The Lower Depths

The Lower Depths 1937

6.50

A melodrama telling the story of Ricardo, a young bourgeois who flees from justice for a crime of passion. It was made during the Spanish Civil War.

1937

Fury over Spain

Fury over Spain 1937

5.00

A history connoisseur's dream and a compelling, off-beat war documentary all in the same film, "Fury over Spain" chronicles 1936, the first bloody year of the Spanish civil war. Location filming by omnipresent government cameramen helps lend a raw, earthy feel to the desperate, life-and-death struggle against General Francisco Franco's Nationalist insurgents.

1937

Help Madrid!!

Help Madrid!! 1936

7.00

Spanish propaganda documentary focusing on Madrid.

1936

Black Wings

Black Wings 1937

6.00

A war report made in the Fall of 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. It records the effects of aviation bombings on the rear of Aragon and Catalonia (the "black wings").

1937

The Siege of Huesca

The Siege of Huesca 1937

5.50

A documentary, with some fictionalized images, about the operations and combat that took place near Huesca in the first months of 1937 during the Spanish Civil War.

1937

We're Like That!

We're Like That! 1936

6.00

A musical comedy starring children. It is, in fact, a children’s story in which mainly poor children – singing and performing – band together against the adults in order to save the life of one of the children’s father.

1936

Heroic Division

Heroic Division 1937

1

A pro-Republican documentary made during the Spanish Civil War. It details the offensives of the Durruti Column and the Ascaso Division on the Huesca front between March and April 1937.

1937

Iron Column

Iron Column 1937

10.00

Anarchist militia column raised in Valencia (Las Salesas) in 1936; it was particularly feared by a variety of communists and reactionaries and none too well-liked by the CNT leadership because of its ideological staunchness and commitment to social revolution and libertarian communism.

1937

The Last

The Last 1937

4.30

A social drama about alcoholism.

1937

20th of November

20th of November 1937

1

Documentary about Spanish anarchist revolutionary José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange.

1937

Dawn of Hope

Dawn of Hope 1937

5.00

"Dawn of Hope" (1937) is a film made by Antonio Sau for the anarchist union the CNT and is also one of the most important social films made ​​in Spain. Keep in mind that was filmed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, when the revolutionary impulse still held firm. In this respect, tells the story of John, a worker who has just become unemployed, their effort to get a new, impossible to work in a country with more than three million unemployed at the time, as it says in the film. John's wife also takes a humiliating job to feed their children. Outraged by this and seeing the conformism of the people, John ends up as a social agitator.

1937