Almost every nation has its national epic, usually an account from early in its history of the martial exploits of a ...

El Cid (Samuel Bronston; Allied Artists). Don Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, Spain’s greatest military genius, was born circa 1043 of noble yet obscure descent. Nevertheless, so extraordinary were Don Rodrigo ...

It’s impossible to imagine Hollywood today making a blockbuster movie about a medieval Castilian knight who died in 1099, or that a U.S. president would have multiple screenings of such a film at the ...

El Cid - the story of history's greatest knight, a hero of Spain and the Reconquista. This is a compilation of all my previous El Cid videos in a documentary presentation... Questions swirl around ...

Based on the legendary Spanish stories about Rodrigo De Vivar - better known as El Cid - and his adventures, troubles and love for the beautiful Gemina. The story of a great hero, in the age of feudal ...