Watch ‘War/Dance’ for emotional health

“War/Dance” comes out on DVD today. This is a powerful little documentary that’s set in a refugee camp in northern Uganda. It’s “Mad Hot Ballroom” set in war-torn Africa, following as it does the students at the camp’s elementary school and their quest to win a country-wide performance (music, dance, drama) competition.

Though justifiably nominated for an Oscar, “War/Dance” lost out to “Taxi to the Dark Side,” Alex Gibney’s film about – as IMDB describes it – “torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.”

“Taxi to the Dark Side” doesn’t yet have a DVD release date. So check out “War/Dance” first and see what you think. But prepare yourself and make sure a tissue or two are nearby.

Below: The theatrical trailer for the documentary “War/Dance,” directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix, which comes out today on DVD.