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This Bloody, Blundering Business
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This Bloody, Blundering Business

1975-01-01 · 30 min · ★ 7.3

History · Comedy · Documentary

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.

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