The Boys of Baraka (2005)

Name: The Boys of Baraka
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2005-03-11

1h 24m

Running Time

Plot.

Four 12-year-old black boys from one of the most violent ghettos in Baltimore, Maryland, are taken 10,000 miles away to an experimental boarding school in rural Kenya, to try to take advantage of the educational opportunities they can't get in their own country.

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Cast & Crew.

Heidi Ewing

Director / Producer

Rachel Grady

Director / Producer

Dave Corcoran

Sound Recordist

J.J. McGeehan

Original Music Composer

Marco Franzoni

Director of Photography

Tony Hardmon

Director of Photography

Enat Sidi

Editor

Media.

Details.

Release Date
March 11, 2005

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 24m

Filming Locations
Baltimore, United States · Kenya

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2025-06-01

This Movie Is About.

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Wiki.

The Boys of Baraka is a 2005 documentary film produced and directed by filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. The documentary follows twenty boys from Baltimore, Maryland who spend their seventh and eighth-grade years at a rural boarding school in northern Kenya.

It premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in 2005, where it won the Special Jury Award for Documentary Feature. It was released theatrically in 2006 by ThinkFilm. The film also won a Gold Hugo at the 2005 Chicago Film Festival for Best Documentary and an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Independent or Foreign Film. The film was shortlisted for the 2006 Academy Awards and nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Informational Programming.