O bem-humorado caçador de tesouros Ben Finnegan vive obcecado por encontrar o tesouro do lendário Dote da Rainha, composto por 40 arcas do tesouro, perdidas no mar em 1715. A sua obsessão já o levou a perder tudo, incluindo o casamento com Tess e o seu velho barco. Entretanto, Tess está a refazer a sua vida e trabalha no iate do bilionário Nigel Honeycutt. Depois de descobrir uma pista vital para encontrar o tesouro, Ben vai ao iate onde trabalha a ex-mulher e consegue convencer o magnata e a sua filha a juntarem-se a ele na procura do tesouro.
Salamanca, Espanha, 1936. Nos primeiros dias da rebelião militar que provocou o início da Guerra Civil espanhola (1936-39), o escritor Miguel de Unamuno apoiou a revolta na esperança de que o caos político prevalecente terminasse. Mas quando o confronto se torna sangrento, Unamuno começa a questionar a sua posição inicial.
The tragic fate of Juana I of Castille, Queen of Spain, madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria.
An in-depth interview with José Antonio Urrutikoetxea, known as Josu Ternera, one of the most relevant leaders of the terrorist gang ETA.
On 16 July 1212, a Crusader army made up of Castilians, Aragonese and Navarrese (but also French, English and Germans) confronted the army of the Almohad Caliph an-Nasir at the foot of the Sierra Morena mountain range. The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, as the battle is known, is considered the most important battle of the Middle Ages on the Iberian Peninsula and is a key event in the history of Spain. More than 800 years later, a group of archaeologists and specialists have begun an archaeological study of the battlefield. Is everything that has been said about the battle true? What secrets does the terrain hide? And, above all, what can we learn today about events that took place hundreds of years ago and that pitted tens of thousands of people against each other in the south of our country?
By telling the human stories behind the entire value chain that gives life to the Spanish wine with the greatest international projection, ‘Rioja, Land of the Thousand Wines’ portrays a currently blooming wine region underpinned by the talent and the work of the new generations of winemakers that operate side by side with the region’s historic wineries. The film puts the focus on the match between territory and product, wisdom and tradition, and lays a bridge between the origins and the future of Rioja. An immersion into a fascinating world that, through captivating cinematography and careful editing, attempts to find the keys to understanding what Rioja wine is and what makes it so special.
Aranzazu Berradre Marín was the pseudonym under which a national policewoman infiltrated terrorist group ETA. When she was only 20, the young woman managed to enter the gang by presenting herself as a militant of the Movement of Conscientious Objection of Logroño, being the only woman who lived in an apartment with ETA leaders. During her infiltration, she made possible the dismantling of the Donosti commando at a crucial moment when the gang was falsely declaring a truce.
Em 1721, o Regente de França, numa tentativa de selar a paz com Espanha, oferece ao Rei espanhol, um casamento entre os herdeiros respectivos: Luís XV, de 11 anos, e Mariana Victoria, a infanta espanhola de 4 anos. O Regente propõe também a sua filha, Mademoiselle de Montpensier, de 12 anos, ao Príncipe das Astúrias, o herdeiro do trono de 14 anos. Madrid responde com entusiasmo às propostas. A troca das princesas realiza-se numa pequena ilha, entre os dois países. Mas nada corre como planeado.
Barcelona, Spain, 1912. The disappearance of a girl from a wealthy family triggers a series of events that will shake the weak foundations of a hypocritical society.
The incredible life of Jorge Semprún (1923-2011): son of a republican intellectual; exiled in the early days of the Spanish Civil War; survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II; clandestine communist in Spain during Franco's dictatorship; controversial socialist politician; acclaimed writer, screenwriter and filmmaker.
In the mid-1980s, the GAL, a Spanish paramilitary group, pursues and assassinates members of the terrorist gang ETA who have taken refuge in the sanctuary they have created in the south of France. Grégoire Fortin, advisor to the French Minister of Justice, and Domingo 'Txomin' Iturbe, leader of ETA, are forced to negotiate in order to find a solution to the violence that plagues the region.
A história de uma das aventuras mais emocionantes de sempre: a primeira viagem de circum-navegação. Uma viagem que se inicia no mesmo local onde irá terminar e a partir da qual nada será igual. Esta é a crónica dos navegadores que se colocaram ao leme da História e mudaram o rumo da humanidade. Uma viagem iniciada sob o comando do português Fernão de Magalhães que, no entanto, morrerá sem a ver terminar…
Actor Jeremy Irons embarks on an epic journey through the halls of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, two hundred years after its inauguration, along corridors where thousands of masterpieces of all time tell the lives of rulers and common people, and tales about times of war and madness and times of peace and happiness; because, as Goya said, imagination, the mother of the arts, produces impossible monsters, but also unspeakable wonders.
In a Spain consumed by ambition and power, the future of an empire depends of the mind state of a single woman.
The history of Bruguera, the most important comic publisher in Spain between the 1940s and the 1980s. How the characters created by great writers and pencilers became Spanish archetypes and how their strips persist nowadays as a portrait of Spain and its people. The daily life of the creators and the founding family, the Brugueras. The world in which hundreds of vivid colorful paper beings lived and still live, in the memory of millions, in the smile of everyone.
A new reading of the historical period that began with the reign of the Catholic Monarchs (1479-1516) and the discovery of America (1492), as well as an analysis of its undeniable influence on the subsequent evolution of the history of Spain and the world.
The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line is comparable to a crease in the pages of the family album, but also to a crack in the walls of the paternal house. It resembles the open wound created when drilling into a mountain, but also a scar in the collective imaginary of a society, where the idea of salvation finds its tragic destiny in the political struggle. What is at the end of that line? Will old war songs be enough to circumvent that destiny?
Spain, June 2014. King Juan Carlos I abdicates after forty years on the throne. The historical cycle that began in 1978 has ended. It is the beginning of a new era. Felipe VI is the new king and the future is uncertain.
Obsessively referring to the traumas and wounds that the Spanish civil war (1936-39) and Franco's dictatorship (1939-75) caused in their day no longer serves to explain the impassable abyss of incomprehension and hatred that the abject policies and radical positions adopted by both the right and the left in recent decades have opened up before the citizens of a country that is barely known beyond hackneyed cultural clichés.
The history of the citizens' movement that for thirty years worked hard to overcome fear, fight hatred and eradicate the violence exercised by the savage terrorist gang ETA, both in the Basque Country and in the rest of Spain.