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.