O resplandor das Atochas

The memory of a defeat, a barbarism: the destruction at the dawn of the civil war of people who fought for freedom, a group of anarchists from A Coruña located in the Atochas area. Through valuable witnesses and historical images a reconstruction of a metaphorical episode in the history of the country. This projection is made in collaboration with its author and the Commission for the Recovery of Historical Memory.

2007-01-01 | gl

Kautela, Photographer

After the discovery of a suitcase hidden in the family home of Francisco Martínez Gascón, known as Kautela, a photojournalist who lived through the Spanish Civil War from the perspective of the rebel side, his granddaughter decides to carry out an investigation into his life and work.

2022-10-22 | es

The Ponzán Network

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Second World War (1939-1945), around three thousand people managed to elude their pursuers, and probably also avoided being killed, thanks to the heroic and very efficient efforts of the Ponzán Team, a brave group of people — mountain guides, forgers, safe house keepers and many others —, led by Francisco Ponzán Vidal, who managed to save their lives, both on one side and the other of the border between Spain and France.

2022-10-24 | es

Emilio Prados, cazador de nubes

Heart of the Generacion 27, Spanish poet Emilio Prados recalls his lifetime from Mexican exile where Spanish Civil War has forced him, as other Spanish intellectuals in 1930s.

2022-05-27 | es

The Silence of Others

The story of the tortuous struggle against the silence of the victims of the dictatorship imposed by General Franco after the victory of the rebel side in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1975). In a democratic country, but still ideologically divided, the survivors seek justice as they organize the so-called “Argentinian lawsuit” and denounce the legally sanctioned pact of oblivion that intends to hide the crimes they were subjects of.

2019-01-25 | es

Spain

A feature-length documentary based on film reports from the Spanish civil war.

1939-01-02 | ru

Voces contra el silencio

A documentary about the recovery of the historical memory of the Malaga town of Archidona, a journey through the history of Archidona from the Second Republic to the last years of the post-war period. A work that speaks, above all, about people, experiences, emotions and feelings.

2006-01-01 | es

Cicatrices de piedra. La Guerra Civil en Aragón

The story is set in six key scenarios of the conflict in the region: Bielsa, Barbastro, Belchite, Caspe, Teruel and Alcañiz. On this tour we find abundant remains of the war in the landscape and numerous testimonies that narrate this journey through our history.

2006-01-01 | es

Fuentes de la memoria

t narrates the repression suffered by the local population of Fuentes de Andalucía after the military coup of 1936.

2011-01-01 | es

La batalla de Guadalajara

Documentary about the battle of Guadalajara which took place in March 1937 during the Spanish Civil War and was the last major victory of the Republican Army.

2007-01-01 | es

La vida a través de Vega

The Asturian Valentín Vega is considered one of the most relevant photographers of the last century. He knew how to portray all the essential elements of daily life like no one else and at the same time exercise a devastating display of social criticism. After spending three years in prison for his political affiliation and managing to establish himself as a street photographer, he would continue to offer an unusual image of reality and daily life from the 1940s onwards.

2023-01-01 | es

Toma de Belchite y Teruel

1937-08-23 | es

Fallas 37: el arte en guerra

In November 1936, a few months since the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, the government of the Second Republic moves to Valencia. In this situation, several Valencian artists and intellectuals decide to build four fallas — satirical plasterboard sculptures created to be burnt — to mock fascism.

2013-03-02 | es

¿Por qué morir en Madrid?

1966-05-02 | es

Los últimos guerrilleros - Historia de la A.G.I. (Agrupación guerrillera de Levante)

2003-03-11 | es

La Historia Enterrada

2018-01-01 | es

Heroic Spain

Documentary produced by Falange and edited in Berlin, in response to the international success of the Republican production "Spain 1936" (Le Chanois, 1937).

1938-08-02 | es

Romancero marroquí

The young farmer Aalami leaves his family to find work elsewhere. He gets to know the country and its people, customs and traditions at Küste in North Africa: Market life in Tetuan, the art of craftsmanship, the life of the Moors, dances and festivities in honour of the caliph, white mosques, the call of the muezzin of the minaret and the music of the shepherd flutes. Aalami also follows Franco's call and flies from Morocco to Spain to fight at Bürgerkrieg. In the end Aalami comes back to his wife and children.

1939-07-16 | es

Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes from Spain; but is captured by the Nazis in 1940 and imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp, in Austria, a year later. There, he works as a prisoner in the SS Photographic Service, hiding, between 1943 and 1945, around 20,000 negatives that later will be presented as evidence during several trials conducted against Nazi war criminals after World War II.

2000-01-01 | es

Rocío

The film shows the genesis of the El Rocío pilgrimage and unveils the economic, socio-political and religious reasons and interests that nurture the phenomenon.

1980-07-01 | es