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This documentary explores the life and work of Catalonian artist Joan Miro, and seeks to understand how the political upheavals of of the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the dictatorship of Franco...
Hailed as the first picture to show actual warfare in natural colour footage, DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH uses air-to-air action footage of such events as the Nationalist ‘Flying Turkeys’ squadron strafing...
In the wake of the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, four thousand Basque refugee children were evacuated to Britain. Seventy years on, we hear their story and how the conflict between...
Through a consideration of period imagery, along with archived footage, this documentary provides an historical and political insight into the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939.
Uses newsreel footage from British Pathé to illustrate political violence in the 20th century. Looks at Saddam Hussain in Iraq, the ‘Troubles’ in Ireland, Joseph Stalin in Russia, Adolf Hitler in Nazi...
In 1936 with the Spanish civil war in full flow, a young unemployed and disillusioned Liverpudlian decides to leave his fiancee and travel to Spain to support the Republican cause.
Uses newsreel footage to follow the major battles and incidents of the three years of civil war in Spain from 1936 to the surrender in March 1939.
Francis Frascina discusses one of Picasso’s best-known works, ‘Guernica’ (1936). How and why did Picasso paint this vast work representing the destruction of the town of Guernica during the Spanish...
Jonathan Dimbleby probes behind the contrived public image of General Franco, who brutally ruled Spain for over 40 years. Includes contributions from Franco’s daughter Carmen, his confessor and key aides,...
Looks at how writers, poets and film-makers looked outwards from England to a wider European perspective in the 1930s. Julian Symons, Stephen Spender and Naomi Mitchison look back at how it felt to be a...
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