Uganda - Idi Amin's dictatorship
Idi Amin's dictatorship 1971-79. Terror, Isralian raid on Entebbe, Uganda–Tanzania war, fall of dictator.
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- DirectorKevin MacdonaldStarsJames McAvoyForest WhitakerGillian AndersonBased on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.
- DirectorSharad PatelStarsJoseph OlitaThomas BaptisteLeonard TrolleyThe chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.
- DirectorMira NairStarsDenzel WashingtonSarita ChoudhuryRoshan SethAn ethnic Indian family is expelled from Idi Amin's Uganda in 1972 and lives in Mississippi 17 years later. The dad sues Uganda to get his property back. The grown daughter falls in love with a Black man.
- DirectorGeorge MihalkaStarsMarina OrsiniMassimo GhiniLouis Gossett Jr.The life of Lucille Teasdale, who devoted her life to being a surgeon in Uganda from the 1950s to the 1980s.
- DirectorMenahem GolanStarsYehoram GaonGila AlmagorAssi DayanIn July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to release many terrorists held in Israeli prisons. After much debate, the Israeli government sent an elite commando unit to raid the airfield and release the hostages. This movie is based on the true facts and follows the events since the flight's take-off and until the hostages' return to Israel.
- DirectorMarvin J. ChomskyStarsHelmut BergerLinda BlairKirk DouglasIn 1976, terrorists hijack an Air France airplane, and divert it to Uganda, where they demand to exchange their hostages for fellow terrorists held in Israeli jails.
- DirectorIrvin KershnerStarsPeter FinchCharles BronsonYaphet KottoTrue story of a daring Israeli commando assault on the Entebbe Airport in Uganda to free hostages of a terrorist hijacking.
- DirectorNikolaj CederholmStarsAnders MatthesenMorten Hauch-FausbøllLouise MieritzComedy stage show portraying the legendary Danish multi-millionaire Simon Spies who lived quite an unusual life in the 70's and 80's, filled with sex, ladies, booze, drugs, business, and airplanes. A man who constantly played around with the medias.
- DirectorDirk de VilliersStarsDawie MalanElias MoloiLouw VerweyDaan and his brother, Dingetjie, travel to Cape Town in search of Doctor McDonald to cure Dingetjie's shy nature. They encounter a conman who introduces them to a phony clairvoyant who promises to heal Dingetjie spiritually.
- DirectorCaroline KamyaStarsPhilip BuyiRehema NanfukaStephen OcenOne day in the life of three people, a 12 year old former child soldier, a hip hop dancer and a maid taking us from the city of Kampala, Uganda to northern Uganda post-war.
- DirectorBronweNStarsKaitlyn AdairPaul AngersNatasha-Rose ArluisonIn the wake of Idi Amin's reign of terror, Bena and Indra Patel seek refuge and a new life in Canada. Needing money to feed their family, Bena ventures into the Farmer's Market with her delicious homemade samosas. The townspeople are not ready to accept this woman who looks so different in their very white world. They are suspicious of her and her food. Bena does not give up. Through hard work, perseverance, a bit of luck, and the open-mindedness of a few citizens, Bena's samosas become the talk of the town. The years pass and Bena's business grows. Competition arrives. In one short generation, the Farmer's Market has become a mecca of multicultural cuisine, thanks to the perseverance of the Patels.
- DirectorPatrick SekyayaStarsEdlyn SabrinaArfaan AhmedAbha KalsiThe Ugandan is a feature film about Raman, an Indian survivor of Idi Amin's regime, who is blackmailed by his Ugandan girl friend (Becky) when he claims his father's property. Drama unfolds when his daughter falls in love with Becky's brother. In this riveting story of lies, love and xenophobia, we get a peak into the legacy of Idi Amin's Uganda and the challenges of inter-racial relationships in a country where polarization has created a deep mistrust on all sides.
- DirectorRoy BattersbyStarsJohn MatshikizaRudolph WalkerOke WambuThe true story of a daring prison break. Wycliffe Kato, Director of Civil Aviation in Idi Amin's Uganda was at the airport to catch a flight to Canada for a conference when he was arrested by Amin's secret police, members of the notorious Sate Research Bureau, and thrown into the Nakasero prison. This should have meant certain death, but, along with his cell mates, army officers who had come under suspicion of organizing a coup, he escaped and made it on foot to Nairobi. This TV movie is based on Wycliffe Kato's own account in his book "Escape From Idi Amin's Slaughterhouse".