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This Bloody, Blundering Business

Where:

🇵🇭 Philippines

When:

The 1890s The 1900s

An incisive satire on U.S. foreign policy, THIS BLOODY BLUNDERING BUSINESS traces the history of American intervention in the Philippines following the Spanish-American War. A silent movie format with lively ragtime piano music is combined with a dramatically understated narration and excerpts from "newsreels" of the period to reveal the nature of American attitudes toward Third World peoples and significant parallels with contemporary American foreign policy.

Released in 1975 — 30 minutes

Genre:

Documentary

Language:

English