Kofi Annan

Kofi Annan

Born: April 8, 1938
Died: August 18, 2018
in Kumasi, Ghana

Movies for Kofi Annan...

Soros
Title: Soros
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 31, 2019
Type: Movie
Billionaire activist George Soros is one of the most influential and controversial figures of our time. He is maligned by ideologues on both the left and the right for daring to tackle the world’s problems. With unprecedented access to the man and his inner circle, director Jesse Dylan follows Soros and pulls back the curtain on his personal history, private wealth, and public activism.
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The Diplomat
Title: The Diplomat
Character: Self
Released: April 23, 2015
Type: Movie
The life and legacy of Richard Holbrooke, whose singular career spans fifty years of American foreign policy, is told in this documentary from Holbrooke's eldest son David.
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Jane's Journey
Title: Jane's Journey
Character: Himself
Released: September 6, 2011
Type: Movie
It would be hard to name anyone who has had more of an impact in the realm of animal research and wildlife conservation than Jane Goodall, whose 45 year study of wild chimpanzees in Africa is legendary. In Jane's Journey, we travel with her across several continents, from her childhood home in England, to the Gombe National Park in Tanzania where she began her groundbreaking research and where she still returns every year to enjoy the company of the chimpanzees that made her famous. Featuring a wide range of interviews and spectacular footage from her own private collection, Jane's Journey is an inspiring portrait of the private person behind the world-famous icon.
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The Peacekeepers
Title: The Peacekeepers
Character: Himself
Released: April 26, 2005
Type: Movie
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.
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Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60
Title: Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
The history of the United Nations highlighting the gap between the good intentions and ideals of its inception and the sad reality of its present state of inefficiency and corruption.
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Ghosts of Rwanda
Title: Ghosts of Rwanda
Character: Himself
Released: April 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Ghosts of Rwanda marks the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide with a documentary chronicling one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century. In addition to interviews with key government officials and diplomats, this documentary offers eyewitness accounts of the genocide from those who experienced it firsthand. FRONTLINE illustrates the failures that enabled the slaughter of 800,000 people to occur unchallenged by the global community.
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The Corporation
Title: The Corporation
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 10, 2003
Type: Movie
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.
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Kofi Annan: Center of the Storm
Title: Kofi Annan: Center of the Storm
Character: Himself
Released: January 7, 2003
Type: Movie
This documentary follows the life of Kofi Annan, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and Secretary General of the United Nations. With unprecedented access, filmmakers follow Annan as he accepts the Nobel Prize, struggles to get food to Afghans threatened with starvation, travels to Tokyo and Thailand to raise funds and garner support for the interim government in Afghanistan, and celebrates East Timor's new independence.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Sabine Christiansen
Character: Self
Released: January 4, 1998
Type: TV