"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.
Aug 1937
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.
Jan 1937
A fragment of a pro-Republican documentary short made during the Spanish Civil War. It depicts fighting in and around Madrid in 1937.
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.
Nov 1936
Feb 1938
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.
Jul 1937
A pro-Republican propaganda documentary made during the Spanish Civil War. It reports on the demonstration held in Barcelona on December 27, 1937 to commemorate the capture of Teruel by the Republican forces.
Jan 1938
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 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.
Sep 1936
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 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 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.
Jul 1936
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.
Oct 1936