Multimedia Resources on Darfur
Video
Genocide Intervention Network
Calls to action and member videos
- Projections, short film by a group of New England high school students, in collaboration with the organization Facing History and Ourselves
- The Promise Video: Sen. Chris Dodd called "The Promise," a video by a group of Danbury, Conn., high school students about Darfur, "a wake-up call ... as these students so vividly portray, the people of Darfur continue to suffer while the world takes too little notice."
- The Victims of Darfur, an Amnesty International movie displaying 3,200 names
- Samantha Power at Boston's Night to Save Darfur
- 24 Hours for Darfur, a global video advocacy campaign collecting 24 hours of personal video appeals demanding an end to the genocide in Darfur
Overview of the conflict
Visits to Sudan
Interviews
- Interview with Mia Farrow
- Stop the Genocide in Darfur: PoliticsTV interviews Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), Rabbi David Saperstein and Rev. Richard Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals
- BBC interview with an ex-soldier of the Janjaweed
China and Darfur
- Highlights from the June 7, 2007 hearing on Darfur and the 2008 Olympics
- Dave Eggers, author, and Valentino Achak Deng, Sudanese refugee, discuss China's relationship with Sudan
- Jill Savitt, director of Olympic Dream for Darfur, explains the goals of the campaign and how citizens can get involved on Voices on Preventing Genocide (June 21, 2007)
- NBC report on the "Genocide Olympics?" campaign
- Susan Shirk speaks about how China's preoccupation with its international image relates to the 2008 Olympics and their complicity in the genocide on Voices on Preventing Genocide (June 28, 2007)
Regional violence in Chad and the Central African Republic
- UNHCR videos describe violence in Chad
- Sayre Nyce, congressional advocate at Refugees International, speaks to Jerry Fowler on Voices for Preventing Genocide about the situation in the Central African Republic as a consequence of the violence in Darfur
International Criminal Court
Feature Films
- Sand and Sorrow: While analyzing the historical events that have given rise to an Arab-dominated government's willingness to kill and displace its own indigenous African people, “Sand and Sorrow” also examines the international community's “legacy of failure” to respond to such profound crimes against humanity in the past. But while immersed in the despairing crisis of our time, Paul Freedman manages to give voice to the ever-growing and inspiring movement of those who wish to make “Never Again” finally mean something.
- They Turned Our Desert Into Fire: In 2005, filmmaker Mark Brecke traveled cross-country by train to present his photos of the Darfur genocide to members of Congress. During the trip, Mark shared his photos and first-hand accounts with fellow passengers. Their reactions proved compelling as each one asked "Why does the American public not know about this epic crisis and how can the world continue to do nothing?" The film chronicles these events and presents the most compelling question, "Which had greater impact, showing the photographs to passengers on the train or showing them to members of Congress?" It illustrates that the Darfur genocide is not simply a problem for the world's governments.
- The Art of Flight: The Art of Flight is a guerrilla documentary that was shot illegally in Egypt on camcorders and a laptop. The film serves as a back story to the 2006 massacre of Sudanese refugees in Cairo. The filmmaker was nearly arrested three times during the course of shooting. This feature length film tells the story of three people, a refugee from southern Sudan, a human rights activist from northern Sudan and an American journalist in self-imposed exile, all living in Cairo. For very different reasons, the trio has found themselves struggling to survive in Egypt, a U.S. financed dictatorship which has reluctantly become their home.
- Darfur Diaries: In October, 2004 a team of three independent filmmakers — Aisha Bain, Jen Marlowe and Adam Shapiro — left for Darfur, Sudan and eastern Chad. After monitoring the worsening political and humanitarian crisis for months and recognizing that the mainstream media offered marginal and inadequate coverage, the team set out with the goal of providing a platform for the people of Darfur (both those displaced inside Darfur and those living in refugee camps in Chad) to speak for themselves about their experiences, their fears, and their hopes for the future.
- All About Darfur: While documenting the atrocities taking place in Darfur, Taghreed Elsanhouri investigates how notions of race and ethnicity are constructed in Sudan. In one scene, Elsanhouri visits the elementary school she had previously attended. Just as in the days of her childhood, the students reenact the battles which led to the formation of Sudan, with the lighter skinned children playing Turks and Arabs, and the darker skinned children playing the vanquished Africans. Despite its significance, race, Elsanhouri discovers, may be too crude a concept to understand Sudan's bitter ethnic conflict. Ultimately, Elsanhouri encourages viewers to understand that the ethnic strife in Darfur is a product of scarcity, as Darfurians are dividing along ethnic lines to battle for limited resources.
- The Devil Came on Horseback: Exposes the tragedy taking place in Darfur as seen through the eyes of an American witness who has since returned to the US to take action to stop it. Using the exclusive photographs and first hand testimony of former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle, The Devil Came on Horseback takes the viewer on an emotionally charged journey into the heart of Darfur, Sudan, where an Arab run government is systematically executing a plan to rid the province of it’s black African citizens.
- Darfur Now: The new documentary featuring “Hotel Rwanda” star Don Cheadle, and the Genocide Intervention Network’s own Adam Sterling, director of the Sudan Divestment Task Force! “Darfur Now” is a story of hope in the midst of one of humanity's darkest hours — a call to action for people everywhere to end the catastrophe unfolding in Darfur, Sudan. In this documentary, the struggles and achievements of six different individuals from inside Darfur and around the world bring to light the tragedy in Sudan and show how the actions of one person can make a difference to millions. Watch the trailer.
Animation by Mark Fiore
Audio
Images and Slideshows
General Darfur Images
Refugees
Slideshows
Important Documents and Websites
UN documents
Peace agreements
The International Criminal Court in Darfur
Humanitarian aid, refugees and internally displaced persons
Humanitarian agency and NGO reports
Books
- Apsel, Joyce. Darfur: Genocide Before Our Eyes
- Cheadle, Don and John Prendergast. Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond
- de Waal, Alex and Julie Flint. Darfur: A Short History of a Long War
- Marlowe, Jen and Aisha Bain, Adam Shapiro, Paul Rusesabagina. Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival
- Prunier, Gérard. Darfur: the Ambiguous Genocide
- Reeves, Eric and Michael Brassard. A Long Day’s Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide
- Steidle, Brian and Gretchen Steidle Wallace. The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur
- Totten, Samuel and Eric Markusen. Genocide in Darfur: Investigating the Atrocities in the Sudan
- Young, Helen. Darfur: Livelihoods Under Siege
