The Entire History of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) | Sleep History with Rain Sounds

Sleepless History: Sleep Documentaries · Sep 13, 2026 · 1h 45m · transcript

The entire history of the Mexican Revolution, 1910 to 1920, told slowly and in

full over rain sounds, so you can fall asleep somewhere between the fall of

Porfirio Diaz and the writing of a constitution that is still in force today.

Tonight we spend a long while in Mexico, in the decade a government of

thirty-five years came apart, and the people who pulled it apart spent six more

years arguing about what should replace it. It is a story of railway timetables

and land surveys, of mining concessions and tax receipts, of men on horseback

who became generals, then governors, then names on…