Batas Militar (1997)

Directed by

Jon Red, Jeannette Ifurung

Genre

documentary film

Country

Philippines

Runtime

1h 50m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary covers the period of martial law in the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos and the people power revolution that ousted him. It uses dramatizations and narration to present the events.

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What happens

Batas Militar (transl. Martial Law, marketed as Batas Militar: A Documentary on Martial Law in the Philippines) is a 1997 Filipino television documentary film about martial law under Ferdinand Marcos, and the ouster movement against him, the People Power Revolution. The film was directed by Jon Red and Jeannette Ifurung, with the former focusing on dramatizations and narrated by Joonee Gamboa. The documentary was produced by the Foundation for Worldwide People Power, headed by Eugenia Apostol. It was broadcast on the ABS-CBN television network on September 21, 1997. The documentary was subsequently released on VHS. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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