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Rough Riders is a 1997 American television miniseries directed and co-written by John Milius about future President Theodore Roosevelt and the regiment known as the 1st US Volunteer Cavalry; a.k.a. the Rough Riders. The series prominently shows the bravery of the volunteers at the Battle of San Juan Hill, part of the Spanish–American War of 1898. It was released on DVD in 2006. The series originally aired on TNT…
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Spanish-American War, just like the Second Boer War, was one of the first armed conflicts to be captured on film and, just like the Second Boer War, it was all but completely ignored by filmmakers in the next hundred years. There are many reasons for that, but the most obvious one is in the way the Spanish-American War differed from the popular perception of warfare in the 20th Century - it was a simple, one-sided a…More