Welcome to the April 2026 
newsletter from the Spaghetti Western Database, your regular newsletter of what happened last month in the world of European westerns last month.
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NEW STUFF IN AND AROUND THE SWDB IN 
APRIL 2026:
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Home video news:
April was okay, home video wise. A few new releases and a re-release in Germany, and speaking of Germany, Eureka released one hell of a Karl May adventure box set that’s really worth it. And there’s a new Portuguese language book by good friends of ours. So check it out!
May is interesting for a number of reasons. Aside from the Dollars trilogy box set (a must for all who didn’t get the individual ones), there are two releases in Italy, one in Australia and even one from Warner in the USA. Not too shabby. There’s more on the horizon, so do follow us on our social media channels and bookmark this home video calendar directly in your web browser to check it regularly
Please check the calendar regularly, we often update it several times a day!
Visit the SWDb home video release calendar
JPC and FNAC
We have expanded our coverage of FNAC (France) links in the SWDb and we joined JPC (Germany, ships internationally quite well) partner programs. If you use any of these two, please use our links for shopping (even if you end up buying something else). This adds to our links for Amazon USA, Canada, Australia, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands and Sweden, as well as DeepDiscount and MoviesUnlimited links that we have in there. Many may be broken or out of date, please report those instances. Using these links supports the SWDb, thank you so much!
Obituaries
Our head of obits, the spaghettiologist @Tom_B had to update the boot hill cemetery with an unfortunate 8 new obituaries over the course of the last four weeks. Rest in peace!
Check out “Cemetery with crosses”
Reviews:
Please contact us if you want your reviews published. We are especially looking for reviews of movies that have no, or very few, reviews in the SWDb. We publish them in all languages, and you don’t need to be a professional writer!
- Zorro - Der schwarze Rächer Filmbesprechung - The Spaghetti Western Database
- Das Gesetz der Zwei Filmbesprechung - The Spaghetti Western Database
Come to Spain (part 1)
The 60th anniversary festivities for Sad Hill and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly will be commemorated in Burgos (northern Spain), we have a discussion topic to gather info and possibily coordinate trips.. Several local places will hold screenings, workshops and other activities around the 23-26 July time span.
For example screenings:
If you join the events, let others know, so you can coordinate. Once there of course you will need to visit all the locations, see here Category:Burgos locations (Northern Spain) - The Spaghetti Western Database
And you can now buy commemorative shirts, right here:
Come to Spain (part 2)
The fall will of course again see another iteration of the Almeria Western Film Festival, join it from October 8 - 12. More information at https://www.almeriawesternfilmfestival.es/home-2/
If you attend the festival, you should combine it with a few days of location hunting, for example Los Albaricoques Los Albaricoques - The Spaghetti Western Database
And maybe one day there will be a series of trails connecting all spaghetti western locations from north to south:
It would certainly take you through Hoyo de Manzanares:
Videos
A new portuguese Leone documentary (open in YouTube to switch on subtitles)
Tired of Faceb00k (like us)?
For page owners like the SWDb, it’s a tiresome effort and the corporations milk us in the cage they have locked us in. So we much rather welcome and meet you all on here on our own message board - no ads, no fees, pure freedom.
One thing we’re currently trying is BlueSky, which is sort of like Twitter when it was still decent. If you’re on there, see you also on BlueSky, where we have surpassed the mark of 795 followers this week (a plus of 35 from last month).