Ettore Bassi

With tension mounting between Christians and Romans, Jesus' faithful disciple Peter (Omar Sharif) continues his quest to spread Christianity throughout the world. But his enemies are equally passionate about persecuting him for his religious beliefs. Originally produced for Italian television, this epic drama prompted death threats against Sharif, a converted Muslim, for portraying a famous Christian and speaking positively about the experience.

The film is set in 1940s Rome, and reflects the Church's efforts to save people from the Nazis, as well as Adolph Hitler's plot to kidnap the Pope. (zenit.org)

Director Giacomo Campiotti profiles the life of physician and biochemistry pioneer Giuseppe Moscati, whose ministering to indigent patients during the early 1900s made him one of the few laymen to be canonized. Starring Beppe Fiorello as Moscati, the film follows the doctor as he saves nursing home patients after Mount Vesuvius erupts, copes with a cholera outbreak and conducts tests leading to the discovery of insulin as a diabetes treatment. (Netflix.com)

Bakhita is captured as a slave as a child, a Viennian man sees her. Many years later the man has returned to do business and recognizes her. After saving her, he takes her back to his home. The other servants think she's the devil due to her black skin, but the daughter of the house choses her as her nanny.

"Maldamore" is a story of love cross, a story of betrayal and reconciliation in the typical vein of Italian comedy. (IMBD)

The life of Karol Wojtyla, who is elected pope.

Rome, 1947. The war is over but in the eternal city is still open and obvious wounds of the conflict. In the maternity ward of a hospital, nine women are waiting to give birth...