Francisco Franco
Birthday: 1892-12-04
Place of Birth: Ferrol, Spain
Biography: Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo. This period in Spanish history, from the Nationalist victory to Franco's death, is commonly known as Francoist Spain or as the Francoist dictatorship.
Movies
To Arms, We Are Fascists!
Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of modern...
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The Adventures of Errol Flynn
A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family....
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Franco, ese hombre
A documentary that takes a broad overview of the life of the dictator, which is a review of the hist...
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Human Remains
Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate ...
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The March on Rome
The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922...
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Después de… Primera parte: no se os puede dejar solos
A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, ...
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Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado
A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, ...
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Caudillo
Caudillo is a documentary film by Spanish film director Basilio Martín Patino. It follows the milita...
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Songs for After a War
A particular reading of the hard years of famine, repression and censorship after the massacre of th...
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Words for an End of the World
Spain, April 14, 1931. The Second Republic is born. From the beginning, the writer Miguel de Unamuno...
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Franco and Fidel: A Strange Friendship
The Spanish dictator Francisco Franco was a rabid anti-Communist and a staunch ally of the United St...
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Spain: A Country Divided
Obsessively referring to the traumas and wounds that the Spanish civil war (1936-39) and Franco's di...
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La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961)
The amazing story of Cifesa, a mythical film production company founded in Valencia by the Casanova ...
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The Voice of Thaïs
Clara Mingueza, an actress from Barcelona, sets out to move the mortal remains of Elena Jordi (1882-...
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Los Xey: A Real Movie Story
The incredible story of Los Xey, a musical group born in San Sebastián, Spain, in 1940, which achiev...
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The Ponzán Network
During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Second World War (1939-1945), around three thousand...
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Operation Ogre
Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is...
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The World at War
Documentary examining the events which led up to the Second World War....
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United We Stand
Using newsreel footage, this film reviews world events from the end of World War I to the American e...
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The Fight For Peace
A documentary about the threat of war breaking out in Europe, focusing on Hitler, Stalin and Mussoli...
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Franco Building with Jonathan Meades
Writer and broadcaster Jonathan Meades turns his gaze onto Spanish dictator Francisco Franco....
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Monkeys Like Becky
The first part of this documentary deals with the Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, Nobel P...
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Heroic Spain
Documentary produced by Falange and edited in Berlin, in response to the international success of th...
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Magnicidios Poe
The sarcastic account of the assassination of five Spanish politicians between 1870 and 1973 is mixe...
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Jornal Português (1938-1951)
The newsreel series Jornal Português (1938-1951) was produced for the Secretariat of National Propag...
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Amour de vivre
An account of the brief life of the writer Albert Camus (1913-1960), a Frenchman born in Algeria: hi...
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Últimas tardes con Teresa
Adapted from the novel by Juan Marse, the film shows two distant worlds in the Spain of the 50's, th...
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Catalonia: Spain on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
A serious crisis has shaken Spain since the referendum on self-determination and the proclamation of...
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Todos los nombres de Sara
Born in Campo de Criptana, a small village in the Spanish region of La Mancha, Sara Montiel (1928-20...
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Palme
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets...
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The Endless Trench
A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few...
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The Most Dangerous Man in Europe: Otto Skorzeny's After War
Waffen-SS officer Otto Skorzeny (1908-75) became famous for his participation in daring military act...
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Spanish Western
A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre possible, ...
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The Last Circus
A trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javi...
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Spain 1936
A Spanish documentary from Jean-Paul Le Chanois & Luis Buñuel made during the Spanish Civil War....
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Franco on Trial: The Spanish Nuremberg?
Franco on Trial is the new film by Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios. After the success of Franco's Se...
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Paper Birds
At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the members of a group of vaudeville performers have been strip...
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Ya viene el cortejo…
Women from the different Spanish regions dress in their traditional costumes to attend the triumphal...
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Året var 1975
This is the year when the Vietnam War ends and terrorists take over the West German embassy in Stock...
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Land and Freedom
David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he ...
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When the Moors Ruled in Europe
A documentary movie covering the 700-year reign in Spain and Portugal of the Moors. It focus on Andl...
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