Centered around various topics and themes from Benito Mussolini's twenty-year dictatorship (1925-45) to the political violence surrounding the "Years of Lead" (1968-82), this collection of films and documentaries are intended as cinematic compliments to the materials featured in Where Monsters Are Born.

Buongiorno, notte (Good Morning, Night)

Year: 2003

Genre: Drama

Synopsis: "A small group of terrorists of the Red Brigades rent an apartment. They kidnap Aldo Moro, former prime minister of Italy and leader of the Democrazia Cristiana (Christian Democracy) party. Moro writes many letters to politicians, Pope Paul VI, and his family, but the Italian government refuses to negotiate. A female member of the group, played by Maya Sansa, suffers doubts about the plan."

Vittime - Gli "Anni di piombo" (Victims: The "Years of Lead")

Year: 2009

Genre: Documentary

Synopsis: "A journey through time to return to the collective memory the perspective of the victims of the 'Years of Lead,' from the Piazza Fontana massacre to the murder of Marco Biagi, through the testimonies of those affected by terrorism."

Romanzo di una strage (Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy)

Year: 2012

Genre: Drama

Synopsis: "Romanzo di una strage (internationally released as Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy) is a 2012 Italian historical drama film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. It is loosely based on the book Il segreto di Piazza Fontana by Paolo Cucchiarelli. The film deals with the reconstruction of the Piazza Fontana bombing that took place in Milan December 12, 1969, and of the tragic events that ensued, from the death of Giuseppe Pinelli, which occurred in mysterious circumstances during an interrogation, to the death of the Commissioner Luigi Calabresi, who had led the investigation."

Me ne frego! Il fascismo e la lingua italiana (I Don't Give a Damn! Fascism and the Italian Language)

Year: 2014

Genre: Documentary

Synopsis: "Overlapping to a country divided into dialects, Italy, with a king who spoke French, fascism tried to build its own national language. Often this was an authoritarian and clumsy attempt rather than authoritative and credible. They discovered that the language of a nation is not built with the edicts."

Italia 70 (Italy 70)

Year: 2018

Genre: Documentary

Synopsis: "A season of blood marked by bombing, kidnapping and attempted coup d'etat. The chronicle of ten years of fear, the most difficult time in the history of Italian democracy."

Esterno Notte (External Night)

Year: 2022

Genre: Drama

Synopsis: "Exterior Night is a 2022 Italian-language drama film co-written and directed by Marco Bellocchio based on the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro. The film is the second feature by Bellocchio based on the Moro case after Good Morning, Night, shot in 2003."