This article examines films produced by the Franciscan and Dominican religious orders, the different historical contexts in which these films were made, and their role as tools for integrating the Peruvian Amazon and its populations into the “Peruvian nation” during the twentieth century. Through films such as La Conquista de la Selva (1929), Misiones dominicas del Perú—filmed in 1924, premiered in Lima in 1927, and exhibited in Barcelona in 1929—and Los Campas del Perú (1980), among others, religious missionaries contributed to reinforcing prejudices and representations of the Amazon as a region in need of civilization.
