The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries — Season 1, Episode 29: Wanted: Dead or Alive - Pancho Villa and the American Invasion of Mexico

Episode synopsis

At least 100 ballads sing his name and his praises, telling tale of a mythical figure: outlaw, bandit, lover, a modern Robin Hood. His image was even carefully crafted by Hollywood so that Americans revered Francisco Villa as a hero. But on March 9, 1916, US troops on the southern border and were told to prepare for an invasion of Mexico. Thousands of American soldiers to join in a hunt for just one man: Villa -- idealistic revolutionary had transformed into an enemy by his shocking nighttime raid into US territory.

About The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries

A series of documentaries covering a wealth of historical epochs touched upon in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992).

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Archaeology: Unearthing Our Past
• E2Howard Carter and the Tomb of Tutankhamun
• E3Colonel Lawrence's War - T.E. Lawrence and Arabia
• E4From Slavery to Freedom
• E5Theodore Roosevelt and The American Century
• E6Ecology - Pulse of the Planet
• E7American Dreams - Norman Rockwell & The Saturday Evening Post
• E8Art Rebellion - The Making of the Modern
• E9Edgar Degas - Reluctant Rebel
• E10Braque & Picasso - A Collaboration Cubed
• E11Giacomo Puccini - Music of the Heart
• E12It's Opera!