The Devil Came On Horseback

The Devil Came On Horseback
by Annie Sundberg, Ricki Stern

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Actor: Brian Steidle
Director: Annie Sundberg, Ricki Stern
Brand: NEW VIDEO GROUP INC
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Arabic (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: International Film Circuit / Break Thru Films

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Movie Review: The Devil Came On Horseback
Summary: 5 Stars

A well-made film focusing on the passionate and heart-breaking story of Brian Steidle and the genocide in Darfur. It is an excellent way to begin or continue informing yourself about the issue. By following a single person through their journey in Sudan, chronicling their emotional reactions and their struggling efforts for change, it brings the issue to a level where it can be processed amidst the desensitization that has occurred as a result of modern media. The direct accounts of the tragedy - through photos, video and a compelling narrative - help to humanize the conflict and let us begin to see this not just as a loss of numbers from a population, but as a killing of single beings. Though it is sometimes an uncomfortable watch, it is essential.

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An up-close honest and uncompromising look at the crisis in Darfur THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK exposes the ongoing tragedy in Sudan as seen through the eyes of one American witness.Using the exclusive photographs and first hand testimony of former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle the film goes on an emotionally charged journey into the heart of Darfur Sudan where in 2004 Steidle became witness to a genocide that to-date has claimed over 400000 lives. As an official military observer Steidle had access to parts of the country that no journalist could penetrate. Unprepared for what he would witness and experience Steidle returned to the U.S. armed with his photographs intent on exposing the images and stories of lives systematically destroyed.A 2007 world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this astonishingly propulsive and dramatic film from award-winning filmmakers Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern (The Trials of Darryl Hunt) is a heartfelt account of what this particular American witness saw and just as important what he did afterward.System Requirements:Running Time: 85 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DOCUMENTARIES/HISTORY Rating:?NR UPC:?767685101988 Manufacturer No:?NNVG101982

The Devil Came on Horseback presents a first-person account of the genocide in Darfur. Former Marine Captain Brian Steidle joined the African Union in 2004 to help monitor the cease-fire in Sudan. As he puts it, "All I had was a camera, a pen, and paper. I was totally unprepared for what I'd see." An unarmed military civilian, he describes his observations, via voice-over and audio recordings, as filmmakers Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern alternate between their contemporary footage and his images of slaughtered civilians and incinerated villages. When his contract ends, Steidle leaves in disillusionment. He wrote his reports and took his pictures, but nothing changed. Since reporters lacked the same degree of access, he goes to The New York Times, and they publish his photographs. The soldier-turned-activist proceeds to spread the word everywhere he can. Aside from Steidle, the film features his sister Gretchen Wallace, founder of Global Grassroots (an organization working with female victims in Sudan and Rwanda), and Senator Barack Obama, who has also made Darfur his personal mission. The title comes from a loose translation of janjaweed, the government-backed Arab militias behind the atrocities to which Steidle bore witness. (Steidle and his sister use the same title for the book they wrote together.) As in their previous documentary, The Trials of Darryl Hunt, Sundberg and Stern maintain a measured tone, but their subject's horrifying images speak for themselves. The Devil Came on Horseback is accompanied by Wallace's Supporting Survivors, a short film about Global Grassroots. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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