4 Films & TV Shows Set In Argentina During The 1870s

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  Resurrection

  🇦🇷 Argentina The 1870s

  A young priest travels to Buenos Aires in order to help sick people during the 1871 yellow fever epidemic.

  Released in 2016 • 102 minutes
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  Revolution: Crossing the Andes

  🇦🇷 Argentina 🇨🇱 Chile The 1880s The 1870s The 1810s

  Buenos Aires, 1880. A journalist interviews Manuel Esteban Corvalán, one of the last living men who crossed the Andes in 1817 with José de San Martín, during the Argentinian and Chilean wars of independence, as one of his secretaries, when he was only 15 years old.

  Released in 2011 • 95 minutes
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  Way of a Gaucho

  🇦🇷 Argentina The 1870s

  Surging with the fury and romance of the Argentine Pampas! — In 1875 Argentina, after killing a man, a gaucho is sentenced to harsh army duty but he deserts the army and becomes a bandit leader.

  Released in 1952 • 93 minutes
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  Allá en el setenta y tantos

  🇦🇷 Argentina The 1870s

  The life of Élida Passo, pioneer of medicine of the Buenos Aires of the XIX century. By 1870, the first women tried to practice medicine in an area reserved for men; and through sacrifice and struggle, they begin the path towards a more egalitarian society.

  Released in 1945 • 90 minutes