In the mountains of Madrid, Spain, a railway track on an abandoned bridge and a poem erased from the wall of a ruined building reveal a deliberately silenced story: the system established by Franco's dictatorship after the civil war (1936-39) that allowed hundreds of companies to use thousands of convicted Republicans as slave labor.

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...

As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago ...

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Second World War (1939-1945), around three thousand...

Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was release...
A short film on Republican efforts to improve education standards during the Spanish Civil War.

The tragic fate of Juana I of Castille, Queen of Spain, madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Feli...

An elderly choir group brings back erased violent history by singing songs that were written in pris...

A portrait of the actress and singer Pepa Flores, an incarnation of the recent history of Spain, who...

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war g...

The story of the creation of The Spirit of the Beehive, a film directed by Víctor Erice in 1973.

In November 1936, a few months since the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, the government of the S...

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caug...

In 1336, Pedro, heir to the Portuguese crown, marries Constanza Manuel de Villena, a Castilian noble...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

Manuela is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists du...

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

Petrograd, Soviet Union, 1920s. Boris Letush, devastated by a personal tragedy, feels the need to pu...

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as...

For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last ...