Been interested in the Spanish Civil War thanks to Hearts of Iron 4...

the earth?

Of course it's biased, because as pointed out everything is. But George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia is pretty good.

If you want a movie its not very historically accurate but La lengua de la mariposa is beautiful.

It's pretty highly rated online. I'll make sure to watch it.

I think I'll finish up this documentary series, read For Whom the Bell Tolls and Homage to Catalonia, watch that film, and then read some more scholarly works.

Just finished reading that not long ago 2bh. Great book.
>tfw you'll never witness 1936 Anarcho-Socialist Barcelona before Leninist scumbags ruined it

If you know spanish pretty much 50% of the literature in that country is either about the war and/or Franco.

And movies. And theatre, and EVERYTHING. We have a serious problem about it. No one cares for these things nowadays. No one. But the industry keeps making them.

I agree. I almost learn to hate history thanks to that. I had to grow an interest for history outside of Spain and for a long time until I started reading about medieval stuff that included the peninsula I wasn't interested in the history of our country.

That's a shame, but understandable. It's a lot like how WW2 movies got cliched at a certain point here in the US.

everything I know about it comes from " Pan's labyrinth"
nothing else to say about it other than it being a chimpout between proto-Spics

Not really.

It was less republicans (communists) vs nationalists (facists) and the Nationalists, consisting of nationalists, traditionalists, facists, conservatives, the army, and others unified under Franco while the Republicans, consisting of republicans, progressives, communists, anarchists, the navy, and other did not unify and were beaten by Franco. Also Franco wasn't really a facist, per se, more just a traditional dictator

here is a doco
youtube.com/watch?v=jPl_Y3Qdb7Y

Antony Beevor's book is alright in general but it gets some small things wrong
the main arguments of that book are good though

Homage to Catalonia is a classic and mainly if you want to read more about this Abel Paz does really thorough research and was actually there

Nah it goes beyond that because it also gets into politics sometimes.

Yes really. Even at public schools.

Thanks user

I'd recommend Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

Everything that you will get is anti-Franco propaganda,so you will just be wasting your time unless you want to read the same rhethoric all the time

>Even at public schools.
maybe you are exaggerating a bit mate, there was a boom of civil war movies and literature a while ago (I mean before 1975 you couldn't do them because of censorship) but I don't think I've seen a spanish movie about the Civil War come out since Pan's Labyrinth and that one wasn't even about the Civil War.

There was a recent civil war movie that won a Goya

Pa negre?

Yep. And there was another one in 2013 that was made for teenagers (having Mario Casas as the protagonist). All Spanish history films except the recent one about the death of Isabel la Católica are all about the civil war

>youtube.com/watch?v=jzl0Ar3H5f8
>youtube.com/watch?v=9zTgmI4CX_E
>youtube.com/watch?v=cSixuxUF6KA
>youtube.com/watch?v=OOneqLSDY_o

Paul Preston has a book about the republic and the Civil War it must be good since here we had to study it

>youtube.com/watch?v=OOneqLSDY_o

>King Carlos II of Navarre once sent his brother Luis to lead a military expedition into Albania and conquer that land for the Kingdom of Navarre. Since Albania was a part of the dowry of Luis' wife, it seemed like a reasonable idea at the time.

What the hell, Navarre, what the hell...

We're not talking about movies but media and culture in general. The civil war-francism set is overrepresented.