Movie Review | 'The Empire in Africa': Citizens Suffer in a Country Torn by Civil War
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Philippe DiazÂs tumultuous documentary is a noble but failed attempt to explicate the tragedy of Sierra LeoneÂs 11-year civil war.
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Derek Luke and Tim Robbins star in this film set in apartheid-era South Africa.
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This beautifully performed, touching one-act play is not quite the personalized cry against genocide that the playwright intends it to be.
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At the age of 12 Oscar Torres joined a guerilla army in his native El Salvador. A new film based on his story highlights the plight of child soldiers now fighting in more than 20 conflicts around the world.
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While âThe Maddening Truthâ is fascinating as a character study, its weakness as a play is the paucity of dramatic conflict.
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As a child, Oscar Torres fled the civil war in his homeland. Now he has brought his story home as a new film, "Innocent Voices," opened before enthusiastic crowds in the nation's capital.
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In Aceh, Indonesia, the decision about where to resettle must be made at the intersection of natural calamity and civil war.
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Africa may be seen by the rest of the world as a continent dogged by war and poverty, but Africans themselves are fiercely proud of their homeland, a survey conducted by British broadcaster the BBC showed on Monday.
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Africa may be seen by the rest of the  world as a continent dogged by war and poverty, but Africans  themselves are fiercely proud of their homeland, a survey  conducted by British broadcaster the BBC showed on Monday.
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ALEXANDRA, South Africa -- As she drove home to this township, known as the Dark City during apartheid because it lacked electricity while Johannesburg's white neighborhoods nearby blazed with light, community activist Bongi Dhlomo-Mautloa experienced a delicious moment of irony.
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Kevin Macdonald's queasily enjoyable fiction film creates a portrait of the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin from inside the palace walls.
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Two new films shed light on Pakistan's deep-rooted social and political problems by looking at them through the eyes of a child.
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Movies about the war in  Iraq and forced child labor in South America have earned top  honors from the International Documentary Association.
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In Darfur, both sides play the diplomatic game. The rebels&#39; best suit is the suffering of their people. The government&#39;s is that international intervention failed spectacularly in Iraq.
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It's an odd choice for Egyptian popular entertainment: a bleak movie about corruption, torture and political stagnation in a country where cinematic happy endings are the norm. But audiences are packing the theaters.
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South Africa&#39;s Charlize Theron  gained dual U.S. citizenship this year and in her first movie  since, the A-list actress tackles a very American subject with  &quot;In the Valley of Elah,&quot; which looks at the human toll of the  Iraq war in this country.
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While most of the country&#39;s attention has been focused on Iraq, a human-rights crisis has been unfolding in north Africa. In Darfur, Sudan, more than 50,000 people have been killed and 1.2 million displaced