La presa di Roma, also known as La breccia di Porta Pia or Bandiera bianca, and distributed in English-speaking countries under the title The Capture of Roma is a 1905 Italian short black-and-white silent film directed by Filoteo Alberini.
Despite a last effort by Italian general Carchidio, the head of the papal force Hermann Kanzler refused to surrender.
On 20 September, after a cannonade of three hours had breached the Aurelian Walls at Porta Pia, the Bersaglieri entered Rome and Pius IX ordered General Kanzler to hoist the white flag on the dome of St. Peter's Basilica.
The surviving version, restored in 2005 by the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Cineteca Nazionale [Experimental Cinematography Center, National Film Library] on the basis of material found in Italy, Argentina, United States and United Kingdom, only includes four shots.
Studio set representing a luxurious office with tapestries and a portrait of Pope Pius IX.
Missing shot replaced in the restored version by the following text: "Dawn of September 20, on the Via Nomentana The bugler sounds the alarms and the soldiers rush to the assault of the city, to the cry of: Long live Italy and Long live Rome!"
Missing shot replaced in the restored version by a production still showing a studio set with a group of soldiers firing a canon and in the background the city walls with the Porta Pia, and the following text: "The battery of cannons commanded by Major Luigi Pelloux opens from Villa Albani the breach in the walls of Porta Pia."
Missing shot replaced in the restored version by the following text: Pius IX orders General Kanzler to hoist the white flag on the cross of St. Peter's dome.
Missing shot replaced in the restored version by the following text: "Free and independent Italy pays tribute to Cavour, to Vittorio Emanuele Il, to Garibaldi and Mazzini, its great creators, with the palm of victory and the applause of the people" and a colorized production still showing in the middle of clouds a young woman holding palms and a large Italian flag surrounded by fathers of the fatherland Count Cavour, Vittorio Emanuele II, Giuseppe Garibaldi and Giuseppe Mazzini.