The Peacekeepers (2005)
• April 26th, 2005 • 1h 23min
Documentary
Overview
With unprecedented access to the UN Department of Peacekeeping, The Peacekeepers provides an intimate and dramatic portrait of the struggle to save "a failed state" The film follows the determined and often desperate maneuvers to avert another Rwandan disaster, this time in the Democratic Republic of Congo (the DRC). Focusing on the UN mission, the film cuts back and forth between the UN headquarters in New York and events on the ground in the DRC. We are with the peacekeepers in the "Crisis Room" as they balance the risk of loss of life on the ground with the enormous sums of money required from uncertain donor countries. We are with UN troops as the northeast Congo erupts and the future of the DRC, if not all of central Africa, hangs in the balance. In the background, but often impinging on peacekeeping decisions, are the painful memory of Rwanda, the worsening crisis in Iraq, global terrorism, and American hegemony in world affairs.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Hail Yourself, America!
Released on: 2019-08-01
Documentary
In 2017, podcaster and comedian Ben Kissel ran for Brooklyn Borough President to stand up for his ne...
Fahrenheit 9/11
Released on: 2004-06-25
Documentary
Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push...
A Mindful Choice
Released on: 2016-10-15
Documentary
Inner peace and self-fulfillment are possible for each of us. Two modern day monks set off on an int...
Inquiry: The Great British Housing Disaster
Released on: 1984-09-04
Documentary
David Jones investigates how 1960s council housing came to be built so poorly that thousands later n...
Ratamata
Released on: 1970-01-01
Documentary
A portrait of the diverse opinions of Chicagoans as they reflect on the general state of affairs in ...
Red, White and Blue
Released on: 1971-03-01
Documentary
A documentary about the hearings of President Nixon's Commission on Obscenity, featuring adult-film ...
Orange Revolution
Released on: 2007-04-01
Documentary
Filmmaker Steve York explores the controversial 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, during which c...
Boys State
Released on: 2020-01-24
Documentary
This raucous journey into the heart of democracy captures an unusual rite of passage: 1,100 teenage ...
Influence
Released on: 2020-01-27
Documentary
Charting the recent advancements in weaponized communication by investigating the rise and fall of t...
Big Charity: The Death of America's Oldest Hospital
Released on: 2014-05-03
Documentary
This documentary film includes never-before-seen footage and exclusive interviews to tell the story ...
The 50 Year Argument
Released on: 2014-06-07
Documentary
Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
Released on: 2006-10-27
Music, Documentary
Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how ...
Blood Amber
Released on: 2017-08-23
Documentary
Somewhere in Myanmar is a forest rich in amber and controlled by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA)....
Accidental Anarchist
Released on: 2017-07-23
Documentary
Carne Ross was a government highflyer. A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save u...
Hello My Dear
Released on: 2021-05-01
Documentary
The documentary is titled after Arkadaş Z. Özger’s poem “Hello My Dear” which had caused much contro...