Ugandan President Idi Amin wrote to the governments of the British Commonwealth with a bold suggestion: Allow him to take ...

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

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 ...

Crowds Flock to Oscar-Honored Film About Idi Amin. ... She was 11 time zones away from Hollywood, but movie buff Marion E. Busingye could not wait to see if "The Last King of Scotland" ...

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 Last King of Scotland” is not based on a true story. It was inspired by “true” events, which leaves more room for invention. Based on the 1998 novel by Giles Foden, it’s the story ...

When Army general Idi Amin became president of Uganda in a 1971 coup, he won widespread support with promises of reform and economic independence from former colonial ties. But Amin's rule was ...

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 ...

It's a classic riff, because it gets exactly at the artist's dilemma in any portrait of evil: Even monsters can dance. And they are dads, have loving kids, wives, pals and human eccentricities.

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 ...