Vme TV Uses Generative AI to Bring the Untold Hispanic Stories of the American Revolution to Life

Most Americans know Washington, Jefferson and Lafayette. Few know Bernardo de Gálvez, Juan de Miralles or Diego de Gardoqui. Their names may be unfamiliar. Their place in the story of American independence is not. As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, Vme TV is bringing that overlooked chapter to light with Aliados por la Libertad, a new original short-form series that uses generative AI to recreate the Hispanic and Spanish figures of the American Revolution — and the world they inhabited.

The Spanish-language series premieres Aliados por la Libertad premiered September 15 on Vme TV during Hispanic Heritage Month. Episodes will also be available on Vme’s YouTube channel and social media platforms.

Each episode takes viewers from the battlefields of the Gulf Coast and the streets of colonial New Orleans to Havana, Bilbao and across the Atlantic, revealing a side of the fight for American independence rarely seen on screen.

Among the stories: Bernardo de Gálvez, the Spanish governor of Louisiana whose military campaigns at Baton Rouge, Mobile and Pensacola denied Britain a southern front against the colonies; Juan de Miralles, the Cuban-born merchant who served as Spain’s informal envoy to the Continental Congress and died in George Washington’s own headquarters at Morristown, N.J., in 1780; Diego de Gardoqui, the Basque merchant who covertly shipped arms and supplies to the Continental Army while Spain was still officially neutral; Francisco de Miranda, the Venezuelan-born officer who fought at the Siege of Pensacola in 1781 before going on to champion Latin American independence; and Jorge Farragut, the Spanish-born sailor who joined the American cause, fought at the Siege of Charleston and the Battle of Cowpens, and became the father of the first admiral in U.S. Navy history.

The series is already expanding. A new episode currently in production features Felicitas de Saint-Maxent, the New Orleans-born Creole whose marriage to Gálvez connected the Spanish governor to the influential local society on which his Gulf Coast campaigns depended.

“Aliados por la Libertad is really about looking at a story we think we know and discovering who has been missing from it. Hispanic history isn’t separate from American history. These stories show just how deeply the two have been connected from the beginning,” said Michael Fernández, Vice President of Marketing and People at Vme Media.

GENERATIVE AI

With much of this history surviving primarily through portraits, paintings, maps and documents, Vme turned to generative AI to visualize a world largely preserved through static historical records.  The technology allowed the creative team to build an 18th-century visual world spanning colonial New Orleans, Havana, Bilbao, the Atlantic and the battlefields of the Gulf Coast — all grounded in documented historical research and constructed shot by shot under human creative direction.

For Vme, the technology serves the story — not the other way around.

“The technology had to disappear into the story,” Fernández said. “We don’t want someone watching an episode and thinking about AI. We want them wondering why they never heard this story before.”

New episodes will continue to join the series throughout the remainder of 2026 and into 2027.