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