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Lost Boys of Sudan (Dol)
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Product Details
- Starring: Santino Majok Chuor, Peter Kon Dut
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- Audience Rating: Unrated
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- Director: Jon Shenk, Megan Mylan
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- EAN: 9780767072663
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- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
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- ISBN: 0767072669
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- Label: New Video Group
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- Manufacturer: New Video Group
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: New Video Group
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- Release Date: 2004-11-02
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- Studio: New Video Group
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- Title: Lost Boys of Sudan (Dol)
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- UPC: 767685564431
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Product Description: Lost Boys of Sudan, which premiered on PBS's P.O.V. series in 2003, is a gripping documentary about young refugees from the Sudanese conflict as well as a moving story of survival and acclimation in a strange and daunting land. The film centers around two young Dinka tribesmen who must flee a vicious civil war in their homeland and risk thirst, starvation, and animal attack to reach refugee camps thousands of miles away in Kenya in Ethiopia. Once there, the "lost boys'" journey begins again, as they are resettled in Houston, Texas, and must start new lives in a completely alien country. Eventually, their adjustment to 21st century life becomes the film's main focus; can they join American society and still retain their tribal connections? Told in simple but powerful images, Lost Boys of Sudan affectingly addresses themes of home, acceptance, family, and what it means to be a member of society--both America and the global community. --Paul Gaita
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Customer Reviews
Terrific documentary of awkward transition to America
This documentary is a done in a very unusual style. There is not much in the way of commentary or interviews. Basically the cameras follow 2 boys around and film their lives. The boys come from Sudan, where war has left them stranded in a refugee camp for years. After many years, they are finally being moved to the US to start a new life (Houston, no less!).
The odds against these boys succeeding in America are legion. It is a very sad movie. You would think moving from a refugee camp to America would be a great blessing. By the end of this documentary I was not sure. I would highly recommend this documentary to everybody. It is fairly short (90 min or so) and has great special features.
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Unhappy with Amazon
I never actually received the DVD I paid for, from Amazon. Although I have emailed them numerous times to try and tell them this, I have never received a response. What a waste of money!!!
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Exceptional Documentary for TLBOS
after reading What is the What by Dave Eggers, i had to try out this DVD. it was amazing.
even my wife liked it.
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plight of the refugee
Good film showing the struggles of two refugees' integration into American society. Shows the everyday struggles of two young men that have known nothing but hardship. This documentary shows bits of life in the refugee camp, through their transition and first year in America. Would've liked to have gotten more of their back story, as it is an amazing story of survival.
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Dissapointing to Say The Least
Unless you are interested in the challenges posed by introducing a number of displaced youth who have grown up in an extremely deprived and disjointed society to the United States, this movie will not "do it" for you.
The most intruiging phenomenon in the entire film is the obvious mistrust and lack of connection between poor African-Americans and poor Africans, beyond the color of their skin.
For the most part, the situation exists between most working-class Africans and the African-Americans with whom they are lumped up with and have to coexist with at work and home (if they live in predominantly black neighborhoods) and is therefore nothing new, unless you are of a different race.
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