Joris Ivens’s advocacy documentary for the Republican cause intercuts a besieged Madrid with a nearby village digging an irrigation canal, linking the war to bread, land, and survival. Produced by the writers’ collective Contemporary Historians, edited by Helen van Dongen, scored by Marc Blitzstein, and narrated in its U.S. version by Ernest Hemingway (after an initial Orson Welles track), it blends frontline reportage with persuasion against Franco’s forces and their German–Italian backers.
Unfortunately the movie The Spanish Earth is not yet available on Disney Plus.
| Writing | Prudencio de Pereda | Writer |
| Writing | John Dos Passos | Writer |
| Writing | Joris Ivens | Writer |
| Writing | Archibald Macleish | Writer |
| Directing | Joris Ivens | Director |
| Writing | Lillian Hellman | Writer |
| Writing | Ernest Hemingway | Writer |
| Editing | Helen van Dongen | Editor |
| Sound | Virgil Thomson | Music |
| Sound | Marc Blitzstein | Music Arranger |
| Camera | John Fernhout | Director of Photography |
