Revolutionary Mexico on film : a critical history 1914 2014 Important figures of Mexican history are discussed Benito Juarez Porfirio Diaz Francisco Madero Jr. Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata as well as non Latinos whose actions were influential. Performers production personnel and literary sources for films dealing with revolutionary Mexico from the silent film The Life of General Villa to Cinco de Mayo la Batalla (2013) are covered