Movies: Spanish history

  • 2005
    Trece entre mil

    Trece entre mil (2005)

    Trece entre mil

    6.52005HD

    The abject crimes of the terrorist gang ETA have marked the lives of many Spaniards; men, women and children who were silenced, harassed, persecuted, finally murdered. Thirteen stories, thirteen tragedies, just thirteen among thousands....

    Trece entre mil
  • 2022
    El instante decisivo

    El instante decisivo (2022)

    El instante decisivo

    22022HD

    Spain, 1997. The story of twelve days in July during which Basque society left indifference and fear behind and faced the threat of the terrorist group ETA....

    El instante decisivo
  • 2020
    In Ictu Oculi

    In Ictu Oculi (2020)

    In Ictu Oculi

    8.52020HD

    The six-decade transformation of a block of houses, shown by means of artfully featured archival shots, highlights the beauty and sadness of human-made decay. In the blink of an eye 66 years pass by and a savings bank replaces a church....

    In Ictu Oculi
  • 2019
    Mysteries of The Underworld Cordoba

    Mysteries of The Underworld Cordoba (2019)

    Mysteries of The Underworld Cordoba

    92019HD

    National Geographic follows archaeologist and explorer Fabio Amador on a fascinating voyage to unveil the ancient mysteries that lie beneath the modern streets of Cordoba, which dates back some 2,000 years. Fabio joins archaeologists and historians i...

    Mysteries of The Underworld Cordoba
  • 2020
    La calle del Agua

    La calle del Agua (2020)

    La calle del Agua

    42020HD

    Benjamina Miyar Díaz (1888-1961) led an unusual life in her house on calle del Agua in Corao, Asturias, at the foot of the Picos de Europa mountain range in northern Spain: she was a photographer and watchmaker for more than forty years, but she also...

    La calle del Agua
  • 2012
    Històries de Bruguera

    Històries de Bruguera (2012)

    Històries de Bruguera

    62012HD

    The history of Bruguera, the most important comic publisher in Spain between the 1940s and the 1980s. How the characters created by great writers and pencilers became Spanish archetypes and how their strips persist nowadays as a portrait of Spain and...

    Històries de Bruguera
  • 2016
    The Spanish Golden Age

    The Spanish Golden Age (2016)

    The Spanish Golden Age

    42016HD

    A journey through the Spain of the Baroque, the glorious 17th century, an unfortunate era of endless wars and political tribulations; but also of great painters and sculptors who created astonishing pieces of art: el Siglo de Oro....

    The Spanish Golden Age
  • 2024
    The Drunkmen’s Marseillaise

    The Drunkmen’s Marseillaise (2024)

    The Drunkmen’s Marseillaise

    82024HD

    In the summer of 1961, a group of young Italian anthropologists made a clandestine journey through Spain, in order to record popular songs that supported anti-Franco resistance. As a result of their work, they were prosecuted and their recordings wer...

    The Drunkmen’s Marseillaise
  • 1976
    La espada negra

    La espada negra (1976)

    La espada negra

    61976HD

    Kingdom of Castile, 15th century. A group of nobles, who question the dynastic legitimacy of Princess Juana, daughter of King Enrique IV, conspire with the purpose of overthrowing him....

    La espada negra
  • 1998
    The Footprints of a Spirit

    The Footprints of a Spirit (1998)

    The Footprints of a Spirit

    61998HD

    The story of the creation of The Spirit of the Beehive, a film directed by Víctor Erice in 1973....

    The Footprints of a Spirit
  • 2020
    Lur & Amets

    Lur & Amets (2020)

    Lur & Amets

    5.32020HD

    Lur and Amets’ parents have to go to a wedding this weekend. For this reason, they leave the twins at Grandma Andere’s. However, it’s not going to be a conventional weekend thanks to her magic powers and her cat Baltaxar. They will set out on an unfo...

    Lur & Amets
  • 2023
    El autócrata

    El autócrata (2023)

    El autócrata

    8.42023HD

    Historical leaders of the PSOE, among them several former ministers, lambast the political legacy of Pedro Sánchez, President of the Government of Spain....

    El autócrata
  • 2023
    The Many Lives of Jorge Semprún

    The Many Lives of Jorge Semprún (2023)

    The Many Lives of Jorge Semprún

    62023HD

    The incredible life of Jorge Semprún (1923-2011): son of a republican intellectual; exiled in the early days of the Spanish Civil War; survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II; clandestine communist in Spain during Franco's d...

    The Many Lives of Jorge Semprún
  • 2021
    Estos muros

    Estos muros (2021)

    Estos muros

    82021HD

    In the mountains of Madrid, Spain, a railway track on an abandoned bridge and a poem erased from the wall of a ruined building reveal a deliberately silenced story: the system established by Franco's dictatorship after the civil war (1936-39) that al...

    Estos muros
  • 2020
    Aquí y allí: journal d'une exilée

    Aquí y allí: journal d'une exilée (2020)

    Aquí y allí: journal d'une exilée

    82020HD

    While cleaning the apartment of Lucía, her deceased grandmother, Anna finds a notebook where she discovers the story of a secretly kept love, lived during the turbulent years of the Second Republic and the Spanish Civil War....

    Aquí y allí: journal d'une exilée
  • 2022
    La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961)

    La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961) (2022)

    La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961)

    42022HD

    The amazing story of Cifesa, a mythical film production company founded in Valencia by the Casanova family that managed to dominate the box office during the turbulent times of the Second Spanish Republic, the carnage of the Civil War and the hardshi...

    La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961)
  • 1914
    Un día por Málaga

    Un día por Málaga (1914)

    Un día por Málaga

    71914HD

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    Un día por Málaga
  • 2024
    Far Away

    Far Away (2024)

    Far Away

    02024HD

    A landscape is only a landscape until we know what lies beneath. Pozo Ibarra, in the Central Mountains of León, is a mining complex full of significant architectural attributes, and also the imposing and ruinous remnant of a painful past that passed ...

    Far Away
  • 2001
    Assassination in February

    Assassination in February (2001)

    Assassination in February

    62001HD

    A reflection on the assassinations of social democrat politician Fernando Buesa Blanco and his bodyguard Jorge Díez Elorza, perpetrated by the terrorist gang ETA in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, on February 22, 2000....

    Assassination in February
  • 1992
    Cuba, 1898: la caída del Imperio español

    Cuba, 1898: la caída del Imperio español (1992)

    Cuba, 1898: la caída del Imperio español

    41992HD

    A brief account of the Spanish-American War (1898) and the end of the Spanish Empire in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean....

    Cuba, 1898: la caída del Imperio español