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If you want to start with the colonial period, I'd start with Matthew Restall's "Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest": http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Spanish-Conquest-Matthew-Restall/dp/0195176111/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416504333&sr=8-1&keywords=restall+seven+myths+of+the+spanish+conquest. It is about demystifying certain aspects of the conquest and it's highly readable, insightful and entertaining.
Then, I would definitely go for Steve J. Stern's "Huamanga": http://www.amazon.com/Indian-Peoples-Challenge-Spanish-Conquest/dp/0299141845/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416504068&sr=8-1&keywords=huamanga. It concentrates on Peru, but it is totally relevant to Latin America's global colonial experience.
I would also recommend, for a survey of the andean nineteenth-century's socio-political landscape, Brooke Larson's "Trials of Nation-making": http://www.amazon.com/Trials-Nation-Making-Liberalism-Ethnicity/dp/0521567300/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416504627&sr=8-1&keywords=brooke+larson. It's a well written, synthetic and critical explanation of how race and ethnicity played a key role in defining the political projects of the Andean elite after the independence.
After all that we could move on to the twentieth-century...
If you are looking for movies, as a chronological introduction, go for: Herzog's "Aguirre", Joffé's "The Mission", Alea's "La última cena", Eisenstein's "Que viva Mexico", Kalatasov's "Soy Cuba", Soderbergh's "Che", Alea's "Memorias del subdesarollo" Costa-Gavras' "State of siege" and "Missing", Guzman's "La batalla de Chile", Polanski's "Death and the Maiden", Puenzo's "La historia official", Bollaín's "También la lluvia"
You have a lot of fun in front of you. Good luck!