Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60
by Citizens United
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Director: Citizens UnitedBrand: Citizens United
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 65 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Deep Distribution
DVD Reviews of Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60
DVD Review: Oversimplified and somewhat inaccurate
Summary: 3 Stars
This film on the United Nations examines the goals the founders of the UN envisaged for the organization and then investigates how the UN failed in light of these original goals. The sixty-five minute documentary is divided up into the following topics: the original promise; the United Nations and Israel; peacekeepers; Rwandan genocide; Srebrenica massacre; scandals and corruption; reform.
In the first critical topic the authors claim that the UN has failed Israel, starting in 1948, when it did not defend the country against the attacking Arab armies. It does not mention that the organization has also failed 2.5 million Palestinians who have lived under Israeli occupation for almost forty years and whose citizenship rights this international body never enforced. The argument that the UN is systematically biased against Israel is therefore oversimplified.
The other discussions appear all right to me, even though the authors fail to point out that different failures of the UN have different underlying causes and therefore need to be addressed in different ways. Examples are alleged rapes of women in Congo by UN personnel and failure to send UN troops to Rwanda. Clearly, these are two very different problems that call for separate solutions. In light of this fact the documentary's final chapter, which calls for reform, falls short. It provides no way out of the bleak picture the authors have drawn, leaving the viewer with the question: And now what?
To make a long story short, I may play the better segments of this film in my college course on international organizations. The main reason for this choice is that I have not managed to locate another documentary on the UN. I would, however, have preferred a more sophisticated treatment of this important organization.
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Description of Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60
As the United Nations turned 60 in the summer of 2005, world leaders, scholars, and government officials addressed the following questions: Has the U.N. lived up to its founders ideals and what has been accomplished since its inception? Has the world body been successful in protecting human rights and preventing genocide? Can the organization be effective in the wake of the oil for food scandal and other internal crises? Led by Writer and Director Kevin Knoblock and narrated by actor Ron Silver, Broken Promises, The United Nations at 60, features interviews on various UN issues. It presents the history of the United Nationshighlighting the gap between the good intentions and ideals of itsinception and the sad reality of its present state of inefficiency andcorruption. Format: DVD, one disc Run Time: 65 minutes Producer: Citizens United UPC: 686506205295Bestsellers in DVD
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