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.

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was release...

Documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
A documentary on the collaboration of filmmaker Sacha Guitry and actor Michel Simon focusing on the ...

A documentary about how Republican forces lost to Franco in the Spanish Civil War.

A walk through the golden age of Spanish exploitation cinema, from the sixties to the eighties; a lo...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

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...

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...

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

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

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

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

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