Shooting Dogs

1994, 800,000 killed in 100 days. Would you risk your life to make a difference?

April 6th 1994: a bloody genocide in central Africa gets underway.

In just one hundred spring days, a million Rwandan Tutsis were massacred by their fellow Hutu countrymen and a small African country was turned into a charnel house. The barbarity was beyond imagination. But not beyond prevention. The UN was there, watching. Watching but not acting.

And at the heart of it all a British priest and his young acolyte were forced to confront the depths of their faith, the limits of their courage and, ultimately, to make a choice. To remain with their people or to run away.

Rotten Tomatoes Score:

84%

Genre:

Drama, History

Writer:

David Wolstencroft, Richard Alwyn, David Belton

Directors:

Michael Caton-Jones

Leads:

John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Dominique Horwitz, Louis Mahoney, Nicola Walker, Steve Toussaint

Music:

Dario Marianelli

Length:

115 minutes

Year:

2005

Country:

UK, Germany

Language:

English, French

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