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Season 1, Episode 29: Wanted: Dead or Alive - Pancho Villa and the American Invasion of Mexico
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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.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
Archaeology: Unearthing Our Past
Episode 2
Howard Carter and the Tomb of Tutankhamun
Episode 3
Colonel Lawrence's War - T.E. Lawrence and Arabia
Episode 4
From Slavery to Freedom
Episode 5
Theodore Roosevelt and The American Century
Episode 6
Ecology - Pulse of the Planet
Episode 7
American Dreams - Norman Rockwell & The Saturday Evening Post
Episode 8
Art Rebellion - The Making of the Modern
Episode 9
Edgar Degas - Reluctant Rebel
Episode 10
Braque & Picasso - A Collaboration Cubed
Episode 11
Giacomo Puccini - Music of the Heart
Episode 12
It's Opera!
Episode 13
The Archduke's Last Journey - End of an Era
Episode 14
Powder Keg - Europe 1900 to 1914
Episode 15
Sigmund Freud - Exploring the Unconscious
Episode 16
Carl Jung and the Journey to Self Discovery
Episode 17
Psychology - Charting the Human Mind
Episode 18
Seeking Truth - The Life of Leo Tolstoy
Episode 19
Unquiet Voices - Russian Writers and the State
Episode 20
Aristotle - Creating Foundations
Episode 21
Ancient Questions - Philosophy and Our Search for Meaning
Episode 22
Jiddu Krishnamurti - The Reluctant Messiah
Episode 23
Annie Besant - An Unlikely Rebel
Episode 24
Medicine in the Middle Kingdom
Episode 25
Eastern Spirituality - The Road to Enlightenment
Episode 26
Thomas Edison - Lighting Up the World
Episode 27
Invention and Innovation - What's Behind a Good Idea?
Episode 28
The Mystery of Edward Stratemeyer
Episode 29
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Pancho Villa and the American Invasion of Mexico
Episode 30
General John J. Pershing and His American Army
Episode 31
George S. Patton - American Achilles
Episode 32
Easter Rising - The Poets' Rebellion
Episode 33
The Passions of William Butler Yeats
Episode 34
Sean O'Casey vs. Ireland
Episode 35
Ireland - The Power of the Poets
Episode 36
Winston Churchill - The Lion's Roar
Episode 37
Demanding the Vote - The Pankhursts and British Suffrage
Episode 38
Fighting for the Vote - Women's Suffrage in America
Episode 39
Historical Lecture: The Promise of Progress