02 Apr 1978
Why Did We Lose the War?
A documentary about how Republican forces lost to Franco in the Spanish Civil War.
El perro negro
Filmmaker Péter Forgács compiles home movies by a family of Catalan industrialists who have documented their lives as their homeland is besieged by labor unrest, the collapse of the monarchy, the rise of anarchism, and ultimately the Spanish Civil War.
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