Welcome to the May 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 
MAY 2026:
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Home video news:
May was special because it saw the long awaited release of a Dollars Trilogy box set that is actually quite amazing. Also released in the US is The 5 Man Army, and there were two notable releases in Italy, and some minor stuff in Sweden, Germany and Australia.
June is not too impressive, but there are interesting releases in France, Italy and Germany. Unclear if we’ll be in for a short-notice surprise announcement by Plaion, so far nothing…
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 Many may be broken or out of date, please report those instances.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 7 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!
- Two Guns for Two Twins Review - The Spaghetti Western Database
- Apache Fury Review - The Spaghetti Western Database
- Revenge of the Resurrected Review - 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 (and also tote bags), 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
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 818 followers this week.
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