Like in other countries, Italian cinema history began in 1895—with the Kinetografo by Filoteo Alberini. The Cinématographe of the Lumière brothers was presented in Rome in 1896. For ten years Italian production consisted mostly just of short documentaries and newsreels. The first longer fiction film was not made until 1905 by Alberini; French productions dominated the market. Alberinis La presa di Roma/The Capture of Rome was already a peplum, a small epic film treating a historical event: the victory over the Vatican troupes in 1870, which meant the unification of Italy. Italy reached a top place in worldwide cinema after 1910 with this genre, monumental historical films in particular dealing with topics of antique Roman history. The high point was reached in 1914 with the film Cabiria by Giovanni Pastrone. The second genre with enormous international success was the divismo, films presenting female divas in a kind of early star system.