Four hundred and fifty years ago the Old World and the New stood face to face-the Aztec emperor Montezuma with his vast military civilisation versus the Spaniard Hernan Cortes and a mere 400 men. Cortes won, but this astonishing victory would have been impossible but for the unbelievable fact that Montezuma saw Cortes as his god, the Feathered Serpent Quetzalcoatl.
John Julius Norwich , in a film made on the sites where it took place, recounts the interplay of mythology and mounted warfare, of human sacrifice and brilliant strategy which led ultimately to the creation of Mexico.
Written and introduced by John Julius Norwich