Nick Deocampo's continuing film saga investigates on its third volume how World War II affected the growth of cinema in the Philippines (1942-1945). The author provides another essential contribution to the knowledge of Philippines cinema's evolution as it breaks away from its colonial past to transform into a national cinema. Revealed in the book is a vast wealth of information about Japanese wartime manipulation of motion pictures that would only lead to the inglorious end of the colonial film cycle at war's conclusion. This valuable construction of the country's wartime film artists who formed the Propaganda Corps assigned to the country. They conceived for Filipinos a "national" identity for their cinema, even while this was wrapped in a fascist, colonial, and militaristic context. Seventy years after the end of World War II, Deocampo triumphs over trauma and forgetfulness as he revisits the wartime period and its cinema. He provides a landmark contribution to historical memory as he uncovers one of the bleakest moments in Philippine film history.