Spanish civil war tour Follow up recommendations

A list of places, movies, documentaries, books and podcasts about the Spanish Civil War.

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 you can book it for 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 bus, 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)

• The Endless Trench (2019)

Documentaries 

• Vice news Youtube Video - Excellent report on the situation of the mass graves in Spain and the amnesty law that protects the criminals.

• The Silence of Others - Documentary movie on mass graves an amnesty law. On Netflix, availability may depend on what country your Netflix is in.

• 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 Truth About Franco - Spain's Forgotten Dictatorship - On Netflix and/or can be found for free on other websites as well with Google search.

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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