Yuri Orlov é um traficante de armas que realiza negócios nos mais variados locais do planeta. Estando constantemente em perigosas zonas de guerra, Yuri tenta sempre se manter um passo a frente de Jack Valentine, um agente da Interpol, e também de seus concorrentes e até mesmo clientes, entre os quais estão alguns dos mais famosos ditadores do planeta.
Em tempos de revolução civil e política na África, a diretora (Charlize Theron) de uma agência humanitária que fornece ajuda internacional encontra um médico voluntário (Javier Bardem) e tem que tomar decisões éticas difíceis em relação às suas atividades no continente.
Gravações inéditas, imagens raras de arquivo e suas músicas mais populares contam quem foi a lendária cantora e ativista Nina Simone.
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.