National Geographic: The Great Inca Rebellion

This is a good movie love National Geographic.

Not as good. As the other DVD

Good Historical Value.

excellent

My husband showed this to a high school class. Very informative and engaging. The students were engaged in the learning process.

This is a great video from the perspective of the conquered people.

Finally a forensic evidence that the conquistadors LIED about the conquest!!!! You must see this to understand most of the contradictions of the chronicles.

A handful of corpses are found outside of Lima, Peru. The documentary asks what does the damage on the bodies of these Inca tell us about their deaths and the history of the Andes. It also asks whether these bones corroborate what the contemporary Spanish said about their victory in South America.This was a major look into forensics, very similar to what you might watch on "Court TV." Hawks may love this too as it speaks of battles and military strategy. I learned that Pisarro was illiterate; I never knew the command of a fleet to an unknown territory would be given to one who couldn't read.The documentary has diverse interviewees: Anglo Americans and Peruvians, men and women. The narrator says that based upon the bones behind the ear sections, experts could tell that some of the buried were female. I didn't know that could be learned from skulls; I thought the only signs of biological sex are height and pelvises.Natives fighting each other were dressed in either brown or maroon. I wonder if this is historically accurate or just done to make the modern viewer understand who was fighting whom. My suspicions tell me that some of the Inca actors were Americans entirely of European descent just dressed up.I wonder very much about the other side of the coin. What if this documentary were not titled "The Great Inca Rebellion," but instead "The Swift Spanish Suppression" or something like that? Who would want to watch it then and who would then ignore it? This documentary speaks of shot wounds to the face, severed fingers, and bludgeoned body parts, etc. This work may not be appropriate for children. Still, those who enjoyed "Apocalypto" may really enjoy seeing this too.