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Bradshaw, Peter. Rev. of Aguirre, the Wrath of God. The Guardian 17 August 2001. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2001/aug/17/culture.peterbradshaw1

Burden of Dreams. Les Blank, Werner Herzog. Irvington: Criterion Collection, 2005.

Canby, Vincent. "'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' Haunting Film by Herzog." New York Times 4 April 1977: 43.

Chapman, Walker. The Golden Dream: Seekers of El Dorado. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1967.

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Corliss, Richard. "Pretty Ugly." New Times 10 June 10 (1977): 71-73.

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Davidson, John. "As Others Put Plays upon the Stage: Aguirre, Neocolonialism, and the New German Cinema." New German Critique 60 (1993): 101-30.

Ebert, Roger. Rev. of Aguirre, the Wrath of God. Chicago Sun-Times 4 April 1999. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19990404/REVIEWS08/904040301/1023

Freeland, Cynthia. "The Sublime in Cinema." Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion. Ed. Carl R. Plantinga and Greg M. Smith. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999. 65-83.

Fritze, Ronald. "Werner Herzog's Adaptation of History in Aguirre, The Wrath of God." Film & History 15.4 (1985): 74-86.

Garcilaso de la Vega. Royal Commentaries of the Incas, and General History of Peru. Trans. Harold V. Livermore. Austin: U of Texas P, 1966.

Gilliatt, Penelope. The Current Cinema: Gold. New Yorker 11 April (1977): 127-88.

Grann, David. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon. New York : Doubleday, 2009.

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Hemming, John. The Search for El Dorado. London: Phoenix, 2001.

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Hoberman, J. "Jungle Fevers." Village Voice 10 October 2006. http://www.villagevoice.com/2006-10-10/film/jungle-fevers/

Hoffgen, Maggie. "Independent Minds: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre, Wrath of God 1972)." Studying German Cinema. Leighton Buzzard, England: Auteur, 2009.

Holloway, Thomas H. "Whose Conquest Is This, Anyway? Aguirre, The Wrath of God." Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies. Ed. Donald F. Stevens. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1997. 29-46.

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Jay, Felix. Sin, Crimes and Retribution in Early Latin America: A Translation and Critique of Sources -- Lope de Aguirre, Francisco de Carvajal, Juan Rodriguez Freyle. Lewiston: Edward Mellon Press, 1999.

Kauffmann, Stanley. "Stanley Kauffmann on Films: Power Plays." New Republic 16 April (1977): 23-24.

Knepper, Wendy. "Translation Theory, Utopia and Utopianism, in Paul et Virginie, Aguirre: Wrath of God, Candide and New Atlantis." Dalhousie French Studies 37 (1996): 41-58.

Koepnick, Lutz P. "Colonial Forestry: Sylvan Politics in Werner Herzog's Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo." New German Critique 60 (1993): 133-59.

The Legend of "El Dorado" http://tairona.myzen.co.uk/index.php/history/the_legend_of_el_dorado/

Letter from Lope de Aguirre, rebel to King Philip of Spain, 1561 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1561aguirre.asp

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Lockhart, James. Spanish Peru, 1532-1560. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1968.

Lowry, Walker. Lope Aguirre: The Wanderer. New York: Bookman, 1952.

McCreadie, Marsha. "Aguirre the Wrath of God." Films in Review 28 June/July (1977): 376-77.

Medina, Torbido. The Discovery of the Amazon According to the Account of Friar Gaspar de Carvajal and Other Documents. Ed. Bertram T. Lee. New York: American Geographical Society, 1934.

Minta, Stephen. "Aguirre, The Wrath of God." Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies. Ed. Mark C. Carnes. New York: Holt, 1995. 74-77.

Minta, Stephen. Aguirre: The Re-Creation of a Sixteenth-Century Journey across South America. New York: Holt, 1994.

My Best Fiend [Mein liebster Feind]: Klaus Kinski / a co-production of Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Café Productions, Zephir Film ; producer, Lucki Stipetic ; directed and narrated by Werner Herzog, 1999.

Neira, Hernan. "The Philosophical Underwriting of a Rebellion: Pedro de Ursua and Lope de Aguirre's Expedition in Search of El Dorado." Chasqui 37.2 (2008): 106-26.

Nogueira, Claudia Barbosa. "Journeys of Redemption: Discoveries, Re-discoveries, and Cinematic Representations of the Americas." Ph.D. diss. University of Maryland, 2006. http://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/1903/3372/1/umi-umd-3182.pdf

Perchaluk, E. "Aguirre, the Wrath of God." Independent Film Journal 29 April (1977): 14.

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Raleigh, Walter. The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana, with a Relation of the Great and Golden City of Manoa (which the Spaniards call El Dorado) . . . in 1595. London, 1596.

Rayns, Tony. "Aguirre, The Wrath of God." Sight and Sound Winter (1974/75): 56-57.

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Rollins, Peter C. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

Schager, Nick, Rev. of Aguirre, The Wrath of God. Slant Magazine 3 October 2006. http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/aguirre-the-wrath-of-god/2476

Schickel, Richard. "Meditation on Madness." Time 16 May (1977): 92-93.

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Silver, John. "The Myth of El Dorado." History Workshop 34 (Autumn, 1992): 1-15.

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Simon, John. "Good Germans, Bad Spaniards, Naughty Computer." New York Magazine 18 Apr (1977): 94-96.

Simon, Pedro. The Expedition of Pedro de Ursua and Lope de Aguirre in Search of El Dorado and Omague in 1560. London: Hakluyt Society, 1861.

Southey, Robert. The Expedition of Orsua; and the Crimes of Aguirre. London, 1821.

Staskowski, Andrea. "Film and Phenomenology: Being-In-The-World of Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God." Post Script 7.3 (1988): 14-26.

Sterritt, David. "Brand New Audience for the Astonishing Aguirre." Christian Science Monitor 4 April 1977: 31.

Stiles, Victoria M. "Fact and Fiction: Nature's Endgame in Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God. Literature/Film Quarterly 17.3 (1989): 161-67.

Stone, Cynthia L. "Aguirre Goes to the Movies: Twentieth-Century Visions of Colonial-Era Relaciones." Bridging Continents: Cinematic and Literary Representations of Spanish and Latin American Themes. Ed. Nora Glickman and Alejandro Varderi. Tempe: U of Arizona P, 2005. 24-35.

Villiers, Jacques de. "Myth, Environment And Ideology In The German Jungle Of Aguirre, The Wrath Of God." Senses Of Cinema: An Online Film Journal Devoted To The Serious And Eclectic Discussion Of Cinema 63 (2012).

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Wessbecher, Grace. "Mythological Archetypes Portrayed in the Film Aguirre, The Wrath of God." Journal of the Georgia Philological Association 2008: 136-42.

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