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The Peacekeepers

9.5(2)20051h 23m1

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.

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Released
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Language
EN
  • politics
  • peace
  • congo
  • world peace
  • united nations

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Director

Paul Cowan

Writers

Paul Cowan

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Release dates

  • CanadaCA

    • TV14A26 Apr 2005
  • CzechiaCZ

    • Theatrical26 Apr 2005
  • SwedenSE

    • TV1526 Apr 2005

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The Peacekeepers was released on 26 April 2005.

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