SPAIN

 

ISLAM & SPAIN

El valle de las espadas (Castilian) (1963) --  Spanish film of the first independent Count of Castile,  931-970, who opposed the Moors

El Cid -- 1094, takes Valencia from the Moors

al Massir (Destiny) (1997)  --  the story of Islamic philosopher Averroes (1126-1198) in Spanish province of Andalusia

 

SPANISH CONFLICT WITH ENGLAND

Elizabeth (1998) -- Elizabeth I, 1558-1603, sister of Mary, Queen of England

Elizabeth I  -- HBO drama focusing on the private life of the "Virgin" Queen

Young Bess (1953) Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger

The Virgin Queen (1955) -- Bette Davis

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

Drake of England (or Elizabeth of England)  (1935)  --  privateer Sir Francis Drake brings lots of money into England

Seven Seas to Calais (1962)  --  Sir Francis Drake

The Sea Hawk (1940) -- Spanish Armada

Fire Over England (1937) -- British-Spanish conflict of 1500s

 

IMPERIALISM: SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

Citizen Kane (1941)  -- William Randolph Hearst & yellow journalism starts war w/ Spain

Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt (1983)

Rough Riders (1997)  -- 1898, with Theodore Roosevelt

The Real Glory (1939) -- doctor in Philippines after Spanish-American War, in 1906

 

SPANISH CIVIL WAR:

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1944) --  Spanish Civil War

The Good Fight (1983)  --  Spanish Civil War

Land and Freedom (1995) -- Spanish Civil War

Disappearance of Garcia Lorca  (1997) -- executed; Spanish Civil War

La Niņa de tus ojos (The Girl of Your Dreams) (1998)  --  Franco's Spain makes movies in Hitler's Germany

Soldados de Salamina (The Soldiers of Salamis) (2003)

Vacas (1991)  --  following two Basque families from 1875-1936, from the Carlist War to the Spanish Civil War

 

POST-WORLD WAR II SPAIN

Tiovivo c. 1950 (2004)  -- 

 

CIVIL RIGHTS - SPAIN

La pelota vasca: la piel contra la piedra  (The Basque Ball: Skin against Stone) (2003)  --  problem of Basque region of Spain