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What are some good movies about slavery, or racism?

Im looking for films today, whether it was out again in the year slavery that has to do with racism … Something similar to Rosewood, Malcolm X, American History X. .. What are some movies based on that? Thanks!

Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 historical drama film about the hotelier Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle) during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass killing of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis by Hutus in Rwanda's Hutu Power ideology. Most estimates indicate a death toll among 800,000 and 1,000,000. The genocide was directed by a Hutu group known as the Akazu energy. This, the beginning of Hutu power, an ethnically pure idealized dominated Rwanda Hutus. Blood Diamonds (2006) is a provocative documentary that looks at the victims and perpetrators of diamonds fuel the atrocities in countries like Sierra Leone. One such victim is Usman Conteh. Captured by the rebels in the Kono district in Sierra Leone, Usman was forced to mine diamonds for the rebels (slavery) and then sold or traded for weapons. After months of captivity, Usman escaped only to realize the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) had murdered his family. In various nations African warlords have used diamonds to fund brutal African conflicts have been a means to power, a reason to terrorize millions of innocent civilians, and may have financed some of the world's most brutal terrorists. Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel armies have forced hundreds of thousands of people to draw diamonds (slavery) in brutal, dangerous conditions under the threat of death. In Sierra Leone, rebels chopped people's hands, arms, feet, lips and ears indiscriminately for years in a civil war financed by the illicit diamond trading. In 2000, the UN accused Liberian President Charles G. Taylor of supporting the RUF insurgency in Sierra Leone with weapons and training in exchange for diamonds. In August 2003, Taylor resigned as president, and after being exiled to Nigeria, now faces trial for crimes against humanity and war crimes. Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981) The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his government tyranic from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979. His rule was marked by human rights violations, political repression, ethnic persecution, extrajudicial killings and the expulsion of Asians from Uganda. The number of people killed as a result of his regime is unknown, estimates of international observers and human rights groups are from 100,000 to 500,000. The victims soon came to include members of other ethnic groups, religious leaders, journalists, senior bureaucrats, judges, lawyers, students and intellectuals, criminal suspects and foreigners. Amin continues to believe that is the 'Hitler of Africa "and promises that he really erecting a statue in honor of its namesake "in the center of Kampala. In some cases, entire villages were razed. bodies floated in the Nile River in quantities sufficient to clog Owen Falls Hydroelectric Dam in Jinja, at least once. The killings, motivated by ethnic, political and financial factors, continued for years Amin reign of eight. Raid on Entebbe (1977) is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of hostages at Entebbe Airport in Entebbe, Uganda on July 4 1976. One commando was killed (the operation commander Yonatan Netanyahu, brother of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu), three of the hostages, and the soldiers under 45 then Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin. A fourth hostage, Dora Bloch, a British and Israeli citizen who was on his way to see the wedding of his son in New York have taken to the Hospital Kampala's Mulago, was killed by the Ugandan Idi Amin orders.

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