Troops battle during the Spanish Civil War. Spanish Nationalist troops fire artillery targeting the city of Bilbao as smoke rises in the distance. Smoke rises as bomb shells explode. Spanish Nationalist on foot and in trucks enter the city of Bilbao. Soldiers cheer and celebrate their victory. Soldiers cross a bridge. (Note: Momentary sounds of cheering can be heard in two places, but the film is otherwise silent.)
The Spanish Civil War. Spanish Nationalist troops lay down an artillery barrage. Artillery being fired. Soldiers advance. Shell marks on a building. Damaged buildings. Officials discuss a map. Aircraft in flight as they drop bombs on the city of Madrid. Smoke rises as bombs impact.
The Spanish Civil War. Loyalist troops parade in Madrid. Men and women gathered on the streets. Women march in streets. Aftermath of aerial bombing on Madrid. Damaged buildings. Damaged cars. Rubble spread on ground.
Models display the dress creations by Spanish designers in Barcelona. Evening gowns are displayed.
Scene opens showing the fly leaf of the book Don Quixote, De La Mancha. A hand flips to another illustrated page. Then camera focuses on statues of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza on the memorial to author, Cervantes, by sculptor Lorenzo Coullaut Valera, on the Plaza Espana, in Madrid. Next is shown a building partially destroyed by bomb shelling. Citizens of Madrid are seen working to place protective walls around important monuments and buildings in the city. Masons work on the reinforcing walls, while citizens are seen busily going about their affairs in background. Several soldiers march into a guarded fortified area. A truck drives on a street, past a woman and small children sitting on some rubble. A streetcar moves along a street along with a horse-drawn covered wagon, and pedestrians, making their way past a long masonry protective wall. Two armed Republican soldiers ride on the roof of a bus. A Red Cross flag hangs beneath a Metro sign, above steps leading down into the subway. A long line of people waiting to buy vegetables at a small store. Masking tape crisscrossing the window of a shop to help proctect it. Pedestrians filling the sidewalks of a street walled by tall apartment buildings and shops. Some rubble in the street from rebel Nationalist shelling. A policeman armed with a rifle, directing pedestrians to move along. The covered body of a civilian lying amidst rubble from shelling, on a sidewalk. A Municipal Services truck pulling up to the spot. The city workers place the body in a wooden coffin and put it into their truck. A large poster urges all civlians to evacuate Madrid. View from moving vehicle of huge crowds of civilians on the sidewalks. A horse-drawn wagon, loaded down with household goods, moves along the street. Women carry bedsprings past stone bunkers. People standing about, with bundles of personal belongings, apparently waiting for transport of some sort. Women and children, with their belongings, being helped aboard a truck. The truck driving away.
The Spanish Civil War. Map of Madrid and road to Valencia, showing Aganda bridge across Jarama River, where Nationalists attack from their front lines. Republican troops being mustered in village square to proceed south and counterattack. Closeups of some of the soldiers. Scene shifts to farmers working on an irrigations project. They tamp down the ground and carry wooden sections of sluice that they connect together to carry irrigation water. View of a farmer walking along the newly erected sluice, with river in the background.