First in a six-part series. Looks at the background to the war: the five turbulent years that led to the crisis in July 1936 when a group of generals rose to overthrow the Republican government.
Second in a six-part series. Considers the fact that half the Spanish Civil War’s victims died behind the lines, not in battle, but by political execution.
The people who went to fight in the Spanish Civil War including the International Brigade, the Nazi Condor Legion and Italian Blackshirts, and the help supplied by the Soviet Union.
Part Four of a documentary series. This part deals with the character of Franco and the make up of the Nationalist side. It includes footage of the Spanish Civil War and interviews with participants.
Part five of a documentary series. This part deals with the activities of Communists, Socialists, and Anarchists on the Republican side.
Conclusion of the Spanish Civil War.
Documentary about the evacuation in different countries, during the Spanish civil war, of thousands of Spanish children to remove them from the conflict. Approximately three thousand children were welcomed by the Soviet Union. Some of these children, now elderly people, tell us about their experiences during this trip that originally was to be a temporary evacuation and which many could not return until twenty years later.
Documentary about the anti-Franco guerrilla. After the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), there were some fighters who refused to accept the defeat and went to the mountains to fight against the regime. They were men and women who, when they heard the last part of the war issued in Burgos on April 1, 39, knew that for them the struggle was not over. Behind the faces and stories of Esperanza Martínez "Sole", Remedios Montero "Celia", Florián García "Grande", Francisco Martínez "Quico", Manuel Zapico "Asturiano", José Murillo "Comandante Ríos", Eduardo Pons Prades " Floreo Barsino ", Benjamín Rubio, Angela Losadas and Emilia Girón, hundreds of rebellious lives can be discovered.
A group of anonymous women, of different social status, are the protagonists of this story in the first person. Through the personal experiences of 22 women, the daily life of a city in times of war is recreated. Some facts, that in spite of their drama, are explained under an optimistic vision, where the ability of the human condition to adapt to the most extreme conditions is highlighted. Although it is based on a concrete event, the Spanish Civil War, the documentary has a universal value. The stories could be produced in any other European city of the twentieth century subjected to war. The objective is to show that the circumstances, attitudes and resources of the people who have to live a warlike conflict are very similar wherever they occur.
The Spanish Civil War caused the flight of almost one million men, women and children who, faced with death, repression and misery, were forced to leave Spain, thrown into an uncertain destination. The country bled with the loss of very valuable people from all classes and social classes: politicians, intellectuals and artists, fighters, scientists, professionals, workers ... The dramatic vicissitudes of the Republican exiles make up a documentary about the memory of exile and its protagonists.
On April 1, 1939, the Republic definitively died. With it disappeared the political system that had established universal suffrage in Spain, which created the autonomies and addressed the Agrarian Reform. The dream of a modern democratic Spain had been defeated. It would still take almost half a century for the spirit of the Republic to be reborn again. Through ten stories narrated in first person we will relive the experience of thousands of Spaniards who sought refuge abroad. They will help us to understand the illusions and disappointments with which these Spaniards approached their exlio. Exiles that, in some cases lasted a few years, but in others they lasted a lifetime.
