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El grito de Dolores
- In 1908, El grito de Dolores, a film on Mexican independence, was directed by Felipe de Jesús Haro and shot by the Alva brothers.
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Below is an incomplete list of feature films, television films or TV series which include events of the Mexican Revolution and Cristero War. This list does not include documentaries, short films. [1][2][3][4][5][6]
Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution. Director: Paul Leduc | Stars: Claudio Obregón , Eduardo López Rojas , Ernesto Gómez Cruz , Juan Ángel Martínez
El Prisionero 13 (Prisoner 13) is part of the trilogy of films made by Fernando Fuentes concerning the Mexican Revolution. The film centers on the drunkard Colonel Carrasco, whose wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an admirable and well-mannered young man.
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During the Mexican Revolution, Toscano recorded several clips of the battles, which would become a full-length documentary in 1950 under the title Memories of a Mexican, assembled by his daughter. Other short films were either created or influenced from French film-makers .
- The Wild Bunch. William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan. 50 votes. The Wild Bunch, a seminal Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah, is a tale of an aging outlaw gang on the Mexico-US border.
- Duck, You Sucker! Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli. 40 votes. At the beginning of the Mexican Revolution in 1913, greedy bandit Juan Miranda (Rod Steiger) and idealist John H. Mallory (James Coburn), an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank.
- Viva Zapata! Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn. 34 votes. Mexican rancher Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) becomes a revolutionary when corrupt President Porfirio Diaz (Fay Roope) ignores the needs of his people.
- The Mercenary. Franco Nero, Tony Musante, Jack Palance. 20 votes. Sergei Kowalski (Franco Nero), a mercenary only out for himself and a few dollars, joins up with a Mexican peasant-turned-revolutionary, Paco Roman (Tony Musante), when the price is right.
Films set during the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920).
1. The Wild Bunch. 1969 2h 15m R. 7.9 (91K) Rate. 98 Metascore. An aging group of outlaws in 1913 Texas look for one last big score, selling stolen Army rifles to a rogue Mexican general during that country's revolution, as the traditional American West is disappearing around them.
