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The peacekeepers [videorecording (DVD)].

National Film Board of Canada : 13 Production : Arte France, c2005.

DVD 355.357 P355

United Nations -- Armed Forces -- Congo (Democratic Republic)

Peacekeeping forces -- Congo (Democratic Republic)

Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1997-

Alternate title:

Prix de la paix [videorecording (DVD)]

Peace keepers [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (83 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

"A National Film Board of Canada production in co-production with 13 Production and Arte France"--Container.

Public performace rights.

In English with optional English and French subtitles.

Closed-captioned.

Directed, photographed, and written by Paul Cowan ; editor, Hannele Halm ; sound, Craig Lapp ; original music, Jean Mallet ; producer, Adam Symansky ; executive producer, Éric Michel.

Narrator, Karen Feiertag.

"With unprecedented access to the United Nations 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 manoeuvres 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 United Nations 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. As Secretary General Kofi Annan tells the General Assembly at the conclusion of The Peacekeepers: "History is a harsh judge. The world will not forgive us if we do nothing." Whether the world's peacekeeper did enough remains to be seen."--Container.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Cowan, Paul. 1947-

Symansky, Adam.

National Film Board of Canada.

13 Production (Firm)

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