Product Details

• Actors: Karen Feiertag
• Directors: Paul Cowan
• Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: BFS Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: July 7, 2009
• Run Time: 83 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B002997SGY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #139,404 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The ongoing war for peace

Violent and brutal civil wars are inflicting slaughter and misery on the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The United Nations Department of Peacekeeping is working overtime to avoid another Rwandan disaster. In this shocking and explicit film, award-winning director Paul Cowan gains unprecedented access to the UN's offices and bureaus to capture behind-the-scenes peacekeeping tactics. Cutting back and forth between New York, the UN's Crisis Room and on-the-ground footage of Third World devastation, The Peacekeepers provides a realistic and profound balance of hope in the face of ongoing strife.

This program is Closed Captioned for the hearing impaired.

LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / FRENCH

LE PRIX DE LA PAIX

En République démocratique du Congo, la guerre civile dure depuis cinq ans et a déjà fait trois millions de victimes. Le contrôle de l est du pays, riche en or et en diamants, est convoité par des groupes rebelles et d importants massacres de civils sont perpétrés. À l ONU, on redoute le scénario catastrophe: une interminable escalade de la violence qui s étendrait à toute l`Afrique centrale, et pire encore, un génocide.

Profitant d`un accès privilégié et sans précédent aux coulisses de l'ONU, le cinéaste Paul Cowan raconte, de façon intimiste et dramatique, les intenses tractations visant à sauver un État complètement ravagé. Et il pose des questions essentielles. Les Nations-Unies sont-elles en mesure de préserver la paix dans le monde? Et à quel prix?

Avec sous-titrage codé pour malentendants.

OPTIONS LANGUES: FRANÇAIS / ANGLAIS

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, January 27, 2010

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This review is from: The Peacekeepers (DVD)

I use this DVD for lecturing purposes on universities for graduate and post graduate studies. As a member of an UNA I can highly recommend this DVD, it is naturally biased, but not as much as one might assume. It still is very critical about the UN procedures and shows a lot of the administrative work of the UNPKO as well as the field work and the greater political picture.