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Heneral Luna (lit. ' General Luna ') is a 2015 Filipino epic war film starring John Arcilla as the titular character Antonio Luna who led the Philippine Revolutionary Army during the early phases of the Philippine–American War.
1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines (Spanish: 1898, Los últimos de Filipinas) is a 2016 Spanish war drama film directed by Salvador Calvo. [2] The film depicts the Siege of Baler from 1898 to 1899, where 54 Spanish soldiers defended themselves in the San Luis Obispo de Tolosa church against Philippine revolutionaries. [3]
Film Year Ernie Zarate: President Ventura Iligpit Si Victor Saraza: 1997 Eddie Gil: Himself (depicted to have won the 2004 Philippine presidential election, from which he was disqualified from running after being declared a nuisance candidate in real life) Volta: 2004 Gloria Diaz: Hillary Dafalong (assassinated) [21] Ang Tanging Ina N'yong ...
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (also titled USS Indianapolis: Disaster in the Philippine Sea) is a 2016 American war disaster film directed by Mario Van Peebles and written by Cam Cannon and Richard Rionda Del Castro, based largely on the true story of the loss of the ship of the same name in the closing stages of World War II. The film stars ...
Vestiges of War: the Philippine–American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999. New York University Press. KASAYANYAN NG LAHI- A HISTORY OF THE FILIPINO PEOPLE. 1974. The Philippine revolution and beyond: Papers from the International Conference on the Centennial of the 1896 Philippine Revolution. Philippine Centennial ...
American Guerrilla in the Philippines (released as I Shall Return in the UK) is a 1950 American war film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Tyrone Power as a U.S. Navy ensign stranded by the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II. Based on the 1945 book of the same name by Ira Wolfert, it was filmed on location.
Amigo centers on Rafael Dacanay, kapitan of the fictional barrio of San Isidro in a rice-growing area of Luzon. [4] His brother Simón, head of the local guerrilla band, has forced the surrender of the Spanish guardia civil outpost and charged Rafael with the task of imprisoning the guardia captain and the barrio's Spanish friar, Padre Hidalgo, in the name of the First Philippine Republic.
The film flashes back to March, 1942, and the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines. As U.S. Army troops under General MacArthur struggle to hold on at Bataan against the Japanese, Colonel Joseph Madden ( John Wayne ) orders one of his officers, Captain Andrés Bonifacio ( Anthony Quinn ), to shape up.