The reckoning : the battle for the International Criminal Court / International Center for Transitional Justice Productions ; a Skylight Pictures film ; a film by Paco de Onís, Peter Kinoy, and Pamela Yates ; producer, Paco de Onís ; director, Pamela Yates.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Onís, Paco de, producer.

Yates, Pamela, director.

Kinoy, Peter, editor.

International Center for Transitional Justice Productions, producer.

Skylight Pictures (Firm), distributor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International Criminal Court.

International criminal courts--History.

International criminal courts.

Moreno Ocampo, Luis Gabriel.

History.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Edition:

Director's cut.

Other Title:

Battle for the International Criminal Court

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Skylight Pictures, [2009]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

DVD.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

Rome Conference of 1998 was the culmination of 50 years of effort by the part of those seeking a humane world. Representatives from 140 governments and numerous NGOs were at the conference to establish the International Criminal Court (the ICC). The ICC came into being on July 1, 2002 ratifying the Rome Statutes. Though over 120 countries voted to create the International Criminal Court (ICC), some of the most powerful nations in the world -- China, Russia, and the United States -- refused to ratify the Rome Statutes. The U.S. claimed, among other items, that the ICC's authority to second-guess the actions taken and the results reached by participating states was an infringement on national sovereignty. Nevertheless, prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo issues arrest warrants for the rebel leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, puts four Congolese warlords on trial in The Hague, charges the president of Sudan with genocide and war crimes in Darfur, challenges the UN Security Council to have him arrested, and shakes up the Colombian criminal justice system.

Participant:

Narrator, Charles Parnell ; ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo, ICC deputy prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, ICC senior trial attorney Christine Chung, Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz, IDP camp leader Dennis Lemoyi, warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, warlord Joseph Kony, warlord Vincent Otti.

Credits:

Director of photography, Melle van Essen ; editors, Peter Kinoy and Dara Kell ; music, Roger C. Miller.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

OCLC:

301965355