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Language
English
Formats
Description
The year is 1916. The enemy, Pancho Villa, is elusive. The terrain is unforgiving, the intense heat and dust both relentless and overpowering. Through the mountains and across the long dry stretches of Mexico, Napoleon Childs, an aging cavalryman, leads an expedition of inexperienced horse soldiers on seemingly fruitless searches. Napoleon has weathered the storms of battle with a toughness that has become like a second skin, with the Rattler, a horse...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 477 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After Pancho Villa, a feared outlaw and revolutionary, kidnaps a railroad tycoon known as the Colonel's grandchildren, he and his adopted son head to El Paso in hopes of finding men brave enough to hunt the criminal down.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2004, c2003
Edition
Widescreen (16:9) presentation.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of how Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, altering the course of film and military history in the process. Early movie giants D.W. Griffith and Harry Aiken send Frank Thayer to Mexico to persuade the cash-strapped, publicity-hungry Villa to let them film his revolution. Stepping into the literal cross fire, Thayer's crew risk their lives in the mingling of fiction and reality. The two...
Publisher
Facets Multimedia
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
This classic of Mexican cinema follows the adventures of six young men who leave their rural homes to join Pancho Villa's army. Together the men endure hardship, tragedy, and disillusionment for the cause of the Mexican Revolution.
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the turn-of-the-century Mexican outlaw who helped overthrow the Diaz government in the Revolution of 1910.
11) Pancho Villa
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Quality Flims
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD : sound color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
La figura legendaria del hombre violento, cruel, y heroio que cambio la historia de Mexico, revive en esta pelicula magistralmente actuada y dirigida por dos de los pilares del Cine Azteca: Pedro Armendariz e Ismael Rodriguez.
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Primera ediciaon.
Physical Desc
224 pages cm
Language
Español
Description
"Valentain, at only twelve years old, makes a promise to his mother on her deathbed: to go in search of his father, who, a few years earlier, joined the Villista ranks. The Northern Division passes through the boy's town and the boy, in a burst of courage, approaches the Centaur himself without hesitation. Thus begins a journey of adventure and wisdom, in which Valentain must demonstrate that he has entered, albeit forcedly, into adulthood. Will he...
18) Villa rides!
Series
Publisher
Legend films
Pub. Date
1968, 2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the turbulence of early 20th century Mexico, this movie chronicles the fights and flights of one of Mexico's favorite folk heroes.
19) El vago
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
309 p., 2 p. of plates : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Taurus
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1. ed.
Physical Desc
233 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Demonstrates the hold that Pancho Villa has had on the imagination in and outside of Mexico from his day to the present in films, books, monuments, objects with his name and portrait, popular religion, and other areas.
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