a new government.

For this very important anniversary, Sky offers a provocatively titled documentary: Did Mussolini also do good things? Yesterday’s propaganda and today’s fake news. The show airs Thursday, October 27 at 9:15 p.m. exclusively on Sky Documentaries, streaming only on NOW and available on demand.

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Specifically, viewers will find themselves grappling with an interesting documentary film, produced by 3D Produzioni. The show, through the voice of witnesses and special guests, traces the period of fascism investigating the creation of the character of Benito Mussolini and the birth of propaganda.

Sky investigates Benito Mussolini: the documentary to remember the March on Rome

Did Mussolini also do good things? Yesterday’s propaganda and today’s fake news will focus on the concept of the consensus factory, or rather the intense propaganda campaign that has accompanied the Duce’s career. The docu-film produced by Sky, indeed, was part of the objectives. to dispel the clichés about the twenty years of dictatorship and its undisputed leader. Although a hundred years have passed since the march on Rome, in fact, certain facts continue to be debated in Italy.

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The documentary is structured in two parallel narrative lines. On the one hand, the historical narrative line, made with direct and indirect testimonies, unpublished archive images and much more. In this phase, scholars and historians of the Fascist period are busy analyzing the mystifications of the Fascist era: from the claims, to the introduction of social security, to Mussolini, a great military strategist. On the other hand, however, the narrative line based on propaganda.

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The concept and management of propaganda were fundamental nodes in the policy of Benito Mussolini, who knew how to use this political tool wisely. The Sky documentary is inspired by the homonymous book by Francesco Filippi, Mussolini also did good things. Among the faces of the docu-film, Alessandro Barbero, Claudio Siniscalchi, Guido Melis, Roberto Chiarini and Giordano Bruno Guerri. The narrator is by Gioele Dix. On the small screen also the direct testimonies of those who crossed the political road of Duce by side roads.