el re-nacimiento del documental dramático en españa: asaltar los cielos

: In 1996 the documentary Asaltar los Cielos, by Javier Rioyo and José Luis López Linares is released in Spanish cinemas, causing a point of inflexion for this genre in Spain. The narrative schemesof Rioyo and Lopez Linares were at their time revolutionary in documentary filmmaking. The novelty was that they introduced in documentarya style that until then the public associated with fiction: drama. Thisarticle analyzes in detail Asaltar los Cielos and shows how historicaldocumentary in Spain is oriented towards a new sub-genre: documentary of dramatic divulgation, characterized to offer dramatic and narrativeprocesses similar to cinematographic fictions.