Movie Review

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Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 86.3 | The History Cooperative

Destiny of Empires: The Spanish-American War of 1898. Prod. by Hugh Purcell, 1998. "'Remember the Maine': The Roots of the Spanish-American War": 52 mins. "The Spanish-American War: A Conflict in Progress": 50 mins. (Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Box 2053, Princeton, NJ 08543-2053)

These two videotapes should be viewed together, as both are essential to comprehensive understanding of the Spanish-American War. "'Remember the Maine'" begins with the explosion that focused United States attention on Cuban affairs, and it also covers Adm. George Dewey's success at Manila Bay. The bulk of the film, however, discusses the United States in the late nineteenth century, the imperialist impulse, the journalism of William Randolph Hearst, and many facets of the Cuban rebellion and the influence of Cubans in the United States. The companion film scarcely mentions those preambles, focusing primarily on the fighting in Cuba. It describes the recruitment and deployment of United States forces, provides extended coverage of the ground action around Santiago de Cuba, and includes a remarkable and informative computer-graphic reenactment of the sinking of the Spanish fleet. Subsequent military and diplomatic events through the imposition of the Platt Amendment in 1901 receive rather cursory treatment. . . .

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