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 ...

Film Forum’s Anthony Mann retro continues with perhaps the most compelling of all swashbuckling Hollywood epics, with Charlton Heston as Spain’s national hero, fighting the Moors while trying to stay ...

A quest to find the relics of El Cid, the infamous Spanish warlord, has uncovered his crucifix in a cathedral in Salamanca, northwestern Spain. El Cid, a popular Spanish folk-hero and national icon ...