The Big Screen

Aside from news reports and documentaries on humanitarian crises, sometimes the only way to reach the public at large and raise awareness on human tragedies (historical or contemporary) is through their depiction in the mass media market.

In this page you will find a list of movies on humanitarian crises, organized by theme.

Genocide

- Rwanda
Sometimes in April
Hotel Rwanda
As We Forgive
100 Days
Shake Hands with the Devil
Munyurangabo
Shooting Dogs
A Sunday in Kigali
The Day God Walked Away
Kinyarwanda
Ghosts of Rwanda
Triumph of Evil
When Good Men Do Nothing
Umurage
Keepers of Memory
A Generation After Genocide

- Darfur
Darfur
Darfur Now
The Devil Came on Horseback
Attack on Darfur

- Cambodia
Cambodia: The Betrayal
The Killing Fields
Cambodia: Year One
Cambodia: Year Ten
Fear and Hope in Cambodia
One Evening After the War
Pol Pot: Biography
Samsara: Survival and Recovery in Cambodia
The Secrets of S-21: Legacy of  a Cambodian Prison



The Holocaust
Night and Fog
Schindler's List
Esther's Diary
Sarah's Key
The Round Up
The Infidel
A Jewish Girl in Shanghai
In Darkness
The Third Half
The Reader
Good
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
God on Trial
The Counterfeiters
Forgiving Dr. Mengele
Ghetto
Everything is Illuminated
Out of the Ashes
The Singing Forest
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
The Pianist
Amen
Nuremberg
The Devil's Arithmetic
Left Luggage
Apt Pupil
Miracle at Midnight
The Ring
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
Mother Night
The Substance of Fire
The Witness
And The Violin Stopped Playing