Topic: Conquest of America

Direction Israel del Santo

Cast Aitana Sánchez-Gijón · Eduardo San Juan · Nacho Acero · José Sisenando

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2019). 8 Episodes. A historical drama miniseries that tells the story of the first thirty years after Columbus' first voyage to the New World. It centers on 30 years of the colonization of the Americas by spanish conquerors,...

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Klaus Kinski · Helena Rojo · Del Negro · Ruy Guerra

Synopsis Herzog always said that right from their first encounter, he knew he would end up taking advantage of Kinski's turbulent personality. He was chosen to play choleric Aguirre, a character in constant clash with his crew and the abrupt Amazonian...

Direction Robert Dornhelm · Simon Wincer · Sergio Mimica-Gezzan · Michael W. Watkins

Cast Matthew Settle · Skeet Ulrich · Michael Spears · Tonantzin Carmelo

Synopsis TV Miniseries. 6 Episodes. The story of the opening of the American West is given epic treatment in this 12-hour original limited series INTO THE WEST, produced by TNT in association with DreamWorks Television and executive producer Steven Spielberg. This...

Direction Gabriel Retes

Cast Julian Abitia · Ángel Aragon · Héctor Ávila · Lucila Balzaretti

Direction Raoul Peck

Cast Josh Hartnett · Ettore D'Alessandro · Luis del Valle · Denis Lyons

Synopsis The path to the new world, an unsettling and intricate story of genocides. Conquest, slavery and the fabrication of "Whiteness".

Direction José María Velasco Maidana

Cast Juanita Tallansier · Dámaso Eduardo Delgado · Emmo Reyes · Arturo Borda

Direction Nicolás Acuña · Alejandro Bazzano

Cast Elena Rivera · Eduardo Noriega · Benjamín Vicuña · Enrique Arce

Synopsis TV Series (2020). 8 Episodes.

Direction Bibo Bergeron · Don Paul

Synopsis The story is about two swindlers who get their hands on a map to the fabled city of gold, El Dorado while pulling off some sort of scam. Their plan goes bad and the rogues end up lost at sea...

Direction Amaya Muruzabal · Norberto López Amado · Julián de Tavira · Alvaro Ron

Cast Óscar Jaenada · Ishbel Bautista · Dagoberto Gama · Michel Brown

Synopsis The Spanish "Conquistador" Hernán Cortés arrives in the shores of what today is México and faces both local demons and those who've sailed with him.

Direction Fernando González Sitges

Cast Fernando de Retes · Harold Torres · Priscila Lepe · Stefan Steinmann

Synopsis Documentary about a controversial figure, repudiated by many and praised by others, Cortés has led to writing thousands of pages about his life and the military task for which he is known: the conquest of the great Mexica Empire of...

Direction Mike Gabriel · Eric Goldberg

Synopsis Pocahontas is the daughter of Algonquin chief Powhatan, who promises her in marriage to Kocoum, a brave whom she doesn't love. Pocahontas would rather be paddling in her canoe or wandering in the forest, communing with nature and her animal...

Direction Terrence Malick

Cast Colin Farrell · Q'orianka Kilcher · Christian Bale · Christopher Plummer

Synopsis The New World is an epic adventure set amid the encounter of European and Native American cultures during the founding of the Jamestown Settlement in 1607. Inspired by the legend of John Smith and Pocahontas, acclaimed filmmaker Terrence Malick transforms...

Direction Rubén Imaz · Yulene Olaizola

Cast Xabier Coronado · Martín Román · Carlos Triviño

Synopsis In 1519, before arriving into the Aztec Capital Mexico-Tenochtitlan, three Spanish Conquistadors march to the summit of the 5,400 meter high Popocatepetl volcano. It is an arduous walk; they face the strength of nature and the fear of the unknown,...

Direction John Trefor

Cast Dan Snow

Synopsis British historian Dan Snow visits a major Lodon exhibition and many Mexican sites, first to illustrate the grandeur of the Aztec empire at its peek, under emperor Montezuma II (1466-1520), who inherited it from an uncle and installed a reign...

Direction Nicolás Echevarría

Cast Juan Diego · Daniel Giménez Cacho · Roberto Sosa · Carlos Castañón

Synopsis An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition founders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades....

Direction Ridley Scott

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Armand Assante · Sigourney Weaver · Loren Dean

Synopsis At the end of the 15th century, Spain lives under the oppression of Inquisition. In these troubled times of obscurantism, Christopher Columbus is fighting to achieve his plan: reach Asia through the west (and kill, torture, or enslave as many...

Direction Helena Girón · Samuel M. Delgado

Cast Nuria Lestegás · Sara Ferro · Xoán Reices · Valentín Estévez

Synopsis 1492. Travelling among the crew captained by Christopher Columbus are two men who should have been dead by now. They have managed to avoid their sad fate by signing up for the uncertain voyage. But on reaching the Canary Islands...

Direction Juan Mora Catlett

Cast Xochiquetzal Rodríguez · Justo Alberto Rodríguez · Luís Esteban Huacúz Dímas · Roberto Isidro Rangel

Direction Carlos Saura

Cast Lambert Wilson · Omero Antonutti · Inés Sastre · Eusebio Poncela

Direction Iván Sáinz-Pardo

Cast Juan Antonio Quintana · Paco Rojo · Andrés Ruiz · Juan Carlos Boyer