5 Films & TV Shows Set In Peru During The 19th Century

• 

  Fitzcarraldo

  🇧🇷 Brazil 🇵🇪 Peru The 1890s

  Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

  Released in 1982 • 157 minutes
• 

  Simón Bolívar

  🇨🇴 Colombia 🇵🇪 Peru 🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1820s The 1810s

  Simon Bolivar is the true-life story of the leader of the 1817 Venezuelan revolution.

  Released in 1969 • 106 minutes
• 

  Bloody Nitrate

  🇵🇪 Peru The 1870s

  Chilean soldiers try to survive in the desert after they are attacked by Peruvian troops. The 17 survivors are held together by the Captain. The Lieutenant is a civilian attorney who clashes with the Captain as he pursues the valuable rights to nitrate deposits in the area. When the fighting was over, 25,000 soldiers from Chile, Peru and Bolivia had perished while trying to secure the coveted mineral rights for foreign companies.

  Released in 1969 • 128 minutes
• 

  Legacy of the Incas

  🇵🇪 Peru The 1870s

  During the 1800s, Peru's government sends 2 envoys to negotiate peace with the rebellious Incas but a treasure-hunter bandit shoots the Inca ruler and his son, leaving the 2 envoys to take the blame for it.

  Released in 1965 • 100 minutes
• 

  Simón Bolívar

  🇨🇴 Colombia 🇵🇪 Peru 🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1820s The 1810s

  Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.

  Released in 1942 •