FILMOGRAPHY PERU
The videos contained in the list are produced in Peru or are about Peru, it includes culture, history, arts, literature, politics, etc. For further information on a title please use our online catalog or feel free to contact Cindy Badilla-Melendez, the Media Resources Librarian or call (651) 962-5464.
Conquistadors: F1411 .C67 2001
Four part series on the discovery of the Americas by the Spanish conquistadors and the subsequent fall of the Aztec and Inca empires.
The Fall of Fujimori: F3448.7.F85 F3 2006 DVD In Spanish and English
The Fall of Fujimori is a character and interview-driven documentary that explores the volatile events that define Alberto Fujimori's decade-long reign of Peru: his meteoric rise from the son of poor Japanese immigrants to the presidency; his fateful relationship with the shadowy and Machiavellian Vladimiro Montesinos; his self-coup that dissolved overnight both Congress and the Judiciary; and the bloody and dramatic Japanese Embassy hostage crisis.
Frontline/World: Stories From a Small Planet, October 25, 2005: TN414 .P4 F76 2005 DVD
First segment. Peru : the curse of Inca gold (approx. 30 min.). Lowell Bergman travels to the Peruvian Andes to uncover the story of a battle for Yanacocha, the world's richest gold mine. Bergman reveals political intrigue including attempts to influence Peru's Supreme Court to rule in favor of an American company, focusing on Peruvian spymaster Vladimiro Montesinos. The program investigates Newmont Mining of Denver, Colorado, and meets the crusading priest who leads local campesinos who have opposed expansion of the mine after a toxic mercury spill.
Second segment. Ukraine : a murder in Kyiv (approx. 30 min.). Georgy Gongadze was a crusading journalist whose death in Sept. 2000 helped spark the Orange Revolution. A year earlier, on national television, he dared to confront then President Leonid Kuchma for failing to investigate an assassination attempt on a presidential candidate. Kuchma, an authoritarian ruler, was not used to being challenged in public. But Gongadze was fearless and kept after Kuchma and his cronies -- until the night he vanished. But today, despite new president Yevtushenko's pledge, Gongadze's murder remains curiously unsolved.
Gregorio: HB2036.L5 G8 1984
Grupo Chaski's story of an Andean boy whose family leaves their mountain village in search of a better life in the capital. Facing the challenges of their new life, Gregorio and his parents struggle individually to find their new place in the urban environment.
Inca: Secrets of the Ancestors: F3429 .I53 1995
Learn about the legendary kingdom of the Incas and the achievements of their society, including medical skills, engineering and architectural marvels, and much more.
Peru: Rage of Hunger: F3429.3.W65 P4 2003 DVD
This program looks at the noble efforts of city women in general, as they prepare community meals, work at menial jobs to support families, run employment workshops, and provide counseling for abused women, pregnant teenagers, and refugees fleeing war in the provinces
Secrets of lost Empires, Inca: F3429.3.A65 S4 1997
Explores how the Incas were able to construct their citadels in the Andes and how they built their suspension bridges out of grass.
La Boca del Lobo: PN1997 .B63 1990
A study of a bloody encounter between the Peruvian Army and the Maoist Shining Path in Chuspi, a small isolated village in the Andes.
Ciudad de M: PQ8498.23.A363 C5 2003 DVD
Set in Peru's capital city of Lima, this urban drama sees the eponymous M struggle to make a life for himself. With no prospects for employment, M takes to whiling away his time in the company of his pal Coyote, flirting with girls, and club hopping. Unfortunately, monetary temptation lures M into a life of crime, with petty thievery soon replaced by more serious offenses and equally serious consequences.
La Ciudad y los Perros: PQ8498.32.A65 C5 1994 DVD
A military school in an underdeveloped country. The system generates a universe of treachery and loyalty where machismo and brutality are the main values.
Dias de Santiago: PN1997 .D534 2005 DVD
Santiago returns home from the Peruvian army ill-prepared to cope with the realities of life. Haunted by his violent military past, he is conflicted by his desire for education and his temptation to join his comrades in a life of crime.
Madeinusa: PN1997 .M333 2007 DVD
Madeinusa is a girl aged 14 with a sweet Indian face who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor. From Good Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon to Easter Sunday, the whole village can do whatever it feels like. During the two holy days sin does not exist: God is dead and can't see what is happening. Everything is accepted and allowed, without remorse. Year after year, Madeinusa and her sister Chale, and her father Don Cayo, the Mayor and local big shot, maintain this tradition without questioning it. However, everything changes with the arrival in the village of Salvador, a young geologist from Lima, who will unknowingly change the destiny of the girl.
Manuela Saenz: la Libertadora del Libertador: PN1997 .M37 2002 DVD
A whaling ship carrying Herman Melville arrives in Peru, where he finds Manuela Saenz, the former mistress of Simon Bolivar. Her life story enfolds as she rereads letters from Bolivar which recount her life as a colonel in his movement to unite South America into one nation.
La Muralla Verde: PN1997 .M87 1990
The story of a young settler who tries to escape the bureaucracy of life in Lima with his wife and son by starting a farm in the Peruvian jungle, only to experience more problems and setbacks.
Pantaleon y las Visitadoras: PQ8498.32.A65 P3 2003 DVD
A dedicated Peruvian army captain (and devoted husband) is put in charge of a top secret military operation--setting up a brothel in the Amazon jungle to satisfy the needs of his fellow soldiers.
Supervivientes de los Andes: PS3552.L346 S8 2003 DVD
Dramatization of the true story of a plane crash in the Andes Mountains and the surviving passengers' ordeal to survive. As days go by with no rescue in sight, they realize that the only way to stay alive is to feed on the bodies of the dead.
Compiled by
Cindy Badilla-Melendez
Media Resources Librarian
