Yuri Orlov è un trentenne ucraino immigrato con la famiglia negli Stati Uniti con tanta voglia di emergere, ma pochi mezzi per farlo. Un giorno l'uomo intuisce che il traffico d'armi può diventare il suo passaporto verso la vita agiata che ha sempre sognato e infatti, in breve tempo, conquista tutto ciò che desidera: soldi, potere e la donna dei suoi sogni. Alla sua rapida ascesa si oppone però Jack Valentine, un giovane agente idealista dell'Interpool.
Il racconto di un amore sbocciato in un Paese dilaniato dalle guerre civili. Diretto dal due volte premio Oscar Sean Penn, la storia di Il tuo ultimo sguardo abbraccia un arco temporale di circa 13 anni: sullo sfondo dell'attuale stato di crisi in Sudan, inizia all'interno di una base di una missione delle Nazioni Unite, dove l'organizzazione ha fatto rifugiare un intero campo-profughi. Il dottor Miguel Leon (Javier Bardem), un medico impegnato in una missione di aiuto sanitario, e la dottoressa Wren Petersen (Charlize Theron), direttrice di un'organizzazione umanitaria, si incontrano e si innamorano alcuni anni prima, mentre in Liberia e in Sierra Leone esplode il conflitto armato. Nella cornice estremamente difficile della guerra in Liberia, Miguel e Wren dovranno trovare il modo per mantenere vivo il loro rapporto, nonostante le opinioni di entrambi per risolvere il conflitto siano diametralmente opposte e contrastanti.
The film chronicles Nina Simone's journey from child piano prodigy to iconic musician and passionate activist, told in her own words.
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.
Follow Dr. Todd Phillips though the Ebola - stricken jungles of Liberia as he and his team struggle to bring the Gospel and clean water to an entire nation - border to border - for the first time in history.
Blood Diamonds is a made-for-TV documentary series, originally broadcast on the History Channel, that looks into the trade of diamonds which fund rebellions and wars in many African nations. The program focuses primarily on two nations: Sierra Leone and Angola. Diamonds which are traded for this purpose are known as blood diamonds.
Body Team 12 is tasked with collecting the dead at the height of the Ebola outbreak. These body collectors have arguably the most dangerous and gruesome job in the world. Yet despite the strain they emerge as heroes while the film explores their philosophy and strength.
A struggling Liberian rubber plantation worker risks everything to discover a new life as a Yellow Cab driver in New York City.
A Liberian refugee SAM REAYAH and his family have been separated for five years and live in uncertainty waiting for family reunion. While Sam and his younger daughter Ruth continue their lives in Buduburam Refugee camp in Ghana, his wife Decontee and his older daughter Joyce have already started a life in Rochester, USA. The film explores the idea of home. Sam's family had a home in Liberia, but they had to give it up. They were forced to build homes elsewhere. They built a home in Ghana. They build a home in The United States. They built homes together, they build homes separate of each other. But which home does the heart want?
Pray the Devil Back to Hell chronicles the remarkable story of the Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country.
A documentary following the efforts of Earnestine Smith, an 80-year old American, to return to Liberia in order to rebuild her life following the devastation of the Liberian civil war.
When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became Africa's first ever elected female head of state, filmmakers Siatta Scott-Johnson and Daniel Junge were there to follow her. It was the start of an extraordinary year they spent with the Liberian president as she struggled to take control of a country devastated by years of civil war. Together with her 'iron ladies' (the finance minister and police chief are also formidable females), she takes a firm hold on the government, trying to root out corruption and spend the tiny annual budget carefully. But it is not an easy task, and everything seems to be against her - even her presidential mansion burns down. (Storyville)
The gripping true story that reveals how an acclaimed American charity failed Some of the world's most vulnerable girls. Katie Meyler captivated Americans with the stories of girls she met in Monrovia, Liberia, who she said were so poor that they had to sell their bodies to buy clean drinking water. She started a charity called More Than Me, and in 2012 she won $1 million live on NBC to build a school of her own. She said she was saving vulnerable girls from sexual exploitation. But from the very beginning, girls were being raped by a man Meyler trusted. A yearlong ProPublica investigation delves into the question of who is responsible when those who help also cause enduring and irreversible harm.