The documentary exposed what really happened in the Philippines during the American occupation. It highlighted, most specially, the political and historical issues during the time. Contrary to what our textbooks on Philippine history say, the American occupation was far from peaceful. There was violence in all forms “burning of villages, massacres and abuse of women. However, these were not all of the atrocities did by the Americans during that time. There was the method of "water cure" a counterinsurgency method of the Americans, not only to gain information, but it was also a form of torture towards the Filipinos showing of what could happen if they plan to rebel against the American occupation. Another issue was that of the misleading historical background of the strong ties between the Philippines and America. The ties between the two countries were actually established during the Philippine-American war of 1899, and not the Second World War. Thus, whenever the American occupation would be mentioned to the Filipino people that lived during that time of turmoil, it would trigger a traumatic emotional response because of the anomalies that took place during that period. This may be unknown to most Filipinos, but Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. president at that time of the American occupation in the Philippines, congratulated an American general for the massacres that took place in the Philippines. No, the massacres were not to create a peaceful Philippine “ America relationship; those extreme measures were taken because America wanted the Philippines to be one of its colonies (which, obviously worked until this very day). There was heavy discrimination of the Filipinos: the Americans did not consider the Filipinos as equals and called them "niggers ; and because of this, the Americans did not have a hard time to "shoot the Filipinos like rabbits . Another issue in question was the "legality  of water boarding or the water