La guerra civil española
Movies and documentaries on the Spanish Civil War
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- DirectorKen LoachStarsIan HartRosana PastorIcíar BollaínDavid is an unemployed communist that comes to Spain in 1937 during the civil war to enroll the republicans and defend the democracy against the fascists. He makes friends between the soldiers.
- DirectorMichael RadfordSebastien GroussetStarsMaría ValverdeMario CasasDaniel GraoA soldier protects a mule during the Spanish Civil War. Based on the novel by Juan Eslava Galan.
- DirectorMarie NoëllePeter SehrStarsJuan Diego BottoMaría ValverdeAlba Barragan"The Anarchist's Wife" is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his release, continues the fight against nationalism in the French resistance. Years, pass without a word from him, but his wife never gives up hope of seeing him again.
- DirectorVicente ArandaStarsAna BelénVictoria AbrilAriadna GilAt the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's group faces the problems of fighting not only the nationalists, but also factions on the left seeking to impose a more traditional military structure.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsCarmen MauraAndrés PajaresGabino DiegoDuring the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsGary CooperIngrid BergmanAkim TamiroffDuring the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
- DirectorTrisha ZiffStarsErnest AlósJuan Diego BottoSebastian del AmoThe story of three lost boxes known as the Mexican Suitcase that were recovered in 2007. The boxes, misplaced in the chaos at the start of WWII, contained many of the Spanish Civil War negatives by the legendary photographer Robert Capa and fellow photographers Gerda Taro and David "Chim" Seymour.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsYves MontandIngrid ThulinGeneviève BujoldA middle-aged political activist tries to dissuade his young followers from taking radical action.
- DirectorWolfgang RestHans Landauer, only 16 years old, left for Spain in 1937 to fight for democracy in the Spanish Civil War. In 1940 he was prisoned by the GESTAPO and brought to the Dachau Concentration Camp. in this Documentary film he tells the story of his life.
- DirectorHerbert KlineCharles KorvinStarsJohn O'ShaughnessyNorman BethuneHazen SiseA documentary about the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s.
- DirectorJosé Luis Sáenz de HerediaStarsAlfredo MayoAna MariscalJosé NietoWhen the Spanish Republic is declared in 1931, three brothers go separate ways. One, a priest, is killed by leftists. One, a member of the government, betrays his family's traditional ideals. The third fights on the side of Franco to defend them.
- StarsFrank FinlayEnrique ListerRamón Serrano SúñerDocumentary series which uses film and eyewitness accounts from both sides of the conflict that divided Spain in the years leading up to World War Two, also placing it in its international context.
- DirectorPéter ForgácsStarsMiklós BodóczkyFernando BujarrabalNils BlunckFilmmaker Péter Forgács compiles home movies by a family of Catalan industrialists who have documented their lives as their homeland is besieged by labor unrest, the collapse of the monarchy, the rise of anarchism, and ultimately the Spanish Civil War.
- This is the story of the war that altered Spanish history, the struggle between the supporters and opponents of the Spanish Second Republic, which raged between 1936 and 1939. During the war, new names were written large in world history; names such as the Republican supporting International Brigade and the Nationalist General Franco, who led his side to ultimate victory. Features archival film and location footage, plus dramatized eyewitness accounts. With many photographic images, the program also features expert interpretation and analyses to provide historical and political background to the war.
- DirectorMarcos ZurinagaStarsAndy GarciaEsai MoralesNaim ThomasA journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's.
- DirectorRoland JofféStarsCharlie CoxWes BentleyDougray ScottArising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.
- DirectorAgustí VillarongaStarsRoger CasamajorBruno BergonziniAntònia TorrensTwo young men and a woman who shared the same traumatic childhood experience during the Spanish Civil War are reunited years later at a hospital for tuberculosis treatment.
- DirectorDavid TruebaStarsAriadna GilRamon FontserèJoan DalmauWhen the professor and writer Lola Sánchez is assigned to write a column in the newspaper about the Spanish Civil War, she researches and finds for the first time about the shooting of Rafael Sánchez Mazas. Lola has lost her passion for writing, and she becomes intrigued about Rafael, who was a writer and journalist that returned to Spain from the Italy of Mussolini and founded the fascist party Spanish Falange, becoming advisor of the leader Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera. When the lefts won the election in 1936, the Falange became illegal, and later there was a military coup d'stat. Rafael miraculously escaped from the shooting and was spared by an unknown soldier. Lola decides to write a book about the historic event and to disclose the identity of the unknown soldier. But her acquaintance Conchi advises that her work is affected by her lack of passion. When Lola reads a work of a student about the heroic former soldier Miralles, Lola becomes obsessed to find him and see of he is connected to the event.
- DirectorFernando ArrabalStarsAnouk FerjacNúria EspertMahdi ChaouchDuring Spanish Civil War, young Fando navigates parents' clashing ideologies after father's arrest. Explores his imagination, friendships, views on sex and death amid family upheaval. Questions mother, seeks father's fate.
- DirectorLaurits Munch-PetersenStarsUlrich ThomsenLaurits Munch-PetersenDaniel DencikA grandchild sets out to discover how the death of his grandfather in the Spanish Civil War could split up the entire family for three generations.
- DirectorFrancesc BetriuStarsSilvia MuntLluís HomarJoaquim CardonaThe life of a young woman in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath.
- DirectorJoris IvensStarsEnrique ListerCarlos Romero GiménezJosé DíazA documentary showing the struggle of the Spanish Republican government against a rebellion by ultra-right-wing forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco and backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
- DirectorNoel BucknerMary DoreSam SillsStarsBill BaileyRuth DavidowColleen DewhurstThe story of an American Communist militia that fought for the Spanish Republicans in the 1936-39 Civil War.
- DirectorMiguel HermosoStarsAlfredo LandaNino ManfrediKiti MánverJoaquin comes back to Granada in the eighties trying to find out about something happened when he was a child and the Spanish Civil War was going on. He helped an unknown man who survived after being executed. He finds the man, Galapago, who is now quite old, poor and with almost no memory. Joaquin takes care of him and finds hints that point to Galapago as Federico García Lorca.
- DirectorJaime CaminoStarsJuan DiegoManuel de BlasSaturno CerraThe two weeks leading up to the Spanish Civil War in 1936 are dramatized from many different locations in Spain, Morocco and London.
- DirectorFrank BeyerStarsErnst BuschErwin GeschonneckManfred KrugThe Spanish Civil War in the year 1936. Five brigadiers are singled out to stay behind in the Spanish Sierras and fend off the fascist enemy while the rest of the troops recede. They are supposed to rendezvous with a radio operator, but when they get to the meeting point there is nobody there. In search for the missing man, Kommissar Wittig is shot. Before his death he hands over a piece of paper with an important message which the remaining men have to transport across enemy lines. The paper is torn into five pieces and each piece is hidden in a cartridge. An odyssey across the mountain desert begins - with constant fear of enemy fire and dehydration.
- DirectorJuan A. GameroStarsFederico ArcosJuan Giménez ArenasMarcelino BailoAnarchism in Spain; the Spanish social revolution during the civil war 1936-39.
- DirectorJaime CaminoStarsManuela VargasMark StevensMarianne KochDr. Foster (Stevens) returns to Spain for the first time since serving as a doctor for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War three decades earlier. He meets the daughter (Vargas) of an old girlfriend (also named Maria) who accompanies him while he is attending a conference in Barcelona. He remembers the war while re tracing his steps from thirty years earlier in much the same way Alvah Bessie did while working on the film as an actor and writer.
- DirectorJulia NewmanStarsMartha GellhornCelia GreenspanEvelyn HutchinsIn 1936, a right-wing military coup tried to overthrow the new, legally elected, democratic government of Spain. Hitler and Mussolini quickly joined the fight on the side of the fascist military. In response, and against the wishes of the U.S. government, about 80 American women joined over 2700 of their countrymen to volunteer for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. This film is composed of interviews with and excerpts from the letters, journals, and published writings of some of these women, as well as of supporters and sympathizers including Martha Gellhorn, Eleanor Roosevelt, Virginia Cowles, Josephine Herbst, and Dorothy Parker.
- DirectorJomí García AscotStarsAlicia BerguaMartín BerguaMaría Luisa ElioA woman who was a child refugee from the Spanish Civil War is now living as an adult in Mexico City. She tries to remember the traumatic events of her childhood.
- DirectorAlbert KishStarsDonald BrittainLib SpryKate BaderA film about the Canadians who participated in the Spanish Civil War.
- DirectorRussell PalmerStarsRussell PalmerCarmen FrancoFrancisco FrancoPro-Franco propaganda documentary, filmed during the Spanish Civil War, notable for allegedly being the first film of actual warfare to be made in color. It focuses on the conflict, utilizing air-to-air action footage through to that of the Spanish Foreign Legion and Moor Units.
- DirectorAlfonso DomingoJordi TorrentStarsSantiago CarrilloPeter CarrollJames FernandezIn 1936, some 2,800 young Americans, together with 50,000 volunteers from 54 countries, offered their lives in defense of the Spanish Republic. What is less known is that 85 African Americans joined that heroic struggle to fight against racism and for the very civil rights denied to them in their own country. This is their story, an untold chapter in the history of both the United States and Spain. The adventures of invisible heroes who answered the call of a distant war to fight for their own freedom.
- DirectorNoel BucknerMary DoreSam SillsStarsBill BaileyRuth DavidowColleen DewhurstThe story of an American Communist militia that fought for the Spanish Republicans in the 1936-39 Civil War.
- DirectorHenri Cartier-BressonHerbert KlineStarsRichard BlainePierre UnikHealth care during the Spanish Civil War is portrayed in this French made documentary: the progress under the new Republican government in setting up child care centers, the extent to which hospital care is provided at the battlefront or via trains to nearby facilities, the provision of convalescence care for wounded soldiers so that they can promptly return as needed to combat. The film concludes as a plea for help, with the Republicans still struggling.
- DirectorAlfonso DomingoJordi TorrentStarsSantiago CarrilloPeter CarrollJames FernandezIn 1936, some 2,800 young Americans, together with 50,000 volunteers from 54 countries, offered their lives in defense of the Spanish Republic. What is less known is that 85 African Americans joined that heroic struggle to fight against racism and for the very civil rights denied to them in their own country. This is their story, an untold chapter in the history of both the United States and Spain. The adventures of invisible heroes who answered the call of a distant war to fight for their own freedom.
- DirectorMarie-Paule Jeunehomme
- DirectorKoldo SerraStarsJames D'ArcyMaría ValverdeJack DavenportThe fates of Henry - a cynical American correspondent who has lost his soul - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors and in charge of overseeing the news that journalists can send abroad, cross in Gernika.
- DirectorFrédéric RossifStarsIrene WorthJohn GielgudSuzanne FlonTo Die in Madrid (French: Mourir à Madrid) is a 1963 French documentary film about the Spanish Civil War, directed by Frédéric Rossif. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.