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 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...

A personal meditation on Rumble Fish, the legendary film directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1983; t...

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...

This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and in...

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...

France, 1974. The erotic film Emmanuelle, directed by Just Jaeckin, breaks all records for cinema at...

The memory of a defeat, a barbarism: the destruction at the dawn of the civil war of people who foug...
This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journ...

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

Interview with film director Jacques Tourneur which first appeared on the French television series "...

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

The early days of the future genius of Spanish cinema Luis García Berlanga, from his birth in Valenc...

According to the official history of Afghanistan, ruthless destruction has always prevailed over art...

The life and professional career of the Spanish filmmaker Florián Rey (1894-1962), a brilliant artis...

This richly illustrated historical documentary investigates the mechanism of nationalist feelings th...

A documentary film on the making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

In the waning days of summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy w...