Buffalo Soldiers
In many ways, the documentary film project A Crisis of Conscience: Buffalo Soldiers in the Philippine-American War, produced by a Black American filmmaker, Mark Harris, and the Hollywood actor Danny Glover, echoes the fundamental issues that spurred the Black Lives Matter movement: equal justice, an abiding belief in the ideals America represents and upholding the dignity and humanity of every person.
Harris and Glover, who have been working on their labour of love for the past five years, also wanted to bring attention to a little known chapter in both American and Philippine history, which takes place during the Philippine-American war that begun in 1899 and ended in 1903. Their documentary was the subject of a recent webinar at Manila House.
It centres on the Buffalo Soldiers who were shipped off to the Philippines
