recommended viewing

The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Directed by Kevin MacDonald and based on the book by Giles Foden

The Last King of Scotland, based on a novel by Giles Foden, interweaves fact and fiction in portraying the life of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker) from the perspective of a young Scottish doctor who becomes Amin’s personal physician and close advisor.

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The Constant Gardener (2005)
Directed by Fernando Meirelles and based on the book by John le Carre

The movie stars Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz in a film that is equal parts documentary, love story and murder mystery.

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Nowhere in Africa (2002)
Directed by Caroline Link and based on the autobiographical book by Stefanie Zweig. Subtitled from German and Kiswahili.

The emotional storyline is just as compelling and genuine, to a large extent based on the traumatic true lives of the German-Jewish Zweig family during the rise and fall of the Nazis.

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