''Mystery of the Nile'' is a 2005

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documenting the first successful expedition to navigate the entire length of the

Blue Nile The Blue Nile is a river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. It travels for approximately through Ethiopia and Sudan. Along with the White Nile, it is one of the two major Tributary, tributaries of the Nile and supplies about 85.6% of the wa ...

and

Nile The Nile (also known as the Nile River or River Nile) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile is the longest river in Africa. It has historically been considered the List of river sy ...

from its source in

Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...

to the

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea ( ) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern Eur ...

. The expedition was led by

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Pasquale Scaturro. The journey took 114 days starting on December 22, 2003 and was finished on April 28, 2004. The film was released in 2005.

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* http://www.nilefilm.com/ - official website * 2005 films 2005 short documentary films IMAX short films Films set in Africa Nile in fiction Films shot in Ethiopia Films shot in Sudan Films shot in Egypt IMAX documentary films 2000s English-language films American short documentary films English-language short documentary films {{nature-documentary-film-stub