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- A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in the West African Country Liberia.
- A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.
- Danish journalist Mads Brügger goes undercover as a Liberian Ambassador to embark on a dangerous yet hysterical journey to uncover the blood diamond trade in Africa.
- More footage considered to be too disturbing to be shown on television.
- An anthropological expedition of 22 months in the African continent. Two brothers travel in an old 1985 military ambulance from Spain to South Africa.
- An adopted daughter of a wealthy family puts up with her arrogant little sister while running the family business. As though the disrespect and insults from the little sister is not enough, she decides to make an unimaginable decision which the adopted sister finds unhealthy to the family business and will go to any extent to stop her arrogant little sister's outrageous plans for the company and the family.
- Providence is the story of two sisters, two families, two lives that collide in a heart- wrenching tale of love and the pursuit of happiness.Built upon the backdrop of the ex slaves (African -Americans) first trip to Africa after the abolishment of slavery and the relationships formed with the indigenous people, Providence explores the aristocracy of the African- Americans on that first trip, their political prowess, the history of Liberia and the very fabric of its existence.
- In the war-zones of Liberia and Congo, four volunteers with Doctors Without Borders struggle to provide emergency medical care under extreme conditions.
- "I want to give a view of the world that can only emerge by not pursuing any particular theme, by refraining from passing judgment, proceeding without aim. Drifting with no direction except one's own curiosity and intuition." (Michael Glawogger) More than two years after the sudden death of Michael Glawogger in April 2014, film editor Monika Willi realizes a film out of the film footage produced during 4 months and 19 days of shooting in the Balkans, Italy, Northwest and West Africa. A journey into the world to observe, listen and experience, the eye attentive, courageous and raw. Serendipity is the concept - in shooting as well as in editing the film.
- Unseen Enemy is a feature-length documentary about the threat of epidemics in the 21st century and what we can do to fight them.
- Magician David Blaine ventures across America from New York to Los Angeles, performing to various celebrities and the general public.
- "Liberia, a nation burdened by its past. America, a nation with no memory at all." In Liberia, the summer of 2003 was pure insanity. A rebel army attempts to overthrow a government run by an indicted war criminal. Two armies engage in the final battle of a decade long civil war. Hundreds of innocent civilians die from mortar shells launched from afar and thousands more suffer hunger while the soldiers, mostly teenagers, keep the capital city under siege. The nation prays that America, the world's sole superpower, will put an end to the violence. Conceived in Washington in the early 1800s, its constitution written at Harvard, its founding fathers freed slaves who returned to Africa, Liberia is the one country in the world worthy of the title, Made in America. By the year 2000, Liberia, once considered the gem of Africa, was ranked last in the world for quality of life.
- A French encyclopaedist tries to complete his life's work from beyond death. N is a story of an unusual obsession. Hovering between dream and reality, this magical film plays on the confrontation between the Western mind and African spirituality.
- Vice TV producer Shane Smith travels to Monrovia, Liberia, to look into a little-known facet of the long-running Liberian civil war-- cannibalism as practiced by fighters on all sides of the conflict. Smith interviews former Gen. Buck Naked, who boasts that he used to lead his soldiers--mostly drunken and drug-fueled teenage boys--into battle completely naked and they would devour the hearts, livers and other body parts of their dead enemies.
- When Lena and Ulli start the engine of their old Land Rover, Lady Terés, they have a plan: to drive from Hamburg to South Africa in six months. What they don't know yet is that they won't ever get there. Two totally different characters, jammed together in two square meters of space for almost two years, they experience what it really means to travel: leaving your comfort zone for good. Starting in Morocco, they quickly dive into the life of locals they meet on the road: Jamal, a Moroccan Berber who lives with his dromedaries in the Sahara, Ziza, a Mauritanian musician who fights against suppression from the government, Mame Sy, a mother who set up a private school for the poorest of the poor in Mauritania - and many more. Their journey leads them through the vibrant green canyons of Guinea, the scorching heat of Mali, and the amazing surf of Sierra Leone and Liberia. Everywhere they are, the two Germans make contact with the locals and demonstrate that real travelling is about more than plain sightseeing. But their long journey doesn't spare them the dark side of travelling: they are also confronted by corruption, sickness and even death. Setting out to discover a continent, their trip leads them down a very different road. One they did not expect: the journey to their true inner selves.
- Epidemiologist Chris Golden and ABC News correspondent James Longman embark on a journey to speak with the scientists connecting the dots on culture, disease, and the environment to discover the patterns that cause global health crises.
- When lost footage from the 1920s depicting a corporate land grab in the early days of globalization arrives back in Liberia, it sparks inquiry into how Liberians lost sovereignty over the very land that sustains them.
- An architect and filmmaker from Europe visit a town in the remote highlands of Liberia, once a thriving mining community, now decaying and desolate: a concrete ruin in the West African bush. Exploring the town, these researchers discover through its buildings a story of the promise of prosperity and forgotten injustices. A film about architecture, about the remnants of colonialism, and the spiritual cost of industrial mining.
- Tears Of Time is a film based on a real life experiences of sexual assault, violation, and grief. TINA, a 26 years old lawyer is left to fight a court case of three teenagers, who were victims of sexual violation by 35-year-old VARNEY.
- Like so many in Liberia's long and gruesome civil war, the true number will never be known, but it's estimated that 30-40% of the combatants were women and girls. Illiteracy, chaos, and brutality prevented all but a few from partaking in UN-sponsored disarmament programs. These young women witnessed and participated in unspeakable violence, and were almost universally and brutally raped. How do societies and individuals heal the profound psychic wounds such acts inflict? Jonathan Stack's intimate journey with them captures the courage and dignity with which these women seek their own path to forgiveness and redemption - to, in the words of one, "become a human being".
- A nature documentary reality series that focuses on African wildlife and its natural habitat featuring a safari tour guide named Ushaka who takes viewers on an adventure throughout the "dark continent".
- Fifteen years after the civil war which ravaged the whole country, Liberia is slowly rising from the ashes and tending towards a happier renewal. The opportunity for professional surfers Damien CASTERA and Arthur BOURBON to meet war children who, in certain areas of the country, have swapped their assault rifle for surfboards.
- "27 Months" is a unique and intimate real-time window into the lives of Andy, Kate and Marcy, three Peace Corps volunteers serving simultaneously in Liberia, the Philippines and Azerbaijan, but it's also a unique look also into distant communities that are often invisible to Americans.
- In 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave young Americans the opportunity to serve their country in a new way by forming the Peace Corps.
- An investigation into the countries and companies that have profited, ad continue to profit, from the continuous wars that have racked the continent of Africa for the past 50+ years and that continue to this day. Included are European mining companies diamond merchants and exporters, and corrupt government officials of many of the countries involved in these wars.
- Deep in the jungles of Liberia and Sierra Leone, a new kind of war is born. Warlords take command. Boys turn into killers. But amidst the chaos, there's a hidden harmony. Part tribal. Part hip-hop. Part Hong Kong action. JuJu they call it. Produced ten years before BLOOD DIAMOND, LIBERIA: THE SECRET WAR focuses on JuJu magic, the life-force Liberians believe gives our world its very meaning. LIBERIA won at the Vues D'Afriques film festival, screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival - and has been used to teach post-colonial theory at the university level.
- The filmmaker travels to West Africa to search for his friend, a Liberian man who fled the horror of Liberia along with hundreds of thousands of others. The journey probes into a world overrun with warring factions, refugees, arms dealers and profiteers.
- An evocation of the God of war introduces the film. A framework ties together and abstracts seven portraits of Liberian warriors from their context. Their voices present war as an ineluctable human expression of destructive forces that are, at the same time, universal and individual, real and archetypical.
- Does each gesture really make a difference? Can music and dance be weapons of peace? In 2003, on the eve of the Iraq war, director Iara Lee embarked on a journey to better understand a world increasingly embroiled in conflict and, as she saw it, heading for self-destruction.
- This striking documentary tells the compelling story of one Liberian community's fight for survival against Ebola. The film is told from the perspective of those who personally faced the disease, showcasing the ravages, death and tragedy they confronted, but also their struggle to bring the outbreak to an end. With great emotional depth, four main characters from the village reveal their efforts to confront the outbreak and the difficult process of recovering from its deadly reach. Mabel Musa, an ambulance nurse, and her team spearhead the fight against the spreading outbreak. Stanley lives in hiding-he's blamed for bringing Ebola to their village and is now an outcast. But Reverend Victor Padmore fights to reunite Stanley with his fellow villagers. Tawoo battles the virus and survives, and though his family members succumb to Ebola, he remains strong and determined to take back his life. These compelling stories reveal the human toll of this deadly disease.
- Having barely escaped with her life over a decade ago, my American-born, 80 year old grandmother returns to Monrovia, Liberia to rebuild her home and community after the devastating Liberian civil war.
- A look at the high profile case of Liberian Olivia Zinnah, who died in 2012 of complications from a rape that occurred when she was just 7 years old.
- Vele is 17 years old and all she wants is to learn how to read and write - to keep up with her seven year old daughter. After endless years of the Liberian civil war her ability to sign in her own name means the next big step towards independence - away from the painful past, into a brighter future.
- We Stand Alone is a feature-length documentary that follows the Liberian national amputee team from their homes in Monrovia to their championship bid at the 2011 CANAF Cup in Accra, Ghana. The film chronicles the daily struggles and triumphs of these players as they try to prove that they can still bring pride to themselves and to their nation.
- After presenting the founder of Mary's Meals with a CNN Heroes award, actor Gerard Butler journeys to Haiti and Liberia to see firsthand how the non-profit organization is fighting poverty and transforming entire communities by providing children with daily meals in places of education.
- The plight of the 152 million orphans of the world is set to music and the song Change.
- This film provides a glimpse into the daily struggles and triumphs of the Liberian people, following decades of civil war, a complete breakdown of basic services, infrastructure and political turmoil.
- An out of work good citizen and seasoned Karate instructor must take the law into his own hands to stop a gang of armed robbers from terrorizing the city.
- A documentary detailing the state visit (aka "Royal Tour") paid by Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to the recently independent West African countries of Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia in1961. Narrated by Sir Anthony Quayle.
- A documentary about the Ebola outbreak of 2014, and its consequences on the affected people of Liberia.
- This is the incredible story of two orphans who were given a chance to dream... Durga, born in an impoverished village in Nepal, was orphaned at 10 years old - becoming Mom and Dad to her younger brother. She sent him to school while she worked at a gravel pit - chipping rocks. After being rescued by a Canadian NGO, Durga was given her first chance to go to school. Today she is 20 years old and graduating as a certified accountant. She is introduced to photographer Samantha Walker, who documents her life in photography - expressing the pain of the past to the hope of the present and future. After losing his family in the rebel wars in Liberia, Africa, Philip struggled through a series of UNBELIEVABLE events. Yet he seized opportunities that led him to become a top student at the University of Johannesburg. His encounter with singer-songwriter Andrew Smith is filled with emotion. Smith will write an instrumental song about Philip's experiences - while they journey back into his childhood of terror.