9 Films & TV Shows Set In South America During The 1870s
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Resurrection
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1870sA young priest travels to Buenos Aires in order to help sick people during the 1871 yellow fever epidemic.
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El Infierno de Gaspar Mendoza
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1870s1878. After the Federal War, Captain Gaspar Mendoza leads a life of austerity and efforts with his family in an old house in the interior of Venezuela, although Gaspar has done everything possible to leave that tragedy behind, it will be his daughter Maria Eugenia who seems to revive her through terrible nightmares that mercilessly haunt her.
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Revolution: Crossing the Andes
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇨🇱 Chile The 1880s The 1870s The 1810sBuenos 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.
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The Proud and Damned
🇨🇴 Colombia The 1870sThe most explosive action since that Wild Bunch hit the screen! — A group of five Confederate mercenaries led by Sergeant Will Hansen must choose sides carefully in a small village where they find themselves trapped in the middle of a rebellion. The group is torn as to whether they should honor the powerful military dictator who forces them to spy for him or help the local village fight for its independence. Follow Sergeant Hansen and his men as they make a decision that could cost them their lives.
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Bloody Nitrate
🇵🇪 Peru The 1870sChilean 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.
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Legacy of the Incas
🇵🇪 Peru The 1870sDuring 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.
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Way of a Gaucho
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1870sSurging 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.
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Guarany
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1870s The 1850s The 1840s The 1860sBased on José de Alencar's novel, directed by Riccardo Freda.
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Allá en el setenta y tantos
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1870sThe 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.