NPR's Melissa Block talks with Don Cheadle, star of the new film Hotel Rwanda. It's based on the true story of a Rwandan hotel manager who sheltered over 1,000 people during the country's genocide.

NEW YORK, Nov 17 (UNHCR) - When the world closed its eyes to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina opened his arms to its victims. Ten years later, an award-winning film is celebrating the ...

The genocide of some one million Rwandan Tutsis by their Hutu neighbors remains a disgraceful and too-little-known episode in recent world history. Alas, Terry George's ineffectual "Hotel Rwanda" only ...

(CNN) -- Don Cheadle was nominated for a best actor Oscar in 2005 for "Hotel Rwanda," but he's not really keen on hanging out at the Academy Awards. (CNN) — Don Cheadle was nominated for a best actor ...

Somewhere around the half-million-dead mark of the 1994 genocide depicted in Hotel Rwanda, a U.N. peacekeeper (Nick Nolte) explains the bottom line to hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle): ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Don Cheadle has become known as one of Hollywood's more socially active stars since his Oscar-nominated role in 2004's "Hotel Rwanda." Sign up here. His new film, "Talk to Me," ...

On the phone Don Cheadle seems just as silk-smooth and easygoing as the characters he plays, but he gets annoyed if you call "Traitor" a movie about the war on terror ...

Don Cheadle has been tapped to star in a new movie called Canyon. Cheadle was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award for his performance in 2004’s Hotel Rwanda. He’s also known for playing James ...

Don Cheadle was nominated for a best actor Oscar in 2005 for “Hotel Rwanda,” but he’s not really keen on hanging out at the Academy Awards. “You won’t ever see me at the Oscars unless I’m presenting ...