Venezuela's Bolivar gets blockbuster treatment

Latin America's greatest hero is finally getting a big-budget, Hollywood-style epic befitting his towering stature.

Simon Bolivar, who led the liberation of much of South America from the Spanish in the early 19th century, is the subject of The Liberator, a two-hour epic that is among the costliest movies ever produced in Latin America.

The biopic, which was filmed in four Venezuelan and 12 Spanish cities, tells the tale of the high-born aristocrat turned revolutionary who helped free much of the continent from colonialism.