Outlaws, For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada ~ (Full movie 2012, 143 mins.)

An epic historical war drama film directed by Dean Wright and written by Michael Love, based on the true events of the Cristero War in Mexico. It stars Andy García, Eva Longoria, Oscar Isaac, Rubén Blades, and Peter O'Toole.

The film dramatically documents the civil war that erupted in Mexico from August 1926 to June 1929 when newly elected Mexican President Plutarco Elías Calles (Rubén Blades) began a violent crackdown against the country's adherents of the Catholic faith in an attempt to impose a new Masonic political agenda there, based on a previously unenforced article in the Mexican constitution of 1917, which gives the State authority and rule over that of Church and religious matters. The film depicts the carnage by showing churches being set on fire, professed Catholic priests murdered, and countless of their faithful peasants killed and having their bodies publicly hanged on telegraph poles as a warning to others, all with very little help or support for the Cristeros from the Vatican and the reigning Antipope at the time, Pius XI. (In fact the tiny army of The Cristiada practically had Calles' hugely armed forces on the brink of defeat when they were commanded to call off their military campaign by the orders of the Vatican in light of a new bogus 'settlement agreement' which never materialised when hostilities ceased.)

The story shifts to Father Christopher (Peter O’Toole), a professed Catholic priest, who is ruthlessly murdered by the Federales. A 13-year-old boy, José Luis Sánchez (Mauricio Kuri), witnesses the killing. Driven by love for his faith and anger against the injustices committed against Fr. Christopher and the Church in Mexico, he joins the rebels, the Cristeros ("soldiers for Christ") fighting against Calles. Their battle cry is "¡Viva Cristo Rey!" ("Long live Christ the King").

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