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.

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

Martin Scorsese’s electrifying concert documentary captures The Rolling Stones live at New York’s Be...

Documentary about the making of Swedish film director Jan Troell's "The New Land" (1971) and "The Em...

A video about Neo-Nazis originating in Sweden provides the starting point of an investigation of ext...
Television documentary about German-born American director Douglas Sirk.

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country d...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

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

When looking at Pedro Almodóvar’s filmography, it becomes evident that women are everywhere; in fact...

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

A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a...

A retrospective documentary about the groundbreaking horror series, Friday the 13th, featuring inter...

Images of Argentinian companies and factories in the first light of day, seen from the inside of a c...

Episode of the BBC Scotland television series focusing on Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film "If...", feat...

Documentary about the British film studio. First appeared on the BBC television programme Omnibus.

This short documentary from 2002, written by Jacques Tati scholar Stéphane Goudet and featuring rare...
Short documentary about the making of the 1987 film.
Documentary about the making of Louis Malle's 1963 film "The Fire Within".

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