Upon the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936, the anarchist union CNT socialized the film industry in Spain, so in Madrid and Barcelona film workers took over the production assets and, between 1936 and 1938, numerous films on a wide variety of topics were released, composing a varied mosaic that gives rise to one of the most unusual and original moments of Spanish cinematography.

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...

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

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...

Born in Campo de Criptana, a small village in the Spanish region of La Mancha, Sara Montiel (1928-20...
After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain'...
Documentary about French playwright and film director Sacha Guitry.

The story of the tortuous struggle against the silence of the victims of the dictatorship imposed by...

American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999), one of the greatest in history, but also one of the ...

Óscar Peyrou is a veteran Spanish film critic who writes his reviews according to a very peculiar me...

From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga is a 1983 television documentary special that originall...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...

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

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

Documentary about the making of Wim Wenders' 1984 film, with interviews conducted in 1989.

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mis...

Documentary about the making of Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor.
Germán Cipriano Gómez Valdés Castillo, a young radio announcer from Cuidad Juárez, succeeds in drawi...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achie...

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert...