What One Can Watch about the MDGs Movies are a powerful way to show others why you care about the crisis of extreme poverty. You could show them on your campus, in the classroom, in a youth group, or look for a local theatre to sponsor a larger viewing in your community.

What One Can Watch about the MDGs

Movies are a powerful way to show others why you care about the crisis of extreme poverty. You could show them on your campus, in the classroom, in a youth group, or look for a local theatre to sponsor a larger viewing in your community.

Documentaries/Unrated Movies

A Closer Walk (2005) Full-length film on the global AIDS crisis. Explores the relationship between health, human rights, and outlines the need for global action. Narrated by Glenn Close and Will Smith. Includes interviews with widely recognized figures such as the Dalai Lama and singer Bono. Director: Robert Bilheimer

The Girl in the Cafe (2005) Two people meet in a café and attend the G8 Summit together, romance blooms. Their goals at the summit are contradictory. Good movie for information on the Millennium Development Goals. Starring: Kelly Macdonald, Bill Nighy. Director: David Yates.

Life and Debt (2001) Documentary on the affects of IMF, World Bank, and other international organizations work in Jamaica. Author Jamaica Kincaid narrates with Belinda Becker to a reggae soundtrack that includes songs by Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Mutubaruka and Peter Tosh. Starring: Jamaica Kincaid, Belinda Becker. Director: Stephanie Black.

Bamako (2006) A village in Africa puts on a mock trail against the World Bank for crimes against the village. Danny Glover produces. Starring: Aissa Maiga, Maimouna Helene Diarra. Director: Abderrahmane Sissako. Some parts in foreign language with English subtitles.

3 Needles (2005) Documents the spread of AIDS in Asia, Africa and North America through the lives of three people affected by the disease. Starring: Stockard Channing, Lucy Liu and Sandra Oh. Director: Thom Fitzgerald.

Mainstream/Rated Movies

Yesterday (2004) A mother in an African village finds out she is HIV positive and stuggles with how it affects her husband and daughter. Starring: Leleti Khumalo, Lihle Mvelase. Director: Darrell Roodt. English subtitles. Rated R for pervasive strong violence.

Hotel Rwanda (2005) The story of an ordinary man in Rwanda who uses the hotel he manages to save more than 1,000 refugees. Starring Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte and Joaquin Phoenix. Director: Terry George. Some with have English subtitles. Rated PG-13 for violence, disturbing images and brief strong language.

The Constant Gardener (2005) A British man in Africa discovers shocking evidence of the horrible consequences of some of his country’s actions. Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz. Director: Fernando Meirelles. Some parts with English subtitles. Rated R for language, some violent images and sexual content/nudity.

Blood Diamond (2006) A diamond smuggler and a local fisherman’s paths meet in their separate struggles for the “good life” and results in their taking on the diamond industry’s practices in Sierra Leone. Starring: Djimon Hounsou, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly. Director: Edward Zwick. Rated R for strong violence and language.

Watch Online

A Growing Hunger, PBS NOW. This 20-minute episode outlines how US cotton subsidies have a negative impact on Burkina Faso. Watch online at http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/310/index.html.