Batas Militar (1997)
"Batas Militar" is a definitive documentary about martial law under the dictatorship of former President Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines.
- Date of release
- 1997-09-21
- TMDB
- 10.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Jon Red, Jeannette Ifurung
Casting
- Joonee Gamboa — Narrator
- Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. — Himself (archive footage)
- Satur Ocampo — Himself
- Jovito Salonga — Himself
- Bernabe Buscayno — Himself
- Raul Manglapus — Himself
- Romeo Espino — Himself
- Manuel Yan — Himself
- Rafael Ileto — Himself
- Bonifacio Gillego — Himself
- Blas Ople — Himself
- Onofre Corpuz — Himself
Interesting facts
Batas Militar 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.
Production
Eugenia Apostol, a journalist and publisher, brought a film crew together to create a documentary under her newly established Foundation for Worldwide People Power (renamed as the Eggie Apostol Foundation in 2012) about the injustices committed during the two-decade presidency of Ferdinand Marcos.
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