6 x 55'

The Spanish Film Archive's warehouses contain more than 6,000 cans of film shot by NO-DO, Franco's newsreel, that never saw the light of day. Why were they hidden? Was it censorship? RTVE has had access to these archives to explore what is contained in all these cans that were sealed without their contents ever reaching Spanish cinemas and which will be revealed in the new documentary series

6 x 55'

Through the birth of cinema and the first images recorded in Spain, the series takes us on a journey from the late 19th century to the 1960s. An exclusive journey through the history of Spain with amazing images colored for the first time and set to realistic soundtracks to enhance their vividness and spectacular nature. A series that is both striking and educational, with lively and emotive narration that offers viewers a new way of seeing the past.

1 x 106'

Documentary thriller that follows one of the most important and exciting historical investigations of all time:

The study of Christopher Columbus' DNA to confirm his true origin.

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1x71'

Documentary exploring the enigmatic figure of Auke Bert Pattist, a former Waffen SS Nazi who found refuge in Spain after World War II. Through the memories of a fascinated child and now adult, this film takes you on an emotional and revealing journey as it unravels the complex layers of Pattist's identity and contradictions.

1x52'

The Guanche culture is one of the most unknown and fascinating in southern Europe. It is known that the first inhabitants of the Canary Islands mummified their deads, but their origins are unknown yet.

Worldmedia Festival Hamburgo 2021.

1 x 55'

It explores the "Spanish flu", a pandemic that decimated the infant population in Spain with an 80% mortality rate, leaving the country half empty. Through documents of the time and the testimony of virologists, historians and experts in demography and sociology, it reconstructs what happened and reflects on how this event could have helped to face later pandemics in an overpopulated and interconnected world.

1x55'

In the early 20th century, W. Randolf Hearst fell in love with the Mudejar ceilings of Spain and acquired as many as he could. The documentary tries to track down these pieces and find their original location.

3S - 30x60'

Documentary series that radiographs the most impressive monuments in Spain to understand their architecture, the use that the buildings have had and the relationship with the historical figures who had them built or lived in them.

1x60'

It tells the story of the “strappo” in spain; a technique of removing mural paintings that allowed their transfer to canvas for later sale to museums and collectors.

3S - 6x50'

The aqueduct of Nimes, the theater of Cartagena or the magnificent monuments of Rome were some of the infrastructures that allow us to understand the challenges faced by Roman engineers. Series presented by Public Works engineer, geographer and historian, Isaac Moreno. 

1x52'

The documentary reveals the keys to painting from life, the artist's language and his achievements in the European and North American art market. It delves into the traits of modernity and the language that his painting reached, influenced by the avant-garde of the turn of the century, by photography and even by the incipient cinematographic art.

1x56'

Rafael Guastavino, although little known, changed the construction system in the United States, where he exported a millenary construction tradition. He had it all as a character: he had been forgotten by history, had an impressive architectural work and a personal life full of love affairs, travels and even committed a small swindle.

"Best biography documentary" Film and TV Festival of New York.

1S - 8x50'

Series to rediscover the already millenary Caminos, which today constitute the 'main street of Europe’. A showcase of spectacular images shot in 4k with helicopter, drones and cameras on the three main routes leading to Santiago de Compostela.

1x52'

The documentary shows the artist's work process as a painter, sculptor and teacher. A very humble person, an attitude that surprises many people given that his works are valued at millions of euros.

1S - 15x52'

Documentary series in 4K, which shows the historical and cultural wealth of the 15 Spanish cities declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO, 15 chapters in which the monumental heritage and the tourist and cultural offer of these cities are shown.

1S - 6x30

The series delves into the life and work of El Greco, a universal painter who was born in Greece, trained in Italy and ended up being Spanish. Through the real scenarios of his life and the various exhibitions on the occasion of the events of the IV Centenary, the series unravels and gives answers to the many enigmas that still remain about him. 

1x52'

We unveil the daily life of the museum that houses Picasso's Guernica: The Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. The work of Dalí, Miró, Picasso, Eduardo Arroyo and the reflections of Antonio López, Cristina Iglesias, Luis Gordillo, Olalla Gómez, Daniel Andújar, Isidoro Valcárcel and Pedro Almodóvar.

1x52'

This documentary is a journey through the work of Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa, internationally known for his commitment to art in public spaces and for being one of the leading exponents of the current sculpture scene.

1S - 6x50'

We visit different architectural treasures that once belonged to the Spanish crown. Nowadays they are part of the Spanish cultural heritage and are guarded by Patrimonio Nacional, the public institution in charge of their conservation. 

1x52'

The Prado as never seen before. It shows 400 paintings, all masterpieces, of the more than 9,000 that the Prado Museum has in Madrid. It offers the viewer the possibility of approaching what is a magical visit through the rooms of the main Spanish art gallery.

3S - 52x39'

We will watch what is hidden behind the facades, landscapes, buildings.... And explain how they think, sometimes how they dream, both the creators of large architectural structures in our country and the professionals who carry out small projects with the aim of making a better world.

3S - 39x30'

The documentary takes us on a journey through the work of different photographers, starting with the story behind one of their images and then retracing the trajectory of each one of them. The series makes a selection of authors that allows to focus on different periods and styles of photography.

1x55'

The documentary refutes some of the unfair clichés that accompany the figure of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and vindicate his unique and innovative style. While the tenebrism and naturalism of authors such as Velázquez dominated the Spanish pictorial Baroque, the protagonist of our story chose to create a novel art much more human, full of gentleness, compassion and joy.

1S - 4x60'

‘200' is a series of four programs that offers the privilege of visiting the Prado Museum at night and enjoying the space and its works exclusively when it is closed to the public. In addition, the program will witness a mystery that Ramón Gener will have to solve with the help of the paintings in the museum.

1x60'

In 1946, 10-year-old Mario Vargas Llosa arrives at Lima. Sixteen years later, in Paris, he finishes his first novel, an astonishing and devastating work that inaugurates the boom of Latin American literature. The launch made half the world know him. What led a boy from the provinces of Peru to travel to Paris to write "The City and the Dogs"?

1x50'

Carmen Maura talks, in the documentary, about her long and rich career, which has made her one of the most respected European actresses. About that and about herself, about her childhood, her vocation, her first steps in the profession, the difficulties... With her particular sense of humor, confidence and intelligence.

1x95'

This is the story of Pablo Ráez, a young man who at the age of eighteen was diagnosed with leukemia. During his long stay in the hospital, he decided to challenge the whole of Spain to reach one million bone marrow donors, with the one million challenge. Through social networks and from his bed in the isolation room, he managed to mobilize an entire country. 

1S - 3x45' / 1x100'

A documentary series that tells the story of the figure skating legend who broke records in a forgotten sport in Spain. Javier Fernández opens up and talks to us about mental health in sport: the weight of discipline in elite athletes, the need to free oneself from the drug of success, family dependence, fear of failure...

1x56'

From a village in La Mancha, from hunger and war, María Antonia Abad Fernández conquered Hollywood, Mexico and the hearts of thousands of fans around the world. She had an unparalleled professional career, a hard worker who got on stage at the age of 12 and never got off. She was a singer who reinvented a genre; a woman who broke the mold and flouted censorship. 

1x52'

Documentary that explores the creative world of the choreographer and flamenco dancer María Pagés. Each of her works has deepened the knowledge of flamenco art by experimenting with other artistic disciplines that give it the category of universal. 

1S - 2x40'

Documentary series that is a journey to the origins of chef Carlos Maldonado. A retrospective look at this rebellious young man who accompanied his father in street vending, who conquered almost four million viewers by winning the third edition of MasterChef and who has become the first aspiring chef in the world to achieve a Michelin Star in a restaurant of his own. 

1x52'

The documentary narrates the exciting journey of Menéndez Pidal to demonstrate the long Spanish oral tradition. He was the backbone of the history of the Spanish language based on the legends, romances and popular songs of the peninsula, which he analyzed to learn about the evolution of speech from the oral memory of the people.

1x52'

Even the best-known landscapes hide secrets. In the heart of the western Mediterranean, an archipelago hides a world that not even the growing human pressure has been able to subdue: the Balearic Islands.

Nominated Naturvision Film Festival and Greenscreen Official Selection 2019

3S - 39x30'

It is a space dedicated to history and botany. A wide look at the variety of gardens of the peninsula and the archipelagos, in which the landscape is the real protagonist.

1x52'

The documentary series chronicles the life in Africa of Jorge Alesanco, the first man in history to be accepted by a pride of wild lions. 

1x52'

'Spherical' tells the story of the first voyage around the world initiated by Ferdinand Magellan and culminated, after his death, by Juan Sebastian de Elcano. 

1S - 13x52'

Documentary series that combines adventure and historical documentation and will delve into the mystery and beauty of the deep sea. Led by diving expert Karlos Simón, you will discover the history of 13 great sunken ships.

4 x 50'

It is a revealing look at the work of security forces at key points such as airports and land borders. From Madrid-Barajas to Algeciras or the Pyrenees, it shows how Guardia Civil, National Police and SVA combat drug trafficking, illegal immigration, pests and exotic animal trade, using state-of-the-art technology. With real cases and authentic protagonists.

1x60'

How are Artificial Intelligence algorithms affecting our brains, opinions, freedoms and professions? Will we be cured of everything or will we end up being dependent on machines? 

1S - 4x55'

The series examines the hopes and threats of the changes that lie ahead in the next 10,000 days to 2050, the obstacles to governing those changes, and their potential effects on society. The series interviews brilliant men and women from around the world who are already shaping the future.

1S - 4x20'

Javier Santaolalla, physicist and aspiring astronaut, takes us on a journey through four EP 01s to learn about the great enigmas of the universe and the requirements to fulfill the dream of becoming an astronaut and cross the final frontier. 

1x57'

We visit the African country to analyze the situation of migrants, refugees and Libyans themselves, who suffer the consequences of successive conflicts: hundreds of thousands of displaced people, problems in the provision of basic services, worsening health and possible war crimes.

1x71'

The portrait of a sinister and ambitious character, capable of doing the worst dirty work in the service of the most execrable dictatorships of the 20th century. 

Best Documentary and Best Screenplay at the II Saraqusta Film Festival 2023.

1x52'

It tells the story of the ‘Valley of the Fallen’, one of the saddest episodes of our history. A journey through a history of slaves, of megalomaniac dreams of the one who believed to be the savior of faith and homeland, of the construction of the largest fascist monument in Europe.

1x55'

Mauthausen (Austria) was one of the infamous Nazi concentration camps, where 7,500 Spanish Republicans were imprisoned, of whom only a third survived the war. 

1x52'

It shows a never-before-told conflict of World War II: the secret battle that cryptographers on both sides waged to decipher enemy codes. A chess game played in the shadows between the most brilliant minds of their time whose outcome was vital to the resolution of the greatest war of the twentieth century.

1x54'

Victims and experts of some of the substances administered to them (such as GHB, ecstasy, burundanga, cocaine, barbiturates or ketamine), talk about this crime in which people are sexually assaulted, robbed or swindled by overriding their will. 

1x58'

The most decisive double agent of World War II had fooled Hitler and the entire Secret Service of Nazi Germany. But they never stopped trusting him. Meanwhile, the British Intelligence Service, the Mi5, secretly paid tribute to him. We reveal the life trajectory of that Spaniard, Juan Pujol Garcia, known to the British as "Garbo". 

1x50'

Documentary that tells, through songs, popular music, and archive images, the daily life and the confrontation that took place between the Spanish people during the years 1936 to 1939.

1x87'

Documentary that tells the story of the mythical Lagun bookstore in Donostia, which became an icon of the civil struggle against terrorism. Persecuted during Franco's regime, attacked by the extreme right and a constant target of ETA.

1S - 5x30'

Documentary series focused on the last journey of Emperor Charles V to his retirement in the Monastery of Yuste, as he recalls his eventful life through the different countries he traveled through.

1x50'

Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Lope de Vega were the first authors of zarzuelas in the seventeenth century, in the middle of the Spanish Golden Age. And today, against time, against itself, against tastes, trends, fashions, etc., La Zarzuela, as a genre, has endured its pulse through the centuries, until reaching the XXI.