Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power and he grows increasingly monstrous. A pointed examination of how independent Uganda (a British colony until 1962) became a breeding...

Based on the true story of Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree, an unemployed amateur breaks the world one-hour record on a bike in which he designed and constructed from out of scrap metal and parts of a washing machine.