An excerpt from Sacrificate Cassino, a historical documentary exploring the dramatic events surrounding the Battle of Monte Cassino during World War II.

Additional music by composer Renato Siracusano.

Discover the stories, sacrifices, and human experiences behind one of the most significant battles fought on Italian soil.

Unpublished photographic and cinematographic images, also in color,
unpublished documents, interviews with Italian, German, American,
English witnesses, reconstructions in 3D graphics, new shots on the
places where the events took place, give life to a real film where the
emotion testimonies and the rhythm of the narration intertwine with
the strength of the archive images.

An intense research and verification work, to bring out the truth about the destruction of the Abbey and the terrifying battle that took place for its conquest.

A clash involving soldiers of 27 different nationalities that caused one of the worst massacres of the Second World War: 50,000 casualties between the multinational contingent of the Allied Forces and 20,000 German soldiers plus thousands of Italian civilians, during the fighting that lasted until late spring.

But was conquering Montecassino really necessary to clear the road to Rome?