Subgénero: Historical
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The School of the Americas (La escuela de las Américas) (TV Series)
The facility that produced murderers. The School of the Americas (SOA) is the U.S. Army's training center founded in 1946. Hidden in plain sight in Columbus, Georgia, it has trained more than sixty thousand soldiers and police, mostly from Latin America. The purpose of the school is to train military personnel according to the…
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Faster than Life (Más rápida que la vida) (TV Series / Film)
The incredible story of the fastest girl in the world. Dorothy Levitt: The first English woman race car driver and a pioneer of feminism. This is her fascinating life, that of a woman ahead of her time who broke down all prejudices. London, 1903. Dorothy is all over the front pages of English newspapers after…
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The Chauffeur’s Son (El hijo del chófer) (Film/ TV Series)
Arrogant, aggressive, unscrupulous, resentful, manipulative, narcissistic and cynical… Josep Quintà was able to stay afloat during the postwar period thanks to his car. He was one of the few who had one and thanks to it he was able to move around his native Figueres region working as a chauffeur. That's how he…
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The Baroness of Wilson (La Baronesa de Wilson) – Original project for TV Series
The story of a brilliant imposter. Emilia Serrano, a fake "baroness" by marriage and ahead of her time, was a powerful publishing and fashion businesswoman, a frequent visitor to royal circles, transatlantic traveler, advisor, polyglot, patron of major Latin American governments, and a spy… But, above all, she was a true impostor. With her…
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The Anatomist (El anatomista) (Film)
Women carry between their legs the keys to heaven and hell. “What every man once dreamed of: the magic key that opens women's hearts, the secret that governs the mysterious desire of female love…” Mateo Colon, an anatomist during the Renaissance, falls prey to an obsession. He falls in love with Mona Sofia, an…
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155, Simon Radowitzky
A fierce struggle for ideals. Simón Radowitzky, a young Ukrainian anarchist, fled in 1908 from Russian repression to take refuge in Argentina. Soon after settling in, Simón assassinated the bloodthirsty Buenos Aires police chief responsible for the massacre of workers known as “La Semana Roja” (Red Week). He served a sentence of 21 years…
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Killing Plato (El asesinato de Platón)
The struggle for democracy and equality clashes with the ambition of the tyrant. Athens, 4th century B.C. Altea, daughter of Perseus and one of Plato's most brilliant disciples, is the first woman to be admitted to the philosopher's academy as a student and, subsequently, as a teacher. Her life has broken with all the…
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Leopard in the Sun (Leopardo al sol) (TV Series)
Blood is paid with blood. Two families, the Barragán's and Monsalve's, are engaged in a bloody war. It all started when Nando Barragán murdered Adriano Monsalve, his first cousin. At the time, both families lived in close proximity in the desert and under the same business. After Adriano's death, the two families abandoned…
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Cherubs in Hell (Querubines en el infierno)
The harrowing story of Mexicans who fought for the U.S. in World War II. Cannon fodder: that is what the Mexican migrants who enlisted in the U.S. Army to fight in World War II were, under the promise of citizenship and recognition from a country that had reluctantly adopted them. Los Angeles, during…
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A Mexican in Every Child (Un mexicano en cada hijo te dio)
Beautiful and beloved Mexico is what it is today thanks to figures from its history. There are illustrious figures who have something, or everything, to do with what is "Mexicanness" today, often relegated to the shadows of oblivion. Beyond the official history, a group of Mexicans throughout history have had the chance to influence, for better or worse, the life and culture of the country, but whom disdain has erased from memory. Heroes of flesh and blood, villains or stars that shined only to be suddenly dimmed. Figures such as Isabel Moctezuma: the last Aztec princess; Jesús García Corona, the hero of Nacozari; Gilberto Bosques, "the Mexican Schindler"; Tezozomoc, the terrible chief of Tacuba; Lorenzillo, the terror of the seas of Campeche; Jesús Malverde, the saint of the narcos; Hilda Krüger, the Nazi spy who was also the mistress of a Mexican president;…
