MEXICO: The Country You Only Know Half Of | 4K Travel Documentary

Most of the world knows two versions of Mexico: the beach resort and the news headline. Both are real. Both are a sliver. Behind them sits one of the most biodiverse nations on Earth — home to a tenth of all known species, 68 living indigenous languages, and a capital built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, a city larger than any in 16th-century Europe that is now slowly sinking back into the lake the Spanish drained.

This 4K travel documentary follows the half of Mexico the postcards leave out: the forests where up to a billion monarch butterflies winter on trees they've never seen; the canyon people of the Sierra Tarahumara who turned running into survival; the Maya who never vanished; the cenotes that trace the crater of the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs; and a Zapotec orphan named Benito Juárez who rose to lead the nation.

Discover how Mexico came to hold this much life, language, and memory — and how so much of it has endured.

Take a breath. Stay a while.