For its first hour, “The Kingmaker” is a charming and wistful portrait of the former First Lady of the Philippines, whose affluence and outsized persona once loomed large across the nation. Then it ...

The Philippines, and its long tug of war between democracy and autocracy, is the subject of two timely documentaries. In A Thousand Cuts, set for U.S. release later this summer, director Ramona Diaz ...

Lauren Greenfield’s documentary opens with a well-dressed elderly woman riding through town, doling out money to the impoverished citizens she passes along the way. This is the Imelda Marcos the ...

It was always a little too easy to laugh at Imelda Marcos. The gold and the kitsch, the fine art and the tchotchkes, the rows of bedazzled shoes and the towering dome of shellacked hair — it was all ...