War/Dance
Summary:
Since the 1980s, Uganda has been in a state of civil war, with the nation's leadership violently contested by a revolutionary force known as the Lord's Resistance Army (or L.R.A.). The fighting is fiercest in the North of Uganda, and there the L.R.A. recruit many of their soldiers by abducting children from refugee camps and homes in the poverty-stricken villages, where electricity and r... Full Summary >>
Review:
In War/Dance directors Sean and Andrea Nix Fine follow a group of children living in a refugee camp from the Patongo Primary School as they attempt to win Uganda's National Music Competition. Like similarly structured documentaries before it, from Spellbound to Mad Hot Ballroom, War/Dance benefits from the sympathy evoked by kids ... Continue >>
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