The Thing That Happened
The Thing That Happened
2011, English. Directed by Andrew Walton.
'The Thing That Happened' is a twenty-two-minute documentary short that profiles the Hope North Secondary and Vocational school on northern Uganda. Hope North struggles on a shoe-string budget to provide a home and an education for children displaced by the civil war between the Lord's Resistance Army (L.R.A.) and the Uganda People's Defense Forces (U.D.P.F.) The students are a mix of former child soldiers, orphans and the abjectly poor. Mitigating the horrific effects of the war and focusing them on their future is a monumental task
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- 0h 22m
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- English
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- 23 September 2011
- Country
- Uganda, United States of America
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The Thing That Happened runs 22 minutes (0h 22m).
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The Thing That Happened isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 23 September 2011. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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If you liked The Thing That Happened, try The Crystal Calls - Making The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Freakonomics, My Mom Jayne.
Who directed The Thing That Happened?
The Thing That Happened (2011) was directed by Andrew Walton.