African American Mexico / Europe, century XIX, Juárez : Emperor Maximilian (Brian Aherne) arrives in Mexico to establish an imperial government and oppose the first hidden and then open, Benito Juárez (Paul Muni). Maximiliano is an idealist who has been a victim of the cunning of Napoleon III (Claude Rains). The emperor really believes in the advantages of the monarchical system, while Juarez fight passionately for the republic. When France withdrew its support, the Empress Carlota (Bette Davis) travels to implore his aid to Napoleon III. Director: William Dieterle. Cast: Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne, Claude Rains, John Garfield, Donald Crisp, Joseph Calleia, Gale Sondergaard, Gilbert Roland, Henry O'Neill, Harry Davenport, Louis Calhern, Walter Kingsford, Georgia Caine, Montagu Love, John Miljan. Genre: drama / biographical. Nineteenth century. Year: 1939. Country: United States. Length: 132 min.
American Conquest XVI century; Cabeza de Vaca : in 1527, during the early years of the English conquest, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, treasurer of Charles I of Spain, he embarks on Panfilo de Narvaez expedition to Florida. The expedition shipwrecked on the coast of Louisiana. Alvar is taken prisoner and turned slave. After suffering all kinds of humiliations is released. Reunites with four companions and together they undertake a four-year journey that will culminate in what is now the territory of Sinaloa. Director: Nicolás Echevarría. Starring: Juan Diego, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Roberto Sosa, Carlos Castanon, Gerardo Villarreal, Roberto Cobo, Jose Flores. Country: Mexico. Genre: action / adventure. Year: 1991. Length: 112 min.
Venezuela, late eighteenth and early nineteenth Boves Taita : film adaptation of the novel "Boves, The Grouse" by Francisco Herrera Luque, who portrays the enigmatic character in the history of Venezuela José Tomás Boves (1782-1814), a soldier born in Oviedo, Spain, who participated in the War of Independence of Venezuela during the Second Republic in the early nineteenth century. Director: Luis Alberto Lamata. Starring: Juvel Vielma, Daniela Alvarado, Gledys Ibarra, Luis Abreu, Alberto Alifa, Marcos Moreno, Antonio Delli, Héctor Manrique, Antonio Cuevas, Wilfredo Cisneros, Dimas González, Pedro Durán, Daniel Rodriguez, Veronica Osorio, Carmen Julia Alvarez, Lourdes Valera . Country: Venezuela. Genre: Action / biographical. Year: 2010. Length: 100 min.
Colonialism sixteenth century The Other Conquest: tells the English conquest of Mexico (1521) from the Aztec perspective, and shows the struggle of Topiltzin, a son of Emperor Moctezuma, to preserve the religious identity and culture of his people before the English arrived. Director: Salvador Carrasco. Starring: Damián Delgado, José Carlos Rodríguez, Elpidia Carrillo, Iñaki Aierra, Honorato Magaloni, Zaide Silvia Gutierrez, Carlos Alvarez, Luisa Avila, Ramon Barragan, Alejandro Bracho, Diana Bracho, Josefina Echánove, Rufino Echegoyen, Guillermo Rios, Lourdes Villarreal, Maya Zapata. Gender: drama.Conquista of America. Country: Mexico. Year: 1998. Length: 115 min.
colonial America; The Last Supper: eighteenth-century Cuban aristocracy itself was conceived as a patrician, ringed by exercising "a benevolent slavery, apparently less cruel that of other nearby countries. A count was taken too seriously and replaced that Christ preached to "humble himself before his servants" in a Holy Week that brought some headaches and became the flagship of the assumptions and documentary apostles, chosen from the provision of sugarcane plantation. Director: Tomas Gutierrez Alea. Starring: Nelson Villagra, Silvano Rey, Luis Alberto García, José Antonio Rodriguez, Samuel Claxton, Mario Balmaseda, Mirta Ibarra. Country: Cuba. Genre: drama. Year: 1976. Duration: 120 minutes
America, eighteenth and nineteenth Miranda Returns: are detailed the intense life of political revolutionary Francisco de Miranda was from his childhood and out of Venezuela with just twenty years and his walk across Europe, Africa , Cuba, Jamaica, USA, Haiti .. and his return to Venezuela to devote himself to what was his lifelong desire: the struggle for American independence. Participant active and prominent in his time, Miranda was a soldier who shone in the English army in which reached the rank of colonel. Also reached high positions in the U.S. independence army and the French army, where his involvement in defending the territorial integrity of revolutionary France was notorious. Not understood by those shared ideals with him and continually harassed by his enemies, Miranda died in the Ratchet, notorious prison of Cadiz in 1816 at age 66. Director: Luis Alberto Lamata. Cast: Jorge Reyes, Luis Abreu, Mimi Lazo, Alberto Alifa, Fabiola Colmenares, Luis Geronimo Abreu, Carlos Mata, César Román Hector Palma, Yanis Chimaras, Danny Glover Country: Venezuela. Year: 2007. Genre: drama / biographical. Length: 149 min.
America, XV century, 1492. Conquest of Paradise (1492: Conquest Of Paradise) : splendid epic that narrates the expedition and discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, and the beginnings of the conquest and colonization. Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver, Loren Dean, Ángela Molina, Fernando Rey, Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn, Arnold Vosloo. Director: Ridley Scott. Countries: Spain, France, United Kingdom. Year: 1992. Genre: historical. Appropriate audience: youth. Length: 155 min.
America, Sixteenth Century: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) : during an expedition through the jungles of Peru, in 1965, Pizarro sent a group of men to seek the fabled city of El Dorado. At the head of the mission are three nobles, one of which is Lope de Aguirre. Director: Werner Herzog. Screenplay: Werner Herzog. Actors: Klaus Kinski, Alejandro Repullo, Cecilia Rivera, Helena Rojo. Year: 1972. Genre: adventure / drama. Nationality: Germany / Peru / Mexico. Not recommended for children under 18. Duration: 91 minutes.
America seventeenth century; The New World (Golden Door) : Sicily, early twentieth century. A peasant family living in a desolate corner of the island. For generations have farmed the land, satisfied with their lot, surrounded by the spirits of their dead. But the eternal monotony of everyday life is shattered by what is told the new world and about the abundance of this paradise. There are even photographs of potatoes as big as a car, carrots as long as a canoe, where they grow trees gold coins, as proof that all this is true. The send relatives have left and now work happily in the Promised Land. Salvatore makes a momentous decision: sell all you have, land, house, cattle, to take his elderly mother and her children across the sea. To become citizens of the new world, must die a little and be reborn. Should forget the old customs and superstitions of the land which has given birth must be strong mentally and physically, must learn to obey and swear loyalty to their new country if they want to cross the threshold of the Golden Gate. Beings must become modern. To achieve this, have a time between two epochs, the four difficult weeks of the journey before reaching the ultimate test: the "Island of Tears." Here, the guardians of the new world will consider, case by case, inch by inch. Shall count the bodies and minds of potential citizens in this wonderful and terrible place where many families will be forced to choose, to take leave. Not all are destined to cross the gates of paradise. Cast: Aurora Quattrocchi, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato, Francesco Casillo, Filippo Pucillo, Vincent Schiavelli. Director: Emanuele Crialese. Year: 2007. Countries: France, Italy, Germany. Genre: Drama. Duration: 2 hours.
America eighteenth century Last Mohicans (The Last of the Mohicans) : Director: Michael Mann. Cast: Russell Means, Mark J. Maracle, William J. Bozic Jr., Maurice Roever, David Mark Farrow, Don Tilley, Mike Phillips, Joe Finnegan, Sebastian Roche, Jared Harris. Year: 1992. Genre: adventure. Duration: 2 horas15 minutes. Hawkeye, a white man adopted by the Mohicans who lives with his father Chingachgook and Uncas his brother, is immersed in an ambush that saved from certain death to Cora Munro, daughter of an English colonel who falls in love.
America eighteenth century The Mission (The Mission) : large colonial empires, Spain and Portugal, are vying for control of South America. Father Gabriel (Jeremy Irons) leads a mission high in the mountains of Brazil, where the natives are evangelized and lead a peaceful life. Until there comes Mendoza (Robert De Niro), a merchant repentant, seeking redemption, fascinated by the work of Father Gabriel, became a priest. The pressure carried out by Portugal obliges the Church to give the land where cheese has the mission. Father Gabriel and Mendoza, albeit for very different ways, will do their utmost to defend the work and avoid being enslaved natives. Palme d'Or for best film at the Festival Cannes International. Oscar for best picture. Director: Roland Joffe. Starring: Antonio Segovia, Monirak Sisowath, Philip Bosco, Maria Teresa Ripoli, Cherie Lunghi, Robert De Niro, Joe Daly, Enrique Lamas, Silvestre Chiripua, Ray McAnally. Year: 1986. Genre: Drama Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes.
America, nineteenth century Queimada : the British government sent William Walker, secret agent and adventurer, to the island of Queimada. Its mission is to destroy the monopoly of the sugar trade in those days controlled by the Portuguese. In plantations, the work was played by black slaves. Cast: Cecily Browne Laird, Carlo Palmucci, Enrico Cesaretti, Thomas Lyons, Evaristo Marquez, Alvaro Medrano, Giampiero Albertini, Dana Ghia, Marlon Brando, Maurice Rodriguez. Director: Gillo Pontecorvo. Year: 1969. Genre: drama. Duration: 1 hour 47 minutes.
America XV III century a. C.; Apocalypto: co-written by Gibson with Farhad Safinia, the film mixes action and adventure in a story based on the turbulent last days of the Mayan civilization. When her existence is brutally disrupted by a violent invasion, a man is dragged on a journey into a world dominated by fear and oppression. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the love of his wife and family, this man made it impossible to return to their home and eventually save his life. Director: Mel Gibson. Starring: Mayra Serbulo, Gerardo Taracena, Raoul Trujillo, Rudy Youngblood. Year: 2007. Genre: Action. Country: United States
Peru, twenty-first century; Sight: a TV channel showed a video in which Vladimiro Montesinos, head of the Intelligence Service and adviser to President Alberto Fujimori, bought the "service" an opposition congressman. Director: Francisco J. Lombardi. Cast: Gianfranco Brero. Country: Peru and Spain. Year: 2003. Duration: 149 minutes.
Peru, XVII century; The Bridge of San Luis Rey : when the bridge of San Luis is broken, precipitated five travelers into the abyss. Is it chance or the hand of God that brought these five people in that place at that fateful moment? Or, on the contrary, were themselves responsible for what happened? These questions are asked with sincere compassion and are answered with a direct statement of the power of love. Set in eighteenth-century Peru, in full English Inquisition, this story of intertwined lives through such diverse worlds as theaters, convents, brothels and docks of Lima or at sea voyages, scientific institutions and the courts of Madrid. Director: Mary McGuckian. Country: United Kingdom, Spain and France. Starring: F. Murray Abraham. Year: 2004.
Uruguay, twentieth century Pueblo chico : is the name of the movie that motivated this review. And all the introduction we can confirm that, once again, the coast and sea stories act as triggers. The plot features a lone village, which is ruled for three decades by the same man. The president has a young girlfriend, named Mary, who works in the local mail. The third leg of this plot is Toni, a sailor who came there with a mission to develop status reports on the area. The three men live in quiet till it appeared a group of foreign investors interested in doing business with the people and bring progress to the place. When the mayor (mayor) is opposed to the project from the Capital cut shipping supplies and radio communications. The people must stand alone and without supplies, in a desperate attempt not to give his identity. Director: Fernán Rudnik. Starring: Lorenzo Quinteros. Country: Argentina. Genre: Drama. Year: 2002. Duration: 62 minutes.
Venezuela, twentieth century The Caracazo : Guarenas all starts in a Monday morning when protesters showed their disagreement with the increase in prices in the bus line and then start the riot, which gradually extend various states of Venezuela: Caracas, Miranda, Valencia, Mérida, Bolívar, Vargas and other states. However, looting, death and violence were more severe in Caracas (hence the name of the Caracazo). The riots were felt in the poorest parts of Caracas, Catia, Casalta, and neighborhoods near the city: the destruction and burning of trucks, looting across Caracas, and riots that killed civilians. Guarantees were suspended and had to have a pass from some time, risking death if not owned. The curfew began at 6 pm, at that time the shooting began and pellet guns and the cries of the people is heard everywhere. After 6 days of slaughter was decided to withdraw the military, the Metropolitan Police (PM) and the National Guard (GN) and ordered to lift the curfew. The following week (on Monday after a week of disaster) guarantees were suspended, but abolished the curfew, so they returned to normal work. The film ends when some soldiers are responsible for human rights violations on February 27, 1989. Starring: Fernando Carrillo, Yanis Chimaras, Henry Galué, Pedro Lander. Address: Roman Chalbaud. Country: Venezuela. Year: 2005. Genre: Historical. Duration: 110 minutes.
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