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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, [3] and the ouster movement against him, the People Power Revolution. [4] The film was directed by Jon Red and Jeannette Ifurung, with the former ...
Bar Boys is a 2017 Philippine comedy-drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Kip Oebanda. The film stars Rocco Nacino, Carlo Aquino, Enzo Pineda and Kean Cipriano, and revolves around a group of friends who will try their best to become aspiring lawyers in a law school. Produced by TropicFrills Film Productions, in cooperation with ...
v. t. e. This is a list of films that deals with topics about the 1972–1981 martial law under Ferdinand Marcos. Various filmmakers made films that directly deal with the political atmosphere, provide social commentary, or chronicle the life of Filipinos during the period. Most of the feature films circle on the struggles and human rights ...
Rodolfo Vera Quizon was born at Calle Padre Herrera (now P. Herrera St.) in Tondo, Manila, on July 25, 1928. [ 4 ] His parents were married on July 14, 1925, in Malate, Manila. [ 5 ] His father, Melencio Espinosa Quizon (December 1, 1899 – May 14, 1971), [ 6 ] was a ship engine worker from Bulacan stationed in the Atlantic Gulf.
Contents. Martial law under Ferdinand Marcos. At 7:15 p.m. on September 23, 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos announced on television that he had placed the Philippines under martial law, [ 1 ][ 2 ] stating he had done so in response to the "communist threat" posed by the newly founded Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), and the sectarian ...
2× FAMAS Award for Best Director. Ronald Allan Kelley Poe NA (August 20, 1939 – December 14, 2004), known professionally as Fernando Poe Jr., and often referred to by his initials FPJ, was a Filipino actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, and politician. His long and successful career as an action star earned him the nickname " Da ...
Box office. $2,275,000 (US rentals) [1][2] 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 ...
The dictatorship of 10th Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos in the 1970s and 1980s is historically remembered for its record of human rights abuses, [1][2] particularly targeting political opponents, student activists, [3] journalists, religious workers, farmers, and others who fought against his dictatorship.