Welcome to the February 2026 
newsletter from the Spaghetti Western Database, your regular newsletter of what happened last month in the world of European westerns.
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NEW STUFF IN AND AROUND THE SWDB IN 
FEBRUARY 2026:
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Home video news:
February was not the most exciting month. It was great to see Plaion continue their series, albeit at the usual glacial speed, and the other Trinity film finally saw its Italian HD release (the other markets where these are now available in satisfactory quality are German, USA and France).
March is semi-exciting. Eagerly anticipated is the 88 Films release of Shango based on a new restoration. Some rare to semi-rare films will also get releases in Germany, including a 4K UHD of And God Said to Cain (postponed from February), which we hope will be good (but the label has a hit-and-miss track record). French releases of the Trinity films, as mentioned (although not all the dubs will be covered it seems), plus the umpteenth box release of Leone films in Italy.
Please check the calendar regularly, we often update it several times a day!
Visit the SWDb home video release calendar
Obituaries
Our head of obits, the spaghettiologist @Tom_B had to update the boot hill cemetery with an unfortunate 6 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!
2026 is the year to visit Spain!
The 60th anniversary festivities for Sad Hill and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly will be ocmmemorated in Burgos (northern Spain), we have a discussion topic to gather info and possibily coordinate trips., around the 23-26 July time span.
The fall will of course again see another iteration of the Almeria Western Film Festival (October 8 - 12).
Videos
A new portuguese Leone documentary (open in YouTube to switch on subtitles)
See you also on BlueSky, where we have surpassed the mark of 730 followers this week.