For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada [Sub: Eng] 2012 Watch Full Movie in HD

It is a historical epic about the war of Cristeros in the 1920s which sparked great debate around the world. The war began as the epic thriller of GREATER GLORY. During that war, a group of enthusiastic men and women took the decision to risk everything in order to reach the path of reform and freedom. It's the way to keep the family, faith and country in the dark ages.

Genre:

Drama, History, War

Actors:

Mauricio Kuri, Adrian Alonso, Rubén Blades, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Eduardo Verástegui, Patricia Garza, Alan Ramirez, Estefania Alejandra, Oscar Isaac, Raúl Adalid, Peter OToole, ...»

Director:

Dean Wright

Country:

Mexico

Release:

2012

IMDb:

6.6

Quality:

Duration:

145 min

The National (UAE)

For Greater Glory takes what should have been an involving, even shocking hidden part of history and turns it into a needless epic

October 18, 2013

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Film.com

It's the stuff of real life, and of high drama, but Dean Wright's directorial debut translates little of that latter quality to the screen.

June 01, 2012

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Cinegarage

Dean Wright's film confirms that there isn't a film that truly depicts the Revolution yet. [Full Review in Spanish]

November 21, 2018

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New York Post

The sometimes painfully sincere and slow-moving "For Greater Glory" clearly aspires to be inspirational, but history won't cooperate.

June 01, 2012

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National Catholic Reporter

For Greater Glory will move the audience and perhaps inspire them.

August 11, 2017

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WORLD

If these events seem to fit a little too neatly into modern narrative, seem almost too ready-made for current controversies... a few minutes' worth of research confirms the essential truth of the story.

June 22, 2018

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Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

The compelling archival footage, which literally made me gasp aloud, and the incredible, disturbing photos are amazing. Unfortunately, you'll see them only during the end credits of 'For Greater Glory.'

June 23, 2012

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FoxNews.com

"For Greater Glory" takes its cues from a bygone era of Technicolor Golden Age epics and delivers a sprawling political drama steeped in old-fashioned Hollywood romanticism.

September 10, 2012

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Hollywood Reporter

This historical drama about the little-known Cristero War in 1920s Mexico is more educational than involving.

June 01, 2012

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Chicago Reader

As generic as the title, this historical drama spares no cliche in depicting Mexico's Cristero War of the late 1920.

June 01, 2012

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Washington Post

"For Greater Glory" is at times so heavy-handed that the movie itself seems at war. Unfortunately, the enemy is not just a repressive administration, but the audience.

June 01, 2012

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Variety

Despite enough good intentions to pave a four-lane highway, the ardently sincere but dramatically unfocused For Greater Glory plays like a multipart miniseries that has been hacked down to feature length.

June 01, 2012