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.
Documentary - After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to b...

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

In 1936, two female artists (a singer and a pianist) visit the city of Lushnja, which was very conse...

1936. As villages across Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rura...

Narrator dreams of Madrid while being caught in a repetitive loop somewhere in Paris. He questions i...

A Danish writer travels to Mexico with the purpose of locating a mysterious Apache tribe that ferven...

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

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...

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...

A documentary made with homemade videos of the spanish exiled due to the dictatorship in Spain from ...

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...

Heart of the Generacion 27, Spanish poet Emilio Prados recalls his lifetime from Mexican exile where...

It symbolizes the experience of people without any political involvement who suffered repression in ...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...
A humorous observation in Barcelona’s immigrant neighbourhood El Raval. Four barber shops, four plac...

Between 1983 and 1987, Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso and the home city of FESPACO, one of...