Blue Vanguard (Revised)

Freelance reporter Jesse Rosenfeld has made the Middle East the focus of his work. The film follows his journey, presents a complex regional reality and explores how a reporter's job has changed in the age of the Internet. From Egypt to Turkey and Iraq by way of Israel and Palestine, the documentary captures the ups and downs of a new journalism in action that wants to make the voice of independent and critical information heard in the new communications jungle.

This film looks at the plans made at Dumbarton Oaks in 1945 for a renewed international organization devoted to world peace--the United Nations.

With unprecedented access to the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping, The Peacekeepers provides an intimate and dramatic portrait of the struggle to save "a failed state." The film follows the determined and often desperate manoeuvres to avert another Rwandan disaster, this time in the Democratic Republic of Congo (the DRC). Focusing on the UN mission, the film cuts back and forth between the United Nations headquarters in New York and events on the ground in the DRC. We are with the peacekeepers in the 'Crisis Room' as they balance the risk of loss of life on the ground with the enormous sums of money required from uncertain donor countries. We are with UN troops as the northeast Congo erupts and the future of the DRC, if not all of central Africa, hangs in the balance. In the background, but often impinging on peacekeeping decisions, are the painful memory of Rwanda, the worsening crisis in Iraq, global terrorism and American hegemony in world affairs. As Secretary General Kofi Annan tells the General Assembly at the conclusion of The Peacekeepers: "History is a harsh judge. The world will not forgive us if we do nothing." Whether the world's peacekeeper did enough remains to be seen.