Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors ...

An engaging, if unadventurous, specimen of a rare breed -- a Spanish animated feature -- succeeds as lighthearted kids' entertainment. Toon never rises to the visual and dramatic opportunities ...

`El Cid,” made in Europe in 1961 with Charlton Heston starring as the Spanish hero of the 11th Century, has risen from the graveyard of Hollywood epics courtesy of director Martin Scorsese, who loves ...

El Cid Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren Weinstein Co. "El Cid" has all the ingredients for a grand, glorious epic. The 1961 film, which makes its DVD debut Tuesday, has sword fights, battle scenes, ...

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 ...

Producer Samuel Bronston, having shot his films John Paul Jones and King of Kings in Spain, was under some pressure from Francisco Franco's regime in 1960 to shoot a movie there that had Spanish ...

For the first time in more than fifty years, Golden Globe® award-winning films El Cid and Circus World will be available exclusively to DIRECTV customers during the month of January. Digitally ...

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 ...

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 ...