The ruthless dictator Teodoro Obiang has ruled Equatorial Guinea with an iron hand since 1979. Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel is the most translated Equatoguinean writer, but he had to flee the country in 2011, after starting a hunger strike denouncing the crimes of the dictatorship. Since then, he has lived in Spain, feeling that, despite the risks, he must return and fight the monster with words.
A gentle portrait of the mythical Spanish actor Arturo Fernández (1929-2019) in the hour of his pass...
In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...
In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native...
A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker Mario Camus (1935-2021).
An account of the life and work of Spanish actress Penélope Cruz: a long journey that began in the w...
How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the hars...
A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (198...
An exhaustive explanation of how the military occupation of an invaded territory occurs and its cons...
Working from archives of private film footage from a trip to India by the upper class of the late 19...
Montezuma is a 2009 BBC Television documentary film in which Dan Snow examines the reign of the Azte...
Sudan, Southern Kordofan, the Nuba Mountains in Africa. Scenes from the forgotten war that the fight...
A lonely house-wife’s plan to end it all takes an unexpected turn when her last hurrah begins a radi...
An examination of how Africa's mythological stories have served as the basis for the world religions...
A walk through the life and career of the legendary French photojournalist Christine Spengler, known...
In 1948, French singer Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) receives a Paillard Bolex, his first camera. Unt...
Obsessively referring to the traumas and wounds that the Spanish civil war (1936-39) and Franco's di...
The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...
A journey through the work of Spanish filmmaker Juan Piquer Simón (1935-2011).