Best Spanish war series

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch war shows from Spain, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Patria

    Patria 2020

    A look at the impact of Spain’s Basque conflict on ordinary people on both sides, such as the widow of a man killed by the ETA who returns to her home village after the 2011 ceasefire between the separatist group and the Spanish government, and her former intimate friend, the mother of a jailed terrorist.

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  • Poster for The Barrier

    The Barrier 2020

    One family’s fight for survival in a future dystopian Madrid illustrates the disparity between two worlds separated by a fence — and so much more.

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  • Poster for The Legend of El Cid

    The Legend of El Cid 2020

    The story of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, a Castilian nobleman and war hero in medieval Spain.

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  • Poster for La frontera

    La frontera 2025

    Year 1987. France begins to collaborate with Spain in the fight against the terrorist gang ETA while a dissident group of the organization plans to commit an attack in Paris.

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  • Poster for Jaguar

    Jaguar 2021

    In 1960s Spain, a Holocaust survivor joins a group of agents seeking justice against the hundreds of Nazis who fled to the nation to hide after WWII.

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  • Poster for Parot

    Parot 2021

    Many prisoners convicted of rape, murder and terrorism are released before serving their full sentences. Hours later, one of them is killed. Detectives Mora and Nieto take on the case.

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  • Poster for The Challenge

    The Challenge 2020

    A look at the fight of Spanish military police, the Guardia Civil, against the terrorist group for the independence of the Basque Country known as ETA.

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  • Poster for The Embassy

    The Embassy 2016

    Luis Salinas, the new ambassador to Thailand, who knows he's going to get his hands dirty in the next four years – if he makes it that long. He's accompanied by his wife, Claudia, and their daughter Ester. Aware that the familiar constellation of life in the embassy is about to change radically, the staff gear up in nervous anticipation. Life does change, but in a way that Luis would never have imagined it. He must not only cope with the chaos and corruption he was expecting, but also with the implosion of his family life, as Claudia and Ester become involved in affairs that might seriously damage relations between Spain and Thailand. Will the glamorous, globe-trotting diplomatic life swallow up Luis or will he continue to fight for integrity and morals?           

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  • Poster for Secretos de Estado

    Secretos de Estado 2019

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  • Poster for Celia

    Celia 1993

    Celia is a Spanish children's television series created by José Luis Borau in 1992 for the national Spanish public-service channel Televisión Española. It is based on the classic Spanish children's novels of the same name by Elena Fortún, primarily Celia, lo que dice and Celia en el colegio. The books and television series tell the stories of a wild seven-year-old girl named Celia Gálvez de Moltanbán. In addition to focusing on Celia, the show touched lightly on Spanish life in the 1930s, such as the upcoming civil war, a changing nation, and the social issues and ideas at the time. Cristina Cruz Mínguez was cast as the titular character, and the script was adapted by author and screenwriter Carmen Martín Gaite. The creator, Borau, directed and produced the series. Though successful when it originally premiered, Celia was cancelled after six episodes. The sixth and final episode ended with a "to be continued", but the following episode has yet to be released.

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  • Poster for Quanta guerra!

    Quanta guerra! 2022

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  • Poster for Fuerza de paz

    Fuerza de paz 2022

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  • Poster for Kubala, Moreno i Manchón

    Kubala, Moreno i Manchón 2011

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  • Poster for La Forja de un Rebelde

    La Forja de un Rebelde 1990

    An autobiographical account that is also the history of Spain during the dark years of the first half of the twentieth century. Spanish writer Arturo Barea (1897-1957) narrates his childhood in Madrid, his harsh experiences in Morocco during the Rif War and his political commitment to the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War.

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  • Poster for ETA, el final del silencio

    ETA, el final del silencio 2019

    On June 7, 1968, ETA assassinates José Pardines, a Guardia Civil officer. On May 3rd, 2018, a communiqué from the terrorist gang announces the dissolution of its structures. Fifty years of terror, fear, pain, truces, negotiations and 826 deaths lie between the two dates.

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  • Poster for Los jinetes del alba

    Los jinetes del alba 1991

    The inhabitants of Las Caldas, a village in Asturias, in northern Spain, whose life revolves around a sumptuous spa, trace complicated personal relationships while the whole country is inexorably heading towards revolution and civil war.

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  • Poster for Tornarem

    Tornarem 2012

    Catalan miniseries.

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  • Poster for The Price of Freedom

    The Price of Freedom 2011

    Mario, a member of the terrorist group ETA during Franco's dictatorship, drastically changes the course of his life when, with democracy in place, the organization decides to continue killing.

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  • Poster for España en guerra

    España en guerra 1986

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  • Poster for La Plaça del Diamant

    La Plaça del Diamant 1983

    The life of a young woman in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath. This a Television version, in a 4-episode miniseries format, of the film of the same name, based on the novel by Mercè Rodoreda.

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  • Poster for The Second World War

    The Second World War 2003

    The biggest audiovisual work in Spanish over the biggest armed conflict of all time.

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  • Arnau 1994

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  • Poster for 12 Years Without Mercy

    12 Years Without Mercy 2008

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