Editing Spanish–American War (section)

==In film and television==
[[File:USS Olympia 2.jpg|thumb|{{USS|Olympia|C-6|6}}, the only ship currently preserved from the conflict]]

The Spanish–American War was the first U.S. war in which the motion picture camera played a role.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sawhtml/sawhome.html The Spanish American War in Motion Picture] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100219172203/http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sawhtml/sawhome.html |date=February 19, 2010 }}, US Library of Congress.</ref> The [[Library of Congress]] archives contain many films and film clips from the war.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/papr:@FIELD(COLLID+spanam) Early Motion Pictures, 1897–1920] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603151023/http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem%2Fpapr%3A%40FIELD%28COLLID+spanam%29 |date=June 3, 2011 }}, US Library of Congress</ref> As good footage of fighting was difficult to capture, filmed reenactments using model ships and cigar smoke were shown on vaudeville screens.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Robbins|first=Dylon Lamar|date=2017-07-03|title=War, Modernity, and Motion in the Edison Films of 1898|journal=Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies|volume=26|issue=3|pages=351–375|doi=10.1080/13569325.2017.1292222|s2cid=191498781|issn=1356-9325|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=1999|title=Crucible of Empire: The Spanish American War|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g8NpQsmxj4&t=2731s |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/8g8NpQsmxj4| archive-date=2021-12-11|url-status=live|access-date=28 Oct 2021|via=PBS}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In addition, a few feature films have been made about the war. These include:
* ''[[The Rough Riders (film)|The Rough Riders]]'', a 1927 silent film
* ''[[A Message to Garcia (film)|A Message to Garcia]]'', 1936
* ''[[Pursued]]'', a 1947 Western film. Its main character Jeb Rand ([[Robert Mitchum]]) is wounded in the war and receives the [[Medal of Honor]]
* [[Rough Riders (film)|''Rough Riders'']], a 1997 television [[miniseries]] directed by [[John Milius]], and featuring [[Tom Berenger]] (Theodore Roosevelt), [[Gary Busey]] ([[Joseph Wheeler]]), [[Sam Elliott]] ([[Buckey O'Neill]]), [[Dale Dye]] ([[Leonard Wood]]), [[Brian Keith]] (William McKinley), [[George Hamilton (actor)|George Hamilton]] (William Randolph Hearst), and [[R. Lee Ermey]] ([[John Hay]])
* ''[[Crucible of Empire|Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War]]'', a 1999 [[television documentary]] from [[PBS]]
* ''The Spanish–American War: First Intervention'', a 2007 [[docudrama]] from [[The History Channel]]
* ''[[Baler (film)|Baler]]'', a 2008 film about the [[Siege of Baler]]
* ''[[Los últimos de Filipinas]]'' ("The Last Ones of the Philippines"), a 1945 Spanish biographical film directed by [[Antonio Román]]
* ''[[Amigo (film)|Amigo]]'', 2010
* ''[[1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines]]'', a well-acclaimed 2016 film about the [[Siege of Baler]]