Mussolini: Son of the Century (Season 1)

Mussolini: Son of the Century (2025) is a historical drama you can watch online on iFILM. Luca Marinelli plays Benito Mussolini not as a cartoon villain but as a cold operator who stares into the lens and pulls you into his game.

The series tracks Italy in the early 1920s, from the first squads of blackshirts to the March on Rome and the grab for power. Marinelli narrates straight to camera, a device rarely risked in period drama and unnervingly effective here. Around him circle allies, lovers and rivals the future Duce uses and discards in turn, while the country slides toward dictatorship.

British director Joe Wright (Atonement, Anna Karenina) shot the eight-part show from Antonio Scurati's Strega-winning novel. The result isn't cozy costume television but a queasy account of how an entire nation hands itself to one man. Stream every episode of Mussolini: Son of the Century online on iFILM.