Mum's Idea

A retrospective look at the anarcho-syndicalist and anarcho-communist experience in Spain from 1930 until the end of the Civil War in 1939.

The Colegio de Arquitectos de Catalunya commissioned Pere Portabella to make this film for the Joan Miró retrospective exhibit in 1969. There...

A particular reading of the forties and fifties in Spain, the hard years of famine and repression after the massacre of the Civil War, through...

Caudillo is a documentary film by Spanish film director Basilio Martín Patino. It follows the military and political career of Francisco...

In 1948 Pablo Picasso met the hairdresser Eugenio Arias. Both were linked by the fate of emigration. If Picasso initially only had his hair cut by...

The adventures of Guido Picelli, a man who was a leading light in the history of twentieth-century Italy and Europe. Guido Picelli fought untiringly...

During the first days after the 1973 Chilean coup d’état, the political leadership of the Popular Unity government was arrested and...

This documentary features the story of Jules Paivio, the last living Canadian volunteer of the infamous Mackenzie-Papineau Battallion of the...

In this propaganda film intended to raise money for republicans fighting in the Spanish Civil War, Henri Cartier-Bresson first presents the...

Spain, April 14, 1931. The Second Republic is born. From the beginning, the writer Miguel de Unamuno is considered one of the ethical pillars of the...

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...

An affectionate portrait of exiled South African musicians in London, featuring Louis Moholo, Pinise Saul and Hugh Masekela.

A documentary about Finnish twin sisters, one of whom disappeared in Argentina in 1977.

A propaganda documentary about the Comité Central de Abastos. This committee provided food and support for the Republican forces in the...

A short film on Republican efforts to improve education standards during the Spanish Civil War.

The story of the recovery of the negatives of thousands of photos taken by three photographers during the Spanish Civil War that were found seventy...