Spanish Colonization Movies & TV
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Actor Fernando Mernandez stars as a Mayan priest and the guardian of the Tree of Life in this film about the quest for eternal life and love.
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This award-winning film about 16th-century Mexico traces the life of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, a survivor from a Spanish expedition who joins the Iguase Indian tribe only to be confronted later by his own people, Spanish conquistadors determined to enslave his adoptive clan.
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The Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro is the focus of this Hollywood production about the conquest of the Inca empire.
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Actor Cesar Romero stars as Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortez in this Hollywood adventure about the exploratory expedition that turned violent.
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This movie short is, perhaps, the first documentary film about the Chichicastenango region of Guatemala, the center of a once flourishing Mayan civilization.