The Spanish Earth (1937)

Joris Ivens’s advocacy documentary for the Republican cause intercuts a besieged Madrid with a nearby village digging an irrigation canal, linking the war to bread, land, and survival. Produced by the writers’ collective Contemporary Historians, edited by Helen van Dongen, scored by Marc Blitzstein, and narrated in its U.S. version by Ernest Hemingway (after an initial Orson Welles track), it blends frontline reportage with persuasion against Franco’s forces and their German–Italian backers.

Directed by: Joris Ivens
Top Billed Cast: Enrique Lister, Dolores Ibárruri, José Díaz
Runtime: 53 minutes
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Manuel Azaña
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José Díaz
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Dolores Ibárruri
Dolores Ibárruri
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Enrique Lister
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Commander Martinez de Aragón
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Gustav Regler
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Orson Welles
Orson Welles
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
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Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir
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