Dodoth Morning

Dodoth Morning is a 1976 film by ethnographic filmmaker Tim Asch.

A documentary film that follows a morning in the life of a family of the Dodoth people in northeast Uganda in 1961, a year when too heavy rains threatened to destroy the millet, which the people grew before the pillboxes in addition to their diet. This film features a time when too much rain threatened to rot the millet that is grown to supplement their diet, and the events that follow. It was completed in 1963.

The film begins in the early morning and tells about the headman, his four wives and his family doing their daily chores. Tension builds and flares up during a domestic dispute between father and son.

The film is distributed by Documentary Educational Resources.