Latin America

Mexican War of Independence; woman independence fighter, Gertrudis Bocanega, is executed for her efforts

Mexico's fight for independence from Spain

Mexican fight for independence from Spain

Slavery in Cuba

An African slave on a Dutch slave ship heading to Cuba revolts, capturing the captain's mistress, thereby forcing a showdown

Cuban abolitionists were not primarily motivated by humanitarianism but had real economic motives & misrepresented the nature of slavery in Cuba

Two young independence supporters are killed by government agents, accused of trying to blow up a communication centers, but the story doesn't make sense

Simon Bolivar, revolutionary hero in South America

An actor playing the Liberator Simon Bolivar starts working to complete Bolivar's dream of a "Great Colombia"

The Great Liberator (may be a documentary)

Venezuelan freedom fighter considered forerunner of Simon Bolivar

The Great Liberator

Old film about the armada of Pedro Álvares Cabral discovering Brazil

Jesuits in Brazil try to protect natives

A lost 1540s expedition from Peru to the Amazon

King Sebastian of Portugal, reigned 1554-1578

1560 expedition down Amazon River by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado

Slavery in Brazil

Life of black slave in Brazil Joo de Camargo (1858-1942) who led an exemplary life to attain his freedom

Illegal towns composed of renegade slaves and others at the bottom that whites just had to destroy

Castro Alves, poet of slave liberation in 19th century Brazil

Set in 1570 Brazil a young and religious Portuguese woman travels from Portugal to marry a sugar-cane plantation owner

A runaway slave founds a Quilombo, Palmares, an escaped slave community

General Antônio de Souza Netto fights the Farroupilha Revolution (1835-1845) (Garibaldi 's 1st military experience) & Paraguayan War (1864-1870) leading an army of gauchos & black lancers