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Browse 29 movies from Anima Films
Jan 2011
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.
Jan 2007
This documentary follows the rise and fall of Generation Zoe, a spiritual coaching network hiding the most unusual scam in Argentina's history.
May 2024
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.
Mar 2012
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
Dec 2008
Jan 2009
The story of Robert LeRoy Parker (1866-1908), alias Butch Cassidy, one of the most wanted fugitives of the American West, and his journey through Argentine Patagonia; the story of a man who flees to the lands of the end of the world to start over.
Jan 2004
The artist who made a whole country laugh. A journey by his professional and personal life, a trajectory that is confused with the history of the television and the cinema in Argentina.
Mar 2008
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.
Dec 2013
Eva Perón, a champion of women's rights and social justice, was considered the most powerful woman of her time, and she and her husband Domingo Perón, President of Argentina, were a legendary couple.
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.
Oct 2020
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.
Sep 2017
In the midst of a profound economic, political, and social crisis, in April 1982, the armed forces led by the then de facto president, the alcoholic General Leopoldo Galtieri, launched the reconquest of the Falkland Islands. This marked the beginning of a military adventure in the South Atlantic against a world power that laid bare the errors and horrors of the Argentine military regime. This documentary depicts the final act of a bloody dictatorship.
Dec 2007
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.
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.
Mar 2006
Recent DNA and ballistics evidence have raised new questions and suspicions about Adolf Hitler's death. Hitler's Escape—filmed in Europe and Argentina—revisits these questions, examining the hypothesis of his secret escape to Patagonia. By challenging the official story of his suicide, it opens up the mystery of his final whereabouts.
Jan 2010
Jan 2008
May 2018
The chronicle of the revolutionary campaign of Che Guevara in Bolivia (1966-67), which has remained placed in his famous diary.
19 of September of 1985. The Earth shakes under the City of Mexico. A morning of terror that leaves thousands of deads. The worse catastrophe lived by the Mexican capital makes visible the solidarity of the population and the negligence of the authorities.