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- A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.
- A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in the West African Country Liberia.
- 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.
- "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.
- 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.
- Magician David Blaine ventures across America from New York to Los Angeles, performing to various celebrities and the general public.
- Unseen Enemy is a feature-length documentary about the threat of epidemics in the 21st century and what we can do to fight them.
- 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.
- In the war-zones of Liberia and Congo, four volunteers with Doctors Without Borders struggle to provide emergency medical care under extreme conditions.
- "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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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".
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- The saying 'women are the backbone of society' certainly holds true for Africa's oldest republic. It is a place where women are an impressive force behind change and a major driver of development, education, and long lasting peace.
- 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.
- Liberia, a nation scarred by 14 years of brutal civil war, stands at a critical moment in its history as it heads for its second democratic election in October 2011. This election will decide the country's future course - towards peace and stability or violence and chaos. Assisting the UN peacekeeping operation is a special unit from India - an all-female police contingent. Deployed yearly since 2007, it is the first such unit to ever take part in a peacekeeping mission. The all-female contingent is an important experiment for the UN - to rectify the skewed gender ratio within the UN system itself where only 6% of peacekeepers are women, and more importantly, to bring a gendered perspective to conflict resolution and peacemaking. But for Ruby, Tejinder and Philomena the journey away from their families has been difficult. It is their first time in another country - they have never been so far away from home. Like them, most of the other women in their unit have left behind young children in the care of husbands and relatives. The 12 month duty is tough and just too long. They spend their evenings trying to connect calls back home. The tension is rising as the election draws nearer. There are frequent clashes between different political parties. Will the Indian policewomen succeed in ensuring that the voting takes place in a safe and trouble-free environment? Will the hardships they suffer to bring peace in far-off lands be worth it in the end?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- When Canadian brothers Jeff and Andrew Topham returned to the war torn West African country of their childhood to re-shoot their father's photos for a documentary, they also found a nation whose own photographic memory was destroyed by war
- A young man who survived the horrors of the Sierra Leonean civil war as a child and elevated himself through education has set on a journey to face his past and rebuild the country he once saw destroyed.
- Three women, three wars, one dream. Lanja is a journalist in Iraq fearlessly fighting against honor violence. Maia in Abkhazia battles archaic customs like 'bride kidnapping'. Nelly runs a women's shelter in the slums of Monrovia, Liberia. A universal story of women's courage and survival in the aftermath of war.
- 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.
- A group of Capital Hill millennials asked two questions: 1) what's the greatest physical need on the planet?, and 2) where's the most difficult place on the globe to affect sustainable change? One visionary man is leading their charge to make a lasting impact in the war-torn, Ebola-ravaged West Africa nation of Liberia. Operational crisis presses in, threatening their ability to achieve a monumental goal.
- 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.
- A documentary mini series focusing on how football and soccer can be used in different ways around the world for development and social change.
- Sam Bleakley a former pro surfer and travel writer explores hard to reach places often misrepresented in the press. In this amazing journey he visits Liberia 10 years after the end of a civil war to tell the story of how surfing has helped a small community rebuild and grow. Between 1989 and 2004 a civil war gripped Liberia with child soldiers, amputees and war crimes so horrific that the memories still haunt the nation to this day.
- The plight of the 152 million orphans of the world is set to music and the song Change.
- This documentary follows the Matsiko World Orphan Choir's Liberian cohort as they prepare for their 12-month tour of the USA.
- 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".
- 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.
- In a country torn by war, over 100 orphaned and abandoned children were left to die. But, one courageous woman wanted them to live. This is the true story of one Liberian orphanage.