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- DirectorLuis BazoberryDocumentary on the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay and in particular on the signing of the peace treaty.
- DirectorManuel AntinStarsRodolfo BebánEnrique KossiRoberto AiraldiThe political career of Juan Manuel de Rosas, twice Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires (1829-1832 and 1835-1852), who also ruled the Argentine Confederation during his second term in office.
- DirectorJuan José JusidStarsPepe SorianoMiguel Ángel SoláOscar MartínezIn the Argentine of 1930s, Senator Lisandro de la Torre investigated a case of corruption in the export of meat, discovering a fraudulent plot between the national government and the British Empire, which will endanger his life.
- DirectorAgustín Carrón QuellStarsJosé Félix EstigarribiaCnel Rafael Franco"La Guerra del Chaco" is the only one paraguayan film about the war against Bolivia (1932-1935). The director of this film was the assistant camera of the first paraguayan director Hipolito Carrón. This is one of the first films of Agustín Carrón Quell, and the most important. He was filming for months in the dry Chaco's territory, where many soldiers died because they didn't have water to drink.
- StarsRafael CavadaIvan Alvarez de ArayaJulio González LittinA documentary TV series about La Guerra del Pacífico (War of the Pacific) between Chile, Peru and Bolivia (1879-1884) and its consequences to the present.
- DirectorJuan Carlos OganesStarsPaloma YeroviA bedridden war veteran relives his experiences endured in the battles of Tacna and Arica between Chile and Peru, revealing untold secrets and mysteries that history never told.
- DirectorLuiz Rosemberg FilhoStarsAna AbbottAlexandre DacostaChico DíazA soldier coming home after the Paraguay War meets a theater group. A shock between war and art.
- DirectorSylvio BackStarsHermano HenningCarlos Pussineri ScalaDocumentary on 19th-century war between Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina.
- DirectorFederico SosaIn the 19th Century something happened that is little known regardless the importance it had: the biggest South American War, were 4 Countries were involved. How is it possible to understand this war of which we know little to nothing? Was it a war between Countries? Did Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay make an alliance against Paraguay? Why is it named in so many different ways? The Paraguayan War, the Triple Alliance War, The 70's War. How to call it, when your choice already implies your agreement on a point of view? The results: half a million deaths and the nearly annihilation of the Guarani population. Gustavo, a young historian, takes on a journey from Buenos Aires to Paraguay to uncover these questions. Through its battled fields and speaking with their inhabitants he will discover a word to mouth history that will defy the academic side of it. To these questions historians will have other questions like: What is the role of history in society? Why are historic facts changed? Is it possible that history is interpreted according to current history
- DirectorPaulo AlvarengaMarcelo Felipe SampaioThe Legend of the Paraguay War Legend tells that during the Paraguay War (1864-1870), families that lived near the border and soldiers who were leaving for battle used to hide their valuable belongings by burying them in secret spots, in order to safely recover them after the war. In several cases, though, the only people who knew about the secret spots of those personal treasures died before they could go back to recover them. According to inhabitants of that region, the spirits of those tormented men would reveal the location of those "buried and hidden" treasures to chosen people in their dreams, visions or by haunting them. "The Legend of the Paraguay War" approaches local legends in a historic and literary way. Those legends were born from within the biggest conflict in South America, and were developed and influenced by the local imaginary view of the world and which can be considered a relevant part of those people's identity up to this day.
- DirectorHéctor OliveraStarsPedro AleandroHéctor AlterioLuis BrandoniIn 1920, some workers of Patagonia, grouped in anarchist and socialist societies, decide to make a strike demanding better working conditions. The situation becomes unsustainable and the government sends the order is restored.
- DirectorQuirino CristianiThe story of President Yrigoyen's corrupt government and its overthrow by a military coup.
- DirectorQuirino CristianiArgentinian President Yrigoyen burns Buenos Aires using Jupiter's thunderbolts.
- DirectorAlberto RondalliStarsAna Paula ArósioGabriel Braga NunesAntonio BuílFar from the heroic cliches and with an accurate historical reconstruction, the film tells about young Giuseppe Garibaldi's life in Brazil. His encounter with Anita, human and military learning, friendship with Luigi Rossetti, one of the Italian revolutionaries who fought with him for the release of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina form the power of the Brazilian Empire...
- DirectorAurelio GrimaldiStarsMaurizio AielloRégius BrandãoJúlio ConteBrazil 1839. Aninha Ribeira da Silva, called Anita, is a bubbly and passionate 18-year girl, who dreams to leave the small town where she lives. All of the girl's dreams, however, fade away when Manuel, an aged craftsman who lives nearby, asks her to marry him and her mother persuades her to accept so that she can help support her family. While Anita sheds hot tears for that forced marriage a young Italian seaman, who had been sentenced to death by the Genoa martial court, lands in Rio de Janeiro.
- StarsThiago LacerdaGiovanna AntonelliWerner SchünemannThe greatest civil war Brazil ever faced by the point of view of the seven women of the separatist leader's family.
- DirectorHelvio SotoStarsHector DuvauchellePatricia GuzmánJorge GuerraThe plot takes place in 1879 through 1880 during the War of the Pacific. The film decries the cruelty and absurdity of war and the disunity among the peoples of Latin America.
- DirectorDiego MondacaStarsRaimundo RamosFabián ArenillasMauricio ToledoIn 1934, Bolivia is at war with Paraguay. Liborio and Ticona and other Bolivian indigenous soldiers are lost in the hell of the Chaco, under the commandment of German Captain Kundt. They're looking for the Paraguayan enemy that they haven't seen for months, and that they will never find. They leave together in a search that will make them realize, progressively, the destiny they have been pushed into and the inevitable condition of a defeated troop. They're walking like shadows, wandering forever in the middle of dust and silence.
- DirectorRomán ChalbaudStarsAlexander SolórzanoDaniela AlvaradoGustavo CamachoSetting: Venezuela, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Disputes between Liberals and Conservatives marked the political agenda. Social inequalities inherited from colonial times have kept peasants and slaves under the yoke of the Oligarchy. Ezequiel Zamora, mobilized by the profound ideals of freedom, leads a struggle trying to erase the gap between the opulence of the rich and the misery of the poor, and fair allocation of land.
- DirectorNicolás SarquísStarsLito CruzNorma AleandroDora BaretThe film focuses on the journey of General Juan Facundo Quiroga, with a very compromised health, to the north in order to resolve the conflict between the provinces of Salta and Tucuman.
- DirectorRomán ChalbaudStarsGustavo CamachoJorge CanelónHans ChristopherThe film reproduces the historical moment when Cipriano Castro, then president of Venezuela, proclaimed: "The insolent plant of the foreigner has desecrated the sacred soil of the fatherland!" While the coasts were invaded by imperial forces in 1902.
- DirectorCarlos CoimbraStarsTarcísio MeiraGlória MenezesDionísio AzevedoThe dream of Brazilian independence, under Dom Pedro I, is expressed in the cry of "Freedom or Death" (O Grito de Independencia ou Morte), since cries were the only way to rally up support against colonial oppression. Dom Pedro I (played by Tarcisio Meira) heads Brazil's break from his own parent's homeland, Portugal. A classic Brazilian historical costume drama epic.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsAlfredo AlcónThelma BiralJosé SlavinA thinly disguised account of the story of the Galiffi mafia family of Rosario, Argentina, their decadent loves and brutal crimes.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsAlfredo AlcónMarta GonzálezJosé SlavinThe life of "El Pibe Cabeza", an authentic Argentine gangster in the '30.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsJosé SlavinMarta GonzálezVíctor LaplaceIn an alternative reality, a man who is entering old age faces a society in which the young eliminate the old.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsAlfredo AlcónArturo García BuhrElida Gay PalmerThe moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.
- DirectorTonchy AntezanaStarsAlejandro LoayzaMamani ElmerElmer MamaniBolivia vs Paraguay, chaco war,
- DirectorAntonio EguinoStarsLuis AldanaEddy BravoGermán CalderónExplores the Pacific War, between Bolivia, Chile and Peru in the late 1800s.
- DirectorLucas DemareStarsFrancisco RabalOlga ZubarryCarlos EstradaStory set at the Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay.
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsGian Maria VolontèDiana BrachoClaudio ObregónIt is 1925 and working conditions in Chile are abysmal. The miners of Marusia go on strike, but the mine owners and the Government use the Chilean Army crush them.
- DirectorHumberto SolásStarsNelson VillagraShenda RománEric HeresmannAn epic, revolutionary retelling of the events leading up to an infamous massacre of striking miners in Chile in 1907.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiClaudia CardinaleJosé LewgoyThe story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
- DirectorLima BarretoStarsAlberto RuschelMarisa PradoMilton Ribeiro'Capitão', a bandit, terrorizes poor villages in the Northeast region of Brazil, looting and frequently killing with his armed gang, until he kidnaps and becomes attracted to a beautiful schoolteacher, creating discord in his group.
- DirectorGiovanni FagoStarsTomas MilianUgo PagliaiEduardo FajardoEspidito, survives the massacre of his entire village. A hermit helps him believing he is a Jesus like figure. As "Redeemer" Espidito goes out to help the poor turning to guns and his own rebel band. The discovery of oil twists everything.
- DirectorAnibal Massaini NetoStarsPaulo GorgulhoAlexandre PaternostLuiza ToméThis is a remake of Brazil's first international success in the cinema world. Just as its same name predecessor was, this film is a fictional version of the story of the "cangaceiros." These were bandits who sacked towns and spread terror throughout Northeastern Brazil in the 1930s. This group of outlaws is led by Captain Galdino (played by Paulo Orgulho) and his wife Maria Bonita (Luiza Tome).
- DirectorCarlos CoimbraStarsMilton RodríguezVanja OricoMaurício do VallePedro Boiadeiro goes after a gang of cangaceiros to avenge the brutal rape and death of his newly-wed wife.
- DirectorOswaldo de OliveiraStarsMaurício do ValleGuy LoupCarlos MirandaAfter robbing and massacring a village, the head of a gang of bandits, Captain Jagunço, kidnaps Flô, Mayor Cisso's wife and tortures her.
- DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPaul NewmanRobert RedfordKatharine RossIn 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. After considering their options, they escape to South America.
- StarsFelipe PignaMario PergoliniPablo CedrónDocumentary TV film that narrates the story of Argentina since it's beginning in early 19th century.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsAlfredo AlcónLautaro MurúaGraciela BorgesThe story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro and his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas some centuries ago.
- DirectorJuan José JusidStarsPepe SorianoDora BaretVíctor LaplaceThe film recreates the arrival of a group of Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in Czarist Russia established the first Hebrew colonies in the province of Entre Rios, Argentina.
- DirectorFrancisco D'EufemiaJavier ZevallosStarsPablo RagoniGustavo RodriguezBernardo MoricoEscape from Patagonia is a gaucho-western film set in the tumultuous Patagonia of late nineteenth century. It's a story of survival, based on real facts from the personal diary of the Argentinian pioneer Francisco P. Moreno.
- DirectorBenjamín NaishtatStarsPablo CedrónCéline LatilFrancisco LumermanDuring the first half of the 19th century in a vast and desolated land fallen into anarchy, several armed groups drift along the infinite Pampas demanding support and food from the peasants.
- StarsJorge Baradit
- StarsJorge Baradit
- StarsJorge Baradit
- DirectorGustavo Graef MarinoStarsJaime McManusSergio HernándezCatalina PulidoSeptember 19th, 1981, Balmaceda writes his political will. He has been locked up for 20 days in the Argentinean embassy since the day his troops were defeated on the so called "Placilla disaster". He is a president without a government. A man far away from his family to whom the only thing left is a piece of paper written by him with where he would try and defend his ambitious project from the judgement of time. The president is upset. He looks back on his life and tries to understand how his declarations for the development of the country resulted on one of the bloodiest social outbreaks in the history of Chile. The president will not see the dawn. Balmaceda approaches one of the most hectic periods of the Chilean national history. The film has the point of view of a man who aimed at a lot more than his time was ready to accept. It is a tale of heroic deeds and achievements, from the view of a patriot over a country that was awakening to its reality as a nation.
- DirectorElías LlanosStarsJaime OmeñacaFernando GodoyFrancisca OpazoThe movie is a historical drama that revolves around the naval Battle of Iquique between the Peruvian ironclad monitor 'Huáscar' and the Chilean wooden corvette 'Esmeralda'.
- DirectorHispano DuronStarsOrlando ValenzuelaTito EstradaMelissa Merlo1842. Morazán, Head of the State of Costa Rica, faces his last battle for the restoration of the Central American Republic.
- DirectorCiro DuránStarsCarlos MuñozCamilo MedinaRey VásquezIn the begining of 20th century, after the "thousand days war", the country was devastated. Gunmen to the service of land lords attack small land owners to get their lands. Aquileo is the only one who survives, and promises to take revenge on the killers.
- DirectorMatheus RuasStarsRaul BacchiSapiran BritoFlávio Canto
- DirectorJosé Luis GarcíaStarsOdina LeguizamónDocumentary about the War of the Triple Alliance based on the paintings by Cándido López.
- DirectorRolando GoldmanJulián TroksbergStarsOsvaldo BayerAlejandro BonomoJulián GoldmanThe story of the mythical anarchist begins to weave on May 1, 1909, when the police repress a massive anarchist march in Buenos Aires, leaving dead and wounded. A few months later, the carriage of Ramón Falcón, the police chief who commanded the repression, explodes and flies through the air. For the attack, a young Ukrainian is arrested: Simón Radowitzky.
- DirectorHéctor OliveraStarsThelma BiralJosé María GutiérrezEnrique AlonsoThe story of Benjamin Ortalora and the Uruguayan civil war at the end of the nineteenth century. Ortalora flees his home after killing an enemy. Arriving in Montevideo, he becomes a member of a smuggling ring. His adventures take him throughout Uruguay as he rises among the gaucho ranks. However, the turn of the century has its surprises in store.
- DirectorMathilde DamoiselStarsGaël GiraudGeoffrey JonesCécile RenouardIn 19th century Central America, a few entrepreneurial cowboys built an empire that enslaved populations and corrupted governments for over 100 years. The United Fruit Company thrived on unregulated capitalism; this film tells its story and that of its pioneers who feared neither God nor Man, and managed to get away with murder.
- 2003–20041h 20m7.3 (167)TV EpisodeDirectorRichard DantoLiam SauryStarsRichard BerryPatrick BouchiteyCatherine JacobIn 1916, laconic adventurer Corto Maltese is in Paramaribo, Surinam visiting his mystic female friend Java. He helps a young heir haunted by voodoo spirits, delivers some weapons to rebels in Brazil and hunts for treasure with Rasputin.
- DirectorFelipe Gálvez HaberleStarsSam SpruellMark StanleyAlfredo CastroIn Chile in 1901, three horseman are paid to protect a vast estate. Accompanying a British soldier and an American mercenary is a mixed-race sniper, who realizes that his true mission is to kill the indigenous population.
- DirectorLucas DemareHugo FregoneseStarsFrancisco PetroneLuisa VehilDomingo SapelliIn a pillbox in the middle of the Pampa, its commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires, for not deserting soldiers.
- DirectorHugo FregoneseStarsRobert TaylorMario LozanoFelicia RocIn the late 1800s, an army captain tries to tame the open plains of Argentina, which are dominated by Indians and bandits. To help do this, the captain brings in a party of women to keep his soldiers happy.