Product Details

• Actors: Pancho Villa
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: A&E Home Video
• DVD Release Date: December 27, 2005
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000BF0CL6
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #71,540 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Outlaw, soldier, general and politician, he led a life that ended in violence but left him a legend.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Like Water for Chocolate Background Video, June 24, 2009

By	Kathleen M. RUSSELLHARDIN (Santa Barbara, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I teach remedial reading and writing at the local community college and use this video when I assign Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate so that students can place the novel in time and see actual footage and stills of life surrounding the de la Garza's ranch. Since the book discusses the revolution both inside the family and the one going on around them nationally I think that the video is an excellent tool for understanding the macrocosm.
(I used a progressively forlorn VHS tape until I broke down and ordered this spiffy DVD.)

2 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars famous Mexican dude, June 2, 2006

By	Jeffery Mingo (Homewood, IL USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This documentary covers a Mexican figure that led a raid on U.S. soil. I don't recall reading about this in American history class. I guess tensions between the two nations cannot be summed up by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
This documentary had diverse interviewees: men and women; white Americans, Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals; English speakers and Spanish speakers. There were so many photographs and footage from Villa's time that this work did not depend upon cheesy reenactments.
The work states that Pancho Villa is rapped in myths. He was one part anti-classist equalizer and another part murderous polygamist. Still, it was hard to distill the myth from the facts in this work. He may have "robbed the rich to give to the poor," but his class consciousness did not seem influenced by Marxism. Though Mexican leftists like Rivera and Kahlo may have been book-oriented, Villa was not.
This documentary was made at least five years before Antonio Banderas' film on Villa was released. This work says nothing about Villa collaborating with America's Hollywood. Did the film lie or does the documentary purposely exclude facts that Americans would have found interesting? This work discusses American war tactics that American battle enthusiasts may love to hear.
There is one photo of Villa and Emiliano Zapata. However, the narrator just states that the latter was a southern version of the former. Seeing the two men together reminded me of seeing Malcolm X with Dr. King or Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. This was an important pair that was not discussed enough.
Unlike other Biographies, I knew nothing on this subject. I have to admit it bored me at times. However, if I knew more about Mexican history, maybe it would have been more appealing.