This experimental film takes a look at life from a different view. On this day, 90 learned they'd be going to America.
I've seen my name on the board.Bob Simon: Your name is on the board. The boys' parents were killed; their sisters often sold into slavery. Lost Boys of Sudan follows two young Dinka refugees, Peter and Santino, through their first year in America. Where are you going?Abraham Yel Nhial was taking this walk for the 25th time. The staples of life. Copyright © 1995–2020 American Documentary, Inc. | Springtime 2001.Nothing drew a crowd like the list. Borschemich is next to be bulldozed away. Use one of the film’s accompanying resources to learn about the issues and get involved. Many were eaten by crocodiles. At eleven, she contracted severe meningitis which took her to the brink of death. The doctors gave her an unimaginable…When the Mountains Tremble, filmed in 1982 at the height of the Guatemalan Army’s repression against the Mayan indigenous people, has become a classic political documentary. He looked at the board as if it were a holy scroll.Abraham Yel Nhial: I'm going to Chicago...Is it interesting?They were known as the Lost Boys because they were between five and 11 when their Christian villages in southern Sudan were attacked by Islamist forces from the north. The genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan is the most recent violent episode in a country where a 20-year civil war has killed an estimated two million people and displaced more than four million.
The Dinka tribe has been hardest hit. Many earned college degrees and became citizens, and a number also returned to assist the new nation of South Sudan after it gained independence from Sudan in 2011. That's where we first met them, when many were hoping to go to the United States. The genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan is the most recent violent episode in a country where a 20-year civil war has killed an estimated two million people and displaced more than four million. He was an ordained minister of Sudan's Episcopal Church at Kakuma. It all began in the 1980s, during Sudan's civil war in which more than two million people died. But first, we'll take you back to northern Kenya, to the Kakuma Refugee Camp. Hundreds became thousands until an exodus of biblical proportions was underway. Bob Simon first met the Lost Boys in a Kenyan refugee camp in 2001 after they had fled civil war in the Sudan. But the survivors, thousands of them, started walking across East Africa. Bob Simon first met the Lost Boys in a Kenyan refugee camp in 2001 after they had fled civil war in the Sudan. Well 3,000 did, as part of the largest resettlement of its kind in American history. Alone. The Lost Boys Of Sudan saw their parents killed and villages burned as civil war engulfed Sudan during the 1980s. Lost Boys of Sudan follows two young Dinka refugees, Peter and Santino, through their first year in America. . Not all of the Lost Boys got to go. Streams of boys became rivers. More than fifty years later in Qaanaaq,…In San Francisco County Jail, Five Keys Charter School is trying to reduce recidivism rates by giving inmates a chance to earn a high school diploma.In 1983, the German energy giant RWE started digging for coal in the Garzweiler II pit. Many drowned. © 2013 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. In 2001, the United States brought some 4,000 of the surviving lost boys—most of whom were now adults—to the U.S. The name, borrowed from the children's story "Peter Pan," describes a generation of Sudanese boys driven from their tribal villages by a devastating civil war between north and south Sudan.