What is the historical accuracy of Hotel Rwanda?
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The movie is based on a true story and real events, but keep in mind the movie is a drama and not a defnite non-fiction documentary. Check out these links for info on accuracy:
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It depends, some scientific searches are very accurate but some History articles are really biased or just plain lies.\n\nI remember at the beginning of the television era how people believed that everything that came from TV was true. Now it is happening with the internet that it is a great way to obtain information but you have to do your homework are check if it is accurate.
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It's as accurate as it can get.\n\nSatan himself tried to stop this from movie from being made.  Mel Gibson speaks of all the demonic forces that came against him and his team.  But God wanted this movie to be released to bring in the harvest as the Lord's return is sooner than we think.\n\nGod bless you and I understand you getting ill.  Jesus really went through all that for you and me.
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Yes. Not all of it is true (factual, historical), not all of it is false (fictional, mythical).\n\nCan you handle the truth? or the falsity?
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King Arthur was fictitious.
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I'm out here in Iraq and trust me... please trust me when i tell you that it's not all the same or to prevent genocide. Keep in mind that most if not all countries were forged by wars. Specially our great U.S. of A. Need less to say that I pray  everyday for myself and my brothers and sisters in arms because Sh!t is going to hit the fan once saddam is executed...Once more this is nothing like Hotel Rwanda, nothing all,
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*sigh* Its not all lies.  The history is about 50% true, 40% theory-assumption, and 10% just plain wrong.  The book was very one sided, but more exciting.  I felt the movie was much clearer about what was true and what was theory, therefore being more fair to Christianity.
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It appears as though it is a work of fiction, below are a couple links, one of them is supposed to be from the author of the book, which was made into the movie\n\nQ. Is Creasy based on a real character?\nA. Creasy was based on a mixture of characters that I knew in the sixties and seventies in Africa and Vietnam.\n\nQ. Some people have commented that the movie seemed to imply that it was based on a real event, is that impression correct?\nA. Yes, the story was based on an actual event in Italy in '75.
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Rabbit Proof Fence\nIn 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a trek across the Outback.\n\nPinky\nPinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school.\n\nImitation of Life\nIn 1947 at Coney Island, down-on-her-luck actress Lora Meredith and her young daughter Susie meet coloured Annie Johnson and her daughter Sarah Jane... \n\nBlack like me\nBlack Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man. John.\n\nBeloved\nBased on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by a very odd stranger.\n\nThe Tuskegee Airmen (1995)\nThe true story of how a group of African American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the finest US fighter groups in World War II\n\n\nThe Birth of a Nation\nTwo brothers, Phil and Ted Stoneman, visit their friends in Piedmont, South Carolina: the family Cameron. This friendship is affected by the Civil War, as the Stonemans and the Camerons must join up opposite armies. The consequences of the War in their lives are shown in connection to major historical events, like the development of the Civil War itself, Lincoln's assassination, and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.\n\n\nBooks\n\n'Destined to Witness : Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany'...\n\nMassaquoi, the retired managing editor of Ebony, presents an unusual perspective on the Nazi era. The son of an "Aryan" mother and an African diplomat, he grew up in Germany on the wrong side of Nazi racial ideology, confronting not only the bigotry of his countrymen but the danger of Allied bombs on a nearly daily basis.\n\n\n'Germany's Black Holocaust, 1890-1945: The Untold Truth!'\n\nIn the 1890s Blacks were tortured in German concentration camps in Southwest Africa (now called Namibia) when Adolph Hitler was only a child. Colonial German doctors conducted unspeakable medical experiments on these emaciated helpless Africans decades before such atrocities were ever visited upon the Jews.\nThousands of Africans were massacred. Regrettably, historians neglected to properly register the slaughter—that is, to lift it from the footnote in history that it had been relegated to—until now.\nIn an attempt to give the incidents their rightful recognition in the historical context of the Holocaust, Dr. Firpo W. Carr has authored a new book entitled, Germany’s Black Holocaust: 1890–1945. In it, he reveals the startling hidden history of Black victims of the Holocaust. The mayhem and carnage date back to the turn of the 20th century, many years before there were ever any other unfortunate victims—Jew or Gentile—of the Holocaust. \n \n\n'The Other Victims : First-Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis'...\nThe author of Escape or Die sought survivors of other groups deemed undesirable by Hitler, including blacks, clergy, Jehovah's Witnesses, Poles, political prisoners, Gypsies (the only other group Hitler wanted to eliminate entirely) and homosexuals (very few survive and none could be found to interview). Suspenseful vignettes are enlivened by historical background, dialogue, and a not-always happy yet satisfying afterword, telling what eventually happened to each individual. Valiant efforts in the face of total degradation are nothing short of inspiring, and many of these stories are not widely known
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a journalist revisits Rwanda ten years after the genocide -http://news.bbc.co.uk/aboutbbcnews/hi/this_is_bbc_news/newsid_3731000/3731895.stm
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Its just a fiction, an ordinary novel.\nThe Truth Of The Matter:\n\nBrown can be challenged in at least two areas: (1) There are things he claims to be historical which, in fact, are not historical at all; and (2) he completely misrepresents biblical history. Let us briefly consider these two points:\n\n(1) There are things Brown claims to be historical which, in fact, are not historical at all. A primary case in point is the Priory of Sion, an organization that is at the very heart of Brown's story, and which, if proven to be based on bogus history, undermines the entire infrastructure of Brown's theory. This organization is said to guard the secret of Jesus' marriage to Mary Magdalene. It is claimed to have been founded in Jerusalem in 1099 by a French King. The organization is believed to be watching over Jesus and Mary's descendants, and waiting for the perfect time to reveal its secret to the world. Because of constant threat of danger from the Roman Catholic Church, the organization has allegedly hidden its message in literature, paintings, and even architecture such that only learned people can decipher the meanings.\n\nBrown makes the following assertion regarding this organization on page one of The Da Vinci Code: "The Priory of Sion—a European secret society founded in 1099—is a real organization. In 1975 Paris's Bibliotheque Nationale discovered parchments known as Les Dossiers Secrets, identifying numerous members of the Priory of Sion, including Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Leonardo da Vinci." The question is: Are these parchments reliable?\n\nAs a backdrop to answering this question, allow me to point out that Brown obtained much of his information on the Priory of Sion from a book entitled Holy Blood, Holy Grail, by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. In this book we find a dependency on the above–mentioned parchments which allegedly prove that Jesus married Mary Magdalene, had a baby named Sarah, and, following Jesus' death on the cross, Mary relocated to a Jewish community in France. Their descendents were French allegedly royalty.\n\nNow, here is the big problem with all this. These parchments are completely bogus. Historically, in 1953, a Frenchman named Pierre Plantard spent time in jail for fraud. In 1954 he founded a small social club named the Priory of Sion. The purpose of the club was to call for low–income housing in France. The organization dissolved in 1957, but Plantard held on to the name. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Plantard put together a number of bogus documents which "proved" the Jesus–Mary Magdalene theory, with French royalty being their descendants. Plantard claimed that he himself was one of the descendents of this couple.\n\nSome time later, a friend of the French president found himself in legal trouble and Plantard ended up being called to testify in the case. While under oath, the judge asked him about these documents about Jesus and Mary Magdalene, and he admitted he made the whole thing up. An associate of Plantard's also conceded that Plantard made the whole thing up. All this has been thoroughly documented by several French books and a BBC special.2
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read Rwanda Genocide in this article:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda/History
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Well, did it really happen? Its unacceptable because it lends credence to the billion dollar holocaust industry. Frnakly most of the hjolocaust garbage has been proven false. Lechter did it when he performed the first foensic test on the so-called gas chmbars and found no evidence of Zyklon B which has a residue life of 300 years as non evident in the so-called chambers.\n\nForensic evidence is good enough to execute people in America for alleged crimes but it becouse junk science when used to debunk the holocaust myths. Lechter was not the only one to perform forensic scinec on the so -called gas chambers . read the links below and find the real truth for the cover up of the billion dollar holocaust industry.\n\nFact is history has proven it never happened. Laws in certain contries make it a crime punishable by up to 3 years in jail for holocaust denile. Ifthe holocaust is so evident then why are there laws protecting any questioning of it? IT is a crime in some of these countries to even defend ones self from holocaust denile and a lawyer can be charged also if he submits any evidence to debunk the holocaust. IT a win win situation for the Jews in charge of this phony court in certain countries. It s insane and has the mind of a delusional mentally defunct government under the control of mentally ill government.\n\nShinlers list is listed in the Library of Congress as "fictional" yet the Jewish media in America tout it as truth. Anne Frank only wrote about a chapter and a hlif of her diary and the rest was peened by several (6-10) other unknown peoples. This would most certainly make one believe the diary is a fake and at most a fable or myth perpetrated by unknown people to support a holocaust.\n\nToture is never acceptable that is why most of it is amyth and is documented as such. That is why it never happened and most of what we hear about the so-called holocaust is pure propaganda.\n\nRead the links below and begin to learn to question the greatest hoax in all of history. Why is it a hoax? Because if it were discoverd as such it would destroy the billion dollar industry that most of its perpetrators of mis-truth rely upon for their own survival. \n\nHowever, and intelligent human would be able to decide for themselves so it is imparative to learn both sides and form ons own opinion. Read the links below and learn how history is distorted and changed to bennifit a few.
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Rwanda currently has a fragile peace..tutsi and hutu people share the same village they have for hundreds of years...continued uneasy government groups are still trying to organise themselves let alone run the country..the slaughter was carried out on an industrial scale...Un forces were prevented by UN head Kofi Annan from intervening in the carnage..he was abley assisted by dithering on the part of then secretary of state and UN ambassador Madeline Albright...everyone wanted to appear politically correct and not intevene...the killing of a million inocents is a hell of a price for being stylish..
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While this is disturbing, it is is not surprising.\nSimilar things have taken place in other African nations, especially Sierra Leone.\n\nSpeaking of good books on Africa, Paul Rusesbagina (of Hotel Rwanda fame) has a new book called "An Ordinary Man."\nAn interesting book on a terrible time.
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It is said to be real.....but reenacted
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yep....considering that way back in the day, things were documented like they are now...I'd say people are making things up as they go when it comes to certain things in history.