New People's Army - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

During the late 1980s, after the EDSA Revolution, movies such as Dante, Victor Corpus, Alex Boncayao Brigade, Sparrow, and Balweg, Rebel Priest featured prominent leaders and members of the group.

The 2011 ABS-CBN and Tagalog-language soap opera Minsan Lang Kita Iibigin partly dramatizes a group similar to the NPA and their fight against the Philippine military and government.

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