El cine libertario: cuando las películas hacen historia

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.

Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation becomes bloody, Unamuno must question his initial position.

Francesc Boix ช่างภาพชาวสเปนซึ่งถูกคุมขังในค่ายกักกัน Mauthausen-Gusen ทำงานใน SS Photographic Service ระหว่างปีพ. ศ. 2486 ถึง พ.ศ. 2488 เขาซ่อนตัวโดยได้รับความช่วยเหลือจากนักโทษคนอื่น ๆ โดยมีผู้ถูกปฏิเสธหลายพันคนโดยมีจุดประสงค์เพื่อแสดงให้โลกที่เป็นอิสระเห็นถึงความโหดร้ายที่พวกนาซีกระทำโดยมีการบันทึกไว้อย่างละเอียดถี่ถ้วน เขาจะเป็นพยานคนสำคัญในระหว่างการพิจารณาคดีนูเรมเบิร์ก

Paris, 1930. Luis Buñuel is penniless after the scandal surrounding the release of his last movie. Sculptor Ramón Acín, a good friend, buys a lottery ticket and promises Buñuel that he will pay for his next movie if he wins the prize.

Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the weakened regime is in danger. Admiral Carrero Blanco is his natural successor. The Basque terrorist gang ETA decides that he must die to prevent the dictatorship from continuing.

A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.