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- Real life "Machine Gun Preacher" Sam Childers overcame a life of drugs and violence to become a symbol of hope for the children of Africa. Explore the life of this missionary who preaches justice with compassion and an iron fist.
- A modern odyssey into the heart of Africa at the historic moment when Sudan, the continent's largest country, is being divided into two separate states.
- An ordinary day in the lives of four girls, from morning to bedtime, at school and at home with their families, teachers and friends.
- Uganda, 1989. A young rebel who claims to be visited by spirits, Joseph Kony, forms a movement against the central power: the LRA, The Lord's Resistance Army. An "army" that grew by kidnapping teenagers - more than 60 000 over 25 years - of which less than half came out of the bush alive. Geofrey, Nighty and Michael, a group of friends, were among these teenagers, kidnapped at 12 or 13. Today, in their effort to rebuild their lives and go back to normality, they revisit the places that marked their stolen childhood. At the same time victims and murderers, witnesses and perpetrators of horrific acts that they don't fully understand, they are forever the wrong elements which society struggles to accept. Meanwhile, in the immensity of the central African jungle, the Ugandan army continues to hunt down the scattered rebels left of the LRA. But Joseph Kony is still out there, on the run.
- A trip to Africa is edited into a brief documentary without continuity between sound and image or story and time.
- This is the story of the last voices of the Earth.
- Fleeing South Sudan's brutal civil war, a mother and daughter face unthinkable dangers as they journey towards safety. Can those most affected by the violence return and rebuild the nation that was stolen from them?
- In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years later, Tracey Curtis-Taylor sets out in a vintage biplane to retrace her flight. Her extraordinary eight and a half week journey from Cape Town to Goodwood is nearly 10,000 miles long and takes her through 15 African countries. From the beauty of the wilderness to the challenge of flying through war torn nations, Tracey faces many of the same challenges as her aviatrix predecessor. With aviation fuel scarce and with a top speed of only 95 miles an hour, her progress is slow and at times frightening. Accompanied in the aircraft by another pilot, her aircraft was fitted with satellite navigation which made the trip far safer.
- One mother's fight against the global sugar mafia.
- Farmland - the new green gold. Hoping for export revenues, Ethiopia's government leases millions of hectares of farmland to foreign investors. But the dream of prosperity has a dark side where the World Bank plays a very questionable role... Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas investigates land grabbing and its impact on people's lives. Pursuing the truth, we meet investors, development bureaucrats, persecuted journalists, struggling environmentalists and evicted farmers deprived of their land.
- In war-torn South Sudan, Makur Diet knows all too well the horror of conflict. Over ten years ago, he lost his leg to a bullet. Makur was close to giving up, until one day he was given a prosthetic leg, and with it a new lease of life.
- Presents the most important relationships and events in the lives of the Nuer, Nilotic people in Sudan and on the Ethiopian border.
- A documentary featuring seven women of different generations across Africa discussing their experiences of their menstrual cycle throughout the cycle of life. This documentary is unique in that it has a holistic approach, it was filmed in 4 to 7 days, the average time a women menstruates every month and with an all female crew. On any given day 800 million women are menstruating, and through normalising menstruation by making it visible through filmmaking that it can be addressed as a natural part of life by both men and women worldwide.
- Norwegian filmmaker Håvard Fossum travels the world to understand what censorship is, allowing the censors themselves to state their case.
- South Sudan is the youngest country in the world, at war with itself. However, through this darkness, its endless cycle of conflict has hope: the determination of young women and men who refuse to give up on peace.
- The second installment of the "Endure" documentary series, this film follows Jay Denton as he travels to Uganda and South Sudan in order to produce a cross-cultural album between artists in the US and artists who were once child-soldiers
- A journey from the mythical Dinka world in South Sudan to the dreams of happiness living a new life in Norway.
- After 60 years of civil war, the Republic of South Sudan has emerged as the world's youngest nation. The World's Youngest Nation: South Sudan, filmed on location in the Republic of South Sudan, explores the emergence of a new nation from civil war. South Sudan faces many hurdles, not only is it the world's newest nation but it is also one of its youngest, with 70 percent the population being under 30 years of age. Yet it is the youth who give South Sudan hope. Through the eyes of five Southern Sudanese youths, this documentary explores not just the politics of South Sudan but also the creativity and courage of its youth in art, music, sports and education.
- When tribal feuds ignite a firestorm of violence, three surgeons unite for peace. Francis grew up with little schooling during the Sudanese Civil War. Ajak is a Lost Boy who has returned to the tribe he fled as a child. Both men are proteges of Glenn, a grizzled, but brilliant American surgeon. WE ARE THE ONES follows these healers as they fight to prevent illness in the world's newest country. After tribal divides erupt into violent raids that threaten their clinics, these men embark on a journey to protect their patients and bring peace to their people. WE ARE THE ONES blends verite techniques with cinematic visuals to bring the audience a visceral account of the constant war between life and death in South Sudan.
- No Parents. No Food. No Future. Stranded in Sub-Saharan Africa, orphaned by an AIDS epidemic, thousands of children are left on their own, in need of a shepherd to save them.
- Zachariah Char, a Sudanese "Lost Boy" featured in the New York Times, returns to South Sudan and his home village of Duk Padiet to search for his mother and father - 24 years after fleeing the country during a civil war.
- A small Western medical team swoops into a tiny Sudanese village. The team members: a doctor, nurse, and three medical students, are instantly confronted by a litany of machete and grenade blast wounds but it is the unscathed girl lying motionless on the floor of an unlit room that rapidly becomes the team's focus. The child's health deteriorates. She begins seizing, her temperature spikes, she drifts an hour from death. Her mother wipes the convulsing body with a damp cloth, while the medical team searches frantically for solutions to a disease that can be mind-bogglingly complex to treat, especially in children. As the battle progresses, the team finds itself stymied by the clinic's lack of basic resources and it becomes apparent that the only way this battle can be won is through a total team effort.
- Stories of refugees living in South Sudan and Salesians that gave them a new hope.
- In this 360 documentary experience, our 3 characters take you on a sensory journey into their worlds - where not only sight and sound but taste, smell and touch immerse you in their past experiences, the challenges they face and their dreams.
- Kiden is a girl in South Sudan going to school. Conflict arises when her Mother wants her to get married instead of finishing school.
- Film-maker Emile Dinneen journeys into the remotest regions of South Sudan, discovering ancient customs thriving in the midst of a brutal decades-long civil war.
- The famous adventurer Robert Young Pelton travels with a former "Lost Boy" child soldier back to the violence of South Sudan to track down the recently deposed Vice President Riek Machar in his secret jungle camp and become the first to film the brutal White Army in combat.
- Bullets to Books is Jok Abraham Thon's mission to strive for a global peace through educating the young minds of South Sudan. The problem is, he doesn't have the financial backing to be able to continue his dream. The temporary structures he was able to raise are falling apart. He needs to continue his mission; but, if the buildings fall, the dream fails. Follow Jok on his journey to change the minds of students from, "Bullets to Books."
- The heroic tale of Francis Gatluak who went on to to help his fellow Kala Azar sufferers.
- Ruan Magan's film follows the lives of three missionaries who carry out their work in some of the most remote and dangerous areas of the planet.
- Mary loves John, but she was forced to marry a wealthy man instead. A meeting with her lover has fatal consequences.
- Haunted by his violent past, lawyer Anuol returns to his homeland South Sudan, committed to serve his country and hold accountable those responsible. But his quest hits a wall when he is confronted with reluctance to reconcile with history.
- This documentary video shot in South Sudan is both a work of and commentary upon cultural exploitation. It is a self-consciously 'cinematic' recreation of a journey through a land plagued by the ghosts of colonialism and the present anxiety of conflicting religious and political agendas - both of which can often seem one and the same. Evoking a surreal sense of place, both very present and very distant, the video depicts the hazy lines between notions of 'foreign aid' 'missionary practice' and 'colonialism,' and shows the ways history has of recycling itself.
- At the "Friendship Association for Child Protection" Angelo devotes himself to street children in Juba. He supports them medically, teaches them and tries to enable them to take their lives in their own hands. A path, he knows quite well himself.
- This film tells the story of the people of Kalthok, South Sudan and a foundation started in Burlington, Vermont by members of Vermont's Sudanese diaspora who returned to South Sudan after 18 years in exile to partner with rural villages in South Sudan to solve their problems.
- Now on the final leg of her journey, Joanna Lumley leaves Lake Tana traveling west to rejoin the White Nile. They were required to fly over large parts of the river as it was deemed too dangerous to travel down it. In Juba, southern Sudan, she meets the local beauty queens who are preparing for the upcoming pageant. It's the on to Lake Albert where she takes a ferry to Murchison Falls in Uganda where there is now a large game reserve. Traveling overland They stop on the way at a rhinoceros sanctuary. It's then on to Lake Victoria, originally thought to be the source of the Nile. In 2006, a new source of the Nile was discovered in the hills of Rwanda. Traveling up the Rukarara River, they come to the source, a natural spring 4,199 miles from the Mediterranean.
- It's one of the most ambitious live television events ever. Over three nights from October 2 - 4, Australian audiences will follow events live from conflict hot spots and front lines across multiple continents, witnessing the complexity of mass human migration and its ripple effects in 2018. Journalist Ray Martin and SBS World News' Janice Petersen will be stationed in the 'Nerve Centre' in the studio in Sydney, as the stories unfold through a mix of documentary elements and live crosses to participants on-the-ground.
- A retired US President, a motley crew of public health veterans, former child soldiers, and local volunteers traverse political minefields, treacherous terrain, and bloody civil war to chase after a worm.