Emiliano Zapata was a horse trainer and watermelon farmer from Morelos who became the moral conscience of the Mexican Revolution. While other revolutionary leaders grabbed for political power, Zapata fought for one thing only — the return of stolen land to the peasants who worked it. His slogan "Tierra y Libertad" became the revolution's most enduring cry, and his assassination by government forces turned him into a martyr whose image still appears at every land rights protest in Latin America.

This episode traces Zapata from his rural Morelos childhood through the Plan de Ayala, the alliance and break with other revolutionary factions, and the ambush at Chinameca that killed him at thirty-nine.

• Zapata's rural origins and the land disputes that radicalized him against the Diaz regime
• The Plan de Ayala and the demand for a ...