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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.
- HONDROS follows the life and career of famous war photographer Chris Hondros by exploring the poignant and often surprising stories behind this award-winning photojournalist's best-known photos. Driven by a commitment to bear witness to the wars of our time after the events of 9/11, Chris was among the first in a new generation of war photographers since Vietnam. HONDROS explores the complexities inherent in covering more than a decade of conflict, while trying to maintain a normal life. It also examines the unknowable calculus involved in making split-second life and death decisions -- before, during and after his photos were made. Chris was killed in Libya in 2011, but he left a lasting impact on his profession that is still felt today.
- Tells the story of Joshua Milton Blahyi - aka General Butt Naked - a brutal warlord who murdered thousands during Liberia's horrific 14-year civil war. Today, the General has renounced his violent past and reinvented himself as Evangelist Joshua Milton Blahyi. This portrait takes viewers on Joshua's crusade to redeem his past, as he confronts his victims and attempts to rehabilitate the former child soldiers who once fought for him. Whatever you make of him -- liar or madman, charlatan or genuine repentant -- the film challenges viewers to ask important questions about both the power and the limits of forgiveness, amid a nation's search for healing and justice.
- Unseen Enemy is a feature-length documentary about the threat of epidemics in the 21st century and what we can do to fight them.
- A Christian relief organization is met with the challenge of fighting the Ebola epidemic in west Africa, through this enormous challenge their faith grew.
- 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.
- A struggling Liberian rubber plantation worker risks everything to discover a new life as a Yellow Cab driver in New York City.
- 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.
- Afro-Cubans preserve ancestral traditions. A filmmaker traces roots to Sierra Leone, where villagers recognize lost kin's customs. A joyous festival reunites the long-separated family through shared cultural heritage.
- 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.
- 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.
- A murder mystery about a young man accused of killing his wife. He's imprisoned but a mystery shrouds the circumstances of her death. Set against the backdrop of postwar Liberia, the film is based on the acclaimed Bai T. Moore novel.
- When a newly married woman accompanies her husband to Africa on a business trip, he is kidnapped. There is only one catch - the woman is a police officer who will stop at nothing to track down her husband and bring him back alive.
- 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.
- Rachel wants it all: an education, a husband, a family. Fresh out of college, she will see what the world has in store for her.
- Forced to fight in Liberia's civil war, six former child soldiers now battle for peace in post-conflict Liberia. Trading their weapons for cameras and soccer balls, these ex-combatants train as grassroots peacebuilders and re-enter their villages after years of trauma and isolation. In THE FIGHT TO FORGIVE young Liberians discover that their future and a lasting peace for their developing nation depend on one final personal battle--the fight to forgive both themselves and the adults who forced them to kill.
- The inspiring story of one man's passion to change a nation...before it's too late!
- 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.
- All over the world, people from different cultures instinctively go to the walls, painting their stories as a way to give voice to their life experiences. In Beyond The Walls, we enter the murals for a personal view of lives affected by violence, poverty or conflict. Beyond The Walls brings to life the impact of traumatic events on those who survive.
- The Ebola outbreak in West Africa seen through the eyes of the local populations, village officials, aid workers, the sick and those who recovered. It is a story of fear and frustration, of stigma and disbelief, of grief but also of immense joy and courage.
- 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.
- Solving for X is a feature-length documentary about the quantitative approach to human rights data. The film documents the work of Dr. Patrick Ball, leader of the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group. Based in Silicon Valley, Ball and his team travel the world helping human rights supporters apply sophisticated computer analysis to human rights events. Three examples of this quantitative approach are explored in the film: in Kosovo, Guatemala, and Liberia. In each case, Ball and his team use complex tools to answer a simple question: who did what to whom.
- Iron Ladies of Liberia is an intimate observational documentary that goes behind the scenes with Africa's first freely elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia. The film explores the challenges facing the President and the extraordinary women surrounding her as they develop and implement policy to rebuild their ravaged country, and prevent a descent back into civil war.