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Sudan has been accused of providing a breeding ground for Islamic terrorists. With unprecedented access and powerful images - including FBI surveillance tape of men stirring explosives in a New York basement for a plot to blow up the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel - this documentary examines Sudanese-backed plots against the U.S. The film features discussions with terrorists who say they received military training in Sudan, and footage of a camp alleged...
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Arabic
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Director Taghreed Elsanhouri says she felt uniquely qualified to make this documentary "because as a northerner in Sudan I know what it is to belong to a dominant group, and as a black woman in Britain I know what it's like to be marginalized." The film follows Elsanhouri as she returns to Sudan to see how the seemingly-racially harmonious country of her youth could have become the scene of two of the worst instances of ethnic cleansing in recent...
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Shrouded in myth, the Blue Nile is one of Africa's greatest rivers. From its source in the Ethiopian highlands, the Blue Nile plunges a vertical mile in its 840 mile course to the plains of Sudan, carving out one of the most rugged and beautiful watercourses in the world. We follow photographer and conservationist Nevada Weir and a crew of five as they tackle an unprecedented, extremely remote and dangerous journey, rafting the cascading whitewater...
4) The Nile
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Adventurer Simon Reeve travels from source to sea along the world's longest river, the Nile. His journey will take him from the holy source of the Blue Nile in the Ethiopian highlands, through the desert of Sudan and onwards through Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea. The life-giving river has forged some of our earliest civilisations and influenced some of our greatest religions. But with populations along its banks rising fast, Nile countries are demanding...
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As England teeters on the brink of war with Egypt, Harry, a handsome, young lieutenant, resigns his commission. Then four telegrams arrive, one for Harry and the others for his three closest fellow-officers. Harry destroys the messages, and in turn his friends send him three feathers representing his cowardice and they sever all ties with him. Desperate to regain respect, he travels secretly to the Sudan and with blind fury he saves each of his three...
6) The good lie
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English
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They were known simply as "The Lost Boys." Orphaned by the brutal civil war in Sudan that began in 1983, these young victims traveled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later, a humanitarian effort would bring 3,600 lost boys and girls to America.
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Explores the indomitable spirit of three "Lost Boys" from the Sudan who are forced to leave their homeland due to a tumultuous civil war. Chronicles their triumph over seemingly insurmountable adversities and a relocation to the United States, where the Lost Boys build active and fulfilling new lives but remain deeply committed to helping friends and family they have left behind.
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"Utica: The Last Refuge opens with the Azeins, a refugee family of four from Sudan, arriving at Syracuse International Airport. After spending six years in a camp in Ethiopia, they have finally made it to the US, where they are welcomed by Abdelshakour, a fellow refugee from Sudan. An employee of Utica's venerable refugee resettlement agency, he sees that they have few belongings so he gives them the winter coats he has brought with him. Nada is pregnant....