Feature Films on Spain

• Blood and sand
  Location: Rental Collection
  Publication information: Farmington Hills, Mich. : Magnetic Video, c1979
  Physical description: 2 videocassettes (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: A bull fighter forsakes his family and art for the love of another woman, and pays a terrible price
  

• The Pride and the passion
  Location: Rental Collection
  Publication information: Farmington Hills, MI : CBS/FOX Video, c1983
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (132 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: A small group of resistance fighters battle for Spanish independence in 1810. The main problem our heroes must overcome is to haul a mighty six ton cannon across the wide expanse of Spain's mountains, villages, rivers and towns swiftly and most importantly, undetected
  

• Behold a pale horse
  Location: Rental Collection
  Publication information: Burbank, CA : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1983
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (121 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in
  Description: A Spanish guerrilla goes into exile at the end of the Civil War. Twenty years later he is persuaded to return and kill a brutal police chief
  

• Christopher Columbus
  Location: Rental Collection
  Publication information: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c1992
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (135 min.) : sd., col., ; 1/2 in
  Description: Story of Christopher Columbus and his attempts to get permission from the Spanish court to sail to the New World. Recounts the explorer's desperate quest for funding, of near mutiny and sudden discovery, of pillage and warfare, and of triumph and treachery
  

• The disappearance of Garcia Lorca
  Location: Rental Collection
  Publication information: Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1997
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: An epic about the Spanish Civil War and the murder of Federico Garcia Lorca. Years later, a young journalist is determined to discover who pulled the trigger and one of the facists is still willing to do anything to hide the truth
  

• Vecente Blasco Ibáñez' blood and sand
  Location: Rental Collection
  Publication information: Itasca, IL : Critics' Choice Video, [1997], c1971
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: A romantic tragedy about the rise and fall of a matador. Juan Gallardo, Spain's most idolized matador, returns to his home town and meets his childhood sweetheart Carmen
  

• Cabeza de Vaca
  Location: Rental Collection
  Publication information: [United States] : New Horizons Home Video, [1993]
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: In 1528 a Spanish expedition founders off the coast of Florida. 600 lives are lost. One survivor, Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical culture, becoming a healer--and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past
  

• La guerre est finie
  Location: Rental Collection
  Publication information: [Chicago, Ill. : Facets Multimedia, 1995?]
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (120 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in
  Description: A Spanish revolutionary maintains his ideals even though he is warned he will be sold out. Aging, tired leftist Montand travels from Spain to Paris, reports to his political associates, and visits mistress Thulin
  

• Man of La Mancha
  Location: Rental Collection
  Publication information: Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment [distributor], [2000]
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (132 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: While awaiting trial of the Spanish Inquisition, writer Miguel de Cervantes spins a tale for rowdy fellow inmates, bringing to life Don Quixote, an eccentric, self-appointed knight with delusions of grandeur
  

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List generated on November 7th, 2005