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- 1953Music
Canção de resistência «Hino de Caxias» (1953–1954)
1953 · 03:17 · Museu Nacional Resistência e Liberdade (Peniche)
A visitor to the National Museum of Resistance and Freedom sings the “Hino de Caxias” (Caxias Anthem), a song from 1953–1954 with music by the political prisoner Vasco Costa Marques and lyrics written jointly by prisoners in Caxias, among them Aurélio Santos and Rolando Verdial.
- 1974Music
Senha do MFA
24 April 1974 · 4:29 · RTP Arquivos
An excerpt from the programme “Quatro Tempos”, on Emissores Associados de Lisboa, with João Paulo Diniz at the microphone. It plays “E Depois do Adeus” (And After the Goodbye), sung by Paulo de Carvalho — the first signal of the Armed Forces Movement (MFA).
- 2023Music
Coro da Casa da Achada e populares cantam «Grândola, Vila Morena» no 25 de Abril de 2023, em Lisboa
25 April 2023 · 00:59 · Wikimedia Commons
The Casa da Achada choir and passers-by sing “Grândola, Vila Morena” (Grândola, swarthy town) in the street, in Lisbon, on 25 April 2023. Almost half a century after it served as the signal for the revolution, José Afonso’s song is still sung in chorus every 25 April.
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- 1953Music
Canção de resistência «Hino de Caxias» (1953–1954)
1953 · 03:17 · Museu Nacional Resistência e Liberdade (Peniche)
A visitor to the National Museum of Resistance and Freedom sings the “Hino de Caxias” (Caxias Anthem), a song from 1953–1954 with music by the political prisoner Vasco Costa Marques and lyrics written jointly by prisoners in Caxias, among them Aurélio Santos and Rolando Verdial.
- 1957Interview
Entrevista a Natália Correia
2 July 1957 · 33:26 · RTP Arquivos
In 1957 Francisco Igrejas Caeiro interviews Natália Correia for the Emissora Nacional programme “Perfil dum Artista” (Profile of an Artist). She talks about her life and her work.
- 1962Report
Crise Académica de 1962
26 March 1962 · 1:19 · RTP Arquivos
Students gathered at the Cidade Universitária, with “Dia do Estudante” (Students’ Day) stickers on their lapels, in plenary meetings in front of the Rectorate and the Faculty of Letters. A banner reads “They offended you, go into mourning, only united can we triumph” (“Ofenderam-te enluta-te, só unidos poderemos triunfar”).
- 1969Speech
Primeira conferência de imprensa da Comissão Eleitoral de Unidade Democrática
29 September 1969 · 2:27 · RTP Arquivos
The candidates of the Electoral Commission for Democratic Unity give their first press conference before the elections of October 1969; Mário Soares and Francisco Sousa Tavares are among those who speak. At the end, among the journalists, are Maria Barroso and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen.
- 1970Report
Tomada de posse de Maria Teresa Cárcomo Lobo
22 August 1970 · 6:19 · RTP Arquivos
At the Palácio de Belém, Maria Teresa Cárcomo Lobo is sworn in as Under-Secretary of State for Health and Welfare, the first woman to hold government office in Portugal. There are speeches and congratulations from members of the government; the item is silent.
- 1971Report
Um Dia Com… Movimento Nacional Feminino
17 May 1971 · 25:00 · RTP Arquivos
Cecília Supico Pinto, president of the National Women’s Movement, presents the organisation’s activities among the troops overseas. We see the support for families, the aerogrammes, “Operação Saudade” (Operation Longing) and the recording of the programme “Espaço” (Space).
- 1971Report
Lançamento de “Minha Senhora de Mim” de Maria Teresa Horta
18 May 1971 · 0:36 · RTP Arquivos
A news item, made from photographs, on the launch of the book “Minha Senhora de Mim” (My Lady of Myself), by Maria Teresa Horta, and of the record of her poems sung by Teresa Paula Brito. David Mourão-Ferreira and the announcer Nuno Martins were at the launch, and Ana Maria Teodósio read poems.
- 1973Documentary
Ana de Castro Osório
15 August 1973 · 24:28 · RTP Arquivos
In the series “Grandes Escritores Tal Como Foram” (Great Writers as They Were), Maria Elisa interviews Raquel Bastos, Ana de Castro Osório’s daughter-in-law, about the writer’s life and work. Family photographs are shown, along with a postcard commemorating the Republic on which she appears.
- 1974Documentary
«25 de Abril de 1974, Quinta-feira», de Alfredo Cunha — capítulo 3: «Depois de Abril»
1974 · 14:22 · Comissão Comemorativa 50 Anos 25 de Abril
The third chapter of Alfredo Cunha’s film (music by Rodrigo Leão, directed by Miguel Brugo), published by the Commission on 14 February 2024, with photographs from the months that followed the revolution. In the book, this part has a text by Fernando Rosas and includes the rally of the first May Day (1 May) in freedom, at the stadium of the National Foundation for Joy at Work (FNAT).
- 1974Report
Encontro de mulheres em Lisboa
26 January 1974 · 1:09 · RTP Arquivos
In January 1974, at a feminist meeting in Lisbon, the Brazilian Romy Medeiros da Fonseca proposes an association to defend the rights of Portuguese women. In the audience are Maria Lamas and Elina Guimarães.
- 1974Music
Senha do MFA
24 April 1974 · 4:29 · RTP Arquivos
An excerpt from the programme “Quatro Tempos”, on Emissores Associados de Lisboa, with João Paulo Diniz at the microphone. It plays “E Depois do Adeus” (And After the Goodbye), sung by Paulo de Carvalho — the first signal of the Armed Forces Movement (MFA).
- 1974Documentary
«25 de Abril de 1974, Quinta-feira», de Alfredo Cunha — capítulo 2: «Dia 25 de Abril»
25 April 1974 · 13:31 · Comissão Comemorativa 50 Anos 25 de Abril
The second chapter of the film made from the photographs Alfredo Cunha took in Lisbon on 25 April 1974, with music by Rodrigo Leão, directed by Miguel Brugo, and published by the Commission on 14 February 2024. It follows the book of the same name, in which this part has a text by Adelino Gomes and pictures of the Ribeira das Naus, Rua do Arsenal and Largo do Carmo.
- 1974Speech
Comunicado do M.F.A.
25 April 1974 · 2:31 · RTP Arquivos
The voice of Clarisse Guerra, an announcer at Rádio Clube Português, reading a communiqué from the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) on 25 April. The communiqué states that the MFA is in control of the political and military situation.
- 1974Report
Acontecimentos no Largo do Carmo
25 April 1974 · 13:16 · RTP Arquivos
Fialho Gouveia reports from the besieged Largo do Carmo: Lieutenant Alfredo Assunção receives Feytor Pinto and Nuno Távora, the Chaimite armoured car “Bula” arrives, Salgueiro Maia waits for Spínola, and Francisco Sousa Tavares calls for calm through a megaphone. At the end, the Chaimite takes away Marcelo Caetano and two ministers.
- 1974Report
Ocupação militar na RTP e a Revolução de 25 abril no Largo do Carmo
25 April 1974 · 20:39 · RTP Arquivos
Soldiers from the Military Administration Practical School occupy the RTP studios in Lumiar, under the command of Captain Teófilo Bento, while the technicians keep the broadcast going. The second part shows the siege of the Carmo Barracks.
- 1974Speech
Proclamação da Junta de Salvação Nacional
25 April 1974 · 5:00 · RTP Arquivos
Generals Spínola and Costa Gomes arrive at the Lumiar studios, and Fialho Gouveia introduces the members of the National Salvation Junta. Spínola reads the proclamation to the nation live.
- 1974Speech
Primeiro Comunicado do MFA
25 April 1974 · 2:47 · RTP Arquivos
At the Rádio Clube Português microphone, Joaquim Furtado reads the first communiqué of the Armed Forces Movement (MFA), in the early hours of 25 April. The MFA asks for calm and for people to stay at home.
- 1974Speech
Proclamação da Junta de Salvação Nacional
25 April 1974 · 3:06 · RTP Arquivos
At 20:00 on 25 April 1974, Rádio Clube Português broadcasts a communiqué from the Armed Forces Movement (MFA). It announces that power is to be handed over to a National Salvation Junta.
- 1974Report
Acontecimentos da Revolução de 25 de Abril de 1974
25 April 1974 · 36:37 · RTP Arquivos
Footage of the day of the revolution and the early hours of the next: the Palácio da Independência occupied by the Democratic Electoral Commission (CDE), soldiers and civilians in the Rossio, soldiers at the gate of Caxias prison, from which Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho emerges, and Largo do Carmo. It ends with the National Salvation Junta on television.
- 1974Report
Gravação de telefonemas dos serviços da Censura
25 April 1974 · 1:03:41 · RTP Arquivos
More than an hour of phone calls between the Lisbon and Porto “Prior Examination” offices, with the cuts made to the news from 20 to 25 April 1974. The censors deal with reports on the taking of the Terreiro do Paço, of Rádio Clube and of the Emissora Nacional, and on the Carmo Barracks.
- 1974Report
Prisão de Agentes da PIDE-DGS
26 April 1974 · 2:00 · RTP Arquivos
The PIDE/DGS headquarters on Rua António Maria Cardoso, surrounded by soldiers and members of the public. Two agents caught trying to escape are taken by the soldiers to the Carmo Barracks; the item has no sound.
- 1974Speech
Conferência de Imprensa da Junta de Salvação Nacional na Pontinha
26 April 1974 · 9:00 · RTP Arquivos
The National Salvation Junta’s press conference at the Pontinha barracks, in the early hours of 26 April. General Spínola answers questions from Portuguese and foreign journalists; RTP also identifies Costa Gomes.
- 1974Report
Emissora Nacional apoia o MFA
26 April 1974 · 1:21 · RTP Arquivos
An Emissora Nacional editorial in support of the Armed Forces Movement, read at the station’s microphones. It was heard on the day after the revolution.
- 1974Report
Libertação dos presos políticos da cadeia de Peniche, 27 de abril de 1974
27 April 1974 · 10:24 · Museu Nacional Resistência e Liberdade (Peniche)
A video published by the Peniche Fortress museum on 27 April 2020, the 46th anniversary of the release of the political prisoners from the fort’s prison on 27 April 1974.
- 1974Report
Libertação dos Presos Políticos
27 April 1974 · 23:00 · RTP Arquivos
A report on the release of the Caxias prisoners: the release commission enters the fort, the prisoners come out of their cells and the crowd waits for them in the night. Sophia de Mello Breyner greets Palma Inácio, and Nuno Teotónio Pereira and other freed prisoners speak, some of them about the torture they suffered.
- 1974Report
Regresso de Mário Soares
28 April 1974 · 7:00 · RTP Arquivos
Mário Soares arrives from exile at Santa Apolónia station, speaks from the balcony and answers journalists’ questions; in the crowd are Palma Inácio and Humberto Delgado’s widow. He then goes on to the Cova da Moura, where General Spínola receives him.
- 1974Interview
Entrevista a Maria Lamas
30 April 1974 · 15:56 · RTP Arquivos
A radio interview with Maria Lamas just after 25 April, about how she is living through the revolution. She also recalls her political life under the Estado Novo (“New State”).
- 1974Report
Regresso de Álvaro Cunhal
30 April 1974 · 7:00 · RTP Arquivos
Álvaro Cunhal arrives at Portela airport after fourteen years in exile and is embraced by Mário Soares and Maria Barroso. He speaks to the journalists and the crowd and goes on to the Cova da Moura to meet Spínola.
- 1974Report
Comício do 1º de Maio em Lisboa
1 May 1974 · 27:04 · RTP Arquivos
The rally of the first May Day (1 May) in freedom, at the Estádio 1.º de Maio (May Day Stadium), opened by the journalist Adelino Gomes. Francisco Pereira de Moura, Nuno Teotónio Pereira and Mário Soares speak, and Soares embraces Álvaro Cunhal.
- 1974Report
Manifestação do 1º de Maio em Lisboa
1 May 1974 · 7:51 · RTP Arquivos
The May Day (1 May) march of 1974, from Alameda D. Afonso Henriques to the Estádio 1.º de Maio (May Day Stadium), with carnations, placards and people on the balconies. Mário Soares, Álvaro Cunhal and José Manuel Tengarrinha wave side by side.
- 1974Report
Visita às instalações da PIDE/DGS em Lisboa
3 May 1974 · 23:26 · RTP Arquivos
Portuguese and foreign journalists, with João Bénard da Costa, enter the headquarters of the now-abolished PIDE/DGS on Rua António Maria Cardoso. They see wrecked rooms, files on citizens, the post that recorded phone calls, and a soldier taking Salazar’s portrait down from the wall.
- 1974Interview
Entrevista às “Três Marias”
9 May 1974 · 12:45 · RTP Arquivos
Fialho Gouveia interviews Maria Teresa Horta, Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Velho da Costa about the “Novas Cartas Portuguesas” (“New Portuguese Letters”) case. They discuss the book as a weapon for women’s liberation, the trial, the acquittal and the difficulty of getting it to more women readers.
- 1974Report
Reunião do Movimento Democrático de Mulheres
12 May 1974 · 3:15 · RTP Arquivos
In May 1974, at A Voz do Operário, a meeting of the Democratic Women’s Movement, under a poster put up by the house to greet the movement. Maria Lamas speaks, Sofia Ferreira is present, a banner calls for an “End to the Concordat” (“Fim à concordata”), and a proposal to the National Salvation Junta to put women in the Provisional Government is read out.
- 1974Report
Forte Prisão de Caxias
12 May 1974 · 8:04 · RTP Arquivos
In May 1974, soldiers go through the inside of Caxias Fort, with flooded floors that they cross by boat. They show the register with the prisoners’ names and discover a secret exit behind a wall.
- 1974Documentary
Catarina Eufémia – Parte I
18 May 1974 · 17:00 · RTP Arquivos
Twenty years after the death of Catarina Eufémia, João Martins goes to Baleizão: the village, the Monte do Olival, the stones that mark the spot where she was killed, and her grave. Catarina’s mother speaks, as does the worker who took her to hospital.
- 1974Interview
Entrevista a dirigentes do PRP-BR
6 August 1974 · 27:42 · RTP Arquivos
The journalist Gomes Ferreira interviews leaders of the Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat – Revolutionary Brigades (PRP-BR), among them Isabel do Carmo, editor of the newspaper “Revolução” (Revolution). They talk about the country’s economic situation.
- 1974Documentary
Maria Lamas
31 August 1974 · 50:13 · RTP Arquivos
A portrait of Maria Lamas in the series “Nome Mulher” (Name: Woman), by Maria Antónia Palla and Antónia de Sousa, with interviews in Torres Novas and in the newsroom of “Modas e Bordados” (Fashions and Embroidery) at “O Século”, and footage of Caxias prison. She talks about presiding over the National Council of Portuguese Women and its closure, about prison and about what 25 April meant.
- 1974Documentary
A Mulher e o Fascismo: Mulheres que Lutaram – Parte I
27 September 1974 · 22:26 · RTP Arquivos
A programme by Antónia de Sousa and Maria Antónia Palla in which Maria Barroso, Margarida Tengarrinha and Isabel do Carmo tell how they came to the struggle against the dictatorship. Tengarrinha talks about life underground and the murder of José Dias Coelho; Isabel do Carmo, in Barreiro, about the strikes and workers’ struggles that shaped her.
- 1974Documentary
A Mulher e o Fascismo: Mulheres que Lutaram – Parte II
27 September 1974 · 19:46 · RTP Arquivos
In the second part, Margarida Tengarrinha speaks by the plaque that remembers José Dias Coelho, on the former Rua da Creche, and near Caxias prison; Maria Barroso at Santa Apolónia, and Isabel do Carmo in the Rossio. All three talk about 25 April and the road to democracy.
- 1974Documentary
Liberdade é Nome de Mulher
5 October 1974 · 43:03 · RTP Arquivos
A programme in the series “Nome Mulher” (Name: Woman) on the role of women on 28 September 1974: barricades and cars searched at the entrances to Lisbon, members of the public and soldiers interviewed, the outside of the Palácio de Belém. It ends with Isabel Vilhena, the widow of Captain Vilhena.
- 1974Report
Investidura do Governo de Transição de São Tomé e Príncipe
30 December 1974 · 0:50 · RTP Arquivos
At the Government Palace in São Tomé, the ministers of the Transitional Government that came out of the Algiers Agreement are sworn in. Alda do Espírito Santo signs and speaks, beside the Prime Minister, Leonel Mário d’Alva; the item is silent.
- 1975Report
Virgínia Moura
7 January 1975 · 10:02 · RTP Arquivos
Fátima Martins interviews Virgínia Moura, the first woman to be recognised as a civil engineer in Portugal. She talks about the role of women in the struggle against fascism and about what the Estado Novo (“New State”) did to the condition of women, and calls on women to step out of the home.
- 1975Report
Ano Novo, Vida Nova
11 January 1975 · 48:17 · RTP Arquivos
A programme in the series “Nome Mulher” (Name: Woman) on women’s rights after 25 April, with reports from the fields, the markets and the street. Maria Teresa Horta talks about the acquittal of the “Three Marias” and the women’s liberation movement, and Madalena Barbosa, a founder of the Women’s Liberation Movement (MLM), about women’s problems at home and at work.
- 1975Report
Boicote à manifestação do Movimento de Libertação das Mulheres
14 January 1975 · 1:32 · RTP Arquivos
Footage of the Women’s Liberation Movement demonstration in Parque Eduardo VII on 13 January 1975, broken up by groups of men. Torn placards, night scenes and magazine cuttings on the ground can be seen.
- 1975Report
Maria Velho da Costa
27 January 1975 · 16:00 · RTP Arquivos
Fernando Assis Pacheco interviews Maria Velho da Costa in the series “Escrever é Lutar” (To Write Is to Fight). She talks about her first books, the collective writing of “Novas Cartas Portuguesas” (“New Portuguese Letters”) and being a writer and a woman in Portugal, and reads a text of her own, “Esta força” (This strength).
- 1975Speech
Conferência de Imprensa de Melo Antunes
25 February 1975 · 9:50 · RTP Arquivos
Melo Antunes presents the economic and social policy programme to journalists, with the ministers who drew it up. Among them is Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, Minister of Social Affairs, who also speaks.
- 1975Report
Comemorações do Dia Internacional da Mulher em Lisboa
8 March 1975 · 8:55 · RTP Arquivos
On the first International Women’s Day celebrated in freedom, the Democratic Women’s Movement marches from Restauradores and the Rossio to the Terreiro do Paço and pays tribute to Isabel Aboim Inglez at the São Luiz Theatre. Maria Lamas shows the petition to name a Lisbon square after Aboim Inglez.
- 1975Documentary
O Voto das Mulheres – Parte I
15 April 1975 · 17:54 · RTP Arquivos
In the series “Nome Mulher” (Name: Woman), Elina Guimarães, a former leader of the National Council of Portuguese Women, tells the history of the suffragist movement in Portugal. The programme ends with the bust of the Republic and old photographs of women at demonstrations.
- 1975Report
Eleições para a Assembleia Constituinte em Lisboa
25 April 1975 · 3:37 · RTP Arquivos
Queues to vote in Lisbon in the first free elections by universal suffrage, with carnations in lapels and “Grândola” playing. Police officers help the sick and people with disabilities to reach the ballot boxes.
- 1975Report
Intentona de 11 de Março
17 May 1975 · 23:35 · RTP Arquivos
A report by a Danish television channel on 11 March 1975, presented by Luís Filipe Costa. It shows the airport, the barracks of Light Artillery Regiment No. 1 (RAL 1), the ambulances and the paratroopers withdrawing among civilians and soldiers.
- 1975Report
Situação no jornal “República” em Lisboa
20 May 1975 · 48:38 · RTP Arquivos
The offices of the newspaper “República” occupied by the print workers, with soldiers from the Continental Operations Command (COPCON) at the door and a Socialist Party (PS) demonstration in support of the management. Raul Rego watches from the balcony, Manuel Alegre tries to address the crowd, and copies of the paper are burnt.
- 1975Report
Abertura solene da Assembleia Constituinte
2 June 1975 · 28:53 · RTP Arquivos
The opening session of the Constituent Assembly, at São Bento, opened by Henrique de Barros. President Costa Gomes reads a message to the deputies, who give him a standing ovation.
- 1975Report
Comício do PS em Lisboa
19 July 1975 · 2:02 · RTP Arquivos
Mário Soares arrives at the Alameda and goes on to the Fonte Luminosa for the Socialist Party (PS) rally of July 1975, against the political situation and what was happening at the newspaper “República”. In the evening, Salgado Zenha and Soares speak, alongside Manuel Alegre.
- 1975Documentary
Se as Mulheres Mandassem
20 September 1975 · 45:50 · RTP Arquivos
Maria Antónia Palla interviews Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo about being a woman among men in the provisional governments and about discrimination against women at work and in power. Also speaking are Maria João Seixas and other women from the Commission on the Status of Women, the doctor Lígia Monteiro, and women in the street and in the countryside.
- 1975Report
Destruição do Emissor da Rádio Renascença
8 November 1975 · 25:35 · RTP Arquivos
General Morais e Silva, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, explains why the Rádio Renascença transmitter was destroyed and silenced. Jorge Simões, of Renascença, and a soldier are also heard.
- 1975Report
Manifestação de trabalhadores da cintura industrial de Lisboa I
16 November 1975 · 1:31:24 · RTP Arquivos
A live broadcast of the joint demonstration by workers from the industrial belt in the Terreiro do Paço, against the Sixth Provisional Government and for popular power. Among the organisations supporting it is the Democratic Women’s Movement.
- 1975Report
Sessão na Assembleia Constituinte
18 November 1975 · 10:22 · RTP Arquivos
The first session of the Constituent Assembly after construction workers had besieged the Palácio de São Bento. The deputies give a standing ovation to Mário Sottomayor Cardia, of the Socialist Party (PS), and Helena Roseta, a deputy for the Popular Democratic Party (PPD), can be seen on the benches.
- 1976Documentary
O Aborto não é um Crime – Parte I
4 February 1976 · 23:42 · RTP Arquivos
The first part of Maria Antónia Palla’s programme on clandestine abortion, in the series “Nome Mulher” (Name: Woman): a group of women in Lisbon gives contraception consultations and supports women who have abortions. At one session, a pregnant woman asks for help, and the difference between abortion by “scraping” and the suction method is explained.
- 1976Documentary
O Aborto não é um Crime – Parte II
4 February 1976 · 24:17 · RTP Arquivos
In the second part, the group carries out a suction abortion in a clinic and discusses women’s right to abortion, the law and contraception. It ends with a family-planning session at the Odivelas Mother and Child Dispensary.
- 1976Report
Aprovação da Constituição da República Portuguesa 1976
2 April 1976 · 45:15 · RTP Arquivos
The last speeches and the final vote on the Constitution in the Constituent Assembly: the Social Democratic Centre (CDS) votes against, all the others in favour. The deputies give a standing ovation and sing the national anthem, followed by the explanations of vote.
- 1977Interview
Entrevista a Sophia de Mello Breyner
18 April 1977 · 7:02 · RTP Arquivos
On the third anniversary of 25 April, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen tells how the poems “Esta Gente” (These People) and “25 de Abril” (25 April) came to be. The programme is “Da Resistência à Liberdade” (From Resistance to Freedom), presented by Luís Filipe Costa.
- 1978Report
Funeral e trasladação das vítimas do Campo de Concentração do Tarrafal
18 February 1978 · 1:57 · RTP Arquivos
The procession that carried to the Alto de São João the remains of the prisoners who died in Tarrafal, with the banner “Tarrafal Never Again” (“Tarrafal Nunca Mais”) and Álvaro Cunhal walking behind the funeral car of Bento Gonçalves. The coffins enter the mausoleum built by public subscription.
- 1978Documentary
Perfil: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
24 October 1978 · 3:15 · RTP Arquivos
In the series “Perfil” (Profile), by Alexandre O’Neill and Rui de Brito, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen recites two of her poems. One is “Catarina Eufémia”; the other, “Assassinato” (Murder).
- 1979Report
Início do julgamento de Maria Antónia Palla
16 May 1979 · 1:32 · RTP Arquivos
At the Boa-Hora court, the trial begins of Maria Antónia Palla, charged with offending public decency and incitement to crime over her 1976 programme “O Aborto não é um Crime” (Abortion Is Not a Crime). In her statements, she argues for the legalisation of abortion to put an end to the business of clandestine abortion.
- 1979Report
Tomada de posse de Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo
1 August 1979 · 2:15 · RTP Arquivos
At the Palácio da Ajuda, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo signs the record of her swearing-in as Prime Minister of the Fifth Constitutional Government and talks about her government’s tasks. President Ramalho Eanes also speaks, and then congratulates her.
- 1980Documentary
Angelina Vidal e a Mulher no Jornalismo
17 December 1980 · 26:02 · RTP Arquivos
In the series “Mulher a Mulher” (Woman to Woman), Maria Isabel Barreno introduces Angelina Vidal, with the façade of A Voz do Operário and the Rua Angelina Vidal street sign. Then, in the newsroom of the magazine “Mulheres” (Women), Maria Teresa Horta and Helena Neves talk about journalism made by women, and Maria Antónia Palla about the obstacles women journalists overcame.
- 1988Documentary
As Feministas
30 May 1988 · 21:20 · RTP Arquivos
In the programme “Mátria” (Motherland), Natália Correia evokes Ana de Castro Osório: her granddaughter, Isabel de Castro, reads a text on the right to vote, and portraits of Carolina Beatriz Ângelo, Maria Veleda and Adelaide Cabete are shown. Elina Guimarães gives her testimony on women’s struggle and 25 April.
- 1990Report
Trasladação dos restos mortais de Humberto Delgado
5 October 1990 · 2:04 · RTP Arquivos
Humberto Delgado’s coffin arrives at the National Pantheon, with a guard of honour and military aircraft flying overhead. Emídio Guerreiro and President Mário Soares speak; Maria Barroso looks on.
- 1992Documentary
Em Nome dos Amanhãs que Cantam – Parte I
31 August 1992 · 31:36 · RTP Arquivos
A programme by Diana Andringa on the political prisoners of the Estado Novo (“New State”), with footage of the Aljube, the PIDE headquarters, Caxias, Peniche and Tarrafal. Former prisoners describe their imprisonment, a former PIDE/DGS inspector justifies the police, and Fernando Rosas and Luandino Vieira speak.
- 1999Documentary
Mulheres do Couço
21 April 1999 · 27:15 · RTP Arquivos
Five women from Couço — Maria Galveias, Maria da Conceição, Maria Custódia, Olímpia Bráz and Maria Rosa — tell of the struggle against fascism, of prison and of the PIDE’s torture. At the end, they go to the municipal slaughterhouse, where the PIDE used to gather the prisoners.
- 2000Report
Mulheres
6 May 2000 · 53:32 · RTP Arquivos
A documentary by Luís Filipe Costa on the women who fought against fascism and against the ideology that wanted them to be wives and mothers without rights. Among others, Isabel do Carmo, Aida Magro, Cesina Bermudes, Margarida Tengarrinha, Maria Teresa Horta, Stella Piteira Santos and Conceição Matos give their testimony, with archive footage of Maria Lamas.
- 2014Testimony
Celeste dos Cravos
23 April 2014 · 01:54 · Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
Celeste Caeiro, then aged 81, tells in her own words the story of the carnations that became the symbol of 25 April, in a video published by Lisbon City Council on the eve of the revolution’s 40th anniversary.
- 2015Interview
Entrevista a Celeste Caeiro, Garcia dos Santos, Carlos Cedoura e Pena Madeira
23 April 2015 · 16:20 · RTP Arquivos
Forty-one years on, Celeste Caeiro recalls her initiative of handing out carnations to the soldiers on 25 April. In the same programme, the military men Garcia dos Santos, Carlos Cedoura and Pena Madeira also speak.
- 2015Report
Inaugurado o Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade
27 April 2015 · 02:29 · Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
A report by Lisbon City Council on the opening of the Aljube Museum, on 25 April 2015, in the premises of the former political prison. It includes the words of the mayor, Fernando Medina: “We must be aware of what freedom cost.”
- 2018Report
Visita orientada ao Museu do Aljube
24 July 2018 · 05:20 · Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade
A recording of one of the guided tours of its exhibitions that the Aljube Museum runs every month: the one on 7 July 2018, led by Luís Farinha, with commentary by the former political prisoner Adelino Pereira da Silva.
- 2019Documentary
Voto — Uma Arma do Povo: as primeiras eleições livres em Portugal
2 October 2019 · 12:00 · Assembleia da República
A short documentary by Parliament on the elections to the Constituent Assembly of 25 April 1975, the country’s first free election by universal suffrage. Around 92% of registered voters cast their vote — almost six million people.
- 2020Documentary
As mulheres e a revisão do Código Civil de 1977
1 April 2020 · 03:14 · Assembleia da República
A piece by Parliament on the 1977 revision of the Civil Code, which came into force on 1 April 1978 and changed women’s rights in the family and at work.
- 2020Documentary
45 anos de Assembleia Constituinte (Cápsula do Tempo)
2 June 2020 · 05:20 · Assembleia da República
Parliament looks back at the opening session of the Constituent Assembly, opened at 16:12 on 2 June 1975 by the interim president Henrique de Barros. It follows the Assembly’s work up to the approval of the Constitution on 2 April 1976.
- 2020Documentary
As mulheres na Constituinte (Cápsula do Tempo)
15 December 2020 · 02:39 · Assembleia da República
A short piece from Parliament’s series “Cápsula do Tempo” (Time Capsule), devoted to the women in the Constituent Assembly of 1975–1976.
- 2021Testimony
Vidas Prisionáveis — Diana Andringa (testemunho completo)
4 February 2021 · 01:14:49 · Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade
Diana Andringa’s testimony, recorded by the Aljube Museum on 19 April 2017. According to the museum’s keywords, she talks about the student movement, support for political prisoners, her links to the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the liberation struggle, her imprisonment and interrogation in Caxias, and her trial in the Plenary Court.
- 2021Testimony
Vidas Prisionáveis — Helena Pato (testemunho completo)
4 February 2021 · 01:11:11 · Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade
In a testimony recorded by the Aljube Museum on 30 September 2015, Helena Pato tells of her arrest by the PIDE, the interrogations, torture and isolation in Caxias. The museum’s keywords also point to women, solidarity and aid to political prisoners.
- 2021Testimony
Vidas Prisionáveis — Domingos Abrantes e Maria da Conceição Matos (testemunho completo)
6 February 2021 · 01:12:02 · Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade
Conceição Matos and Domingos Abrantes tell together, in a testimony recorded by the museum on 7 October 2015, of life underground, imprisonment and torture. The museum’s keywords include the Aljube prison, Caxias, the PIDE interrogations and the escape from Caxias.
- 2021Testimony
Vidas Prisionáveis — Aurora Rodrigues (testemunho completo)
7 February 2021 · 01:22:19 · Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade
Aurora Rodrigues, in a testimony recorded by the Aljube Museum on 12 October 2016. The museum’s keywords include the student movement, the murder of Ribeiro Santos, the Movement for the Reorganisation of the Party of the Proletariat (MRPP), imprisonment, interrogation and torture in Caxias.
- 2021Testimony
Vidas na Resistência — Eulália Miranda, Hermínia Vicente e Maria Lourença Cabecinha (testemunho completo)
8 February 2021 · 01:51:38 · Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade
Three rural women — Eulália Miranda, Hermínia Vicente and Maria Lourença Cabecinha — in a joint testimony recorded by the Aljube Museum on 19 October 2016. According to the museum’s keywords, they talk about the struggle for the 8-hour working day, life underground in the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), the children of those living underground, imprisonment and interrogation in Caxias.
- 2021Testimony
Vidas Prisionáveis — Helena Neves (testemunho completo)
10 February 2021 · 01:24:01 · Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade
Testimony of the journalist Helena Neves, recorded by the Aljube Museum on 13 March 2019. Going by the museum’s keywords, it covers her family, the Catholics, the local cultural and recreational associations, the Democratic Women’s Movement, imprisonment, interrogation and torture.
- 2021Testimony
Vidas Prisionáveis — Isabel do Carmo (testemunho completo)
11 February 2021 · 01:32:51 · Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade
Isabel do Carmo, in a testimony recorded by the Aljube Museum on 24 April 2019. The museum’s keywords include the student movement, life underground, the armed struggle, imprisonment, torture and isolation in Caxias, and imprisonment after 25 April.
- 2021Testimony
Vidas Prisionáveis — Margarida Tengarrinha (testemunho completo)
15 February 2021 · 01:37:14 · Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade
Margarida Tengarrinha’s testimony, recorded by the Aljube Museum on 8 March 2017 and published in 2021. Going by the museum’s keywords, it covers the Youth Movement of Democratic Unity (MUD Juvenil), underground life in the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), the document-forgery apparatus, the clandestine press and José Dias Coelho.
- 2021Report
«A Voz Humana. Maria Barroso» — sessão do Dia Mundial da Poesia
21 March 2021 · 01:37:54 · Fundação Mário Soares e Maria Barroso
A session held by the foundation on World Poetry Day 2021 about Maria Barroso, a stage and screen actress who recited poetry. The speakers are Isabel Soares, Jorge Silva Melo, José Manuel dos Santos, Manuel Alegre, Maria da Glória Garcia, Rui Vilar and Vasco Vieira de Almeida.
- 2021Report
Domingos Abrantes — 60 anos da fuga de Caxias
4 December 2021 · 28:22 · Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade
On the day of its 60th anniversary, Domingos Abrantes, one of the eight leaders of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) who escaped from Caxias Fort on 4 December 1961, recalls the escape. The prisoners got out in the armoured Chrysler that had once served Salazar, driven by António Tereso, smashing through the fort’s outer gate.
- 2022Report
Visita guiada ao Quartel do Carmo
25 April 2022 · 28:07 · Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
A guided tour of the Carmo Barracks, broadcast live by Lisbon City Council on Freedom Day 2022. It was in these barracks that Marcelo Caetano took refuge on 25 April 1974 and where, late in the afternoon, he handed power over to General Spínola.
- 2022Testimony
Isabel Allegro de Magalhães: testemunho sobre Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo
14 May 2022 · 11:10 · Museu da Presidência da República
Professor Isabel Allegro de Magalhães talks about the time she shared with Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, in a testimony recorded for the exhibition “Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo. Woman of a New Time” (“Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo. Mulher de um Tempo Novo”), at the Palácio de Belém (May to October 2022). The same channel has testimonies by Lídia Jorge, Leonor Beleza, Maria Elisa Domingues and others.
- 2023Music
Coro da Casa da Achada e populares cantam «Grândola, Vila Morena» no 25 de Abril de 2023, em Lisboa
25 April 2023 · 00:59 · Wikimedia Commons
The Casa da Achada choir and passers-by sing “Grândola, Vila Morena” (Grândola, swarthy town) in the street, in Lisbon, on 25 April 2023. Almost half a century after it served as the signal for the revolution, José Afonso’s song is still sung in chorus every 25 April.
- 2023Testimony
Memórias na Resistência — Helena Cabeçadas (testemunho completo)
21 June 2023 · 01:30:40 · Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade
Helena Cabeçadas tells the Aljube Museum about the student association movement in the secondary schools (liceus), the academic crisis of 1962, which she lived through at 14, and her arrest in 1965, when she was taken to the Civil Government building and to Caxias. Expelled from every school in the country, she left alone for exile in Belgium at 17.
- 2024Testimony
«Memória Presente» — As mulheres no movimento associativo estudantil
8 March 2024 · 17:06 · Comissão Comemorativa 50 Anos 25 de Abril
Published on International Women’s Day 2024, it recalls the academic crisis of 1962 and the student movement against the dictatorship through the voices of three women who took part in it: Manuela Tavares, Maria Emília Brederode Santos and Isabel do Carmo.
- 2024Report
25 placas que contam a história da Revolução
27 March 2024 · 00:40 · Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
With the last five plaques, unveiled on 24 March 2024, Lisbon now has 25 marking the places where the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) acted on 25 April 1974 — the “Places of April” project (“Lugares de Abril”), run by the City Council and the 25 April Association. The Council singles out Largo do Carmo, “the most symbolic place” of April.
- 2024Report
As Mulheres de Maria Lamas — exposição na Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
12 April 2024 · 04:09 · Universidade Aberta
At the Gulbenkian Art Library, Ana Barata draws a portrait of Maria Lamas on the occasion of the exhibition “The Women of Maria Lamas” (“As Mulheres de Maria Lamas”), open to the public from 26 January to 28 May 2024.
- 2025Report
«Celeste dos Cravos» imortalizada na sua Lisboa
25 April 2025 · 01:03 · Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
The unveiling, at the end of Rua do Carmo, by the Rossio, of a plaque bearing the poem “Celeste em Flor” (Celeste in Bloom), by Rosa Guerreiro Dias, at the spot where Celeste Caeiro gave a carnation to a soldier who had asked her for a cigarette. The plaque marks the gesture 51 years on.
- 2025Report
Símbolo de Abril homenageado com a mais alta distinção da cidade
2 July 2025 · 01:01 · Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
Lisbon City Council posthumously awarded Salgueiro Maia, “the face of 25 April 1974”, the Key of Honour of the City, the municipality’s highest distinction, which was presented to Natércia Salgueiro Maia.
- 2025Documentary
Mulheres e Resistência — documentário (versão com Língua Gestual Portuguesa)
16 October 2025 · 01:33:09 · Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade
A documentary edited by Sofia Gomes for the exhibition “Women and Resistance – New Portuguese Letters and other struggles” (“Mulheres e Resistência – Novas Cartas Portuguesas e outras lutas”), with excerpts from the testimonies the Aljube Museum has been recording since 2015: sixteen women talk about resistance to the dictatorship and the struggle for women’s rights. This version has Portuguese Sign Language (LGP) interpretation; the version without LGP is on the same channel (XmUbNbnHgKg, 2022).
- 2026Report
Sabe onde está guardada a Constituição da República Portuguesa?
31 March 2026 · 02:43 · Assembleia da República
In the week of the 50th anniversary of the approval of the Constitution, Parliament shows where the 1976 original has been kept for half a century, and how it is preserved.
- 2026Testimony
25 de Abril — Libertação de presos de Caxias a 26 de abril (Memórias de Lisboa)
21 August 2026 · 03:30 · Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
Fernanda Gonçalves tells how she heard about the revolution while in Aveiro, arrived the next day at Santa Apolónia on a train full of friends and went on to Caxias, where thousands of people were waiting for the political prisoners to come out. She remembers the passage the crowd kept open for the negotiations with the PIDE, inside.