We put together a list for amazing, heartwarming movies that carry a message of compassion and tolerance, and aim to teach how to be generous, kind, altruistic and humane.
Here are the top 10 humanitarian films you should watch.

By Mariam Elhamy

Machine Gun Preacher

Machine Gun Preacher is a compelling, first-person account by Sam Childers. Detailing his battle to help the orphan children of Eastern Africa. He goes on a spiritual journey and vows to save the dying kids. A must watch by Gerard Butler.

Beasts of No Nation

Beasts of No Nation is a harrowing tale that surrounds the life of a child soldier named Agu. Agu is a young boy who has been forced to fight in a war in a fictional West African country. Agu’s youth is ruined by both his fear of his commander and the men he fights alongside. This film unapologetically shows the different mechanics and components of war and makes no attempt to hide the explicit, gruesome details to paint an intricate, and at times, hard to watch picture of the life of a child soldier.

Selma

Set just over ten years after the end of racial segregation in America, Selma is an Oscar-winning film. D. Martin Luther King Jr. and his followers pressed forward on an epic march from Selma to Montgomery. This brave yet dangerous campaign against the racist, violent opposition that aimed to trample equal voting rights for all led to president Lyndon Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Hooligan Sparrow

Ye Haiyan, known as Sparrow, traveled to the Hainan Province in China to seek justice for elementary school girls who were abused sexually by their principal. As she faced harassment, state surveillance and even possible imprisonment, still, she persisted. Chased from town to town by the national secret police and local governments, this moving story follows Sparrow on her tireless quest for justice.

Hotel Rwanda

Set during the Rwandan crisis, Hotel Rwanda is the story of hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina who took in more than one thousand Tutsi refugees. These refugees were fleeing from the Rwandan Hutu militia, the group responsible for the brutal murders of over one million people in the country. While the rest of the world was either kept in the dark on the matter or chose to turn the other cheek, the brave and determined hotelier invoked great courage to help save the lives of helpless refugees.

Incendies

I am Slave

Malia, a 12-year-old girl from the Nuba Mountains, is snatched from the arms of her father during a Muharaleen raid on their village. Sold into slavery, she spends the next six years of her life working for a Sudanese family. Then, aged 18, she is sent to London where the brutality and inhumanity that she experiences continues, only under a different roof.

When you start feeling like your heart isn’t in it anymore maybe it’s time to question your relationship. Think about these few things you might be doing with your significant other that indicate you might be falling out of love with them.

By Mariam Elhamy

1. You’re not excited to see them. You’re not thinking all day about the moment you’re gonna see them and spending time with them has become a sort of duty or a burden.

2. You don’t text or call them as much. When you don’t see each other you don’t just randomly call to check up on them and your texting has become mostly small talk and emotionless.

3. You don’t share good or bad news with them anymore. When you’re excited about something new you bought or mad about your boss giving you a hard time, they’re not the first person you call or tell.

4. You’re busying yourself with other chores/people to avoid them. Whenever they want to hang out you find an excuse to put it off. You feel that you’re too busy to do that at the moment and that there are other important things you need to do.

5. You feel that you’re relationship isn’t going anywhere. You feel stuck in the phase that you’re in and you can’t see a clear future for the relationship anymore because everything is so blurry. You feel afraid or worried about the idea of being with them.

6. You avoid arguments or fights at any cost. If something is upsetting you, you choose to ignore or bury it down to avoid conflict and/or confrontation with them. If they are mad about something, you just agree to end the discussion.

7. You’re ‘innocently’ crushing on other people. Your innocent crushes might not be so innocent after all when you find yourself less attracted to your partner and constantly flirting with others without even realizing it.

8. You’re not interested in what is going on with their day. You don’t care anymore how they spend their time, with who or doing what. You don’t even bother to ask them how their day went because you’re really uninterested.

9. Everything they do or say is becoming increasingly annoying. You feel like they’re always being selfish and you get vexed by most of the things they do or say.

10. You feel that you don’t respect them or what they do anymore. When mutual respect is gone you start to see them and their imperfections in a new light.

What to do?

Take some time to think about if there is anything they did that’s making you mad. Maybe you feel betrayed or that they’re taking you for granted. If that is the case then you should openly talk about it and find solutions to these problems together.

If you feel that it’s not working anymore because the relationship has become like a burden on you or you might even be thinking of someone else. Let them go in a kind and gentle way, they might be going through a tough time already.

What is a Toxic Relationship?