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Land and Freedom. 109 minutes. This filmed is framed around a love story between two anti-fascist fighters, one Spanish and one Irish. But it is the film that functions most eloquently in its political dialogues. It presents the difficulties faced as anti-fascists began to clash with one another, instead of uniting together against fascism. It addresses issues faced by international soldiers who were torn between the desire to help people in Spain and political interests.

The Good Fight. 98 minutes. This documentary is about the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, American soldiers who participated in the Spanish Civil War. It situates the Brigadiers in the historical moment of international economic depression, union organizers and political indignation against fascism: The Brigadiers see the Spanish Civil War as a microcosm of World War II. It poses the Spanish Civil War as one of the last ?good fights?, with clear delineation between those in the? right? and those in the ?wrong.

For whom the bell tolls. 166 minutes. This film is based on the controversial novel by Ernest Hemingway, For whom the bell tolls. Robert Jordan is an American demolition expert who fights for democracy with Spanish anti-fascist freedom fighters, Pilar, Pablo, and Maria. This film constitutes the near-entirety of what the popular American understanding of the Spanish Civil War means.

Belle époque . Dir: Fernando Trueba , 1994. Spanish with yellow English subtitles
Fernando, a handsome, young Spanish Civil War deserter who befriends a free-thinking artist, finds himself in a romantic dilemma when the artist's four beautiful daughters return to their country home. Which woman should he romance? (Analyze the film?s view of Spain before the war.)

Las bicicletas son para el verano . 105 minutes. In Spanish. Set in the Spanish Civil War, the film focuses on the life of a bourgeois family in Madrid when under siege by Nationalist forces from 1936-39. The father runs a wine shop; the son makes out with the maid; the daughter has an affair with a soldier and bears an illegitimate son. The story begins when Luisito flunks physics and is denied a bicycle, but keeps nagging his father to buy him one.

Ay, Carmela. 105 min. Spanish with English subtitles. Director, Carlos Saura. Aragón, Spain, 1938. Carmela and her two companions quit their posts as entertainers for the Republican troops in search for a better fortune. By mistake, they cross over to the Nationalist zone, get arrested and are given the chance to perform for their freedom

La Caza. 86 min. In Spanish. A heavily symbolic study of hatred and rivalry among four hunters, three of whom are Franquist veterans. They go to shoot rabbits in an area near Madrid where some of the heaviest battles of the Civil War were fought. The hunt becomes
an allegory of war.

El Corazón del Bosque . 110 min. In Spanish. Director, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón . Story of a mysterious, almost mythical loyalist who is still up in the hills ten years after the Civil War. The plot becomes complicated when a young man sent to get the loyalist finds out that his sister had been the lover of El Andarin. The loyalist, who by now behaves like a hunted beast, is shot by the young man, who is later turned in by his sister, although she had abandoned the loyalist and had planned to marry. After prison, the man returns to live in the area of his bizarre hunt.

Caudillo: the history of the Spanish Civil War / RETASA ; producer, director, and writer, Basilio Martín Patino. 111 min. In Spanish, with English subtitles. Tells the story of General Franco's revolt and the ensuing Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 from both the Republican and Falangist points of view. Includes documentary film footage, narrative excerpts from various well-known writers who reported on the war at first hand, and contemporary visits with surviving participants.