Battle of the Ebro (1938)

Spain.

Documentary about the Spanish Civil War.

Map of Spain with the Ebro River highlighted.

Barcelona and Madrid under revolutionary symbols: the hammer and sickle.

General Franco surrounded by officers on a mountain road.

They are watching the movement of government troops.

Plan of the battlefield.

View of the city of Gandesa, destroyed houses, bridge.

Signpost to Gandesa.

Fighters are passing through the city, trucks with soldiers are driving.

Pulling up government forces.

Scheme of the encirclement of the Republicans in the Gandesa area.

Trucks with soldiers and artillery are driving along the mountain road.

The infantry advance, supported by aviation and tanks.

Bombing of Republican positions in the mountains

Spain.

Airplanes drop bombs, a series of explosions on the ground.

Infantry attack, a machine gunner fires.

Light tanks advance, one of them overturns while descending a hill.

An observer looks through a telescope.

A signpost to the Ebro and Flix.

A destroyed bridge over a river.

The city of Gandesa captured by government troops, ruins of houses.

General Franco and his officers look down on the city from a hill.

Trophies captured by the fascists.

Destroyed Soviet tanks, vehicles, destroyed pillboxes, corpses of Republicans, a helmet pierced by a bullet.

A torn communist newspaper in French.

Corpses, a skull.

Captured Republicans, among them blacks.

A column of prisoners is led along the road to Spain.

Cannons are firing.

Montage of footage glorifying Franco.

Cannons are firing, soldiers are running to attack, explosions.

Madrid after Franco's victory, he is on the balcony of the palace.

Cavalry on the attack.

A line of sailors, Franco passes by the line.