As a child I was dazzled by the film 'A Captain from Castile' with Tyrone Power. Later I read Samuel Shellabarger's book, on which the film was based, but only Part One was filmed. Apparently 20th Century Fox did not want to spend the money on a sequel; therefore, the conquest stopped when Cortez and the victorious conquistadores rode into the Valley of Mexico to the accompaniment of an erupting volcano and the Conquistadores March. For decades, I have wanted to see the film remade with Part 2 of the book included, where the indigenous people fought back, and fought back hard. Samuel Shellabarger was a Professor of Medieval European history and based his book on the writings of chroniclers of the conquest with a small number of fictional characters thrown in to explain why men left Spain for the New World. History as written by the victors and the clergy who wrote of the conquest were as biased as those who wrote of the savaery of the Vikings 'the Great Heathen Army'. In truth, the Conquistadors did not have it all their own way. Several chapters were devoted to the flight from Tenochtitlan over the causeways where the booty laden Spaniards drowned. I guess 'Hernàn' is about as near as we will get to a remake. More Apocalypto than A Captain form Castile, it nevertheless focuses on the indigenous people and their tragic conquest by a better armed bunch of opportunist thugs claiming to be God's army and with the blessing of the Spanish crown. Their only true creed being 'Greed is good'. I definitely agree with the other posters who disliked the flash back and flash forward storyline as it is hard to follow, but I particularly liked the use of Maya, Nahuatle and Spanish, and the costumes were excellent. Without the flash forwarding and back, it could have been a really memorable series.