A Message for Peace: Making 'Hotel Rwanda'

In this mini-documentary that accompanied the DVD versions, we meet the inspiration for Don Cheadle's Oscar nominated performance as Paul, the Rwandan Hutu, who saves over a thousand refugees during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. I thought it was ironic that the genocide came upon the heels of Spielberg's Schindler's List winning Best Picture. Anyway, the Belfast born director does provide an insight into the story behind the movie as does the screenwriter who discovers a survivor by calling the Rwandan Embassy in Washington D.C. and listening to her story. The story itself is worth seeing and telling because Paul was truly heroic by risking his life to save others at the posh Belgian-owned hotel. Too bad, we didn't see the other actors and actresses in the cast like Nick Nolte, Joaquin Phoenix, and Sophie (who played his wife).