Spanish civil war Follow up recommendations

If you would like to dive deeper into the Spanish Civil War here is a list of places, movies, documentaries, books and podcasts and  for you to start with.

Other places in Barcelona:

Refugi 307 : Guided tour of bomb shelter tunnels. You can only visit it on Sundays at 11am, always with guide. Or book with a group during the week.

Fossar de la Pedrera: Cemetery (mass grave) and memorial site for the victims of Franco's terror. You can visit any day by yourself between 9am and 5pm, but need to take a taxi or bicycle to get there.

La Rosa de Foc : Local CNT offices and anarchist bookshop where you can find reprints of Spanish Civil War posters

Films 

• Land and Freedom (1995)

• The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018)

• Butterfly Tongues (La Lengua De Las Mariposas) (1999)

• Libertarias (1996)

• ¡Ay, Carmela! (1990)

• While at War (Mientras dure la guerra) 2019

• Salvador Puig Antic (2006)

Documentaries 

• The Silence of Others 2018

• THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR -
  Episode 1: Prelude To Tragedy Incredible six-part educational television series on the history of the Spanish Civil War, using stills, interviews and copious archive film from British and Spanish sources.

• To Die in Madrid, a 1963 French documentary that was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature 

• The Spanish Earth, a 1937 documentary written and narrated by Ernest Hemingway that shows the plight of the Republican side 

• The Netflix Documentary Franco: The Brutal Truth About Spain’s Dictator 

You can also find it on Youtube here:

The Truth About Franco Spains Forgotten Dictatorship

Books:

• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

• Anarchy's Brief Summer: The Life and Death of Buenaventura Durruti by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

• The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction by Helen Graham

• The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain by Paul Preston

• Essential Histories: The Spanish Civil War by Frances Lannon 

• Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona by Chris Ealham (also know as "Anarchy and the city") (click link for ebook)

• Ghosts of Spain by Giles Tremlett (account of travels through Spain in modern times with different perspectives of Spaniards on the past and present)

Podcasts

5 parts: Real Dictators : Francisco Franco

2 parts: Dictators: Francisco Franco (parcast)

18 parts: The Iberian Knot - A History of the Spanish Civil War 

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