Pancho Villa was a bandit turned revolutionary general who invaded the United States, starred in a Hollywood film about his own revolution, and remained so popular among Mexican peasants that the government spent decades trying to suppress his legend. He crossed the border at Columbus, New Mexico in 1916 — the last foreign military incursion on American soil — and Pershing's Punitive Expedition never caught him.

This episode traces Villa from his impoverished childhood through the bandit years, the revolutionary campaigns, the Columbus raid, and the assassination that ended the life of Mexico's most colorful and most dangerous revolutionary.

• Villa's poverty, the murder he committed as a teenager, and the outlaw years before the revolution
• The Division del Norte and the military campaigns that made him the revolution's mos ...