Region: South America
1492: Conquest of Paradise
- Director: Ridley Scott
- Release Date: 1992
- Production Country: France, Spain
When Columbus finds land while searching for a route to China, he believes this is his opportunity to start a new life with a new city under his rule... but the arrival of his ships has tragic consequences for the natives they encounter and Columbus struggles with the duties of leader. Meanwhile, back in Spain, forces there are conspiring against Columbus to strip him of all he has gained.
25 Watts
- Director: Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll
- Release Date: 2001
- Production Country: Uruguay
Leche, Javi, and Seba deal with pointless jobs, unwanted studies, and drug dealers, all of which hinders their desire to drink and have fun on their Saturday.
Abril Despedaçado (Behind the Sun)
- Director: Walter Salles
- Release Date: 2001
- Production Country: Brazil, France, Switzerland
Tonho's sense of honor drives him to avenge his older brother's death by murdering one of the rival family's sons, leading him to wonder afterwards whether or not everyone would be better off if, rather than waiting for their own deaths as part of the unending feud, Tonho and his younger brother simply ran away with the circus and the beautiful acrobat, Clare.
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre: The Wrath of God)
- Director: Werner Herzog
- Release Date: 1972
- Production Country: West Germany
A brief mission by a small group of conquistadors sent to explore up the Amazon becomes a nightmare when one of the men leads a mutiny, refusing to turn back because he believes that El Dorado lies ahead of them, up the river. Forced to continue their trip, the soldiers who supported the mutineer find themselves trapped with him as he descends into madness, but it's not clear if he is corrupted by his own dreams of power and avarice, or if the land itself taking revenge on the conquerors.
Amalia
- Director: Enrique García Velloso
- Release Date: 1914
- Production Country: Argentina
Life under a dictator is repressive and harsh, but who is truly to blame for the rise of such people: the dictator himself or the society that birthed and nurtured him?
America Before Columbus
- Director: Cristina Trebbi
- Release Date: 2009
- Production Country: United States, Germany
The Americas, before the arrival of Columbus, was far from a pristine "New World," but had a vast and diverse history of peoples and empires, farms, and urban centers.
Araya
- Director: Margot Benacerraf
- Release Date: 1959
- Production Country: Venezuela, France
The Spanish Conquistadors discovered the Araya Salt Mine in Venezuela and, in the five hundred years since, the people have continued to mine the salt as it 'always' has been done.
Ayúdame a vivir (Help Me to Live)
- Director: José A. Ferreyra
- Release Date: 1936
- Production Country: Argentina
Lemarque arrives home just as her husband, Delbene, brings another woman into the house, so no one blames her for pushing the other woman down the stairs–but the question remains: was Delbene really intending to be unfaithful to her?
Bajo el cielo antioqueño
- Director: Arturo Acevedo Vallarino
- Release Date: 1925
- Production Country: Columbia
In order to clear Alvaro's name when he is charged with a murder he did not commit, Lina, the spoiled daughter of a coffee plantation owner, must confess to almost eloping with him, a common peasant.
Bananas
- Director: Woody Allen
- Release Date: 1971
- Production Country: United States
Caught up in a Latin American revolution while trying to impress his social activist girlfriend, a neurotic American finds himself on trial for impersonating the leader of a 'banana republic.'
Besos Brujos (Bewitching Kisses)
- Director: José A. Ferreyra
- Release Date: 1937
- Production Country: Argentina
Believing she is unworthy, a beautiful singer runs from love and her fiancé, but her sorrowful songs may come true twice over now, for a local man has fallen for her and her fiancé has come looking for his wayward bride-to-be.
Botany Bay
- Director: John Farrow
- Release Date: 1953
- Production Country: United States
Aboard the first convict ship bound for Australia, an American doctor is distraught over his unjust conviction and feuds with his fellow prisoners and the ship's captain. After many failed escape attempts, he finally embraces both his stormy relationship with a pretty female prisoner and his fate as one of the founding fathers of the state of Australia.
Brazil: An Inconvenient History
- Director: Phil Grabsky
- Release Date: 2000
- Production Country: Brazil, United Kingdom
The last country to abolish slavery in the Western World, Brazil was by far the largest participant in the Atlantic slave trade, receiving nearly half of all Africans who survived the slave ships.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Director: George Roy Hill
- Release Date: 1969
- Production Country: United States
With the Old West fading away and with increasingly professional—and persistent—modern lawmen chasing them, outlaw Butch Cassidy and his sidekick, the Sundance Kid, decide to take their show on the road to Bolivia.
Carlos
- Director: Olivier Assayas
- Release Date: 2010
- Production Country: France, Germany
Venezuelan Illich Sanchez learned communism from his father and was later educated in England and Moscow, but finds his true purpose in life when he is recruited into the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, becoming a widely feared and wanted terrorist.
Cerro Cora
- Director: Guillermo Vera
- Release Date: 1978
- Production Country: Paraguay
Paraguayan forces, badly outnumbered and ranks mostly filled with children of the local tribes, fight a desperate battle against combined Argentine and Brazilian forces, knowing that the end of this battle is the end of their hopes of winning the war.
Chasing Ice
- Director: Jeff Orlowski
- Release Date: 2012
- Production Country: United States
Photographer James Balog's passion for photographing ice becomes a passion for showing the world the reality of climate change as he documents the rapid decline of glaciers around the globe.
Chircales (The Brickmakers)
- Director: Marta Rodríguez, Jorge Silva
- Release Date: 1972
- Production Country: Columbia
A family of poverty-stricken brickmakers in Columbia provide a view into labor and living for Indigenous Columbians.
Christopher Columbus
- Director: Alberto Lattuada
- Release Date: 1985
- Production Country: Italy, United States, France, West Germany
An Italian boy grows up to be an expert sailor and navigator, as well as somewhat of an adventurer, and later manages to convince the Spanish crown to finance his attempt to find a shortcut to Cathay. Though Columbus never finds his shortcut, what he does find will change the course of world history.
Cidade de Deus (City of God)
- Director: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
- Release Date: 2002
- Production Country: Brazil, France
Feral children in the squalid 'City of God' suburb of Rio de Janeiro grow into gods themselves–ruling over a world of street violence, drugs and rage.