Historical Film Club
Next week’s film will be Life is Beautiful [La vita è bella] – PG-13.
This is a touching Italian film starring Roberto Benigni, an Italian Jew, who is sent to a concentration camp with his young son. Benigni tries to use humor to explain the situation to his son while attempting to deal with the reality he finds himself in.
This is connected to the following sections of the IB DP History syllabus:
Paper 1 – The move towards global war – Italian expansionism
Paper 2 – Authoritarian states and Causes and effects of 20th century wars
Paper 3 – European states in the inter-war years – Italy 1918-1939
Matthew Wood
History teacher / CAS coordinator
