Edmondo De Amicis

Marco and his family live in Genoa, Italy, a poor town where many local Italians went to work overseas. Marco's mother, Anna, is among one of them. Initially, Anna keeps writing back home while working in Argentina, but one day, the letters stopped. The boy then decides to search for his mother. Despite the journey's difficulties, Marco heads off into Argentina's interior, to meet his mother. (imdb)

A young woman arrives in her school where she must teach for the first time. Her task consists in teaching a class of adults to read and write. All her students are male, ranging from boys to old men, and they are rather rowdy and difficult. All the more as a young hooligan dares write her on a test paper that he loves her. Feeling harassed by the young man, she is defended by other students. But she more or less feels the young bad boy's love is true and when this one is lying on his dying bed. (imdb)

Dagli Appennini alle Ande is a Italian film from 1916 directed by Umberto Paradisi.

In the countryside of Verona, a Sardinian boy meets Italian soldiers and became the mascot (the drummer), right before a fight with the Austrian army. During the battle, the boy, small and agile, is committed to pass the gauntlet to deliver a vital distress call.

A well known Italian story about a teenage boy who stows away on a ship to Argentina, to find his mother in the remote mountain town where she has been working to send money back to her family in Italy. (imdb)

Enrico Bottini, an engineering student, prepares to serve as an officer when Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary. At the train station, he meets Garrone, an old friend from elementary school, and begins to reminisce on the values instilled to him by both school and his father.