Introduction
Collective and cultural memory and their limitations: postmemory and cinematic modes of representations
The Spanish Civil War: cinematic postmemories of the "last great cause"
Cinematic representations of the Irish Civil War: Michael Collins and The wind that shakes the barley
Cinematic representations of the former Yugoslavian civil war: Underground and No man's land
Representation of the Greek Civil War in Theo Angelopoulos's The travelling players: the uses of intertextuality
Conclusion.