Product Details

• Directors: Taran Davies
• Writers: Taran Davies
• Producers: Taran Davies, Walied Osman
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Vanguard Cinema
• DVD Release Date: June 24, 2003
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00008V61L
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #88,492 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Afghan Stories" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Item Name: Afghan Stories; Studio: Vanguard Cinema

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Behind the guns and veils there are real lives and real people with real hopes & dreams. Studio: Vanguard Cinema Release Date: 09/28/2004 Run time: 60 minutes Rating: Nr

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Illuminating, January 16, 2004

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Newton Munnow "Newton Munnow" (Atlanta, Georgia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Afghan Stories (DVD)

This documentary film seeks to open up a side to Afghanistan previously unseen by Western viewers. It's a personal film, the story of the director and an Afghan friend traveling around the country, seeing if they could unearth some sign of life in places destroyed by over twenty years of war. That alone was a revelation. Before seeing Afghan stories, it was easy to think of the nation as a terrorist state, but this films dips far enough into the past to unravel private histories, allowing us to get to know a handful of Afghans. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't symbolic of the rest of their people, but an obvious humanity is on display, as well as the danger and confusion of a people simultaneously suspicious and welcoming of the American bombardment that continues throughout the filming of this documentary. I actually saw this on the Sundance Channel, so I can't vouch for any extras in the DVD, but there's more to be learned here than in a hundred hours of network news.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for class, great for anyone!, December 26, 2006

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Amber Hathaway (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Afghan Stories (DVD)

This movie is a vivid, moving documentary about Afghans living in and out of Afghanistan in the period shortly following September 11th. The filmmakers visit people in the US, Canada, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan to get a picture of what life is like for Afghans with a variety of perspectives to share. I showed it in my high school humanities class paired with the novel Kite Runner and the students loved it; even they were no match for an emotional scene with a small child singing about wanting to return to Kabul. I recommend this for educators as well as anyone looking to see the more personal side of war-torn Afghanistan.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible for Educators!, June 19, 2004

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Z. Saed (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Afghan Stories (DVD)

This is a wonderful documentary. I highly encourage educators to use this film. Out of a list of documentaries on Afghanistan that I teach in my undergraduate course, my students always list this as the most influential film for them. It is both informative, humorous and very human. It presents such a wide variety of Afghans from the diaspora and in Afghanistan that it deconstructs any one image or stereotype of Afghans. Walied Osman, the Afghan American lead, certainly makes the navigation through these two seemingly different worlds easier. My students, New Yorkers, have connected with him and it is his guidance through Afghanistan that touches them deeply.