It’s 50 years since a tense international standoff that brought together a British lecturer, an infamous dictator, and a ...

Lifestyle Movies 'Last King of Scotland' Usurps the Story of Idi Amin October 4, 2006 By Stephen Hunter ...

The Last King of Scotland stars Forrest Whitaker as charismatic -- and unfathomably murderous -- ruler Idi Amin. In the film adapted from a bestselling book by Giles Foden, the Ugandan dictator's ...

In Uganda, 'Last King of Scotland' Generates Blend of Pride and Pain Crowds Flock to Oscar-Honored Film About Idi Amin February 27, 2007 By Craig Timberg ...

Amin’s bizarre personality was in many ways the product of an impoverished childhood in an occupied nation. Abandoned by his father, he eventually went to work for the British army, where he ...

The new film The Last King of Scotland has renewed interest in infamous Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin. Cory Turner discovers another film about Amin, the 1974 documentary General Idi Amin Dada.

The boogeyman of the 1970s, Idi Amin Dada, arrives on screen, and in full bellow in “The Last King of Scotland.” As portrayed by Forest Whitaker, Idi Amin Dada, the Ugandan Kingpin, is a ...

Forest Whitaker and James McAvoy, in Kevin Macdonald’s fine drama “The Last King of Scotland,” make a haunting cat-and-mouse pair. As Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, Whitaker’s enormous frame ...

The Hollywood veteran is earning all this "buzz" for his portrayal of Ugandan president Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland and Alan Silverman has this look at the film.

Kevin Macdonald's film The Last King of Scotland - rather loosely based on Giles Foden's 1998 novel of the same name - centres on Amin, who is played with unnerving brilliance by Forest Whitaker.