The best Manuel Fraga’s documentary movies

Manuel Fraga

Manuel Fraga

23/11/1922- 15/01/2012
Today we present the best Manuel Fraga’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Manuel Fraga’s movies.

Spanish Western

Spanish Western
7.1/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 04/05/2015
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre possible, and a walk through the landscapes that made it possible to recreate in Spain, mainly in the desert of Almería, hundreds of adventures set in the remote American Far West.

Operación Palace

Operación Palace
7.7/10
Finally, 33 years later, the whole truth behind the attempted coup d'état that shook Spain on the afternoon of February 23, 1981, is revealed by those who lived through those dreadful hours; a deep look behind the heavy curtain which hides the real mastermind, waiting to be unmasked.

A War in Hollywood

A War in Hollywood
8.4/10
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) caused a great impression on the lives of most of the American artists of that era, so many movies were made in Hollywood about it. The final defeat of the Spanish Republic left an open wound in the hearts of those who sympathized with its cause. The eventful life of screenwriter Alvah Bessie (1904-1985), one of the Hollywood Ten, serves to analyze this sadness, the tragedy of Spain and its consequences.

Mario y los perros

Mario y los perros
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 28/06/2019
  • Character: Himself (archivo footage)
An account of the childhood and youth of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, and how the hard experiences he lived during these formative years led him to write and publish his first major work when he was only 26 years old.

De Madrid a la Luna

De Madrid a la Luna
6.5/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 24/10/2006
  • Character: Himself

¡Votad, votad, malditos!

¡Votad, votad, malditos!
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/07/1977
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
On June 14, 1977, the eve of the first democratic elections after Franco's regime, Llorenç Soler and his crew go out into the street and ask passers-by which party they are going to vote for.

Hai que botalos

Hai que botalos
5.9/10
The films are a critical view of the social, economic, political, cultural and employment situation in Galicia. They have been made through the voluntary work of all the participants, including actors and actresses such as Luis Tosar and Mabel Ribera. People who have something to tell, and have chosen the screen as their medium.

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