Agency - English program:.Western Centre. Agency:.Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in co-production with NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), with the assistance of CTV, NHK (Japanese Broadcasting Corporation), Discovery Communications Inc. and Banff Television Foundation.

Writer, David Christensen, Damien Lewis ; director, David Christensen, Damien Lewis ; producer, Bonnie Thompson ; editor, Emma S. Barry ; camera, Damien Lewis, David Christensen ; location sound, John Blerot ; sound design, John Blerot, null Wolf Willow Sound ; sound mix, Shelley Craig ; consultant, Nick Hector ; executive producer, Graydon McCrea ; producer, Takahiro Hamano ; executive producer, Nobuo Isobe.

Recorded 2005.

Shot in cinéma vérité, War Hospital intensely immerses the viewer in the sights and sounds of the world's largest field hospital. Over the past eighteen years the International Committee of the Red Cross has cared for victims of the civil war in Sudan - the longest-running conflict in Africa - near the Sudanese border in Likichoggio, northern Kenya. The ICRC allowed filmmakers David Christensen and Damien Lewis unprecedented access to the surgical hospital and local medical staff as they go about their duties, caring for wounded Sudanese soldiers and women and children, all casualties of the civil war. With no narrator and minimal explanation, War Hospital simply and powerfully captures the joy and sadness of life and death. From the beginning glimpses of rebel fighters singing patriotic songs to the final, sombre graveyard scene, the documentary subtly brings home the horrors of war. Warning: This film contains graphic medical images.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Honorable Mention - Category: Features, 2006 Best of the Festival, 2005

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).