MEXICO

SETTLEMENT OF MEXICO

Captain from Castile (1947) -- serves with Cortez in conquest of Mexico

Cabeza de Vaca (1992)  --  1528, explored parts of the future USA and Mexico

Seven Cities of Gold (1955)  --  Father Junipero Serra and the founding of the California missions

Yo, la peor de todas (I the Worst of All) (1990)  --  Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz of Mexico is punished for her writings

The Republic of Texas and the Mexico-America War

Texas (1994)-- history of Texas from its settlement via Stephen Austin to statehood

The Alamo (1960) -- 1836

The Last Command (1955) Jim Bowie and the Alamo

Alamo: 13 Days to Glory (1987) --

One Man's Hero (1999)  -- Irish Americans mistreated in the US army go over to the Mexican side

Rio Grande (1950)  --  Col. Ranald Mackenzie's 1873 raid against the Comanche and Kiowa hiding in Mexico

MEXICAN REVOLUTION  

Juarez (1939) -- Mexican leader against Napoleon III's man in Mexico

Major Dundee (1965)  --  Dundee hunts down an Apache warrior group raiding in Texas during the Civil War & runs into French troops in Mexico

Vera Cruz (1954)  --  Americans try to steal the gold while escorting a countess to Vera Cruz and Emperor Maximilian; Juaristas also want the gold 

Viva Zapata (1952) -- Marlon Brando 1916, Mexico

Zapata: El sueño de un héroe (2004)  --  Emiliano Zapata, leader of the Mexican Revolution 

El Compadre Mendoza (1934)  --  a wealthy land owner survives the revolution by playing friends to both governmental and Zapata forces

Viva Villa! (1934) -- Pancho Villa 1916, Mexico

Let's Go with Pancho Villa (1936)  -- 

And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003) -- 

Villa! (1958) dull; Mexican revolutionary

Villa Rides! (1968)

The Old Gringo (1989) -- about the writer Ambrose Bierce who at 70 was a volunteer with Villa

Reds -- journalist John Reed interviewed Villa

Reed, México insurgente (1973)  --  American journalist John Reed and the Mexican Revolution

Cannon for Cordoba (1970) -- soldiers against Mexican bandits on the Texas border ca. 1912