With the Pragmatic Sanction, the Spanish rule passed to Ferdinand VII’s young daughter, Isabella, upon his death—and touched off the Carlist Wars, with Ferdinand’s brother Don Carlos pitting himself against Queen Regent Maria Cristina. This program employs dramatizations, artwork, maps, film clips, and footage of palaces and other landmarks to make sense of the complex political and social forces at work during the years of the First and Second Carlist Wars. Battles and reprisals as well as reforms and socioeconomic progress all have a place in this story of Spain’s turn toward liberalismo. Not available in French-speaking Canada. An RTVE Production. (Spanish, 53 minutes)