DVD: rwandan (accounts genocide minutes)

DVD: rwandan

DVD:

60 Minutes - Hiding From Death (December 03, 2006)

1 review

CBS, 2006

What the world chose to ignore.
This is a very touching account of what happened in Rwanda. I will encourage anyone to view this.

Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda

23 reviews

PBS Paramount, 2005

PBS special: one of the best
I teach a genocide and hate awareness class. As a teacher, this documentary outstrips other videos concerning the atrocities in Rwanda. So many of our kids have seen Hotel Rwanda. Not that it is bad, but it was edited by the director to not be as graphic as it could have been, and many of the key characters were changed, such as Gen. Dallaire into Nick Nolte's character. The Ghosts of ...

Defying Genocide

Produced by the USHMM committee on conscience: Whenever genocide has occurred, individuals have risked their own lives to save others. How can their courage inspire us to defy genocide? The story of how Simone Weil Lipman was able to save thousands of Jewish children during the Holocaust is a starting point for an exploration of what it takes to defy genocide. The film focuses on Damas Gisimba, director of a small orphanage in Rwanda that was ...

Through My Eyes: A Film About Rwandan Youth
Hawa Essuman

Choices, Inc, 2006

Through My Eyes follows the youth of Rwanda today, who use the arts to help move the country forward ten years after the genocide. By expressing themselves through dance, poetry, music and painting, the teens, many of whom lost parents and family members during the conflict, are able to deal with the emotional and physical trauma they endured. The film documents how through organizations and group activities, these creative talents not only ...

Beyond the Gates

18 reviews
John Hurt, Hugh Dancy

20th Century Fox, 2007

an overwhelmingly powerful film
"Beyond the Gates" (aka "Shooting Dogs") is a shattering true-life drama set during the Rwandan genocide of 1994 - a holocaust in which over 800,000 unarmed Tutsis were brutally massacred by their gun- and machete-toting Hutu neighbors simply for being "different." This harrowing and heartbreaking film focuses on a Catholic priest and a young American teacher who find themselves caught up in a ...

Keepers of Memory: Survivors' Accounts of the Rwandan Genocide
Keepers of Memory

Choices, Inc., 2005

Through eyewitness accounts and gripping footage, acclaimed director Eric Kabera takes the viewer on an emotional journey into the 1994 Rwandan genocide, its survivors, and the memorials created in the victims' honor. The film focuses on the personal accounts of men and women who watch over the sacred burial sites keeping the memories alive for future generations. They tell a tale of unimaginable pain and loss that is both inspirational and ...