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- Through revealing interviews, the perpetrators of Argentina's most famous bank robbery detail how, and why, they carried out the spectacular 2006 operation.
- Paco Ignacio Taibo II brings his book trilogy to life, highlighting Mexico's history in 1854-1867, a period he considers foundational to the country.
- Documentary about six Mexican teenagers who fought and died in the Battle of Chapultepec during the U.S. War with Mexico.
- Giants of Mexico tells the story of Azcárraga, Servitje, Zambrano and Slim, the men behind Televisa, Simbo, CEMEX and Grupo CARSO.
- In 1985 the documents on Nazism in Mexico during World War II were published. But what would be Hitler's interest in a country goes far from the war?
- An Argentine journalist strives to prove that his countryman, Guillermo Villas, was wrongly denied the No.1 world ranking in the 1970s.
- Was Argentina a sanctuarium for the Nazi who escaped of Europe after the Second World war? A documentary that allows to follow the track of the principal Nazi leaders who sheltered in this country. A history that begins with the government of Perón and lasts until our days.
- In December 2001, Argentina lived the worst financial, social and institutional crisis, since the restitution of the democracy in 1983. After the economic growth, built under paper castles, it began a process of deterioration, that acute between October and December of 2001, and then in its critical point: the 19th and 20th: days of claims, violence and repression. Crisis of 2001, revive those fateful days, next to the protagonists and the witnesses of the happening.
- In this film we are talking about the problem of drug-trafficking in Mexico. Interviews with members of the criminal clans, of priests and ordinary people who do not know by hearsay problem of drug trafficking.
- In 2006 Mexico declared war on drug trafficking and since then, violence spread like wildfire throughout the country. Until today more than 120,000 people have died violently and thousands were forced into exile, kidnapped or disappeared.
- Entre los crímenes políticos del siglo XX, el asesinato de Trotsky se destaca como uno de los más sorprendentes, por el carácter sangriento del mismo y por las circunstancias tanto personales como políticas que rodearon a este homicidio.
- More than fifty year ago, Nazi scientists conducted experiments to prolong Hitler's life. Joseph Mengele, one of the Nazi doctors who was involved in the experiments, was a refugee in Argentina after world war II. Argentinian writer Carlos de Napoli, who discovered the memorandum were Mengele described the necesary steps to obtain the "eternal youth formula", goes through Argentina and Germany, investigating the sinister experiments of the third reich and its persistent obsession with beauty and youth.
- 43 students disapeared in Ayotzinapa, Mexico. This documentary explains how and why this happened.
- The most important Carnival of Latin America. During four days, the black, Spanish and indigenous inheritance shakes the streets of the Colombian city to transform itself into the most waited for celebration of the year. A route by its traditions, its rhythms and its people.
- The reconstruction of the last campaign of Che Guevara, which has remained placed in his famous diary. Following his steps across the Bolivian forest, the journalist Jorge Lanata gathers also the testimonies of the actuality of the Che in a country marked by the social inequalities and the political boiling.
- In THE ALAMO, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, with his particular way of dealing with history, recasts the founding mith of United States, the epic battle of The Alamo in which a group of secessionist Texans face to Santa Anna's Mexican army, in a battle that lasted 13days.
- Narrates the early days, from childhood until becoming Pope, of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, along with his endeavours and difficulties of his first years as Rome's Bishop.
- The artist who made a whole country laugh. A journey by his professional and personal life, a trajectory that is confused with the history of the television and the cinema in Argentina.
- February of 1913. Mexico City is a nest of traitors that conspire against Francisco Madero, first president of the Mexican revolution. The smell of a pronouncement is in the air. Based on the best seller by Paco Ignacio Taibo II "Temporada de Zopilotes" (Zopilotes's season) gets deep in, narrating the facts of the "Decena trágica" (tragic ten) that ended up with the assassination of president Francisco Madero.
- Hitler's Escape examines questions raised by recent research into the death of Adolf Hitler. It examines the possibility that the Nazi leader escaped Germany at the end of World War II and traveled by submarine to Argentina where he eventually settled on a small ranch estate,
- The Centaur of the North, a bandit for some, a revolutionary leader for others. The life, the character and the struggles of one of the greatest symbols of the history of Mexico, narrated by Paco Ignacio Taibo II.
- On July 18th 1994 in Buenos Aires, the headquarters of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association AMIA, was destroyed by a car bomb. The blast killed more than 80 victims. Why, fifteen years later, are the web of alliances between Islamic Terrorism and its local connections in Buenos Aires still hidden in the darkness of conspiracy and impunity?
- The return of the democracy in the Argentina in 1973 marks the beginning of the countdown towards the following "coup d'état". On March 24 1976 the worst dictatorship of the history of this country is established, as a result of a conspiracy carefully planned for months.
- 1983: After more than seven years of terror, the Argentineans recover the democracy. The reconstruction of a climate of time and an event that marked a point of break not only in the policy but in the culture and the arts of Argentina.
- The legendary Mexican revolutionary's origin story, from the times he was a working man in the fields until he started a Revolution than would change his country's history forever, culminating in his death and ulterior birth of a myth.
- This documentary investigates the great assassinations that changed the course of history in México. Pedro Salmerón, along with renounced history professors makes a reconstruction of the crime scene, causes and consequences of the assassinations of Venustiano Carranza, Pancho Villa and Alvaro Obregon, the last assassination of the Mexican Revolution.
- From the comic strip to Literature and cinema. From Rosario to the world. The universe of Roberto Fontanarrosa, the great creator who transformed itself into inescapable figure of the Argentine culture.
- The "charro", term that comes from military charreteras (Epaulettes) that horse riders use, is one of Mexico's national symbols. Their figure appeared towards XVII century under the influence of Andalusian immigration, central for movies, paintings and charreria Mexico's national sport. Charreria takes this legendary figure, it's origins, history and presets of charros, living on a country under constant Modernization.
- July, 1st 1970, though Pindapoy operation, Montoneros guerrilla group assassinated Lieutenant General Pedro Aramburu, who in 1955 lead the power grab against General Perón. Constructed as a police drama, Aramburu's Assassination recreates previous scenes to the execution and studies Argentinean left wing guerillas 40 years after their appearance.
- Testimonies of real people, living lives of repentance, from a bad decision that will affect the rest of their lives.
- She was considered the most powerful woman of her time. Together with Juan Domingo Perón she formed a legendary partnership that was a mixture of both fairy tale and of political struggle. The trajectory of a figure that inspired both unconditional love, and bitter hatred, and who, decades after her death, continues to influence Argentine politics.
- Mexico's most traditional and legendary celebration, seen from within and in ways never shown before.
- This documentary answers the questions of why, how and to what end tens of thousands of minors leave behind Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico every year to take a dangerous path that can lead them to either their longed-for salvation or their harrowing and undeserving death. Migrant Migrant Children is a crude choral story in which children and adolescents themselves speak about the fears, hopes, fantasies and disappointments that caused them to take the most terrifying and significant actions of their short lives.
- When the combat against a supposed subversive threat already does not assure the national unit, the military Argentine dictatorship refloats an ancient frontier dispute with Chile to close lines concerning the regime. Chronicle of an internal conflict that was on the verge of transforming in a bloody war.
- The Río Bravo not only marks the border between Mexico and the United States, but also the path from the third to the first world. An area with its own laws, its particular culture, with a history and a present crossed by the violence, the drugs, the poverty and the dreams of progress of thousands of Latin Americans.
- What is the emotional toll of the war on the veterans' loved ones? How are their kids affected? How do teens take in the cost of a war that they struggle to understand and that forever changed their father or mother? How do adolescents come to terms with their dad's war-related PTSD or suicide? Shadows Shadows of Soldiers explores these and other pressing issues connected to the side effects of war by immersing itself into the world of kids and teenagers whose either mother or father or both participated in combat. Traveling through Oklahoma, Kansas, California and Maryland among other States, Shadows of Soldiers goes there where these sons and daughters live and embarks with them on their undulating journey to reconnect with their parents or the memory of them. It is a journey rife with obstacles and unknown endings.
- The Mariachi. A journey through the history and present of the musical symbol of Mexico. Following the Mariachi's footsteps through the hot region of Jalisco, anthropologist Jesús Jauregui delves into its history, and gathers the testimony of both modern and traditional musicians, interpreters of the sentiments of their people.