조는 고아인 질과 마치 한가족처럼 함께 자란다. 중앙아프리카 정글을 탐사하던 동물학자 그레그 오하라는 키가 15피트나 되는 조를 보고 깜짝 놀란다. 그레그는 질와 함께 밀렵꾼의 표적이 된 조를 보호하기 위해 조를 캘리포니아의 동물보호소로 옮기지만, 밀렵꾼들의 추적은 그칠 줄 모른다. 하지만 밀렵꾼들은 돈이 되는 조를 쫓아 질의 일행을 추격한다. 새로운 환경과 스트레스로 탈출한 조. 거대한 덩치로 LA 도시 한 복판에 떨어진 조는 당황하고, LA는 혼란에 휩싸인다. 질과 그렉은 조를 안심시키고 보호소에 안전하게 데려다 주기 위해 동분서주 하는데...
순진 무구한 젊은 의사 개리건, 세계에서 가장 잔혹한 독재자 이디 아민와 만나다! 이제 막 의과대학을 졸업한 니콜라스 개리건(제임스 맥어보이)은 아프리카 오지에서 가난한 사람들을 위해 자신의 의술을 펼치고자 하는 젊은 혈기로 홀홀단신 아프리카로 향한다. 그러나 그가 도착한 곳은 바로 독재자 이디 아민이 지배하고 있는 우간다. 장미빛 환타지에 취해 우간다에 도착한 그는 우연한 사고로 이디 아민과 맞딱드리게 되고, 젊은 그의 당당함과 물러서지 않는 배짱에 매료된 이디 아민은 그를 개인주치의로 고용하게 된다. 절친한 친구이자 자문가로 이디 아민의 삶속에 뛰어든 개리건 걷잡을 수 없는 광기의 회오리에 말려들다. 그후 개리건은 능력있고 인간적인 지도자의 모습에서 점차 전제적인 권력자로 변모해 가는 이디 아민의 곁에서 그의 절대적인 지지를 받으며 화려한 파티와 스포츠카, 아름다운 여인들에 둘러싸여 권력의 중심에 발을 들여놓게 된다. 그러던 개리건은 위험 천만의 로맨스에 빠져들게 된다. 그 대상은 바로 바로 이디 아민의 세번째 부인인 케이 아민(케리 워싱톤). 이미 정적들을 암살하고, 정권에 반대하는 국민들을 고문과 무자비한 학살로 극단의 잔혹성을 보이는 이디 아민에게 위협을 느끼지만 케이 아민과의 사랑은 깊어간다. 날로 위험해지는 우간다의 정세와 광기에 휩싸여가는 이디 아민의 사이에서 두 사람의 비밀스러운 로맨스는 마침내 파국을 향해 치닫는데…
1976년 6월 27일, 프랑스 항공기를 납치한 팔레스타인인과 혁명분파 독일인은 이스라엘 정부에 52명의 테러리스트 석방을 요구한다. 이스라엘에서 4,000km 떨어진 우간다의 엔테베 공항에 억류된 239명의 인질, 이들을 구출하기 위한 7일간의 구출 작전이 펼쳐진다.
Based on a true Military operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the PFLP. The plane has about 100 Jewish passengers. The plane is grounded in Uganda. Israelis would not negotiate. The movie then shows how less than 500 soldiers actually flew so far and rescued the passengers in one of the most successful Military operations in history. The only casualty for Israeli soldiers was Lt. Col. Jonathan "Yoni" Netanyahu..
The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Entebbe Airport (now Entebbe International Airport) in Uganda.
The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.
Three children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda compete in their country's national music and dance festival.
A mild-mannered doctor is trained in the art of ass-kicking commando vengeance by a no-nonsense ghetto kid in an effort to regain a family heirloom from Uganda’s toughest gang.
우간다의 독재자인 이디 아민 장군은 오보테 장군을 몰아 내고 1971년 대통령이 되었다. 경제를 살린다는 목적으로 우간다에 있는 모든 외국인들을 몰아내고 경제 전쟁을 선포하며 우간다에 있는 아시아인들을 모두 내 몰았다. 이디 아민 장군이 있는 동안 수만 명의 우간다인 들이 죽어 나갔다. 영화는 아민 장군의 연설, 내각 회의, 이디 아민 장군의 집에서의 인터뷰 등으로 구성되어 있다.
As word spreads that there is a serial killer at large who continues to commit murder, an off-duty police officer must return an elderly witness who lives in a remote part of Uganda back to town. Along the way, the policeman gives a ride to an injured man. On the way to the city, the passenger tells the policeman the events that led him to end up injured in the middle of the road. But as we travel with these mysterious characters in the car, director Loukman Ali shows us that the stories they tell are only fragmentary and partial versions of the events that took place, and that perhaps there are truths buried beneath each of their words.
Sexual violence against women is a very effective weapon in modern warfare: instills fear and spreads the seed of the victorious side, an outrageous method that is useful to exterminate the defeated side by other means. This use of women, both their bodies and their minds, as a battleground, was crucial for international criminal tribunals to begin to judge rape as a crime against humanity.
Filmed over 23 years, Rise of the Warrior Apes tells the epic story of an extraordinary troop of chimpanzees in Ngogo, Uganda – featuring four mighty warriors who rule through moral ambiguity, questionable politics, strategic alliances and destroyed trust.
Shikha Samuel (Rima Killingal) and Jayakrishnan (Vijay Babu) have eloped and made Uganda their home with the help of Advocate Firoz (Mukesh), who is practising law there. The couple is leading a happy life with a girl child of their own. Jayakrishnan is employed as a manager in a coffee shop and Shikha runs a designer boutique of her own. The tranquillity of their life is shattered when Shikha is arrested on the charges of committing two murders, one of the victim is the daughter of the local Mayor, who has pledged to keep her in jail for the rest of her life.
For over 18 years a civil war in northern Uganda has dragged on almost completely unnoticed by the rest of the world. The rebels of the LRA ( Lord's Resistance Army) are waging a bloody guerilla campaign. They abduct children and conscript them as soldiers, forcing them to kill their own people. The film Lost Children documents the lives of four children, from 8 to 14 years old, who successfully escaped the LRA. They return home to be branded as killers. Will they ever forget? Will they be forgiven? Can you ever be a child again after being a soldier?
Four students from the President's Leadership Circle at Frostburg State University journey to a remote village in Uganda to discover a radically simple solution to an urgent global problem. What they find there changes their lives in unexpected ways. A Simpler Way is a documentary production from Frostburg State University and Interdependent Pictures that explores the need for simple, affordable solutions to global development issues and the role of personal experience in meaningful, transformative education.
At the Munich Olympics of 1972, John Akii Bua, from the impoverished African country of Uganda, powered round the inside lane in the 400m hurdles, past the English favourite, and reigning Olympic Champion David Hemery, to win the gold medal, 10m clear of the field. John Akii Bua had become the first African to win gold in an event under 800 metres. He was also the first man to break the 48 seconds barrier in the 400 metre hurdles, an event so gruelling its nickname is 'The Mankiller'. This is the story about that amazing triumph - and what happened next. David Hemery retired to respectable fame and fortune, later becoming president of the UK's athletics federation. John Akii Bua returned to a Uganda carving the name of its military "President", Idi Amin, into genocidal notoriety. This is a film about the pinnacle of athletic achievement - and the search to discover what followed.
As if they were showing their film to a few friends in their home, the Johnsons describe their trip across the world, which begins in the South Pacific islands of Hawaii, Samoa, Australia, the Solomons (where they seek and find cannibals), and New Hebrides. Thence on to Africa via the Indian Ocean, Suez Canal, North Africa, and the Nile River to lion country in Tanganyika. (They are briefly joined in Khartum by George Eastman and Dr. Al Kayser.) Taking a safari in the Congo, the Johnsons see animals and pygmies, and travel back to Uganda, British East Africa, and Kenya.
Hugo Winter, a roguish American drug smuggler, travels to Uganda in an attempt to export a large amount of Bulu, a sacred herb that grants the user visions of their future. Upon arriving in Kampala, he soon discovers that his only means of achieving this is through two sisters with competing agendas, born-again Kisakye and rebellious Angela, who come from the remote village of Makaana where the Bulu is grown. As they lead Hugo deeper into the jungle and further into their web of deceit, it is unclear if his drug-addled prophecies are helping his quest or clouding his future.
A character-driven heartfelt story of resilience and the impact of education. The film follows Angel, Moses and Nina from the slums of Kampala, Uganda through a world tour with the Grammy-nominated African Children's Choir; stunningly shot and told through Angel, Moses and Nina's perspectives on their one shot journey from poverty to education.
Ebola hunters stomp out the Ebola virus.
