As the United Nations turned 60 in the summer of 2005, world leaders, scholars and government officials addressed the following questions: Has the U.N. lived up to its founder’s ideals and what has been accomplished since its inception? Has the world body been successful in protecting human rights and preventing genocide? Can the organization be effective in the wake of the oil for food scandal and other internal crises?

Led by Writer and Director Kevin Knoblock and narrated by actor Ron Silver, “Broken Promises, The United Nations at 60,” features interviews on various UN issues with Natan Sharansky, General Romeo Dallaire, former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, developer Donald Trump, and survivors of genocide who relate their firsthand accounts of the U.N.’s performance in fulfilling its charter mandate of preserving and defending global human rights and preventing war.