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• Actors: Cesar Montano
• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000OPYWSW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #479,971 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Japanese occupation of Manila during WWII and persecution of Filipinos then. Narrated by Cesar Montano.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Humbling and Superior Work, January 18, 2008

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John Linantud (Houston, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Manila 1945 - The Forgotten Atrocities (Filipino Dvd) (DVD)

Manila 1945: The Forgotten Atrocities is a humbling and superior work of archival research, academic commentary, and oral history about a country, a time, and a battle that too many people have never remembered, much less forgotten. At the age of seven years, my father lost his two older brothers to cholera in a barrio that did have enough clean water for all the people trying to get out of harm's way. That was in Cavite. This documentary focuses on the desperate Japanese defense of Manila three years later. As the title suggests, imperial troops did a lot more than conduct military operations against the attacking American army. Let us just say that many men, women, and children in Manila, especially today's tourist traps of Ermita and Malate, suffered and perished from a spree of violence that had no military objective. Luckily, Manila 1945 has recorded the first-hand accounts of many who were there, including Filipino National Artist Francisco Sionil Jose. Their testimony will burn their war memories into yours, so be prepared.