Film is a powerful medium through which societies express concerns and aspirations, providing us an opportunity to explore visually some of the topics of the course. You will receive a list of films from which you will select one. Your review should include a very brief summary (maximum one page double-spaced) and your reaction (minimum one page double-spaced) to the piece. What is the film’s argument? What are the writer and director trying to say to the viewer? Also include any questions you still have of the film. Reviews should not exceed one double-sided, double-spaced page. write 3 pages Some of these films are available on Netflix, some on Youtube, some at Videorama, some on Amazon. Group One: Conquest and Colonization Cabeza de Vaca (Mexico): Story of a 16th century explorer in present-day Mexico and United States The Mission (US): On the 18th century Jesuit missions in present day Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay Aguirre, Wrath of God (Germany): On failed expedition to El Dorado, greed and madness in the 16th century Amazon Fitzcarraldo (Germany): An early- 20th century rubber baron in the Peruvian Amazon I, The Worst of All (Argentina): On the life of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, brilliant 17th c. Mexican intellectual, poet and nun. The Other Conquest (Mexico): On the conquest of the Aztec Empire La monja alférez (Spain): About Catalina de Erauso, a transgendered lieutenant-nun living in 17th c. Peru Group Two: Early-to mid 20th Century La Patagonia Rebelde (Argentina): On worker/anarchist rebellion in 1920s Southern Argentina Black Orpheus (France/Brazil): A Greek-style tragedy unfolds in a 1950’s Rio favela during Carnival Machuca (Chile): On the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende Missing (US): On Pinochet’s coup in Chile Romero (US): On the assassination of Bishop Romero in 1980s El Salvador The Official Story (Argentina): On the aftermath of the military Junta La Cautiva (Argentina): On the children of the desaparecidos The Panama Deception (US): Documentary on US invasion of Panama in 1989 Innocent Voices (El Salvador): Violence in 1980s El Salvador Ché (Spain, France, US): Two part film on Ernesto Guevara (Part One: Cuba; Part Two: Bolivia) Motorcycle Diaries (Argentina, Brazil, US, etc.): On the journeys and memoir of Ernesto (Che) Guevara The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Argentina): On the struggles of a group who opposed the military regime El Norte (US-Guatemala): The story of two undocumented immigrants from Guatemala Fitzcarraldo (Germany/Peru): About greed and madness in early 20th century Amazon Paper Dove (Peru): About a young man in Peru’s civil war Group Three: Modern Social Issues and Movements Bolivia (Argentina): The story of a Bolivian migrant in Argentina The Revolution will not be Televised (Venezuela/Ireland): Coup attempt on Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez Cocalero (Argentina/Bolivia): Documentary on Evo Morales’ rise to President of Bolivia City of God (Brazil): An extremely violent view of life.