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1) Hotel Rwanda
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English
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The deeply moving true story of a five-star-hotel manager who used his wits and words to save more than 1,200 lives during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.
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English
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A refugee's escape, a prisoner's promise, and a daughter's painful secret converge in this inspiring real life story of hope. As three fathers fight to save their families, their lives become intertwined in an unlikely journey across the globe, where they learn the healing power of forgiveness and reconciliation.
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English
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In April 1994 the airplane of the Hutu President of Rwanda crashes and the Hutu militias slaughter the Tutsi population. In the Ecole Technique Officielle, Christopher, a Catholic priest and Joe Connor, an idealistic English teacher give sanctuary to twenty-five hundred Rwandans survivors in the school, which is under the protection of the UN Belgian force and under siege from the Hutu militia. When the Tutsi refugees are abandoned by the UN, they...
7) Kinyarwanda
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English
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During the Rwandan genocide in 1994, when neighbors killed neighbors and friends betrayed friends, some crossed lines of hatred to protect each other. As the country became a slaughterhouse, mosques became places of refuge where Muslims and Christians, Hutus and Tutsis came together to protect each other. Interweaves six different tales that together form one grand narrative that provides the most complex and real depiction yet presented of human...
8) Munyurangabo
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Film Movement volume year 7, film 5
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Kinyarwanda
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Two young men from separate tribes--one, an orphan of the Rwandan genocide looking for revenge, and the other just returning home to his family--travel from Kigali to the countryside.
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English
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In 1994, Immaculée Ilibagiza's idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. The Diary of Immaculée reveals the true story of a woman's experiences in the midst of one of history's most tragic events. Includes interviews with Dr. Wayne W. Dyer and Carl Wilkens.
10) As we forgive
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English
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Documents two Rwandan women who struggle when they have a face-to-face encounter with the men who slaughtered their families during the 1994 genocide. The women and men speak for a nation still wracked by the grief of a genocide that killed one in eight Rwandans. Come experience through their eyes the journey from death to life through forgiveness.
12) Rwanda genocide
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English
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Examines the genocide in Rwanda and the international response.
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"The day-to-day struggle for dignity and survival that goes on in refugee camps remains invisible to most of the world. In this ABC News program, actor Don Cheadle travels to Uganda to focus media attention on the plight of innocent people -- specially children -- displaced and endangered by war. Cheadle visits a rehabilitation center for boys and girls kidnapped by the Lord's Resistance Army, the militia that has battled the Ugandan government for...
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Dian Fossey is widely celebrated for saving mountain gorillas from extinction. Her pioneering life was complex, and her enemies were rife. In 1985, Fossey was brutally slain in her remote mountain cabin. In the years since, one man has carried a heavy burden of injustice. The series is filled with Fossey's observations, recorded in her writings and brought to life by Sigourney Weaver.
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Follows the powerful odyssey of James Orbinski, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Doctors Without Borders, as he returns to Africa to ponder the meaning of his life's work and the value of helping others.In Triage, James returns to Africa to clear his mind and complete his book. Taking a journey to Rwanda, Congo, and Somalia, he revisits the past, and engages with the present. He encourages people to move beyond rage and despair, where...
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English
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Two worlds collide when cycling legend Jonathan "Jock" Boyer moves to Rwanda to help the first Rwandan National Cycle Team in their six year journey to compete in the Olympic Games. Against impossible odds both Jock and the team find new purpose hope for a future as they rise from the ashes of their past.