Los documentales nacionales de la Revolución mexicana : The national documentaries of Mexican Revolution

The earliest producers of the documentary were the Alva brothers. Alva Brothers and Jesús H. Abitia can be considered early pioneers of the Mexican Revolutionary documentary genre. Besides the documentaries, black and white photos serve as archives that document the Mexican Revolution. Mediateca of Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia is a major repository of such items. In 1961, Gustavo Carrero edited Abitia's documentary films into Epopeyas de la Revolución. The other equally important compilation of documentaries is "Memorias de un Mexicano." It is a documentary that is edited by Carmen Toscano de Moreno Sánchez with a script and scenes filmed from the archive of engineer Salvador Toscano. Kassandra D. Sifuentes Zúñiga is the author of a fundamental work on Mexican Revolutionary Cinema called, "Historia social del cine en Monterrey durante el Porfiriato y la Revolución Mexicana." The other equally important contributors to the documentary heritage of the Mexican Revolution were the Stahl brothers. They established a well-known cinema house "Salón verde," in Guadalajara. And filmed one of the early military-themed documentaries-Tercer regimiento frente a su cuartel (1906).

Los rollos perdidos de Pancho Villa was a series of films whose protagonist was Pancho Villa himself." The life of General Villa "was produced under the contract between the Mexican rebel leader Pancho Villa and the Mutual Film Corporation in 1914. Frank Katz, a historian from the United States, discovered a contract made in 1914 by the American Mutual Film Company in which Pancho Villa cedes the rights to film his battles. A four-part documentary was directed by Gregorio Rocha. Below is part 1 of the documentary used for educational purposes only.