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.

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

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

The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his stran...

Documentary about the work of film director Michael Curtiz.

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

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...

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...

After the Battle of Algiers, France and its army exported, as true experts, anti-subversive methods ...

Documentary about the life and work of film director Preston Sturges.

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...