The Stolen

Streaming video - 2013

Shortly after the Spanish Civil War, up to 300,000 babies in Spain were stolen from "undesirable" families and trafficked by an unholy alliance of doctors, the Catholic Church, and Franco's Secret police. Decades later, some of these stolen children try desperately to find and reconnect with their biological families.. It began as a way of stopping a new generation of Republican supporters from emerging. However, it continued until the early 1990s decades after Franco's death for economic reasons. Poor women or single mothers would enter a church-run hospital to give birth and be told that their child had died during labor. The babies would then be placed in "appropriate" wealthy families, usually in exchange f...or a donation.. We follow Lily, one of the thousands of illegally-adopted babies, as she tries to track down her birth family. more