With Forest Whitaker giving a towering performance as Idi Amin in Kevin Macdonald's The Last King of Scotland, here's a chance to see the real thing. Director Barbet Schroeder created this intimate yet objective portrait with Amin's full blessing in 1974, just as the outside world was starting to become aware of the General's campaign of genocide. The result places the viewer uncomfortably close to 'human dynamite'.

In 1971, the small African nation of Uganda was taken over by self-styled dictator General Idi Amin, beginning an eight-year reign of terror that would result in the deaths of over 300,000 people. 

In this chilling yet darkly comic documentary, director Barbet Schroeder turns his cameras on the infamous tyrant, revealing the dynamic, charming, and appallingly dangerous man whose fanatical neuroses held an entire nation in their grip. 

Made with the full support and participation of the dictator � and featuring an accordion score by Amin himself � General Idi Amin Dada provides a candid and disturbing portrait of one of the 20th century's most notorious figures.