Movies and TvShows featuring "international-brigades" theme.

Set during the Spanish Civil War, a woman navigates her life as an anarchist's wife while facing the challenges of family relationships, love, and resistance against fascism.

This documentary features the story of Jules Paivio, the last living Canadian volunteer of the infamous Mackenzie-Papineau Battallion of the “International Brigades”. When Jules left from his home near Port Arthur (Thunder Bay), Ontario, his father, a famous Finnish poet, wrote a lasting lament: “To My Son In Spain”. In 1936-37, 1700 Canadians volunteered to fight with the Spanish people against a fascist coup d’etat led by elements of the Spanish Army. Backed by Musselini and Hitler, the fascists were bent on overthrowing Spain’s democratically elected socialist government and replacing it with military and church rule. It could be argued this conflict marked the true beginning of what would become World War II.

The year is 1936, and shoemakers in a Finnish industrial town are sending shoes to Spain as humanitarian aid. Young Arvo wants to do more, so he joins as a volunteer in the International Brigades and disappears.

Documentary about the participation of the International Brigades in February 1937 in containing the advance of the rebel troops after the fall of Malaga.

The story of a journey to meet the latest republican voluntary fighters veterans of the Spanish Civil War.

Documentary about the life of Josep Almudéver, born in Marseille (France) and raised in Alcàsser (Valencia), he is one of the international brigade members who participated in the Spanish Civil War on behalf of the Republican side, and the only one still alive today.