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Films & Shows Set in the Spanish Empire

Runs from14921976484 years wide

Shelfmark Mansio CLXXXIOn the map Spanish Empire in the Itinerarium

Early Modern Era 53% · Revolutionary Era 34% · World Wars Era 7% · Contemporary Era 6%

8
titles
8 films · 5 through the places inside it
3.3/5
average rating
across 8 rated titles
2%
of the span is tagged
3 of 191 titles set inside it

See the Spanish Empire on the timelineEvery year from 1492 to 1976 the archive holds, and what is set in them

Compare the titles of the Spanish Empire in the CanonsWhat every title on it shares, what two or three share, and what is proper to one

The Chronicle

The events and themes the archive follows through the Spanish Empire, in the order they happened, each with the titles that depict it. Press a name to read about it in the threads below.

  1. 1184–1870
    InquisitionReligious
  2. 1450–1750
    Witch TrialsAtrocity and Persecution
  3. 1492
    Columbus' Arrival in the New WorldExploration

    The arrival of Christopher Columbus and his contingent of sailors in the New World in 1492 while trying to chart a new maritime route to Asia started one of the most significant…

  4. 1539–1616
    The Search for El DoradoExploration

Sub-Periods

The periods the archive places in the Spanish Empire: named stretches of its history, such as a reign or an age. The number is how many of this page’s titles carry each.

Cinematic Introduction

Every title set during the Spanish Empire, by the decade it came out. A series is placed on the chart by its first season and counts as one title entity.

First on screen
Aguirre, the Wrath of God1972
Most recent
Coven2020

1 of these was made while the Spanish Empire was still going on: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972).

FilmsSerieseach bar is the titles released that decade

Historical Threads

A thread follows one event or historical theme across the archive, wherever and whenever it appears. Pick a tab to read one; they are in the order they are filed on the timeline. Pulling a thread opens up a narrowed timeline view filtered to every year that thread touches.

Columbus' Arrival in the New Worldpull it on the timeline

Event

The arrival of Christopher Columbus and his contingent of sailors in the New World in 1492 while trying to chart a new maritime route to Asia started one of the most significant periods of global transformation in human history. The exchange of goods, plants, and animals between continents alone, known as the Columbian Exchange, would bear dire consequences for the people of the Americas who faced immediate introduction to virulent Old World pathogens. Further, the meeting would trigger the start of a new era of European exploration, colonization, and exploitation off the back of the material wealth held by the Americas.

filed under 1492

Also runs throughAge of Discovery2

Places Connected to this Realm

Every place the archive’s titles set in this realm name, with each one nested under the larger place it sits inside where that place is here too. The number is how many titles set here name it.

Saltiness Across the Realm

No title set here has been given a saltiness score yet. That is unrated, which is not the same as accurate.

Archive Density

2%3 of the 191 titles the archive sets between 1492 and 1976 are tagged Spanish Empire itself.

4%With the places inside it: 8 of the same 191 titles are tagged Spanish Empire or a place inside it.

This measure can help illustrate cinematic hotspots within a time period by comparing which years of the overarching, actual historical time period are backed up by a cinematic release.

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  2. 1493nothing set here
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  20. 1562nothing set here
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225 years on the timeline fall inside the boundaries, 45 of them with nothing set there yet. The dark part of each bar is the share carrying this period; the lighter part beside it, the share carrying one of its sub-periods instead.

Share of the 20 genre taggings across 8 titles set in this period. A title filed under three genres is in three of these slices, so this is a share of taggings rather than of titles.

Credits

Directors

1Alberto Arvelo1 title3.2/5unsalted2Antonio del Real1 title2.4/5unsalted3Mel Gibson1 title3.9/5unsalted4Miloš Forman1 title3.2/5unsalted5Pablo Agüero1 title3.6/5unsalted6Ridley Scott1 title2.9/5unsalted7Vicente Aranda1 title3.1/5unsalted8Werner Herzog1 title4.1/5unsalted

Films only. Co-directors are counted individually, so a director’s solo work and their collaborations are grouped together. Average saltiness ignores any title still unsalted.

Also on the Timeline

Part of and part of it are declared by the archive: one period counted as belonging to another, whatever their dates. Periods overlap freely so concurrent means the two spans share years, and the shared stretch is named. Bounded means it lies wholly inside this one, beginning and ending more than 10 years within its boundaries. Before and after are the nearest periods lying outside this one, with the gap in years shown instead. A shared thread is what the two have in common besides the calendar, and a period lying wholly outside this one can still share one.

RelationPeriodRunsShared yearsShared threadsTitles
Part of itSpanish Golden Age1492–16591492–1659none shared2
BeforeTatar Yoke1237–148012 years earliernone shared1
ConcurrentAge of Discovery1415–16501492–1650Columbus' Arrival in the New World6
ConcurrentFeudal Japan1185–18681492–1868none shared5
ConcurrentItalian Renaissance1453–15271492–1527none shared1
ConcurrentLate Middle Ages1300–15001492–1500Inquisition13
ConcurrentRurikid Dynasty862–15981492–1598none shared1
ConcurrentTudor England1485–16031492–1603none shared3
ConcurrentSpanish Colonization of the Americas1493–16971493–1697The Search for El Dorado3
BoundedProtestant Reformation1517–16481517–1648Inquisition4
BoundedWar of the League of Cognac1526–15301526–1530none shared1
BoundedCounter-Reformation1545–16481545–1648InquisitionWitch Trials5
BoundedReign of Akbar1556–16051556–1605none shared1
BoundedFrench Wars of Religion1562–15981562–1598none shared1
BoundedAzuchi–Momoyama Period1568–16001568–1600none shared2
BoundedRusso-Turkish Wars1568–19181568–1918none shared1
BoundedWar of Cyprus1570–15731570–1573InquisitionWitch Trials1
BoundedImjin War1592–15981592–1598none shared1
BoundedStuart England1603–17141603–1714none shared2
BoundedGreat Puritan Migration1620–16401620–1640Witch Trials1
BoundedAge of Enlightenment1685–18151685–1815Inquisition8
BoundedWar of the Spanish Succession1701–17141701–1714none shared1
BoundedPeshwa Era1713–18181713–1818none shared1
BoundedSeven Years' War1756–17631756–1763none shared1
BoundedIndustrial Revolution1760–18701760–1870none shared3
BoundedAge of Revolutions1774–18491774–1849none shared19
BoundedAmerican Revolution1775–17831775–1783none shared2
BoundedAmerican Frontier1783–19121783–1912none shared17
BoundedFrench Revolution1789–17991789–1799none shared6
BoundedHaitian Revolution1791–18041791–1804none shared1
BoundedNapoleonic Wars1792–18151792–1815none shared11
BoundedFilibuster Wars1803–18601803–1860none shared1
BoundedPeninsular War1807–18141807–1814Inquisition3
BoundedSpanish-American Wars of Independence1808–18301808–1830none shared1
BoundedRegency Era1811–18201811–1820none shared1
BoundedAntebellum South1812–18611812–1861none shared1
BoundedVictorian Era1837–19011837–1901none shared8
BoundedCentury of Humiliation1839–19491839–1949none shared1
BoundedNew Zealand Wars1845–18721845–1872none shared1
BoundedAmerican Civil War1861–18651861–1865none shared6
BoundedWars of German Unification1864–18711864–1871none shared1
BoundedOld West1865–18951865–1895none shared14
BoundedMeiji Era1868–19121868–1912none shared1
BoundedGilded Age1869–19011869–1901none shared2
BoundedIndian Independence1885–19481885–1948none shared1
BoundedEdwardian Era1901–19141901–1914none shared2
Bounded1905 Revolution1905–19071905–1907none shared1
BoundedMexican Revolution1910–19201910–1920none shared1
BoundedWestern Front (World War I)1914–19181914–1918none shared6
BoundedWorld War I1914–19181914–1918none shared11
BoundedArab Revolt1916–19181916–1918none shared1
BoundedInterwar Years1918–19391918–1939none shared14
BoundedIrish War of Independence1919–19211919–1921none shared1
BoundedRoaring Twenties1920–19291920–1929none shared4
BoundedIrish Civil War1922–19231922–1923none shared1
BoundedGreat Depression1929–19391929–1939none shared2
BoundedSecond Sino-Japanese War1937–19451937–1945none shared2
BoundedWorld War II1937–19451937–1945none shared47
BoundedWestern Front (World War II)1939–19451939–1945none shared12
BoundedEastern Front (World War II)1941–19451941–1945none shared8
BoundedPacific War1941–19451941–1945none shared11
ConcurrentCold War1946–19911946–1976none shared32
BoundedFrench Indochina War1946–19541946–1954none shared2
ConcurrentInformation Age1947–present1947–1976none shared1
ConcurrentApartheid1948–19941948–1976none shared1
BoundedKorean War1950–19531950–1953none shared1
BoundedAlgerian War1954–19621954–1962none shared2
ConcurrentAmerican Civil Rights Movement1954–19681954–1968none shared3
ConcurrentSpace Race1955–19751955–1975none shared4
ConcurrentVietnam War1955–19751955–1975none shared6
ConcurrentYears of Lead1968–19741968–1974none shared1
ConcurrentColombian Drug War1970–19931970–1976none shared1
ConcurrentAbertura1974–19851974–1976none shared1
AfterIran-Iraq War1980–19884 years laternone shared1