 | Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992)
Buy used from: $4.40 Tanned boobies its only merit, this lemon SUCKS like there's no tequila! Brando is one fat Torquemada and Columbus some pizza guy from Brooklyn (with lotsa ballsa!). Lord, I wanna puke..!
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 | 1492 - Conquest of Paradise
Buy used from: $4.75 Beautiful photography and music can't disguise its abysmal historical inaccuracies, let alone Depardieu's dreadful acting. The Spanish baddie, Moxica, looks exactly like the creature in "Predator".
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 | Christopher Columbus (1985)
Buy used from: $4.99 Perhaps the best Columbus movie in recent times, which isn't saying much. Dunaway, however, makes a believable Queen Isabella. -by the way, it's "Queen Isabel LA Catolica", not "Queen Isabella"!
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 | Captain From Castile
Buy used from: $2.63 Cortes (Cesar Romero!) conquers Mexico aided by greaseball Power and senorrita Peters, a lovely tart who dances with castanets. After such awful torture no wonder the Aztecs surrendered!
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 | The Road to El Dorado
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.81 Kline and Branagh fancy themselves as Hope and Crosby in this politically-correct Aztec and Mayan salad. The villain -Cortes- is BAAAAD, but not as bad as the obnoxious Rosie Perez!
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 | Cabeza de Vaca
Buy used from: $99.95 Art-house borefest will have you snoring in no time. If it doesn't, then you like tepid, annoying, pretentious movies. Hey, it's a free country..!
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 | Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $11.98 Now this is a bloody masterpiece (literally)! A haunting epic that won't leave your mind for days. Its last scene, a wonder to behold...
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 | The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Buy used from: $49.95 Christopher Plummer as the Inca Atahualpa? Curiosity killed the cat but don't let that stop you! (Oh, yes!: there's also the late great Robert Shaw as Pizarro)
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 | The Mission
Buy used from: $2.90 Liberation theology, circa 1750. That won't get me cheering anytime soon, but I do confess this is a very beautiful movie. And Morricone's score is perhaps the loveliest music ever written for cinema.
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 | Conquistadors
Buy used from: $7.63 Get rid of historical cobwebs and know the conquistadors for what they were, in this fascinating Michael Wood documentary. You'll be surprised!
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 | Buried Mirror (Boxed Set)
Buy used from: $125.00 A great introduction to Spain and the world she created, hosted by Mexican master writer Carlos Fuentes. Worth every penny!
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 | Guns, Germs, and Steel
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $26.20 A plausible re-enactment, and a fair explanation, on the conquest of the New World. Not as good as the book, but you get the picture -literallly! (or should I say "visually"?)
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