This short film, produced by UK NGO Stamp Out Poverty, opens with Channel 4’s Jon Snow dramatically announcing the end of poverty. We are given a glimpse of what it would be like to hear that human beings are no longer dying from a lack of clean water, hunger and curable disease – all entirely preventable provided that leaders follow through on promises and find the additional funds necessary for reaching the Millennium Development Goals.

Can Pay, Should Pay champions one particular option for raising these funds: a tiny tax of 0.005 per cent on sterling transactions, the film says, could yield up to £2 billion a year of the predictable, long-term financing poor countries need to reach the MDGs.

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Carla's List/ La Liste de Carla (2006)
Director: Marcel Schüpbach

Behind the scenes of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, prosecutor Carla Del Ponte is working to track down and bring to justice seven suspects, including Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic, before a September 2007 deadline. The film features footage of the Srebrenica atrocities and interviews with women still waiting for news of their missing husbands and children 10 years on.

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Blood Diamond (2006)
Director: Edward Zwick

Against the backdrop of the Sierra Leone civil war, the film tells the moving tale of a South African mercenary-turned-diamond-smuggler (Leonardo DiCaprio) and a local fisherman (Djimon Hounsou) whose lives become inextricably linked after the fisherman's son is taken by rebels during an attack on his village.

A two-disc special edition DVD is available, featuring documentaries including Blood on the Stone (which follows a diamond's path from the ground to a shop) and Journalism on the Front Line (stories of female journalists in warzones).

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The Peacekeepers (2005)
Director: Paul Cowan

The Peacekeepers portrays the UN’s desperate struggle to avert disaster in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The film shifts between the Department of Peacekeeping and the UN mission on the ground, and follows the peacekeepers as they balance the risk of losing lives with the limited donor resources available, while trying to overcome the painful memory of the Rwandan genocide.

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Bamako (2007)
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako

Bamako, capital city of Mali: a couple struggles to save their relationship in the midst of crushing economic hardship. As they fight to preserve their marriage, their neighbours hold a mock trial of the World Bank and the IMF in the town courtyard, holding them accountable for the abject poverty that they, and the rest of Africa, are experiencing.

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Wake Up World (2007)
Director: Carlo Nero

Produced by acclaimed actress and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Vanessa Redgrave, this documentary commemorates 60 years of UNICEF's work for children around the world. Directed by her son, the film features exclusive interviews with former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman, and Sir Richard Jolly, former Assistant Secretary-General of the UN and former UNA-UK Chair.

A number of UNA-UK members attended a London premiere of the film, hosted by Vanessa and UNICEF-UK's President Lord Puttnam. The film was introduced by Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of State for International Development, who said: “The contribution that UNICEF has made is like the shining light upon the world, the shining beacon of our human conscience. It is this which motivates many of you to support UNICEF as an organisation."

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North by Northwest (1959)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock

This fast-paced, glamourous espionage thriller is about an innocent advertising executive caught up in the Cold War tension of 1950s America. After being framed for the murder of a UN official, he is pursued across the country by spies, the police, and the FBI. The UN headquarters in New York is one of this classic film's primary locations.

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The Interpreter (2005)
Director: Sydney Pollack

Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman), an interpreter working at the United Nations in New York, overhears discussion of a plot to assassinate Edmond Zuwanie (Earl Cameron), president of fictional African country Matobo, as he is tried in the International Criminal Court. The United States Secret Service assigns Tobin Keller (Sean Penn) and Dot Woods (Catherine Keener) to investigate.

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