10 Films & TV Shows Set In South America During The 1810s

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  Bicentenario

  🇨🇴 Colombia The 1810s

  Exactly 200 years after Simón Bolívar’s Colombian war of independence, a campaign that ran from late May to early August 1819, filmmaker Pablo Alvarez-Mesa follows the iconic Libertador’s route through the country. At each historic battleground, he calls on a medium to summon the general’s spirit, helping Alvarez-Mesa reveal Bolívar’s permanent and more or less visible presence in an array of social rituals and state structures. This historic legacy, after two centuries transfigured into a blend of political mysticism and unchallenged military doctrine, remains an integral part of Colombia’s collective unconscious. It keeps finding new expression in an endless cycle of violence, which this intriguing medium-length film seeks to exorcise. (Charlotte Selb)

  Released in 2020 • 44 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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  Belgrano: The Movie

  🇦🇷 Argentina The 1810s

  It focuses on the last ten years of life of the hero, creator of the Argentine flag. In 1810, Manuel Belgrano believes that it is possible to replace the royal authority - that of Fernando VII prisoner of the Napoleonic troops - with the community of virtuous men who, identified with the Homeland, fluently interpret the People.

  Released in 2010 • 82 minutes
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  The Knight of the Sword

  🇦🇷 Argentina The 1820s The 1810s

  The life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin.

  Released in 1970 • 120 minutes
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  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
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  The Gaucho War

  🇦🇷 Argentina The 1810s

  The story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence.

  Released in 1942 • 90 minutes
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  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 •
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  The Charge of the Gauchos

  🇦🇷 Argentina The 1810s

  A complete version of the film is held by Cineteca Del Friuli.

  Released in 1928 •
• El húsar de la muerte

  🇨🇱 Chile The 1810s

  Depicts the deeds of Chilean national hero Manuel Rodriguez and the events of the Chilean War of Independence against Spain in the early 1800s.

  Released in 1925 • 65 minutes
• La revolución es un sueño eterno

  🇦🇷 Argentina The 1810s

  Juan José Castelli's fall into disgrace after a hard campaign in the argentine war of independence