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In 1965, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo finished a 205-page draft of a screenplay entitled Montezuma, with a story centered around the complicated relationship between Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and Aztec leader Moctezuma II. The film was written with intent of having Martin Ritt direct and Kirk Douglas play the role of Cortés. The ...
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.
La Noche Triste ("The Night of Sorrows", literally "The Sad Night"), was an important event during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, wherein Hernán Cortés, his army of Spanish conquistadors, and their native allies were driven out of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan.
Apocalypto (/ ə ˌ p ɒ k ə ˈ l ɪ p t oʊ /) is a 2006 epic historical action-adventure film produced and directed by Mel Gibson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Farhad Safinia.The film features a cast of Indigenous and Mexican actors consisting of Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Trujillo, Mayra Sérbulo, Dalia Hernández, Gerardo Taracena, Jonathan Brewer, Rodolfo Palacios, Bernardo Ruiz Juarez ...
Mirage (2018). In this trippy sci-fi thriller from Spain, a happily married mother named Vera learns there's a possibility of saving the life of a boy who lived in her home 25 years earlier.
The film is a creative exploration of the legacy of colonialism in contemporary Mexico, 500 years after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The film had its international premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival , [ 5 ] where it won the best cinematography award in the documentary competition, [ 6 ] as well as winning ...
Hernán is a Spanish, Nahuatl, and Maya language historical drama television series co-produced by Televisión Azteca, Dopamine, and Onza Entertainment that became available for streaming worldwide on Amazon Prime Video on 21 November 2019, [1] except in the United States, [1] and it will subsequently premiere on 22 November 2019 on History in Latin America, [1] and later on TV Azteca on 24 ...
Alex Hardy writing in The Times states that, Dan Snow jumps around from moral codes, to superstitions, to food production, to using sacrifice as a weapon of state control as he describes how the Aztec civilisation rose inordinately quickly – in less time than it took the US to become a "world leader", and, asks: was [Montezuma] rather a tragic figure, a victim of circumstance?