http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYwuXvA589A
Hotel Rwanda is a harrowing movie that destroys and renews your faith in humanity as you watch it. I first saw it in seventh grade as part of a unit we were doing on genocide but didn't get to watch the whole thing. I didn't quite have the context to really get what was going on. I don't think I even knew where Rwanda was. I re-watched the movie on my own in eighth grade to pick up on everything I missed. To be perfectly honest it's one of five movies that made me cry. Paul Rusesabagina is portrayed as an every-man, a man who made the decision to do what he thought was right. The movie shows the impact that one man can have in preventing a Genocide. The UN is portrayed (accurately) as unwilling to do anything to really stop the conflict. Nick Nolte plays Col. Oliver, who is clearly supposed to be Dallaire, the UN Colonel who wants to stop the atrocities but is severely hampered by his superiors. Hotel Rwanda isn't a documentary but I feel that it accurately captures the hopelessness and brutality of the genocide in a way that no history class ever could.
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