OCT 24 is United Nations Day, and this annual event reflects the official creation of the United Nations on Oct 24, 1945.
Over the years, Hollywood has come up with countless films about the UN, and while many are works of fiction, some are actually based on real events.
The disturbing yet moving Hotel Rwanda is the best known film based on real events, and touches on the horrifying civil war in landlocked East African nation Rwanda in the early 1990s.
Even animation giant Disney came up with its celebration of the UN by way of its timeless specialty - creating two anthropomorphic animal adventures and their very own miniature version of the UN called the Rescue Aid Society.
Below are five of the best known movies "starring" the UN, over the last eight decades.
THE RESCUERS (1977)
This animated adventure-comedy tells the story of two brave mice who are members of "rodent UN" the Rescue Aid Society dedicated to rescuing all abused children and endangered animals.
Our tiny heroes and their animal allies go on a mission to rescue a 6-year-old orphan named Penelope from her cruel foster mother who uses her to hunt for a rare diamond.
Starring the voiceover talents of Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor, The Rescuers was based on a series of books by Margery Sharp, and had a sequel The Rescuers Down Under in 1990.
THE PEACEMAKER (1997)
This political action thriller film starred George Clooney, Nicole Kidman and Armin Mueller-Stahl and was directed by Mimi Leder.
The first film by DreamWorks Pictures, it was shot primarily in Slovakia with some sequences filmed in New York City and Philadelphia.
The basis for the film was the 1997 book One Point Safe by Andrew Cockburn and Leslie Cockburn, about the state of Russia's nuclear arsenal.
HOTEL RWANDA (2004)
This docudrama co-written and directed by Terry George stars Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo as hotelier Paul Rusesabagina and his wife Tatiana.
The film documents Rusesabagina's efforts to save the lives of his family and more than 1,000 other refugees by providing them with shelter in the besieged Hotel des Mille Collines.
Hotel Rwanda was a co-production between United Artists and Lions Gate Films, and was nominated for multiple awards, including Academy Award nominations for Best Actor (Cheadle), Best Supporting Actress (Okonedo), and Best Original Screenplay.
THE INTERPRETER (2005)
Directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn, this was the first film shot inside the United Nations Headquarters, as well as the final feature film directed by Pollack before his death in 2008.
It is about Silvia Broome (Kidman), a UN interpreter whose elder brother is executed by the brutal president of her fictitious African home country Matobo.
Silvia is helping the UN to indict the dictator for crimes against humanity, and learns of a plot by Matobo rebels to assassinate him.
She teams up with US Secret Service agent Tobin Keller (Penn) to nab the assassins, and make sure that the dictator stands trial for his crimes.
THE WHISTLEBLOWER (2010)
This Canadian biographical drama directed by Larysa Kondracki starred Rachel Weisz and was inspired by the story of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska police officer who was recruited as a UN peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999.
While there, she discovered a Bosnian sex trafficking ring servicing the UN's private military contractor, with international peacekeepers looking the other way.
Bolkovac was fired and forced out of the country after attempting to shut down the ring.
She took the story to BBC News in the UK and won a wrongful dismissal lawsuit against the contractor.
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