The Globe Cinema is currently playing the Oscar-nominated drama Hotel Rwanda.
Nick Nolte plays the commander of the UN forces in Rwanda that were abandoned by the super powers and could do little more than observe the horrors which resulted in the slaughter of more than 800,000 people.
Across the street at the Uptown is the Canadian documentary Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian commander who inspired Nolte's character.
Director Peter Raymont's cameras follow Dallaire as he returns with his wife for the anniversary of the 1994 genocide.
Dallaire pulls no punches when he condemns nations such as France, Belgium, Italy and the U.S. for turning a blind eye on the slaughter of innocents.
On his return to Quebec after the uprising was finally over, Dallaire tried to drink himself to death because of the horror he witnessed.
This documentary that needs to be seen in tandem with Hotel Rwanda as both point out so powerfully and poignantly that man's inhumanity to man knows no boundaries.
Both will leave you speechless.
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