The tragic fate of Juana I of Castille, Queen of Spain, madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria.
"Nueve Sevillas" is a heterodox psycho-geographical profile of the new flamenco in Seville. Nine characters coexist with the great flamenco artists of today.
Flandre, Monarchie espagnole, 1616. Les habitants de la petite ville de Boom sont occupés à organiser les festivités locales annuelles lorsque l'arrivée du duc d'Olivares, qui gouverne le pays au nom du roi Philippe III d'Espagne, est annoncée. Alors que les citoyens masculins cèdent lâchement à la panique, comme des rats sur un bateau qui coule, les courageuses citoyennes, menées par l'audacieuse épouse du bourgmestre, décident de devenir les meilleures hôtesses que les Espagnols aient jamais connues.
Buenos Aires, 1880. A journalist interviews Manuel Esteban Corvalán, one of the last living men who crossed the Andes in 1817 with José de San Martín, during the Argentinian and Chilean wars of independence, as one of his secretaries, when he was only 15 years old.
En 1519, cinq bateaux quittent le port de Séville. Sous le commandement de Fernand de Magellan, ils entament l’expédition la plus palpitante jamais racontée : le premier tour du monde ! Ils vivront des aventures incroyables mais semées d’embûches entre tempêtes, faim et découvertes de nouvelles tribus, lors d’un voyage qui marquera l’histoire et changera le cours de l’humanité.
Spain, 1519. Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese navigator in the service of King Charles I, undertakes, at the command of five ships, a commercial expedition to the Moluccas. The story of the first circumnavigation of the world, completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano in 1522.
A renewed and truthful vision of how Spanish America was born and prospered, an epic story developed over more than three hundred years, that of those who bequeathed to humanity an immense architectural, sculptural, pictorial, literary and musical heritage.
Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the Duke of Olivares, who rules the country on behalf of the King Philip III of Spain, is announced. While the male citizens cowardly surrender to panic, the brave female citizens decide to become the best hosts the Spaniards can ever meet. (German version of the French film La Kermesse héroïque, 1935.)
A new reading of the historical period that began with the reign of the Catholic Monarchs (1479-1516) and the discovery of America (1492), as well as an analysis of its undeniable influence on the subsequent evolution of the history of Spain and the world.
Crown of Castile, 1520. The Comuneros rise up against Charles I, king of Castile and Aragon and emperor of the Hispanic Monarchy. While Juan de Padilla, leader of the uprising, and his captains, Juan Bravo and Francisco Maldonado, fight against the imperial armies, his wife, María de Pacheco, rules the city of Toledo, capital of the rebels.
En 1519, le conquistador espagnol Pedro de Alvarado est l'émissaire d'Hernán Cortés auprès de Moctezuma, roi de la cité aztèque de Tenochtitlan. L'une des filles de Moctezuma, Tecza, tombe amoureuse de l'émissaire, provoquant la jalousie du fiancé de celle-ci, Guatemoco. Alvarado est jeté en prison et les espagnols entament alors le siège de la cité. Sur le point d'être sacrifié, Alvarado doit son salut à Tecza, qui livre Tenochtitlan aux conquistadores, lesquels entament ainsi leur conquête de l'Empire aztèque, sous les ordres de Cortés...
Set at the turn of the 20th century during the Filipino revolution against the Spaniards and, later, the American colonizers, it follows a naive peasant through his leap of faith to become a member of an imagined community.
Kingdom of Castile, 15th century. A group of nobles, who question the dynastic legitimacy of Princess Juana, daughter of King Enrique IV, conspire with the purpose of overthrowing him.
This is the life story of Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, a Chinese-Filipina nun who founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.
The history of Europeans in North America, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the business success of German immigrants such as Heinz, Strauss or Friedrich Trumpf, Donald Trump's grandfather. During the 19th century, thirty million people — Germans, Irish, Scots, Russians, Hungarians, Italians and many others — left the old continent, fleeing poverty, racism or political repression, hoping to make a fortune and realize the American dream.
The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de Queiroz struggles against local authorities in his defense of Chinese workers, brought to the sugar plantations by greedy middlemen and exploited as slaves. Two parallel stories unfold, that of a Chinese girl which Eça de Queiroz saves from the clutches of one of the island’s most powerful slave owners, and the other of a romance involving a young American woman on holidays in Havana.
Surviving Columbus: The Story of the Pueblo People follows the past 450 years of Pueblo history. It explores the Spanish colonial period of the 18th century, Mexico's independence in the early 19th century, and then as part of the USA.
Exploration of the way of life of the Q’eros Indians of Peru, who have lived in the Andes for more than 3,000 years.
Le XVIIe siècle fut pour l'Espagne la période la plus faste de son histoire en termes de création artistique. C'est l'époque des peintres El Greco, Velázquez, Murillo, Zurbarán, et du sculpteur Gregorio Fernández. Ce documentaire revisite les hauts lieux du baroque espagnol (Séville, Madrid, Tolède ou Valladolid) et explore ses liens avec le pouvoir politique et religieux.
The story takes place in Equatorial Guinea, where Mr. Cuchillas leads a mafia gang that takes care of dirty business. Even a shoe shine will come to him, in search of a more profitable job.