Beyond the Gates
Closed CaptioningMichael Caton-Jones
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Plot Summary
In April 1994, a secondary school in Kigali, Rwanda called the Ecole Technique Officielle (ETO), being used as a UN army base, became a refugee camp. Belgian UN troops, school children, NGO workers and over 2,500 Tutsi citizens and their sympathizers took refuge against a raging genocide while the Hutu militia, clad with machetes, clamored outside the school gates. Five days later, the UN troops withdrew from the school, taking the whites with them. Within hours, almost all of the Rwandans were dead. Beyond The Gates is about the choices we make when we are free to choose. In the tragic circumstances of the Ecole Technique Officielle, would you have left with the UN troops on the fifth day or would you have stayed?
Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
84%- Reviews Counted: 62
- Fresh: 52
- Rotten: 10
- Average Rating: 7.2/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Though less reassuring and not as dramatically coherent as Hotel Rwanda, it still packs a hard punch.
Fresh: Tense and gut-wrenching, Beyond the Gates is a horrifying story told with grace and compassion.
Rotten: I think Beyond the Gates is an important film, and it's too bad that it's not a very good one.
Fresh: A gripping fictionalized account of a 1994 incident in Rwanda that became a shocking emblem of the Rwandan Hutus' mass slaughter of the Tutsis.
Customer Reviews
Its a great movie
The whole world turn their backs from Rwanda and you can make a difference, take the chance don't follow the crowd
Beyond the gates
this film shows how agonizing it can be to follow your conscience in order to do the right thing.It should be viewed by all who feel that they would know how they would respond in a distressing situation.very moving film.
Shooting Dogs
If you want to feel...watch this movie.
....I saw it when it came to Indy for a film festival...was called "shooting dogs," a more fitting title I think
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