This Bloody, Blundering Business (1975)

In this satirical rendering of the history of American intervention in the Philippines following the Spanish-American War, the 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 Jan. 1, 1975 30 min None+

Genres: Comedy, Documentary, History, Short

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.president, imdb.spanish-american-war, imdb.imperialism, imdb.1900s, imdb.philippines, imdb.filipino-american-war + 5 more, imdb.1890s, tmdb.united-states-military, tmdb.satire, tmdb.us-military, tmdb.philippine-history