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  1. Joan MirÓ: The Ladder of Escape (2012)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 32 minutes), £15.99

    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...

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  2. Defenders of the Faith: The Spanish Civil War in Colour (2007)

    Director
    Russell Palmer
    Subject
    Film Studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 153 minutes), £16.99

    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...

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  3. Guernica Children, The (2007)

    Producer
    Steve Bowles; Basque Children of ‘37 Association UK
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 62 minutes), £15.00

    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...

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  4. Spanish Civil War, The - The Story of a Country at War (2005)

    Subject
    History; Spanish studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £10.99

    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.

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  5. Politics of Violence (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Lucy Carter
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

    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...

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  6. Land and Freedom (1995)

    Director
    Ken Loach
    Producer
    Rebecca O’Brien
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 109 minutes), £19.99

    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.

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  7. Spanish Civil War, The 2 (1994 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 52 min., 1997 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    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.

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  8. Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Off-air recording license Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    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...

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  9. Franco: Behind the Myth (1992 Video)

    Producer
    Anthony Geffen
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    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,...

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  10. Left and Write: Recalling the 30s (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Betty Talks
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    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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