Galíndez Tears of the Sun – 2003 remake (of Dark of the Sun) by Antoine Fuqua, set during a fictional Nigerian Civil War, begins with the off-screen assassination of the President (and family) by rebels, along with other echoes of the 1994 Rwandan genocide Imperium: Augustus – 2003 British/RAI miniseries by Roger Young about Roman Emperor Augustus (Peter O'Toole) and an unhistorical plot by Iullus Antonius (Juan Diego Botto), the son of Mark Antony The Statement – 2003 film by Norman Jewison about a war criminal and former member of the Vichy Milice (Michael Caine) who is targeted by, apparently, Jewish assassins Blind Horizon – 2003 film by Michael Haussman about an amnesiac (Val Kilmer) with recollections of his involvement in an assassination plot against the U.S. President The Hunted – 2003 film by William Friedkin about assassins hunting other assassins The Hebrew Hammer – 2003 comedy by Jonathan Kesselman where Santa Claus is assassinated by his own son (Andy Dick) and holiday harmony must be restored by a Jewish crime fighter in a pimpmobile (Adam Goldberg) Children of Dune – 2003 miniseries by Greg Yaitanes X2 – 2003 film by Bryan Singer where an attempted assassination of the U.S. President is a pretext for a general war of human against mutant Head of State – 2003 comedy by Chris Rock in which an alderman (Rock) becomes the first black candidate for U.S. President and imagines his own assassination Alexander – 2004 film by Oliver Stone in which Alexander the Great (Colin Farrell) ascends the throne of Macedon after the assassination of King Philip (Val Kilmer) in 336 B.C., then campaigns through Africa and Asia until his suspicious death in 323 B.C.. Gunpowder, Treason & Plot – 2004 BBC miniseries by Gillies MacKinnon about the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament and King James VI and I Stauffenberg (a.k.a. Operation Valkyrie) – 2004 German television film by Jo Baier about the Stauffenberg plot against Adolf Hitler, starring Sebastian Koch Die Stunde der Offiziere – 2004 German television film by Hans-Erich Viet about various plans to kill Adolf Hitler, culminating in the Stauffenberg plot, starring Harald Schrott Helter Skelter – 2004 television film by John Gray, starring Jeremy Davies, about the Charles Manson Family murders, the Family including Squeaky Fromme, would-be 1975 assassin of President Ford H2O – 2004 CBC miniseries by Charles Binamé where the Canadian PM dies in