De to unge fupmagere Miguel og Tulio har fuppet sig til Latinamerika, hvor de i byen Eldorado modtages som guder. Men de bliver til en lus mellem to negle i stridighederne mellem høvding Tannabok og medicinmanden Tzekel-Kan, statens kamp mod religionen. Heldigvis hjælper indianerpigen Chel dem. Imens er den legendariske indianerslagter Cortez og hans flåde også ved at finde Eldorado, hvilket kan vise sig at blive den største trussel af dem alle.
Han havde en drøm og var villig til at gøre alt for at føre den ud i livet. Han kæmpede mod tvivlere og kirken, mod misundelse og grådighed, mod storme og uendelige have. Han havde modet til at sejle ud i det ukendte. Han risikerede alt. Og det lykkedes ham at gøre en af verdenshistoriens største opdagelser. Han blev hyldet med guld og ære, men blev snydt og bedraget af sine velgørere, som drømte om fantastisk rigdom og magt...
I 1500-tallet begiver Aguirre sig på jagt efter det mystiske El Dorado. Sammen med en spansk ekspedition drager han ud for at finde det sagnomspundne guldrige i Amazonas urskov. Den tyranniske Aguirre begår mytteri mod gruppens leder og overtager kommandoen i sin besatte søgen efter guld i rigelige mængder. Hans virkelighed bliver mere og mere sindssyg, og i en magtgal vision bestemmer han sig for at grundlægge et nyt kejserligt imperium.
The Aztecs summoned a Tyrannosaurus Rex to keep Cortes and his army out of Mexico. Now they need the Conquistadors' help to stop the T-Rex from killing them all.
The story of an expedition down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to flee, Pedro, friend Juan Garcia, and adoring servant girl Catana join Cortez' first expedition to Mexico. Arriving in the rich new land, Cortez decides to switch from exploration to conquest...with only 500 men. Embroiled in continuous adventures and a romantic interlude, Pedro almost forgets he has a deadly enemy...
The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds himself torn between his desire for conquest and his sense of honor after friendship and respect develops between captive and captor.
A series of grisly murders plague a small mountain community and the sheriff suspects a local scientist whom he dislikes. Together with a former professor and the professor's pretty daughter, the scientist sets about solving the crimes and discovers the killer is an oversized 16th century conquistador, resurrected by a lightning bolt from his mountain grave.
The Mapuche tribe asks their Gods for help in difficult situations, including illness and drought. When the Spanish conquerers on their horses invade their country, the indigenous people think that they are aliens. The Spaniards capture and enslave many of the Mapuche tribe. Lautaro, a young captured native, realizes that these aliens are human beings without any divine power. He learns to use their weapons and organizes a resistance movement against the intruders.
On the eve of the Grito de Dolores and faced with the threat of being arrested by the viceregal government, Miguel Hidalgo suggested to Captain Allende that the flag of the insurgent movement be the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
When Worlds Collide is a highly imaginative exploration of one of the most intriguing epochs in human history: when the "Old World" first encountered the "New World." Travel from Granada in Spain to Machu Picchu in Peru; and from Mexico to Madrid in Spain. When Worlds Collide explores how the collision of these two sophisticated but different worlds led to the birth of an entirely new Latino culture.
