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Pages in category "Documentary films about the Spanish Civil War" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Behold a Pale Horse is a 1964 American drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif and Anthony Quinn.The film is based on the 1961 novel Killing a Mouse on Sunday by Emeric Pressburger, which loosely details the life of the Spanish anarchist guerrilla Francesc Sabaté Llopart.
Sin novedad en el Alcázar: Augusto Genina: Drama, War. Siege of the Alcázar in Toledo, 1936 1940 Italy The Thrill of the Skies: L'ebbrezza del cielo: Giorgio Ferroni: A group of Italian aspiring young pilots construct a glider and then volunteer for service in the Spanish Civil War 1941 Spain Because i saw you cry: Porque te vi llorar: Juan ...
The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil española) [note 2] was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left -leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic , and consisted of various socialist , communist , separatist , anarchist , and ...
Officers of the Spanish army staged a coup in Barcelona. The Civil Guard, Assault Guard, the Mossos d’Esquadra, and Spanish Anarchists defeated the rebels. [18] [19] [20] Republican Victory Siege of Gijón: July 19, 1936 – August 16, 1936 [21] Spanish forces and Anarchist militia besieged a rebel garrison in Gijón. The defenders ran out of ...
The film is a formidable piece of archival research on the Spanish Civil War, drawing on documents from the Soviet Union, the United States, France, Germany and Spain. Rossif is not a historian, but he teaches us the essential fact that the war was won thanks to the massive support of the Germans and Italians. [ 4 ]
The Battle of Talavera de la Reina was fought on 3 September 1936 in the Spanish Civil War.The Republicans, attempting to bar the road to Madrid at Talavera de la Reina, were defeated by the professional army of the Nationalists, with heavy casualties on both sides.
The Catalonia Offensive (Catalan: Ofensiva de Catalunya, Spanish: Ofensiva de Cataluña) was part of the Spanish Civil War.The Nationalist Army started the offensive on 23 December 1938 and rapidly conquered Republican-held Catalonia with Barcelona (the Republic's capital city from October 1937). [10]