Best Spanish documentary movies

Mary's Land (2013)

A figure skater seeks wisdom from a local sage to cure her diabetes.

Flamenco (1995)

The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance: the up-tempo bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrías, siguiriyas, soleás, a guajira of patrician women, a petenera about a sentence to death, villancicos, and a final rumba.

Heroes: Silence and Rock & Roll (2021)

An exploration of the rise of Héroes del Silencio, the seminal 1980s Spanish rock band anchored by Enrique Bunbury.

Parchís: the Documentary (2019)

The spotlight's on Parchís, a record company-created Spanish boy/girl band that had unprecedented success with Top 10 songs and hit films in the '80s.

Miley Cyrus: Bangerz Tour (2014)

Miley Cyrus took the world by storm as she brought her Bangerz Tour to fans across the world. The highly anticipated concert film features show stopping performances along with behind-the-scenes look into the tour and her personal life.

Live In Rio (2007)

Live In Rio is the third DVD by Mexican pop group RBD. The show was recorded on October 8, 2006 before an audience of 50,000 people at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on the group's "Tour Brasil 2006".

The Flamenco Guitar of Yerai Cortés (2024)

A thoughtful exploration of gypsy culture, an intimate portrait of flamenco guitar player Yerai Cortés and a healing family exorcism through music. Antón Álvarez (aka C. Tangana) makes his filmmaking debut with this documentary.

We Are Nothing (2021)

La Polla Records, one of the most legendary punk bands, returns to bid its farewell. To celebrate the group's last tour, its singer, Evaristo Páramos, revives 40 years of history from his town in the Basque Country. This is the extraordinary tale of villagers who revolutionised incensed music with songs turned into hymns by their thousands of followers.

Esta ambición desmedida (2023)

Ilegales 82 (2023)

Alejandro Sanz: What I Was Is What I Am (2018)

This documentary follows the life and career of the Spanish singer Alejandro Sanz, from his beginnings and his rise to fame until June 24, 2017 day of his legendary concert "+ es +" in Madrid

Vetusta Morla - Bailando hasta el apagón (2022)

35,000 people came to the Metropolitan Stadium in Madrid on June 24, 2022 to see Vetusta Morla's last great show. This docu-concert recovers that magical night. With a masterful production we attended the band's most important concert after their latest album, "Cable a Tierra", an album in which the group brings its sound closer to the folklore of here and Latin America to explore new rhythms and take our roots to the rock, pop and electronica. Between songs, the members of the group tell us how the album was created and the night of the concert. Accompanied by El Naán, Alibori and the rapper Wos and by unusual traditional instruments in events of this magnitude, the band performed their sixth studio album and their best-known songs in a concert that has already become a must-see music event in Spain.

Eterna (2022)

Eterna is a 2022 Spanish documentary film directed by Juanma Sayalonga and David Sainz about the life of feminist rapper-poet Gata Cattana.

Aitana - Play Tour (2020)

Aitana's concert at the Palau Sant Jordi, within her first major tour in which she presents "Spoiler". After passing through the successful edition of OT 2017, Aitana has established herself as one of the voices with the most personality of current Spanish pop.

Flamenco Flamenco (2010)

A look at the history and traditions of flamenco music and dance.

Un día Lobo López (2022)

La Polla Records - Levántate y Muere (2020)

OT23 - La Gira (El Concierto) (2024)

The documentary about the 2023 Operación Triunfo tour with backstage moments and exclusive interviews.

Rolling Stone: Life and Death of Brian Jones (2019)

The story of Brian Jones, founding member of the Rolling Stones, in both life and the aftermath of his death.

Ronaldo (2015)

Filmed over 14 months with unprecedented access into the inner circle of the man and the sport, this is the first official and fully authorised film of one of the most celebrated figures in football. For the first time ever, the world gets vividly candid and un-paralleled, behind-closed-doors access to the footballer, father, family-man and friend in this moving & fascinating documentary. Through in-depth conversations, state of the art football footage and never before seen archival footage, the film gives an astonishing insight into the sporting and personal life of triple Ballon D'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo at the peak of his career. From the makers of ‘Senna’ and ‘Amy’, Ronaldo takes audiences on an intimate and revealing journey of what it’s like to live as an iconic athlete in the eye of the storm.

Sad Hill Unearthed (2018)

Province of Burgos, northern Spain, October 2015. A group of fans undertake the titanic task of restoring the location of the last scene of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the mythical spaghetti western directed by Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone in 1966.

Face to Face with ETA: Conversations with a Terrorist (2023)

An in-depth interview with José Antonio Urrutikoetxea, known as Josu Ternera, one of the most relevant leaders of the terrorist gang ETA.

Spain: The First Globalization (2021)

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.

Columbus DNA: His True Origin (2024)

One of the most important and exciting historical research of all time, the study of the DNA of the navigator Christopher Columbus, finally answers two fundamental questions: where do his bones rest? What is his true origin?

Marisol: llámame Pepa (2024)

A portrait of the actress and singer Pepa Flores, an incarnation of the recent history of Spain, who, in just twenty-five years of intense career, went from being Marisol, child prodigy of the Franco dictatorship, to being one of the first communist militants, icon of the Transition; an idol of the masses who became a discreet person after having claimed her right to remain silent.

A Forbidden Orange (2021)

Spain, 1970s. A Clockwork Orange, a film considered by critics and audiences as one of the best works in the history of cinema, directed by Stanley Kubrick and released in 1971, was banned by the strict Franco government. However, the film was finally premiered, without going through censorship, during the 20th edition of the Seminci, the Valladolid Film Festival, on April 24, 1975. How was this possible?

The Demise of ETA (2017)

The chronicle of the process, ten long years, that led to the end of ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna), a Basque terrorist gang that perpetrated robberies, kidnappings and murders in Spain and the French Basque Country for more than fifty years. Almost 1,000 people died, but others are still alive to tell the story of how the nightmare finally ended.

The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone (2003)

An attempt to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes violently, in the Basque Country, in northern Spain.

Lola Índigo: La Niña (2022)

Words for an End of the World (2020)

Spain, April 14, 1931. The Second Republic is born. From the beginning, the writer Miguel de Unamuno is considered one of the ethical pillars of the new regime. Five years later, on December 31, 1936, a few months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), Unamuno dies at his home in Salamanca, capital of the rebel side, led by General Francisco Franco, and main center of dissemination of its propaganda apparatus.