Sophie Okonedo
1) Skin
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, SKIN follows Sandra Laing, a distinctly mixed-race South African woman born to white parents during the apartheid era.
Author
Language
English
Description
Hollywood's infamous flop, "The Conqueror," stars John Wayne as Genghis Khan, embodying a slew of racist and sexist problems. Its enduring notoriety stems from the tragic fact that nearly half its cast and crew developed cancer, revealing a tale of government deception and negligent production choices, highlighting the devastating impact of nuclear fallout.
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Hollywood's infamous flop, "The Conqueror," stars John Wayne as Genghis Khan, embodying a slew of racist and sexist problems. Its enduring notoriety stems from the tragic fact that nearly half its cast and crew developed cancer, revealing a tale of government deception and negligent production choices, highlighting the devastating impact of nuclear fallout…
Publisher
Espresso Media International
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda) THE SCENT OF FEAR takes you on a cinematic, first-hand journey across the globe analysing the effects fear has on individuals and societies. Along for the ride are leading experts in neural science, psychology, political sciences and more; providing insight of those who enjoy fear and those paralysed by it. With exhilarating characters this multi award-winning documentary analyses the universal question: why...
5) Hotel Rwanda
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa. “One of the most inspirational films I’ve ever seen” (Richard Roeper, “Ebert & Roeper and the Movies”).
6) Wild Rose
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A rebellious country singer from Glasgow dreams of becoming a Nashville star.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Undocumented immigrants Okwe and Senay work at a posh London hotel and live in constant fear of deportation. One night Okwe stumbles across evidence of a bizarre murder setting off a series of events that could lead to disaster or freedom.
8) Skin
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Based on an incredible true story, SKIN follows Sandra Laing (Sophie Okonedo), a distinctly mixed-race South African woman born to white parents (Sam Neill and Alice Krige) during the apartheid era. Despite her upbringing as a white girl, Sandra is eventually classified as ‘Coloured’ by the government and stripped of the rights with which the rest of her family is privileged. And when she begins a love affair with a local vegetable dealer, Sandra...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
David Tennant (Doctor Who) stars as Will Burton, a junior barrister who specializes in spiriting people out of tight legal corners, hence his nickname -- the Escape Artist. Much to the aggravation of his courtroom rival, Maggie Gardner (Sophie Okonedo), Will has never lost a case. Will's talents acquit serial killer Liam Foyle of murder -- is it only a matter of time until Foyle kills again?
10) Oliver Twist
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
This gripping and emotionally powerful adaptation from one of British television's most exciting new writers breathes new life into the popular Dickens story. On a dark and stormy winter's night in a miserable, dank room, lit only by a few candles, Oliver is born into a life of poverty and misfortune. Growing up in a workhouse, watching the suffering and cruelty endured by the boys at the hands of his masters, Oliver decides he wants more and sets...
11) Chimerica
Publisher
All3Media International
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Photojournalist Lee is on the hunt for Tank Man, the man who stood in front of the tanks during the Tiananmen Square uprising and who was snapped by Lee in one of the most iconic photographs of all time. But Lee has fallen a long way from the idealistic man he was in 1989, even going as far as to fake a photo to keep his work relevant in the age of Twitter and 'fake news.' Can a journey into the past really help him regain his credibility in the present?...
13) Hotel Rwanda
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
As his country descends into madness, five star hotel manager Paul Rusesabigina sets out to save his family. But when he sees that the world will not intervene in the massacre of minority Tutsis, he finds courage to open his hotel to over 1,200 refugees. This is the true story of one man's brave stance against savagery during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Set against an epic landscape of sweeping desert vistas and the majestic Giza pyramids, this tale of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a cosmopolitan group of impeccably dressed travelers, and enough wicked twists and turns to...
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The young boy, who loved taking adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood with a gang of spirited and loveable stuffed animals, has grown up and lost his way. Now it is up to his childhood friends to venture into that world and help Christopher Robin remember the loving and playful boy who is still inside.
16) Hotel Rwanda
Author
Language
English
Description
The film chronicles the true story of Paul Rusesabinga (Don Cheadle), a brave hotel manager who risked his life and those of his family to take in more than 1,000 refugees during the 1994 genocide of the Tutsus by Hutu militia.
17) Martian Child
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on an award-winning short story by sci-fi luminary David Gerrold, this romantic drama stars John Cusack as a recently widowed science fiction writer who forms an unlikely family with a close friend (Amanda Peet) and a young boy he adopts that claims to be from Mars. The new couple ignores some sage parenting advice from the widower's sister (Joan Cusack) and gets more than they bargained for when a series of strange occurrences lead them to...
20) Aeon Flux
Author
Language
English
Description
Academy Award®-winner* Charlize Theron stars as Aeon Flux, the underground operative fighting totalitarian rule in 25th-century Earth's last living city.

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