Lost Boys of Sudan (2003)

Name: Lost Boys of Sudan
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2003-04-24

1h 27m

Running Time

Plot.

Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa's cruelest civil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion attacks and militia gunfire to reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. From there, remarkably, they were chosen to come to America. Safe at last from physical danger and hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves confronted with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia

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Cast & Crew.

Megan Mylan

Director

Jon Shenk

Director

Jarrid Geduld

Young boy

Mark Becker

Editor

Kim Roberts

Editor

Media.

Details.

Release Date
April 24, 2003

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 27m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2025-02-13

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Lost Boys of Sudan is a documentary film by Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk about two Dinka boys from Sudan, Santino Majok Chuor and Peter Nyarol Dut, who reached the United States after fleeing the civil war in their country. "Orphaned as young boys" in the Second Sudanese Civil War they "survived lion attacks and militia gunfire to reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children."

The documentary's title “Lost Boys of Sudan” was originally the name given to the group of Southern Sudanese youth by United Nations aid workers who were monitoring their flight from Sudan.