Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Hollywood, War
Director: Terry George
Actors: Desmond Dube, Don Cheadle, Fana Mokoena, Jean Reno, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Nolte, Sophie Okonedo
Country: Italy, South Africa, UK
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Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
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The Professor and the Madman (2019)
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Only the Dead (2015)
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The Death of Louis XIV (2016)
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Mr. Jones (2019)
In March 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travel to Ukraine, where he experiences at first hand the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet…