Updated: May 2
“We live in a turbulent time,” filmmaker Ken Burns (pictured) said in a news release. “There’s never been a better moment to lift up and reflect diverse stories from history to provide a greater perspective on what we’re experiencing now.”
“A Long March (directed by Tamara Botkin), which follows three Filipino-American veterans from war to erasure by the U.S. government.”
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“We took a look at what we had and decided we owed it to our elderly veterans to finish telling this story as soon as possible. Because we couldn’t reach our subjects safely, we made the decision to i
“Now, Covid-19 has taken aim at my subjects: elderly Filipino men and women who served in the US army but were denied benefits and citizenship by the US Congress in 1946. Some of the subjects of the f
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