El Alamein: The Line of Fire — Egypt
The 2002 Italian film follows Italian infantry soldiers at El Alamein — ordinary men on the wrong side of the desert war, depicting the human cost of a battle usually told from British or German perspectives.
The Second Battle of El Alamein (October-November 1942) was the decisive North Africa engagement. Montgomery's Eighth Army defeated Rommel's Afrika Korps, beginning the German-Italian retreat to Tunisia. Italian forces fought with considerable courage despite being poorly equipped. Of 100,000 Italian soldiers in North Africa, only a fraction were evacuated; the rest were killed or captured.