Mussolini's government, in addition to making the railroads run on time (and other items not so good), could also produce a movie on a lavish scale, including over 6000 extras in the battle scenes. A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hann…

You're dragged from your house to a secret prison. You have no right to a lawyer or a speedy trial. You don't know when-or if-you will ever be released. You don't know who your captor is or what tools he will use to get what he wants. You're hooded, frozen, stripped, probed, and sexually humiliated. The deeper he goes …

The time is the Russian Revolution. The place is a country burdened with fear - the midnight knock at the door, the bread hidden against famine, the haunted eyes of the fleeing, the grublike fat of the appeasers and oppressors. In a bitter struggle of the individual against the collective, three people stand forth with…

LivingwithherfatherandstepmotherinNaples,Annaisveryunhappyasherstepmotherhindersherattemptstoliveherownlife.Whileherparentsareaway,shegoesoutwithCarlo,butfindsherselflockedoutwhenshecomeshome.ThisangersCarloandheasksAnnatogoawaywithhimtoRome,whereheplanstoliquidatehisbusinessassetsinordertohavemoneyformarriage.Hequarre…