Guillermo Vilas: Settling the Score

Guillermo Vilas: Settling the Score 2020

7.20

For more than forty years, Argentinean sportsman Guillermo Vilas, a tennis legend, has tirelessly demanded that the official rankings (1973-78) be revised in order to finally be recognized as the best player in the world. Eduardo Puppo, a sports journalist, making Vilas' demand his own, fought for more than ten years against a powerful sports corporation to prove that Vilas was indeed unfairly displaced from the top of world tennis.

2020

The Alamo

The Alamo 2012

1

Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II reconstructs one of the most remarkable founding myths of the United States of America: the epic battle of the Alamo, a fortified former Spanish mission near San Antonio de Béjar, in which a group of secessionist Texans withstood for thirteen days the merciless assaults of the Mexican army of President General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

2012

El Che

El Che 2017

5.80

Ernesto "Che" Guevara's controversial story told by the Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II. He revisits places where the guerrilla and revolutionary leader has passed and interviews people who knew Che, making revelations about this important figure in Cuba's political history.

2017

Mexican Revolution

Mexican Revolution 2007

1

Ten years of war (1910-20), more than one million dead. The struggle for political freedom is gradually transformed into a struggle for land and resources with the appearance of mythical figures such as Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. With the roar of the battlefields silenced, today's Mexico emerges from the ruins left by the first great popular revolution of the 20th century.

2007

The Blow: Chronicle of a Conspiracy

The Blow: Chronicle of a Conspiracy 2006

6.00

Argentina, 1973. The return of democracy marks the beginning of a new countdown to the next coup d'état: on March 24, 1976, the worst dictatorship in Argentine history is installed, the bitter fruit of a plot carefully hatched for months.

2006

The Battle of the La Plata River

The Battle of the La Plata River 2004

1

Year 1939. In the La Plata river, off the coasts of Uruguay and Argentina, the first naval battle of World War II is being fought. Surrounded by British enemy ships, the captain of the German battleship Graf Spee must make a dramatic decision.

2004

Democracy

Democracy 2008

6.00

1983: After more than seven years of terror, the Argentineans recover the democracy. The reconstruction of a climate of time and an event that marked a point of break not only in the policy but in the culture and the arts of Argentina

2008

Sovereignity Operation

Sovereignity Operation 2007

1

When the fight against a supposed subversive threat seems not to be enough to ensure national unity, the Argentine military dictatorship rekindles the extinguished fire of an old border dispute with Chile in order to make the nation close ranks around the criminal regime: the chronicle of an internal political conflict that was about to turn into a bloody war.

2007

Before We Are Forgotten

Before We Are Forgotten 2013

5.00

In 2006 Mexico declared war on drug trafficking and since then, violence spread like wildfire throughout the country. Until today more than 120,000 people have died violently and thousands were forced into exile, kidnapped or disappeared.

2013