(Soundbite of movie "The Last King of Scotland") Mr. FORREST WHITAKER (Actor) (as Idi Amin): (Unintelligible) Idi Amin Dada, and I want to promise you this will be a government of action ...

Idi Amin Dada, the Ugandan Kingpin, is a fiercely intelligent, manically paranoid, highly charismatic self-described man of the people. Though enormously entertaining, this movie about the unusual ...

The resulting movie, Barbet Schroeder’s General Idi Amin Dada (which was released last year on DVD by Criterion), is a devastating look at despotism in action and a riveting, and strangely ...

Many films have been made on the infamous Ugandan military dictator, General Idi Amin Dada; both fiction and non-fiction, including the Oscar-winning The Last King of Scotland. But the most ...

A timely re-release in the wake of Forest Whitaker’s Oscar as Amin in The Last King Of Scotland, this documentary makes a strong companion piece, if offering little context. Filmed by a French ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Idi Amin Dada (c. 1925 – 16 August 2003) was a military leader and President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin joined the British colonial regiment ...

Kenyan scriptwriter-director Wanjiku Kinyanjui is expected to prepare the script for a movie on Idi Amin's Uganda. Indian film director Amrit Seaga hopes to make a movie on Ugandan exiles going ...

Idi Amin Dada was born in Uganda's west Nile province of Koboko. His father, a Muslim, was a member of the Kakwa tribe. His mother was a member of the Lugbara tribe. Mr. Amin spoke Kiswahili ...

He received an Emmy nomination for best supporting actor for his role as President Idi Amin in TV movie "Raid on Entebbe" in 1976.

[Photo: File/Standard] Siaya, Kenya: The man who acted as former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada in the popular film ... but also in other movies that he featured in prominently.