Sudan-Land of Contrasts (1954)
Sudan-Land of Contrasts(1954) This is the first (and only) color documentary of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Even then, it was controversial to visit the southern Sudan. An emergency Sudanese cabinet meeting was convened to grant permission, over British objections, to permit the American Students for International Understanding to journey south. Filmed by AMSTU director Keith Wheelock, this covers the Sudan from its northern and southernmost borders, with Khartoum, Omdurman, Shellal, Atbara, Juba, Yei, Yambio and Red Sea ports included. The southern Sudanese rebellion commenced in 1955, with over 11/2 million dead to date. While negotiations to settle this conflict are ongoing, in Darfur, in the western Sudan, hundreds of thousands of Sudanese have been killed, and many more forced to flee. This documentary captures the final months of the uneasy British-Egyptian protectorate over the Sudan.
