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War/Dance Director: Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine

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  • DVD Release Date: 04/15/2008
  • Original Release: 2006
  • Rating: Rated PG13
  • Sales Rank: 27,516

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Deleted and extended scenes; Theatrical trailer; Trailer gallery; 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround; 1.78:1 aspect ratio (enhanced for 16x9 tvs); English subtitles

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Scene Index

Disc #1 -- War Dance
1. Opening Sequence [6:45]
2. Nancy [8:01]
3. Dominic [3:28]
4. Abducted [4:03]
5. A New Instructor [5:27]
6. Rose [6:04]
7. Practice [4:36]
8. Rebels [6:16]
9. Dry Season [3:59]
10. The Bwola [4:24]
11. A Visit Home [5:56]
12. Two Days to Go [6:02]
13. The Journey [5:12]
14. The Festival [6:01]
15. Second Performance [4:43]
16. Free Time [5:30]
17. Traditional Dance [6:04]
18. Awards Ceremony [5:07]
19. Returning to Patongo [3:31]
20. End Credits [5:31]

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Editorial Reviews

Since the 1980's, 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 running water are still luxuries known only to a few. However, in the village of Patongo, located deep in Uganda's war zone, a group of students (many of whom escaped from the clutches of the L.R.A.) struggles to rise above the violence and desperation that surrounds them. Each year, a student music festival is held in Kampala, Uganda's capitol city, in which children from around the country compete for prizes in performing traditional music and dance. When the students of the Patongo Primary School are invited to compete for the first time, the children are both thrilled at their opportunity and determined to prove that in a place of violence and want, creativity and talent can still take root. War Dance is a documentary about the Patongo Primary School's long journey to the Kampala Music Festival and the experiences, both good and bad, which informed them. War Dance received its world premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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This is a great movie to show to studentsby DrCooper

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April 23, 2009: I watched this movie with college freshmen, for my Emergence of Global History class.I think it would also work with high school student's too - there is no graphic violence - particularly as the subjects of the film would be around the same age.

War Dance suceeds in presenting both the horrors of war in Uganda - camps, orphans, child soldiers - and the resilience of the human spirit.

The plot follows a group of students in a remote refugee camp, who are training to take part in a national competiton of song and dance. The film intertwines the story of their preparations, highlighting their eagerness to be the best and the joy and healing they get out of the movie, with the stories of their horrific pasts. Individual children tell their stories - the use of sub-titles is very effective, as you get to hear the nunances of their emotion as they recount kidnappings and murders in their past.

Overall, I think the main positive of the film was that my students did not recoil from the harshness of the these childrens lives but could see them as real people.