Hollywood contra España

War cinema emerged in 1898 due to the war that the United States provoked against Spain. The press, filmmakers and politicians justified this aggression by resorting to the clichés of the Black Legend, which has been used by Hollywood and British cinema to perpetuate the vindication of the continuous Anglo-Saxon attacks on Spain for centuries to seize domains and wealth. Hollywood against Spain delves into this "blacklegendist" use of the image, from the engravings of the 16th century to cinema and television films, documentaries, comics or video games. Great successes of Hollywood companies, such as Disney, include stereotypes about Spain such as conquerors, inquisitors, galleons attacked by pirates, the festival, flamenco and bullfighting. The image of a Catholic, fanatical, cruel and culturally and scientifically backward Spain is recurrent, opposing the Anglo-Saxon, French, Flemish, Jewish, Al-Andalus and American indigenous civilizations, systematically undermining the successes of the Spanish science, the extensive protective activity of the Crown of Spain and the Church in favor of the Indians or the important Hispanic role in the struggle for the independence of the Anglo-American colonies and to defeat the Napoleonic armies. This anti-Hispanic approach full of commonplaces has been spread in famous film sagas such as Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean, Mission Impossible and Harry Potter, in famous video game franchises transferred to the cinema such as Tomb Raider, Assassin's Creed and Uncharted and in popular series TV shows like The Simpsons. And the most serious thing is that it still survives in many nations and in a part of Spanish society.