Topic: Colonial America

Direction Roland Joffé

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

Synopsis In The Mission (1986), set in 18th-century South America, a Jesuit priest seeks redemption by establishing a mission in the jungle to convert a native tribe. When the Treaty of Madrid transfers the land to Portugal, the mission faces destruction...

Direction Michael Mann

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

Synopsis The Last of the Mohicans (1992) is set during the French and Indian War in 1757. It follows Hawkeye, a white adopted son of the Mohican tribe, as he protects the daughters of a British colonel, Cora and Alice, amidst...

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

Synopsis 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 he arrives in Los Angeles, he finds that his father...

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 Jean Renoir

Cast Anna Magnani · Odoardo Spadaro · Nada Fiorelli · Dance

Synopsis 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. A young Spanish officer suggests the two of them settle...

Direction Luis Alberto Lamata

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

Synopsis 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. Santiago, the priest, first tries to continue christianization, but finally...

Direction Clarence Brown · Maurice Tourneur

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

Synopsis 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 tribesmen led by the evil Magua. Fighting to rescue the...

Direction Fred Niblo

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

Synopsis 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 humor, scarring the faces of evildoers with his Mark. Meanwhile,...

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

Synopsis 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 Huron and Algonquin. But the natives, who have their own...

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

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

Synopsis 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 and the masked swordsman Zorro who slashes "Z"s everywhere by...

Direction Jorge Alí Triana

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

Synopsis 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 times tells the story of Inés de Hinojosa and his...

Direction Henry King

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

Synopsis 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, where he joins Hernando Cortes' expedition to Mexico, and becomes...

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 George B. Seitz

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

Direction Niles Atallah

Cast Rodrigo Lisboa · Claudio Riveros

Synopsis 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 army is devastating. Rey is both an intricately designed adventure...

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 Terrence Malick

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

Synopsis The New World (2005) is a historical drama directed by Terrence Malick, set in the early 17th century. It tells the story of the founding of the Jamestown settlement in Virginia and the arrival of English colonists. The film focuses...