Early Exploration

Mayan Rambo just before the arrival of the Spanish

Mayans pursued by Toltec invaders

An ancient Indian empire in what became Mexico faces a severe drought and the priest prays for relief

Love story of Ferdinand and Elizabeth of Spain

Discoverer of America, not a short cut to India (with Fredric March and Francis Sullivan)

Mini-series starring Gabriel Byrne, Faye Dunaway, Oliver Reed

With Marlon Brando, Tom Selleck

Christopher Columbus

Account of discovery of America

Children’s tale of the discoverer of Florida, Ponce de Leon (a little too silly)

Serves with Cortez in conquest of Mexico

Mestizo son of Cortez represents fundamental dilemma of Mexican society

Aztec resistance to Christianization by the Spanish under Cortez

In the future Mexico, the Spanish laity and clergy use torture and fear to try to force the native people to accept Christianity and abandon their pagan beliefs

Conquest of North America

1528, explored parts of the future USA and Mexico

Francisco Pizarro and the conquest of Peru

Inspired by Balboa, discoverer of the Pacific Ocean

Juana's devotion to her husband of an arranged marriage becomes an obsession; remake of Locura de Amor

Spanish movie about Joanna the Mad or Joanna of Castile (1479-1555) who ruled jointly with her husband Philip the Handsome

Spanish colonization of the Philippines

Filipino-Spanish War

The area containing the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico was subject to a lot of piracy to get at the gold and other treasures of the New World headed to Spain

Pirate Anne Bonny out of Bermuda who married pirate John "Calico Jack" Rackham and sentenced to hang in Jamaica

French lady (d. 1722) prominent for a decade and a half at the court of the first of the Spanish Borbons, Philip V (reign 1700-1724)

Love story set against reign of Fernando VII of Spain