Although Fictional, A Nice Telling of Amin

Rating: 7/10 (11 November 2012)

Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.
Although this film is fictional, it could very well have been true. The way Forest Whitaker portrays Idi Amin is incredible. Not that I knew the man, but I found this depiction of him to be pretty much exactly what you would expect an eccentric African dictator to be like.
More importantly, strictly accurate or not, I am glad this story was brought to Western (and American) audiences. Far too few people know who Amin was, or know any African history, or even know where Uganda is. This, hopefully, sparked a minor interest in the topic.