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In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for financing guns and ammunition. The Mutual Film Corporation, through producer D.W. Griffith, interests for the proposition and sends the filmmaker Frank Thayer to negotiate a contract with Pancho Villa himself.

A revolutionary leader turns his bloody battlefield into a Hollywood movie set to fund his next ammunition shipment. This surreal collision of guerilla warfare and early cinema captures the moment when real violence became a profitable spectacle.

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