Helping the Children of Ezkadi, Basque Country, Guernica (1937)

A documentary film about an episode of the war in Spain.

It is a testimony of gratitude and solidarity towards the unfortunate Basque children - innocent victims of the war that destroyed their homes and villages.

This gratitude of the Basque people to the countries that helped them will be eternal.

Spain, the Basque country.

View of fields, meadows, mountains, village houses.

View of the city from above.

River.

Boat.

Bridge.

People's faces.

View of Saint-Sebastien.

Interior of a peasant house: a woman knits, a man rocks a cradle with a baby.

Traditional dance of Basque children in the square in front of the church of Guernica.

Volunteer troops march through the city, heading off to war.

Chronicle of military operations.

Women dig trenches, carry away baskets of earth.

The corpse of a cow.

The corpse of a man.

People running through the streets of the city.

Women running for shelter with children in their arms.

Bilbao.

Women and children having dinner at tables in a shelter.

Black smoke from a burning village.

Men putting out the fire with earth.

In the ashes.

Clearing the rubble of destroyed houses.

The completely destroyed city of Guernica.

Ruins.

A memorial service in the street.

A funeral in Bilbao.

A funeral procession: the city buries its heroes.

Threat of an air raid, a siren: people running through the streets of the city, women with children, old people.

A woman in labor and a newborn

A documentary film about an episode of the war in Spain.

It is a testimony of gratitude and solidarity towards the unfortunate Basque children - innocent victims of the war that destroyed their homes and villages.

This gratitude of the Basque people to the countries that helped them will be eternal.

The British fleet helps to take the unfortunate children out.

Ships in the ocean.

Medical examination of children.

Signs are hung on their chests.

Children are loaded onto a steamer.

Farewell, tears.

The remains of a German plane from which the pilot shot people.

The German pilot himself.

Children arrive in a new country.

Field kitchen.

Shelter in France, beds.

Children in Austerlitz.

Many children.

Children playing, smiling.

A woman feeding a child from a bottle.

Basque children in Belgium.

Playing, relaxing.

The gong calls for classes at school.

Children at lunch.

Children's camp in the UK. Tent city.

Boys frolicking, girls washing clothes in basins.

Traditional Spanish dances, playing musical instruments.

Girls in folk costumes dancing.

Colony in France.

Exercises for kids 3-5 years old.

Older boys doing sports.

Swimming pool.

Children at the sea.

Men looking into the distance at the opposite shore, sad about their abandoned homeland