Apocalypto: Directed by Mel Gibson. With Rudy Youngblood, Dalia Hernández, Jonathan Brewer, and Morris Birdyellowhead. As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, a young man is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression. Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man’s idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and ultimately save his way of life.