The Devil Came On Horseback
by Annie Sundberg, Ricki Stern
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Actor: Brian SteidleDirector: Annie Sundberg, Ricki Stern
Brand: NEW VIDEO GROUP
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Arabic (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, 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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- 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
DVD Reviews of The Devil Came On Horseback
DVD Review: The Devil That Could Have Been Stopped
Summary: 5 Stars
Babies shot. Schoolgirls handcuffed and burned alive. Women systematically kidnapped and raped. Brian Steidle--a former Marine who became an unarmed military observer for the African Union in Darfur--watched it happen, documented it, and thought his photographs and reports could not be ignored. Nicholas Kristof brought attention to the photos with a New York Times Op-Ed piece in 2005. "The Devil Came on Horseback" makes clear how the funding and infrastructure for this genocide was made available--the roads the Chinese oil companies paid for and built to transport out oil from Sudan were the same roads used to transport troops and munitions, and transport Janjaweed militias in and out of Darfur for training. Once inside Darfur, a lot of the killing, burning and raping was carried out by the Janjaweed, whose very name translates as "devil on horseback." Evil, yes. Heavily armed, yes. But these guys didn't have weapons of mass destruction. They rode into villages on horseback. They could have been stopped.DVD Review: The DVD is about as bad as the book
Summary: 2 Stars
1. Most will think that I'm biased since I gave a pretty harsh review of the book. But with the faint hope that the DVD would redeem my disappointment with the book--> I realized that I had to check out the DVD.
2. Bottomline: If you liked the book, you'll probably like this DVD and vise versa. I gave it a 2 star because it still has educational content.
DVD Review: Gruesome but amazing.
Summary: 5 Stars
This documentary really does a great job bringing home just how horrific the atrocities in the Sudan are. I've seen a lot of photos and videos of Darfur but the stuff in this just blew me away. I like to think I have a strong stomach (I almost never feel sick during any movies) but some of the stuff in this literally made me nauseous--however, that's a testament to how powerfully shot and made this documentary is. They weren't afraid to show the raw truth of what is occurring, and that's what made this film so moving and incredible. I definitely would recommend it to any and all, whether you believe yourself to be informed or compassionate about the genocide occurring in the Sudan or not--if you were not either or neither of those things before watching this, you will be after.DVD Review: Vivid Account of Genocide
Summary: 5 Stars
The story of one man's plight in attempt to reveal to the world what is happening in Darfur. Highly persuasive as it is from the perspective of one, but most will cry during it given the interviews with the refugees and their stories. DVD Review: Consciousness-raising documentary
Summary: 4 Stars
****1/2
In the early 2000s, a cease fire was declared between two warring factions in Sudan (the Arab Muslims in the north and the non-Arabs in the south), effectively bringing to an end the bloody civil war that had ripped that nation apart for over two decades (though the peace treaty itself was not officially signed until 2005). Former Marine Captain Brian Steidle went to the country as part of a team sponsored by the African Union to help monitor the cease fire. However, while he was there, a new conflict broke out, this time in Darfur, the far western region of Sudan that is largely inhabited by tribal blacks. As soon as the cease fire was in place, militias and death squads, backed by the Arab government in Khartoum, began a well-coordinated and systematic campaign to brutally terrorize and slaughter the inhabitants of that region. Whole villages and refugee camps were wiped out, their people mowed down, burned alive or left to die of starvation, all for being black. Steidle - sans weapons and armed only with a still camera, a video recorder, a great deal of personal courage and a spirit of righteous indignation - spent much of that time traveling through the countryside compiling a photographic account of the atrocities. "The Devil Came on Horseback" is that account.
With this work, filmmakers Ricki Stren and Anne Sundberg clearly hope to rouse the outside world from its lethargy regarding this tragedy. Steidle's heartbreaking and compelling eyewitness testimony to Man's-inhumanity-to-Man is placed in direct opposition to the lip-service platitudes and hollow assurances he receives from the fiddle-playing leaders in the Bush administration and the U.N. when he confronts them with the evidence. First, there is the resistance on the part of the world to declare that what was happening in Darfur is a "genocide" at all - then, after the admission, an intransigent refusal to step in and take any kind of action to halt the holocaust. Perhaps the most heartrending moments come from interviews with survivors living in refugee camps in neighboring Chad, and from reflective comments made by Steidle himself as he struggles with the enormity of what he's seen and experienced and battles against the frustrating reluctance on the part of those who could actually do something to ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING.
After all the horrors it shows us, after all the inspiring images of one caring man making a difference in the world, the movie turns the spotlight directly onto the viewers, challenging them to take an active part in helping to end this human tragedy. Thus, the movie concludes with a list of websites and telephone numbers where all concerned people can go to find out more about what they themselves can do to have an impact. It's a challenge well worth taking up.
Description of The Devil Came On Horseback
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 400,000 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.
DVD Features: Bonus Short Film: Supporting Survivors; Take Action Save Darfur: How to Help
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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