Query: Films set in the 1570s,Aztec Triple Alliance, or ancient Mesopotamia
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
Ashes of Vengeance
La Reine Margot (1994 film)
Intolerance (film)
The Beast of Babylon Against the Son of Hercules
Desmundo
Anno Domini 1573
Heaven's Soldiers
I Am Semiramis
Kagemusha
The Princess of Montpensier
The Other Conquest
Evidence from documents: Ashes of Vengeance: At the ball celebrating the wedding of Henry of Navarre on August 23, 1572, the evil Queen Mother Catherine de' Medici (Josephine Crowell) persuades her son King Charles IX to sign a decree to exterminate the Huguenots.
La Reine Margot (1994 film): During the late 16th century, Catholics and Protestant Huguenots are fighting over political control of France, which is ruled by the neurotic, hypochondriac King Charles IX, and his mother, Catherine de' Medici, a scheming power player. Catherine decides to make an overture of goodwill by offering up her daughter Margot in marriage to Henri de Bourbon, a prominent Huguenot and King of Navarre, although she also schemes to bring about the notorious St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572, when thousands of Protestants are slaughtered.
Intolerance (film): Regarded as one of the most influential films of the silent era (though it received mixed reviews at the time), the three-and-a-half-hour epic intercuts four parallel storylines, each separated by several centuries: first, a contemporary melodrama of crime and redemption; second, a Judean story: Christ's mission and death; third, a French story: the events surrounding the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572; and fourth, a Babylonian story: the fall of the Babylonian Empire to Persia in 539 BC.
The Beast of Babylon Against the Son of Hercules: The film is a fictionalized depiction of the Fall of Babylon (539 BCE), and depicts the historical rulers Belshazzar (as Balthazar) and Cyrus the Great (as Zairus).
Desmundo: The film is set in 1570,
Anno Domini 1573: It is a historical drama film depicting events surrounding the 1573 Croatian-Slovenian peasant revolt, with Fabijan Šovagović starring as Matija Gubec, the legendary peasant leader.
Heaven's Soldiers: Films set in the 1570s: time traveling back from 2005 to 1572, and wind up in the middle of a skirmish between Joseon-era Koreans and Jurchen invaders.
Films: a 2005 South Korean period action-comedy film
I Am Semiramis: '''Io Semiramide''''' (AKA: '''''I Am Semiramis''''', AKA: '''''Slave Queen of Babylon''''', AKA: '''''Duelo de Reyes''''') is a 1963 film about Semiramis, a queen of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
Kagemusha: The film ends with the climactic 1575 Battle of Nagashino.
The Princess of Montpensier: The culminating event is the St Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572, during which mobs of armed Catholics hunted down and slaughtered thousands of their Protestant neighbours.
The Other Conquest: ''The Other Conquest'' depicts the complex fusion that took place between the Catholic faith brought to Mexico by the Spaniards and the Aztec beliefs of the indigenous Native Americans.