Lost Boys Of Sudan

The American dream is put to the test in Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk's moving documentary about two Sudanese teenagers, refugees of the civil war that's been tearing their country apart for some two decades, who are relocated from Africa's plateaus to the plains of the American west. For over 20 years, Islamic fundamentalists have waged a vicious war on the Christian and Animist separatists of south Sudan, destroying villages and driving thousands of young men, like Peter Nyarol Dut and Santino Majok Chuor, into refugee camps. Once members of the cattle-herding Dinka tribe, Peter and Santino become two of Sudan's so-called "Lost Boys," a group of some 20,000 young men ...