Film

= = =__**Films**__= = = =Children of Men= media type="youtube" key="NikEQy1XxDE"[1] "Children of Men" tells a fictional story of the world in 2027. It had been eighteen years since a child had been born. Finally, a pregnant woman is found, and the burden of safely escorting her out of the country is placed on an "unlikely champion of the human race" (Children of Men, n.p.). [2] = = [|Children of Men Review]

=Blood Diamond= media type="youtube" key="xKgn0bqD66M"[3] "Set against the backdrop of the chaos and civil war that enveloped 1990s Sierra Leone, 'Blood Diamond' is the story of Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), an ex-mercenary from Zimbabwe, and Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou), a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories and their circumstances are as different as any can be until their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rare pink diamond, the kind of stone that can transform a life…or end it" (Rotten Tomatoes, n.p.). [4] [|Blood Diamond Website]

=Lost Boys of Sudan= media type="youtube" key="E2M9ukI98Mo"[5] "Lost Boys of Sudan is an Emmy-nominated feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa's cruelest civil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion attacks and militia gunfire to reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. From there, remarkably, they were chosen to come to America. Safe at last from physical danger and hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves confronted with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia" (Lost Boys of Sudan, n.p.). [6] [|Lost Boys of Sudan Website]

=Amistad= media type="youtube" key="gibuvG4prkQ"[7] "Amistad" tells the story of the slaves aboard a slave ship in 1839. They staged a mutiny as a run for freedom, but were taken to America. Much of the movie involves the trial of the slave who led the mutiny (Hatch, n.p.). [8] [|Amistad at the Internet Movie Database]

=Invisible Children= media type="youtube" key="I0XQEysQJPQ"[9] "Invisible Children" is a documentary recorded by several college students of their experiences in Uganda. They discovered the horrible situations of many children who dread being abducted and trained to be child soldiers. Hundreds of children flee from their homes every night to escape the constant threat (Wikipedia, n.p.). [10] [|Invisible Children Website]

=Hotel Rwanda= media type="youtube" key="j2vMvyQeb1U"[11] "Don Cheadle gives a riveting performance as Paul Rusesabagina, the manager of a European-owned hotel in Rwanda, who created a secret refugee camp for the Tutsi people during the brutal genocide committed against them by the Hutu people in 1994" (Rotten Tomatoes, n.p.). [12] [|Hotel Rwanda at the Internet Movie Database]

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