The purpose of this report is to discuss Italian Neorealism (Neorealism); looking at how the movement played a significant role in European cinema during and after Benito Mussolini's fascist regime. The report examines not only how, but also why neorealism became a growing phenomenon for filmmakers during its questionable 10-year run, and what message implications these neorealist filmmakers were trying to send through their films. Supported by several reliable book sources, the evidence from this report will also highlight the influences that neorealism has created in today's modern cinema. Before the dawn of neorealism, Italy was in great turmoil in the early years of failures and a collapsing government, which would also mean the collapse of the Italian film industry and the “silent era” of cinema (Roberts, 2005). When Benito Mussolini took control as Italy's 40th Prime Minister in 1922, the renaissance of Italian cinema would be revived once again, but this time governed under the control and leadership of Mussolini and his fascist government (Bondanella, 2001). until the mid-1930s the brutal dictator truly recognized the potential power of the media, when in 1935 special funding was granted to the production of Italian films which served to open film institutions such as the "Centro Sperimenale di Cinematografia" (CSC). school and studies of "Cinecittà" in 1937 (Ruberto and Wilson, 2007). The development of these institutions triggered the appearance of the first sound cinema, specializing in genres such as comedies, melodramas, musicals and historical films, but they were all classified as "propaganda" and "white telephone" films by many critics due to... .at the center of the article......the Eco-Slovak New Wave, Danish Dogma 95 and British social realism, all of which can be seen as notable influences from that of Italian neorealism.Works CitedRoberts, J. (2005) , Benito Mussolini, Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century Books. Bonandella, P. (2010), Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present (3rd ed.), London: The Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. Ruberto, LE and Wilson, K. M. (ed.) (2007 ), Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema, Detroit: Wayne State University Press. Reich, J. and Garofalo, P. (eds.) (2002), Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943, Indiana: Indiana University Press. Landy, M. (2000), Italian Film, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Sorlin, P. (1996), Italian National Cinema 1896-1996, London: Routledge.Shiel, M. (2006), Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City, London: Wallflower Press.