About the anti-fascist resistance during the Spanish Civil War. Narration first done by Orson Welles, but overdubbed by Ernest Hemingway; music by Virgil Thompson; written by a whole mess of people:
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- The production company, Contemporary Historians, was formed by a group of American writers and intellectuals, including Ernest Hemingway, Lillian Hellman, Archibald Macleish, John Dos Passos and Dorothy Parker.
- Twenty-year-old
Orson Welles recorded the commentary written by Ernest Hemingway and receives onscreen credit, but Hemingway decided to use his own voice instead.