Post-War Italy

Italy's post-war depression

Poor treatment of elderly in post-war depression

Miserable lives of street children surviving by shining the boots of American GIs

A poor woman gambles her family on a chance to get her daughter into the movies

Following WWII, an Italian family fractures

A fantasy concerning the post-World War II poor in Italy

Disillusionment and decadence after Fascism and War

The continuing negative effects of poverty on a mother trying to improve her life for herself and her son

Two brothers live through the period 1966-2000

Red Brigade kidnaps the Chief of the Christian Democratic Party and the Premier (1963-1968 and 1974-1976)

Judge gets an old 8mm film in the mail of the kidnapping of the President of the Italian Christian Democratic party, Aldo Moro, March 16, 1978

Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, 1972-1973, 1976-1979, 1989 to 1992

1978, Red Brigade kidnaps Prime Minister Moro

In 1979 Italy, trade unionist Guido Rossa, killed by a member of the Red Brigades

Battle waged against the Sicilian Mafia during the late 1980's and early 1990's

Young Mafia leader recruited by Sicilian separatist politicians is gunned down close to declaration of Sicily's self-rule

Story of Italian extreme left-wing terrorist group with leaders of the nature of a Marxist Bonnie and Clyde

Black humor spoofs the then current wave of terrorism and bombings in Italy

Italy, 1967-9; a policemen, who wants to be an actor, is a mole among the student radicals when he falls in love with the radical Laura who likes him and a fellow student radical