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- This is the story of the life and the movies of María Félix, ''the most beautiful woman in the world'', who became the public's favorite female movie star in Mexico and Latin America. Although she enjoyed considerable acceptance in Europe, she disdained Hollywood films and would not make them. The documentary presents her adventurous and combative life through photographs, filmed material and extracts from her movies which are used to illustrate the most important moments of her real life.
- This portrait of the founder and dominant spirit of the Folkloric Ballet of Mexico is, at the same time, a look at the ephemeral qualities of dance and Mexican political culture. It is the story of a personal decision that wound up becoming a cultural institution.
- The Soler brothers created a new style of acting and played roles in hundreds of films. The most famous members of the family (Fernando, Domingo, Andrés) specialized in roles that portrayed authority figures, yet they also acted in comedies and other genres. This documentary looks at the family through the lens of their best and most typical roles.
- This film deals with the life and the movies of a ''princess'' who became a Hollywood star and later returned to her home country for a second and illustrious film career. Her discreet but intense personal life (including her love affairs with Orson Welles and Emilio ''the Indian'' Fernández), her ever-growing and varied talent as an actress and her presence in the cultural and political life of Mexico are some of the themes covered in this complex portrayal.
- A director of more than 47 movies, Roberto Gavaldón was a severe man who dedicated 30 years of his life to create work in which his great ability for balancing commercial interests of the film industry with his restlessness for creating quality films can be observed. This can be seen in ''Pito Pérez'', ''Los hijos que yo soñé (The Sons Whom I Dreamed)'', ''Días de otoño (Days of Autumn)'', ''Miércoles de ceniza (Ash Wednesday)'', ''Aquí está Heraclio Bernal'' and ''Historia de un amor (Love Story)''.
- Mexico state is the home of characters who have risen in prominence in all spheres of the nation's doings. From the king poet Nezahualcóyotl to Adolfo López Mateos, the president who nationalized the electric industry, the audience will be able to run through the history of Mexico guided by the words and deeds of poets, politicians, ideologues, painters, scientists, men and women who influenced the nation's destiny in crucial moments. Nezahualcóyotl, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, José María Cos, José Velasco, Andrés Molina Enríquez, Gustavo Baz y Adolfo López Mateos.
- The invention of agriculture transformed human life, and pre-Hispanic Mexico was no exception. Maize was key to the rise of these civilizations. For centuries, the Mexican countryside has fed a nation while setting the stage for numerous social conflicts, transforming its men into protagonists of quests such as Independence or the 1910 Revolution. Land distribution, industrialization and the development of new technologies have marked the countryside going into the 21st century, confronting major challenges that will allow it to competitively join the global market.
- Cinco de Mayo: Mexican Glory, a documentary that brings us to the memorable events of that day in 1862, when the Mexican Army, led by Ignacio Zaragoza, defeated on the outskirts of the city of Puebla, the French army, under the command of General Lorencez, considered then the most powerful army in the world. The Battle of Cinco de Mayo marks the beginning of Mexico's prolonged resistance to the invaders, who were ultimately defeated five years later. In the context of an impoverished country, morally weak and immerse in political discord, the triumph of Puebla meant something even more important: the restoration of dignity and the birth of a true national identity. Interviews with recognized experts, conducted in Mexico, the United States and France, together with a remarkable iconography from Mexican and French collections -including unpublished images-, Cinco de Mayo: Mexican Glory, enlightens the importance of the battle, its impact in history, and the significance that its commemoration has acquired for the Mexican-American community.
- Mexico is a country surrounded by beaches: its extensive coastlines have been the setting for the rise of unique cultures since pre-Hispanic times. For centuries, men and women have found the sea to be their main source of work and food, providing the rest of the nation with an immense variety of products that in recent times have reached world markets, making Mexico a major fishing industry.
- A "nutty professor" reviews and revisits the history of medicine after the Renaissance from the privacy of his own library and laboratory. This retrospective tells us how scientific revolutions had an impact on the theory and practice of medicine, and how the development of vaccines and antibiotics allowed us to successfully control for the first time major epidemics that had in the past decimated human communities. Finally, a summary and reflection are presented regarding future challenges faced by contemporary medicine.
- This program offers an approach to the generation that, during the decades of the 1950's and 1970's, forced a change in the direction of Mexican art and became known as 'the generation of rupture'. Narrated by the characters who lived it, in this program we see and hear from José Luis Cuevas, Vicente Rojo, Juan Soriano, Lilia Carrillo, Manuel Felguérez and Fernando García Ponce.
- In 1994, Popocatepetl, the legendary volcano, erupts and showers the ground with its ashes. All eyes are concentrated on the great colossus, from scientists to rural workers, communications workers to politicians, traditional weather men to visual artists. This documentary reminds us of the mythical time 'when the hills were standing up'.
- Since the birth of cinema over a century ago, in Mexico there were attempts to prevent the loss or destruction of film materials, anticipating its invaluable testimony. By the mid-20th Century, after several failed attempts, the government assumed the protection of the nation's film heritage, so in 1974 the National Film Archives was created, whose fruitful but short life ended with a dramatic fire at their facilities located at Churubusco, where much of our country's film heritage was lost. It was soon replaced with a new building at Xoco, but over time, its technological backwardness and lack of adequate space for attendants, led the Mexican government into an ambitious project: to build the Mexican Cinematheque of 21st Century, the world's largest of its kind, and one of the most advanced systems for restoration, protection and projection of our film heritage.
- In this first episode of the series "The Conquest of Mexico", two empires divided by an ocean, with a parallel vision of the world, are found in a moment of fusion and clash: the Spanish Empire, coming out from the Reconquista ("reconquest"), with a christian philosophy and with a declining crown thirsty of wealth, and the Aztec Empire, -ruled by Moctezuma, feared and respected by foreigners-, who had extended over a vast territory of discontented and divided nations.
- This film presents the life and are of one of the greatest directors of Mexican cinema, an important figure in world cinema, and a colossal myth maker and excellent actor in Mexico and the United States. Tireless lover and violent enemy, ''the Indian'' Fernández is an obligatory reference toward understanding the creative power of Mexican cinema.
- The third of the big three leading men was born in a needy neighborhood of Mexico City, and his rise to stardom was a quick journey from poverty to wealth. His origins, in comparison to those of Negrete and Infante, made him better equipped to represent the poor Mexican man, with his problems and his temptations. With Solís, singing heroes of the Mexican cinema laid down roots in a city that was less idealized and more real.
- Álvaro Obregón rebelled against Carranza in Mexico's Revolution. While cruel, he enjoyed life's pleasures, strategically maneuvering for an unprecedented second presidency before his assassination.
- Family was essential to Carlos Salinas as he was growing up. Son of a failed presidential candidate, his older brother was the designated heir for a longing that would ultimately be fulfilled by Carlos Salinas. He, his father and his brother Raúl are the principal figures in this story of the making of a president.
- Salvador Novo was more than just an avant garde writer who pertained to the group The Contemporaries. He was more than a literary figure who passed through all literary genres and left lasting works. He made himself into a character who found out how to threaten the falsely timid of his time as well as the machismo of the post-revolution in order to live in absolute balance with his desires. A friend of powerful people, a companion to many artists, an expert in culinary arts, a non-systematic historian, a chronicler of life, Novo was, above all, provoker and possessor of dazzling talent: poet, essayist, playwright, teacher. He alarmed many due to his conduct which was as intelligent as it was scandalous. Irony was his defense, words his weapon.
- A look at the last few months of campaigning for the post of chief of government of Mexico City in 1997, the first contemporary electoral competition for a post that traditionally depended upon a designated appointment made by the president of the republic. The victory of Cuahutémoc Cárdenas, from the PRD, signaled the first time that a representative of an opposition party reached "the second most important post in the country". It was a campaign of intense emotions, advertising innovations and extensive dirty tricks. The program follows the campaign in the streets and also in the hearts of citizens who express their points of view about the candidates and about democracy.
- From turning on a lamp to making complex machinery work is now a simple and everyday action. Millions of people would not be able to imagine their daily activities without the presence of electric energy. If prehistoric man was able to produce fire and through this possess the first source of light, 5,000 years would have to pass so that this mysterious force generated by nature could be controlled by man and transformed into electricity.
- In the program The Traveling Pope we pass through the details of the life of Karol Wojtyla, from his childhood and youth in Communist Poland up to the moment when he was elected Holy Father in October 1978 and assumed the name of John Paul II. As a representative of the Holy See, he was called the Pope of Peace because of his propensity toward dialogue and unity, though his critics considered him to be a contradictory man. During his papacy he visited more than 600 cities in 129 countries and his pastoral visits promoted and spread the Catholic religion. His political influence contributed to the fall of Communism and in 2000, in celebration of the Jubilee, he visited Jerusalem. Millions of people looked toward Rome, seeking both guidance and consolation for their spiritual and moral troubles. John Paul II maintained contact with the faithful up until just shortly before his death on April 2, 2005. John Paul II will be remembered as the Pope who, in the years of the changing century, began a new era in the Catholic Church.
- This program presents the life and thought of José Vasconcelos. A politician, educator, philosopher, mystic, Vasconcelos unleashed his passions with the same intensity in his intellectual work as he did in his political or work, or even in love. Previously unpublished materials are shown here which illustrate the complexity of the man who marked various generations of Mexicans and who presented a new way of understanding Mexico and its culture.