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...
The life of Ukrainian-Soviet avant-garde composer Alexander Mosolov inspires three stories about cre...

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

The amazing story of Cifesa, a mythical film production company founded in Valencia by the Casanova ...

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...

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

Actress Suzanne Cloutier is interviewed about "Othello", Orson Welles' masterpiece, in which she pla...

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

Between 1937 and 1938, during the Spanish Civil War, thousands of minors were evacuated by their own...

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

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

Manuela is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists du...

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...

For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last ...

Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag f...

Documentary on Ciby 2000, the French film production company founded by Francis Bouygues in 1990.
Four lives that could not be more different and a single passion that unites them: the unconditional...