On the President's Orders
2019, Tagalog. Directed by Olivier Sarbil & James Jones.
The searing story of President Duterte's bloody campaign against drug dealers and addicts in the Philippines, told with unprecedented and intimate access to both sides of the war - the Manila police, and an ordinary family from the slum. Shot in the style of a thriller, this observational film combines the look and feel of a narrative feature film with a real life revelatory journalistic investigation into a campaign of killings. The film uncovers a murky world where crime, drugs and politics meet in a deathly embrace - and reveal that although the police have been publicly ordered to stop extra-judicial killings, the deaths continue.
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- 1h 10m
- Post-credits
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- Tagalog
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On the President's Orders is streaming on PBS Documentaries in India.
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- 25 March 2019
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On the President's Orders is streaming on PBS Documentaries in India. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed On the President's Orders?
On the President's Orders (2019) was directed by Olivier Sarbil and James Jones and stars Rodrigo Duterte.