1900 (Novecento) (1976)
Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900 (Novecento) presents a sweeping political epic of Italian history from 1901, the year Verdi died, up to the Liberation in 1945.
Land and Freedom (1995)
by Ken Loach
Ken Loach’s Land and Freedom charts the experiences of an idealistic working-class Liverpudlian, David Carne, who joins the fight against Fascism in the early days of the Spanish Civil War.
Danton (1983)
by Andrzej Wajda
Andrzej Wajda’s historical drama about the ideological battle between two of the French Revolution’s titanic figures – Danton and Robespierre – is an intense political allegory about the futility of violent revolution.
