A sensual and vibrant vision without euphemisms about the children of the Roman suburbs and their summer hobby, swimming in the ponds, with commentary by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of modern Italian history from 1911 to 1961, centering on the conditions leading to Fascism and the post-WWII reaction to the Fascist experience.

A day in the life of Maria, an old woman who lives on a farm in Puglia. She is not afraid of death, the gestures and actions that fill her days give meaning to time.

The film begins at night, as parishioners holding lanterns form a series of processions, travelling through the night from Rome, and villages in the Abruzzi and Lazio regions, to make it to the Santuario della Madonna del Divino Amore, 10 miles from the capital, by morning. More than an anthropological study of ecstatic devotion – with its genuflecting disciples, and women who scream desperately at the sky – Divino Amore also speaks to Mangini’s interest in disappearing rituals and communities at risk of extinction. When generations of worshippers pour out of the church at the end of the service, formality dissolves into secular leisure, as families perched on horse carts eat plates of spaghetti and men fall asleep on the grass. The velvet-clad austerity of the church’s interior gives way to a series of pastoral tableaux.

A funeral lamentation is sung by women in a dialect so old that it came from the ancient Greeks who once colonized in that part of southern Italy.

少年托瑪索騎著摩托車往前直衝，一心一意想進入鄰近石化工廠賺錢。在布林迪西，那是許多孩子的夢想，在資本主義的催眠下，工廠幾乎是通往幸福的唯一通道。本片以富有節奏的剪接，烘托男孩的熱切渴望與荒蕪現實間的殘酷差距，卻也承接住因夢而生、僅有的尊嚴。

一群男孩聚集在羅馬市郊外的河畔戲水，打造出一個依附豔夏而生、似真似幻的異托邦世界。此片為曼基尼與巴索里尼第三次合作，後者撰寫的口白與其首部小說《生之兒女》遙相呼應，隨之投射出義大利戰後的政治社會樣態與一群進入社會後，注定一無所有的年輕世代縮影。

羅馬近郊的小公寓裡擠了一家五口，其中一位孩子叫法比歐，調皮的他被校方轉去特殊教育班級。本片可見曼基尼以犀利的訪問過程，讓爸媽、鄰居、老師、長官等人的立場與孩子的觀點辯證，藉此逼險象徵國家權力結構縮影的教育現場，以及整個社會對於「造反者」自相矛盾的態度。

本片將廣告中豔麗挑逗的女性形象與現實生活中在家、工廠、農地工作的女性身影並置，以強烈對比作為顛覆的激進控訴。在歐洲婦女解放運動前夕，紀錄下女工心聲，及投身工廠佔領行動的抗爭身影。此片為曼基尼代表作之一，由左派電影公司 Unitelefilm 委託製作，完成後卻被該公司封殺。

"由曼基尼、其丈夫利諾．弗拉及知名影評人利諾．米齊克共同執導，為曼基尼最為人所知的長片作品，也是二戰以來首部以法西斯政權為題材的紀錄片。本片援引大量歷史畫面，並邀請詩人佛朗哥．佛蒂尼（Franco FORTINI）為電影配上口白，在距離二戰終結及墨索里尼被處決不到二十年的時間內，反身檢視1911年至1961年間的義大利政治情勢走向，闡述了作為「第一個法西斯主義國家」的義大利如何迎來法西斯主義的興起，將整個國家拖進戰爭的泥潭，又推向戰後的慘況。 六零年代，人們上街抗議新法西斯主義政黨「義大利社會運動黨」。本片拉開宏觀的歷史軸線，成為超越時代的警世之作。電影完成後被當局禁演了整整一年多，才得以公諸於世，並入圍威尼斯影展。"