The Last King of Scotland

Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.

Forest Whitaker's performance as Idi Amin draws near-universal praise and carries the film through its rougher edges, but critics were divided on the screenplay's choice to center a fictional white Scottish doctor as the lens onto Amin's atrocities — a framing many found reductive or evasive. The film is seen as a gripping political thriller that nonetheless pulls its punches on the full horror of Amin's regime.