Topic: Colonial America

Direction Roland Joffé

Cast Robert De Niro · Jeremy Irons · Ray McAnally · Aidan Quinn

Plot A visually stunning epic, THE MISSION recounts the true story of two men--a man of the sword (Robert De Niro) and a man of the cloth (Jeremy Irons)--both Jesuit missionaries...

Direction Michael Mann

Cast Daniel Day-Lewis · Madeleine Stowe · Wes Studi · Jodhi May

Plot During wartime in colonial American, two British sisters try to make their way to their father’s side. They encounter three Mohican trappers -- two natives and a white man (Daniel...

Direction Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Cast Nelson Villagra · Silvano Rey · Luis Alberto García · José Antonio Rodríguez

Direction Hugo del Carril

Cast Antonio Vilar · Ana María Lynch · Francisco de Paula · Milagros de la Vega

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Tyrone Power · Linda Darnell · Basil Rathbone · Gale Sondergaard

Plot In Madrid, the talented aristocratic military swordsman and rider Diego Vega returns to the Mexican California to reunite with his father, the Alcalde Don Alejandro Vega, and his mother. When...

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

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

Plot 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...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Anna Magnani · Odoardo Spadaro · Nada Fiorelli · Dance

Plot A small town of Central America in the eighteenth century. Camilla, the star of a theater company, hesitates between three men. The Vice King gives her his magnificent golden coach....

Direction Luis Alberto Lamata

Cast Wilfredo Cisneros · Cosme Cortázar · Doris Díaz · Amílcar Marcano

Plot At early 16th century a priest joins the spanish conquerros in order to bring christianity to the indios. The expedition is murdered by the indios, only the priest is sparred....

Direction Clarence Brown · Maurice Tourneur

Cast Wallace Beery · Barbara Bedford · Alan Roscoe · Lillian Hall

Plot As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron...

Direction Fred Niblo

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Marguerite De La Motte · Robert McKim · Noah Beery

Plot In old Spanish California, the oppressive colonial government is opposed by Zorro, masked champion of the people, who appears out of nowhere with flashing sword and an athletic sense of...

Direction María Luisa Bemberg

Cast Assumpta Serna · Dominique Sanda · Héctor Alterio · Lautaro Murúa

Direction Bruce Beresford

Cast Lothaire Bluteau · Aden Young · Sandrine Holt · August Schellenberg

Plot In the 17th century, french Jesuit missionary Father Laforgue travels to the magnificently austere Canadian wilderness to save the souls of a "savage and godless" peoplethe native tribes of the...

Direction Hollingsworth Morse · Charles Barton · Norman Foster · John Meredyth Lucas

Cast Guy Williams · Gene Sheldon · Henry Calvin · Don Diamond

Plot TV Series (1957-1959). 3 Seasons. 82 Episodes. The only son of Don Alejandro returns to 1820s California to fight the corrupt local military. He plays the foppish dandy by day...

Direction Jorge Alí Triana

Cast Amparo Grisales · Margarita Rosa de Francisco · Gustavo Angarita · Kepa Amuchastegui

Plot Amparo Grisales and Margarita Rosa de Francisco, in the decade of the 80's starred in a miniseries that shocked the audience by their fiery scenes and nudity. Set in Colonial...

Direction Henry King

Cast Tyrone Power · Jean Peters · Cesar Romero · Lee J. Cobb

Plot Tyrone Power plays Pedro De Vargas, a sixteenth century Spanish nobleman forced to flee Spain after he kills the man who murdered his sister. He goes to the New World,...

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

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

Plot 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 George B. Seitz

Cast Randolph Scott · Binnie Barnes · Henry Wilcoxon · Bruce Cabot

Direction Niles Atallah

Cast Rodrigo Lisboa · Claudio Riveros

Plot In the nineteenth century, a French adventurer sets off to establish a kingdom in the inhospitable South of Chile, uniting the feared Mapuche under him. The response of the Chilean...

Direction Fernando González Sitges

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

Plot 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...

Direction Terrence Malick

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

Plot 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...