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.

Ingagi

1930

English

4.0

♡ 3

95%

William Campbell Director

Sir Hubert Winstead as Explorer

Arthur Clayton as Explorer

Charles Gemora as Ingagi - The Gorilla

Mel Koontz as Photographer

An expedition enters an area of the Congo jungle to investigate reports of a gorilla-worshipping tribe.

Dark of the Sun

1968

English

6.8

♡ 12

67%

75%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

Jack Cardiff Director

Rod Taylor as Capt. Bruce Curry

Yvette Mimieux as Claire

Kenneth More as Doctor Wreid

Jim Brown as Sgt. Ruffo

A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.

The Nun's Story

1959

English

7.5

♡ 25

85%

Fred Zinnemann Director

Beatrice Straight as Mother Christophe

Ruth White as Mother Marcella

Richard O'Sullivan as Pierre

Rosalie Crutchley as Sister Eleanor

After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.

Congo

1995

English

5.3

♡ 44

23%

29%

Action

Adventure

animal human communication

based on novel or book

Frank Marshall Director

Romy Rosemont as Assistant

Tim Curry as Herkermer Homolka

Taylor Nichols as Jeffrey Weems

Joe Don Baker as R.B. Travis

Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone berserk. When the thrill-seekers -- some with ulterior motives -- stumble across a race of killer apes.

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

2024

French

7.8

♡ 11

Action

belgium

central intelligence agency (cia)

Johan Grimonprez Director

Louis Armstrong as (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower as (archive footage)

Nikita Khrushchev as (archive footage)

Malcolm X as (archive footage)

Operation Leopard

1980

French

5.6

♡ 1

Raoul Coutard Director

Mimsy Farmer as Annie

Jean Seberg as Annie Devrindt

Jacques Perrin as L'ambassadeur Berthier

Bruno Cremer as Pierre Delbart

In May 1978, the mining town of Kolwezi in Katanga, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Belgian Congo) is under attack from a group of communist guerillas coming from nearby Angola. The Europeans who work for the Belgian mining company and the Blacks who live in the town are taken as hostages by the invaders, who start a blood bath, shooting Europeans as well as Africans. Many of the Europeans being French, the French decide to organize a counter-attack, and to send a Regiment of Paratroopers from the Foreign Legion. The movie follows the stories of Delbart, a former non-commissioned officer, who was about to go back to France with his African wife and his child, Damrémont, who was Delbart's replacement, Bia, a Zairian doctor, and Annie, an American married to a Belgian engineer as well as Non com Legion officer Federico and the French Ambassador and the Military Attaché.