| | |  | REGGAE VIDEOS | Home » » War Dance | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Set in war-raved Northern Uganda, the award-winning WAR DANCE will touch your heart with a real-life story about a group of children whose love of music brings joy, excitement and hope back into their poverty-stricken lives. Three children who have suffered horrific brutalities momentarily forget their struggles as they participate in music, song and dance at their school. Invited to compete in a prestigious music festival in their nation’s capitol, their historic journey is a stirring tale about the power of the human spirit to triumph against tremendous odds. | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Dominic, Nancy, Rose, Jane Adong, Kitara Coldwell | | Director:
| Andrea Nix | | Format:
| Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Subtitle:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Velocity / Thinkfilm | | Run Time:
| 107 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| April 15, 2008 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 49 reviews |
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Poignant, hopeful, somber, gloriousApr 19, 2010
Here is a story that is almost inconceivable to a person like me; middle aged, American, living in the suburbs of the nation's Capital. I had no idea. No idea. And I am grateful to these children for sharing their story, a story of children being stolen from their parents to build a rebel army. Children systematically dehumanized, led to murder without remorse with a band of rebels that teaches death instead of reading writing and rithmetic. This is not an unknown phenomenon. It is not exclusive to Africa and not exclusive to modern times. I was reminded of the Khmer Rouge and the killing fields of Cambodia. And yet. And yet. Some government soldiers offering security, United Nations trucks providing food deliveries, and a school for orphaned children provides some protection for a little flame of hope in the midst of the most dire circumstances imaginable. To see these kids progress along a path of healing and reconciliation through singing, dancing, and music making is a thing of beauty, all the more starkly contrasted with the circumstances of their rescue. It demonstrates the importance of culture, or music, of art, of self expression, as a part of the natural health of the human mind and spirit, and it shows the possibility of transformative redemption in the face of a brutal, predatory reality. The story of these children would be beautiful in it's own right, but to see it in the context of their suffering and deprivation heightens the ironic sense of appreciation for all their accomplishments. Their story cannot help but leave one feeling hopeful for the future, and hopeful for these kids, some of whom seem destined to become peacemakers, after knowing the fathomless despair of violent conflict in a way that no child should ever be forced to realize.
 War Dance UgandaApr 07, 2010
Planning a trip to southern Uganda. This fairly recent documentary gives an insight into both rural and urban Uganda. While our trip will be medical based and this film is education based, it appears to capture both the stable southern part of Uganda and the less stable northern part. It's basically a African "Hoosiers" type of film, about a music contest rather than basketball, with a kind of happy ending. We'll watch again after our return to see where the film maker's bias's were. It's not a travel film suitable for small children as the interviews are nauseatingly verbally graphic. It fits the mold of 40 percent uplifting versus 60 percent depressing genre of modern documentary films.
a glimmer of hopeApr 06, 2010
I have worked in conflict areas for 10+ years and rarely find movies that are both positive and actual accounts of real life...the directors did a marvelous job portraying a people brutalized by war who have found normalcy and hope. The music and dance are fantastic, of course, but the kids...they are truly remarkable. People have always asked me to describe my work and the people I come in contact with...difficult to do...so I've started giving this out to friends and family as a taste of both the absolute horror and wonderful sense of humanity and hope one finds in war/conflict. Well done!! Would recommend even for younger children.
War DanceMar 20, 2010
While this is not in English, it is the kind of documentary that will leave you in tears. Powerful! You will want to watch it again and share it with friends.
HauntingFeb 18, 2010
Imagine that you're nine years old, and your entire family has been wiped out before your eyes by marauding rebels. You're then abducted and forced at gunpoint to slaughter another group of innocents with a garden hoe. Welcome to childhood in war-torn northern Uganda. Set in a refugee camp originally intended for five families and now containing over 50,000 people, "War Dance" presents an unflinching and powerful portrait of a group of orphaned kids who travel to the capital to compete in a nationwide singing and dancing competition. There are scenes in this Oscar-nominated documentary that are so raw and intimate you wonder how filmmakers Fine and Nix ever captured them; one feels uncomfortable and almost ashamed at the sight of a young girl sobbing on her father's grave, begging her Mom to let her "lie down with Daddy." With wrenching sequences like this, the film's well-worn plot device lifted from any number of other successful docs--Motley Group of Kids Travels to the Big City and Triumphs in the Big Competition--seems more than a little forced. It's hard to get into the rhythm of the feel-good rehearsal montage when you've just witnessed the bottomless grief of a traumatized child. Still, the courage and character of these children leaves and indelible impression, and Fine and Nix are to be commended for bringing their plight to a world audience.
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