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Pages in category "Films about conquistadors" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... The Royal Hunt of the Sun (film) S. Seven Cities of ...
The film had a theatrical run of fifteen months in Paris. [23] Aguirre received a theatrical release in the United States in 1977 by New Yorker Films. It immediately became a cult film, and New Yorker Films reported four years after its initial release that it was the only film in its catalog that never went out of circulation. [22]
The Other Conquest (Spanish: La Otra Conquista) is a 1999 Mexican historical drama film written and directed by Salvador Carrasco, produced by Alvaro Domingo, and executive produced by Plácido Domingo. The film is set during the aftermath of the 1520s Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire, viewed primarily from the perspective of the Aztecs.
Film about the rise and fall of Ghana's colonial liberation leader Kwame Nkrumah. Afrique 50: 1950 Film about colonization in Ivory Coast during French rule. Aguirre, the Wrath of God: 1972: Film by Werner Herzog, based on the journey of Spanish explorer Lope de Aguirre during his 16th-century attempts to conquer what is now Peru. An American ...
The film is based on a short story by Arturo Pérez-Reverte and depicts a 16th-century Spanish expedition during the colonization of the Americas aiming at locating El Dorado. It is loosely inspired on expeditions by conquistadors Hernán Cortés , Lope de Aguirre and Núñez de Balboa .
The Fountain is a 2006 American epic science fiction romantic drama film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz.Blending elements of fantasy, history, spirituality, and science fiction, the film consists of three storylines involving immortality and the resulting loves lost, and one man's pursuit of avoiding this fate in this life or beyond it.
The film was the eleventh-highest-grossing film at the box office in the United States and Canada during 1956, earning theatrical rentals of $4.5 million, but was a financial failure. [34] [35] Universal purchased the rights to the film in 1979, [21] and the studio released the film on DVD as part of its Vault Series on June 12, 2012.
A Spanish conquistador is forced to return to modern Mexico and bear witness to the stories of victims of today's violence. Through surreal imagery and immersive storytelling, 499 explores the legacy of colonialism in contemporary Mexico, nearly five-hundred years after Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztec Empire.