S.I.E. Films

"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.

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.

A pro-Republican drama/propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War.It tells the story of Manolo, a young worker who, after the military coup, joins the militias to fight for freedom.

A pro-Republican propaganda documentary made during the Spanish Civil War. It is a report of the demonstration held in Valencia in 1936 in solidarity with those wounded in the war.

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.

A pro-Republican documentary composed of archival material made during the Spanish Civil War. It is a summary of the different military operations which led to the conquest of Teruel.

A documentary showing the damage caused by German and Italian bombs in Barcelona on February 13, 1937.

Short fictional film made by the anarcho-syndicalist labour union, the Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), about the development of the social revolution in Spain.

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.

Spanish propaganda documentary focusing on Madrid.

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.

A pro-Republican propaganda documentary made during the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, Buenaventura Durruti and the anarcho-syndicalist militias came to Madrid from Aragon to join the capital's defense movement. A series of short documentaries titled Madrid, tumba del fascio detail their exploits.

A pro-Republican documentary propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War. It shows the advances of the "Roja y Negra" column in Carrascal de Chimillas between October 4-8, 1936

A documentary made by Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War about the battle for Madrid in the Winter of 1937-38.

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").

A pro-Republican documentary filmed on the streets of Barcelona between July 19-24, 1936. It showcases the revolutionary fervor in the city at the onset of the Spanish Civil War.