AT ONE POINT, he was the world’s deadliest clown. Idi Amin was the jovial, baby-faced psychopath who ruled Uganda from 1971 to 1979, gaining power by literally feeding his enemies to the crocodiles.

(Soundbite of movie "General Idi Amin Dada") President IDI AMIN (Uganda): Fire. (Soundbite of gunshots) President AMIN: Excellent. All in the heart. TURNER: This isn't Forest Whitaker's version of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Idi Amin Dada was born in Uganda's west Nile province ... With independence, he made a rapid rise to major general and then was chief of the general staff before leading the 1971 coup.

It would make a terrific double bill with Barbet Schroeder's mesmerizing 1974 documentary, ''General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait,'' of which Mr. Macdonald has obviously made a close and ...

Made in 1974, when Amin was at the height of his power and notoriety, General Idi Amin Dada (newly reissued on video with several other early Schroeder works) is so reliant upon the participation ...

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 ...

Kampala - Idi Amin Dada, one of Africa's most notorious dictators ... said Amin had been undergoing treatment for the past three months for hypertension and "general fatigue" but had been discharged ...