Rome hosts the Cinecittà Studios, the largest film and television production facility in continental Europe and the centre of the Italian cinema, where many of today's biggest box office hits are filmed. The  studio complex is  from the centre of Rome and is part of one of the biggest production communities in the world, second only to Hollywood, with well over 5,000 professionals – from period costume makers to visual effects specialists. More than 3,000 productions have been made on its lot, from recent features like ''The Passion of the Christ'', ''Gangs of New York'', HBO's ''Rome'', ''The Life Aquatic'' and Dino De Laurentiis' ''Decameron'', to such cinema classics as ''Ben-Hur'', ''Cleopatra'', and the films of Federico Fellini.