Les États-Unis, quelques années avant la guerre de Sécession. Solomon Northup, jeune homme noir originaire de l’État de New York, est enlevé et vendu comme esclave. Face à la cruauté d’un propriétaire de plantation de coton, Solomon se bat pour rester en vie et garder sa dignité. Douze ans plus tard, il va croiser un abolitionniste canadien et, cette rencontre va changer sa vie…

Au Danemark, en 1755, le capitaine Ludvig Kahlen part à la conquête d'une lande danoise réputée incultivable avec un objectif impossible : établir une colonie au nom du roi, en échange d'un titre royal qui le sortirait de la misère. Une ambition bornée que l'impitoyable seigneur de la région cherchera sans relâche à étouffer. Le destin de Kahlen est alors en jeu : son entreprise lui apportera la richesse et l'honneur, ou lui coûtera la vie.

When an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina, she unexpectedly falls in love with the French landowner and awakens the vengeful ghost of his dead wife... who is out for blood.

The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.

Katina, une femme grecque pauvre, tente d'organiser le mariage de son fils berger, Thanos, avec Despina, la fille d'un riche propriétaire terrien. Mais le père de Despina, Vlahopoulos, refuse de donner sa bénédiction et veut que Despina épouse un gentleman plus riche du nom de Yankos

Dans le Vietnam rural du XIXème siècle, May, 14 ans, devient la troisième épouse du riche propriétaire Hung. Elle comprend rapidement qu’elle ne peut obtenir un statut qu’en s’imposant comme une femme capable de donner naissance à un fils. L’espoir de May de changer de statut devient réel lorsqu’elle tombe enceinte…

Californie, années 1840. Le riche propriétaire terrien César de Echagüe, agissant secrètement comme El Coyote, le légendaire héros masqué, poursuit son combat contre les injustices et les abus dont souffre la population hispanique aux mains de l'armée américaine.

Dans une petite ville du sud de la France, en bord de mer et non loin de l'Italie, le docteur Valerio s'emploie à soigner les pauvres. Sa jeune épouse, ne supportant plus l'endroit, l'incite à aller s'établir à Nice mais le médecin ne souhaite pas partir avant d'avoir trouvé un remplaçant. Valerio s'est notamment lié d'amitié avec Sandro, un ouvrier agricole qui entretient les arbres appartenant à Gorzone, riche industriel et principal employeur de la ville. Sandro, perturbé par la grave maladie de sa femme, a bien du mal à remplir ses fonctions. Durant une absence de son épouse, le docteur Valerio rencontre Clara, une jeune italienne, et tombe amoureux d'elle. Le drame éclate quand Gorzone congédie Sandro...

Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.

Aurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life by marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the brothers González, interfere with his plans.

The story begins in a small rural village in Ladimirevci, Eastern Croatia in 1943, where a land owner Sima is helping the Partisan Movement and the official Ustasha regime in order to save the life of his son Beneš, who is enlisted in the German army. Sima doesn't want to let his son fight for the wrong side any more, and doesn't want to give him to the Partisans either, so he hides him in his attic for the time being. The story is interwoven with episodes of Sima trying to muster a beautiful stallion - Sokol - who only answers to his son Beneš and clearly doesn't like his old man.

California, 1848. An invading army has defeated the few opposing forces and the territory has become part of the United States. Don César de Echagüe, an old gentleman, begs his son César to return from Europe, confident that he will know how to confront the oppressor.

The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed by outlaws; in seeking vengeance, he sacrifices his own life, while Esperanza carries on his revolutionary work with their young son in tow.

A wealthy landowner haunted by the spectre of his dead mother has a fling with a beautiful fugitive who bears a striking resemblance to his missing wife, who may have been murdered.

After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into releasing her man, Alicia teams up with her Aunt Delfina and tries to convince Carlos that he's a ghost.

A main agenda of the prewar farmer's movement was struggle against landowners. Prokino also considered this as their prime concern. The main title sequence and the latter part of the film have unfortunately been lost. While we cannot see its entire structure, we can still get a glimpse of it from this surviving short.