Basada en una historia real, situada en el mundo internacional de la trata de armas. La película explora una consecuencia poco conocida del final de la Guerra Fría, la enorme cantidad de armas que de repente quedó disponible en los antiguos estados soviéticos para vender a los países en desarrollo (sobre todo de África) y las inmensas sumas de dinero amasadas por los traficantes de armas que las vendieron. Muchos piensan que es el mayor atraco del siglo 20. Sólo en Ucrania, entre 1982 y 1992 se robaron más de treinta y dos mil millones de dólares en armas. Ningún culpable ha sido jamás atrapado ni procesado.
Durante una misión de rescate, Wren (Charlize Theron), directora de una organización de ayuda humanitaria conoce a Miguel (Javier Bardem), un apasionado médico que ha dedicado su vida a trabajar en los países más peligrosos del continente africano. Wren y Miguel se enamoran e inician una relación en medio de la barbarie que los rodea. Pero ambos tienen caracteres muy fuertes y puntos de vista totalmente opuestos sobre cómo enfocar los conflictos que les rodean.
Documental sobre la vida de la legendaria cantante y activista de los derechos civiles Nina Simone. Incluye extractos de más de cien horas de entrevistas de audio con la artista nunca escuchados hasta este documental, así como imágenes inéditas de conciertos suyos, cartas y una entrevista con la hija de Simone, Lisa Simone Kelly.
Blood Diamonds es una serie documental hecha para televisión, originalmente transmitida por el History Channel, que analiza el comercio de diamantes que financia rebeliones y guerras en muchas naciones africanas. El programa se enfoca principalmente en dos naciones: Sierra Leona y Angola. Los diamantes que se comercializan con este fin se conocen como diamantes de sangre.
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 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.
Un equipo médico recibe el encargo de analizar el impacto y el número de fallecidos provocados por el virus del Ébola. Este trabajo, probablemente uno de los más arriesgados que existen en el mundo, refleja la filosofía y fuerza de voluntad de aquellos que lo practican.
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.
Esta es la extraordinaria historia de miles de mujeres liberianas, cristinas y musulmanas, que se unieron por la paz en medio de una larga y sangrienta guerra civil, entre los señores de la guerra y el régimen corrupto de Charles Taylor. Armadas solamente con camisetas blancas y su propio coraje, sus concentraciones no violentas fueron decisivas para alcanzar un acuerdo de paz en el verano de 2003.
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?
‘What do you want?’ asks the trade union leader, to which the men respond as if with one voice: change! Life is hard work on Liberia’s rubber plantations and wages are meagre. Nothing has changed for generations, but now the workers are calling for a strike and instead of grafting, the men are playing football or fishing.
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.