Mobutu Sese Seko

Ali (2001)

Actors: Tony Babarino (actor), Jon A. Barnes (actor), Michael Bentt (actor), Chico Benymon (actor), Jean Bikoi (actor), Ray Bokhour (actor), Malick Bowens (actor), Derrick Brown (actor), LeVar Burton (actor), Robert Byrd (actor), Lionel D. Carson (actor), Dimitri Cassar (actor), Graham Clarke (actor), Ralph Cole Jr. (actor), Millard Arnold (actor),

Plot: In 1964, a brash new pro boxer, fresh from his olympic gold medal victory, explodes on to the scene, Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self confidence with his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. To his credit, he sets out to prove that with his highly agile and forceful style soon making him a formidable boxer who soon claims the heavyweight championship. His personal life is no less noteworthy with his allegiance to the Nation of Islam, his friendship with the controversial Malcolm X and his abandonment of his slave name in favour of Muhammad Ali stirring up controversy. Yet, at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test with the military draft rules are changed, making him eligible for military induction during the Vietnam War. Despite the fact that he could easily agree to a sweetheart deal that would have meant an easy tour of duty for himself, Ali refuses to submit on principle to cooperate in an unjust war for a racist nation that treated his people so poorly. The cost of that stand is high as he finds himself unable to legally box in his own country while his case is contested in court. What follows is a battle for a man who would sacrifice so much for what he believes in and a comeback that would cement his legend as one of the great sports figures of all time.

Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, adultery, africa, african-american, african-american-protagonist, african-americans, airplane, american-broadcasting-company, american-flag
Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport,
Taglines: Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. Forget What You Think You Know The Champ is here!

Quotes:

Sonji: Are you a virgin?::Muhammad Ali: What do you mean "Am I a virgin"?

Drew 'Bundini' Brown: God don't love us! We be.

[fighting George Foreman]::Muhammad Ali: Is that all you got?

Muhammad Ali: Gonna get me some Champ Burgers.

Belinda: Don King talks black, lives white and thinks green.

Muhammad Ali: Yeah, I know where Vietnam is; it's on TV. Southeast Asia? It's there, too?

Muhammad Ali: Ain't no Vietcong ever called me nigger.

Drew 'Bundini' Brown: Free ain't easy. Free is real. And real's a motherfucker.

Muhammad Ali: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.

Muhammad Ali: Damn Don you crazy. You must have studied the whole "D" section of the dictionary.

Lumumba (2000)

Actors: Olivier Bony (actor), Alain Bouillé (actor), André Debaar (actor), Rudi Delhem (actor), Alex Descas (actor), Makena Diop (actor), Pavel Dobrovsky (actor), Cheik Doukouré (actor), Eriq Ebouaney (actor), Dieudonné Kabongo (actor), Maka Kotto (actor), Edgar Henri Mato (actor), Pascal N'Zonzi (actor), Théophile Sowié (actor), Francis Adam (actor),

Plot: The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgium overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.

Keywords: 1950s, african, african-history, against-the-system, airfield, airplane, army, assassination, belgium, belgium-history
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War,

Quotes:

[first lines]::Patrice Émery Lumumba: [voice over narration] You never knew about that night in Katanga. No one was to know.

Patrice Émery Lumumba: [voice over narration] I only gave voice to words of freedom and brotherhood, words they couldn't accept. Just words.

Patrice Émery Lumumba: Not collaboration, civil disobedience. Eighty years is enough.

[last lines]::Patrice Émery Lumumba: [voice over narration] Don't weep my love. One day history will have its say. Not the history they teach in Brussels, Paris or Washington, but our history. That of a new Africa. And on that day...