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Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In one of the hidden corridors of power at UN headquarters, translator Silvia Broome overhears a potentially explosive secret about a planned assassination attempt. But when federal agent Tobin Keller investigates her claim, is she a victim or a suspect?
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Howard Silk is a lowly cog in the bureaucratic machinery of a Berlin-based United Nations spy agency. When Howard discovers that his organization safeguards the secret of a crossing into a parallel dimension, he is thrust into a shadow world of intrigue, danger, and double cross, where the only man he can trust is his near-identical counterpart from this parallel world.
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In one of the hidden corridors of power at UN headquarters, translator Silvia Broome overhears a potentially explosive secret about a planned assassination attempt. But when federal agent Tobin Keller investigates her claim, is she a victim or a suspect?
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Français
Description
Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a human whirlwind and a man confident in France's importance on the world stage. In this hilarious send-up of diplomacy and international politics, he takes on American neo-cons, corrupt Russians and the opportunistic Chinese while his hapless speech writer endures the eccentricities of his megalomaniacal boss and his sycophantic entourage.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker David Grubin follows United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2002 as he flew to Afghanistan to encourage reconstruction efforts, to Norway to accept the Nobel Prize, and to East Timor to declare its independence, and even when the Secretary-General travels to Sesame Street to teach conflict resolution. Includes interviews with Kofi Annan and others.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac accepts a U.N. peacekeeper position in postwar Bosnia, she discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring. Risking her own life to save the lives of others, she uncovers an international conspiracy that is determined to stop her, no matter the cost. With masterful acting and a heart-racing plot, an acclaimed film inspired by actual events. Bonus features included.
10) One day of war
Series
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Explores the effects of war on the modern world. People fight for power, their religion, and for survival. Combatants, including women and child soldiers as well as UN peacekeepers, share their stories, their hopes and fears about life in war torn areas of the world.
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In June of 1950, the North Korean Army initiated a massive attack on its neighbor to the south, beginning a see-saw war that would engulf the entire Korean Peninsula. For the next three years, the United Nations and the Communists would wage a bloody and brutal war. Though the Korean conflict is often referred to as the "Forgotten War", those who fought and sacrificed for freedom will never forget.
12) Good fortune
Publisher
Transient Pictures
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
UN Habitat promises better housing to residents of the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Meanwhile in the Kenyan countryside, Dominion Farms, a private U.S. company, hopes to elevate the local standard of living by converting pastures and farmland into rice fields. By taking their camera directly to the communities affected by these two ambitious development projects, the filmmakers discover what these do-gooder institutions can't seem to, why their...
Publisher
Image/Madacy Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Five years after the defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan, a new menace to freedom arose in the East. Communist North Korean forces, backed by the might of a newly victorious Red China, crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea. The violation of the agreed-upon treaty line caused the United Nations to spring into action, triggering the first heated action of the "Cold War". Three years later, the conflict ground to an inconclusive halt, as the political...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In 1961, Secretary General of the UN Dag Hammarskjold died in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia while en route to ceasefire negotiations between non-combatant UN forces and troops from the breakaway state of Katanga. What started as conspiracy theories have evolved into a growing consensus that Hammarskjold and fifteen other people were shot down, inciting the UN to reopen the case on the suspicion of assassination.
15) American outrage
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Documents the Dann sisters heroic fight for their land rights, and their human rights after the government sued them for trespassing and their dispute went to the Supreme Court, and then eventually the United Nations.
Publisher
A. Jones
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Alex Jones explores various conspiracies designed to make the United States subservient to a world government police state, including efforts by Chinese Communists to move into the San Diego Naval Base, the United Nations conspiracy to take over United States national parks, sinister forces behind the Oklahoma City bombing and efforts of the Model United Nations to turn American youth away from the United States Constitution. At the end of the program...
Publisher
Bluewater Content, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"After 21 years of continuous failure in UN climate change negotiations 195 nations, 20,000 worldwide negotiators meet at a private airport shielded by the military in the north of Paris for a last attempt to save our planet."--