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A documentary about the student movement for social change in Guatamala. Shot in urban ghettos, rural villages and jungle encampments, it focus on the struggles of a group of students during the country’s...
Uses battle reconstructions and re-enactments to provide a dramatisation of the Battle of Naseby of 14 June 1645, which was the final defeat of the Royalist cause and all but decided the outcome of the Civil...
A recording of what was probably the world premiere production of ‘The Concealed Fancies’ (1645), a comedy written by two aristocratic noblewomen, the sisters Lady Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley,...
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.
Looks at the lives and achievements of famous military personalities to investigate the nature of leadership. Filmed on location and illustrated with material from international archives and museums, each...
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...
Anthropologist Tone Bringa filmed ordinary people in a mixed Catholic-Muslim village in outside Sarajevo, Bosnia, over the space of three weeks, showing how the stress of war causes good neighbours to become...
Covers the consequences of Lenin’s return from Swiss exile to overthrow temporary prime minister Kerensky, the founding of the Red Army in early 1918, the treaty with the Germans at Brest-litovosk and the...
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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