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Mar 29 After the defeat of the military uprising of 19 July in Catalonia, Aragon, Castille, and the Levante, many towns and villages, industries and workshops launched a profound social experiment - 'Libertarian Communism':

Oct 26 'La Espana Sublevada', the second in the series La Guerra Filmada, focuses on the military uprising and the reactionary elements in Spanish life who supported it.

Mar 29 The War on Film (!&2) 1: 'España, 1936", 'Durruti's Funeral' and the first meeting of the Spanish Cortes in Valencia (1/12/1936) 2: La Espana Sublevada' focuses on the military uprising and Spain's reactionary elements

Nov 4 The International Brigades were Comintern-controlled Republican military units in the Spanish Civil War, formed of many non-state sponsored volunteers of different countries who travelled to Spain, to resist fascism

Nov 4 Juan Peiró i Belis, anarquista catalán nacido el 18 de febrero de 1887 en el barrio obrero de Sants (Barcelona) y fusilado por las autoridades franquistas el 24 de julio de 1942

Sep 27 This English-language documentary, introduced by Spanish writer Ignacio Martinez de Pison, follows the everyday lives of the people of the village of Fuenteduena, in Madrid province - 25 miles from the Valley of Jarama, in the early months of 1937.

Sep 24 American director Louis Frank's 'The Will of a people' is a re-edited version of the the CNT film 'Fury Over Spain' (1937) which was used to promote the CNT's position among English-speaking audiences

Sep 27 Teruel Has Fallen (10 minutes). Footage of the27 December 1937 meeting to celebrate the capture of Teruel. Speakers include: Lluis Companys, Federica Montseny, Rafael Vidiella, Juan Garcia Oliver, Federico Esgleas, Joan Domenech, Abad de Santillan

Jun 26 he Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM, Spanish: Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista; Catalan: Partit Obrer d'Unificació Marxista) was a Spanish communist political party formed during the Second Republic, and mainly active around the time

Nov 2 Four days after the army rebels were defeated in Barcelona the first anarchist militia column of about 3,000 men and women led by Buenaventura Durruti left the Catalan capital to liberate their companeros in Zaragoza.

Nov 2 Documentary footage of life in Republican Spain in 1937 by Luis Bunuel and Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Nov 3 French language documentary on the Spanish Civil War by Henri Cartier-Bresson (45 minutes)

Nov 3 Short French newsreel documentary on the bombing of Barcelona by Mussolini's airforce on March 18, 1938

Nov 3 Short (and tedious 10 minute) French feature film in which Stalinist trade unionists of the CGT discuss, among other issues, the Spanish Civil War.

Nov 3 Ten minute extract from the French version of El Ejercito del Pueblo Nace (Birth of the Popular Army), a 32 minute documentary made by the Cinematographic Service of the Regular People's Army (Republican).