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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.

This time, Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda.

Paul Rusesabagina is a manager at the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali, who finds himself in the midst of the Rwandan Genocide of April 1994. With no outside aid, and with no other option, Paul sets about trying to protect the Tutsi refugees who have found shelter in the hotel from the Hutu militia amassed outside.

At time of recording, it was ranked the 190th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show notes:

• Recorded 17th February 2018.
• Hotel Rwanda at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
• An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography by Paul Rusesabagina at Amazon, February 2007.
• Shake Hands with the Devil by Roméo Dallaire at Amazon, December 2004.
• Philip Gourevitch explores the consequences of the Rwandan Genocide one year later for The New Yorker, December 1995.
• Maud Jullien at the BBC on how the consequences of the Rwandan Genocide impacted upon the surrounding nation states, April 2014.
• Pieter Hugo captures portraits of reconciliation in Rwanda for The New York Times, April 2014.
• James Verini at National Geographic discusses the path to reconciliation in Rwanda, April 2014.
• Megan Specia at The New York Times on how Rwanda tries to come to terms with the genocide, April 2017.
• Ryan Lenora Brown at Christian Science Monitor on the legacy of the Rwandan Genocide for the Twa people, April 2015.
• Marc Lacey at The New York Times on the Hôtel des Mille Collines after the Rwandan Genocide, February 2005.
• Patt Morrison interviews Paul Rusesabagina for The Los Angeles Times, November 2013.
• Linda Melvern at The Guardian on accusations made against Paul Rusesabagina in the years since the Rwandan Genocide, November 2011.
• Charles Beckett delivers a lecture on the portrayal of the Rwandan Genocide in popular culture, January 2007.
• The Associated Press discusses Sometimes in April, March 2004.
• Alessandra Stanley discusses Sometimes in April for The New York Times, March 2005.
• Chris McGreal at The Guardian on France’s troublesome role in Rwanda, January 2007.
• Jenna Amatulli at The Huffington Post on Pope Francis’ appeal for forgiveness for the Catholic Church’s involvement in the Rwandan Genocide, March 2017.
• Chris McGreal at The Guardian on the complicated western guilt over the Rwandan Genocide, December 2012.
• Steven Pinker talks to NPR about declines in violence around the world and the role of peacekeepers, December 2011.
• Nathan Rabin at The Dissolve discusses Hotel Rwanda, October 2014.
• Alex von Tunzelmann at The Guardian on the Hollywood history of Hotel Rwanda, August 2014.
• Anne Thompson at IndieWire on the Oscars’ fondness for Holocaust films, September 2016.
• Kate Winslet on Extras, October 2005.
• Vivian Chou at Harvard on race as a social (rather than biological) construct, April 2017.
• Hannah Devlin at The Guardian on the discovery of the “cheddar man”, February 2018.
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