<P> Captain from Castile (1947) is about early Cortés and the Aztec . </P> <P> The expedition was also partially included in the animated film The Road to El Dorado as the main characters Tulio and Miguel end up as stowaways on Hernán Cortés' fleet to Mexico . Here, Cortés is represented as a merciless and ambitious villain, leading a quest to find El Dorado, the legendary city of gold in the New World . Hernán Cortés is voiced by Jim Cummings . </P> <P> The aftermath of the Spanish conquest, including the Aztecs' struggle to preserve their cultural identity, is the subject of the acclaimed Mexican feature film, The Other Conquest, directed by Salvador Carrasco . </P> <P> Historian Daniele Bolelli did an in - depth coverage of the Spanish conquest over four episodes of his "History on Fire" podcast . </P>

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