3 Films & TV Shows Set In Guinea During The 20th Century

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  Blood Diamond

  🇸🇱 Sierra Leone 🇿🇦 South Africa 🇬🇳 Guinea 🇱🇷 Liberia The 1990s

  It will cost you everything. — An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

  Released in 2006 • 143 minutes
• Early in the Morning

  🇬🇳 Guinea The 1990s

  Yaguiné and Fodé, schoolboys who try in vain to find work to help their poor families. Lured by the symbols of Western affluence and power that surround them, the two stow away on a flight to Europe.

  Released in 2006 • 75 minutes
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  Those Whom Death Refused

  🇬🇳 Guinea 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau The 1970s

  The story of a woman who searches through the country for her husband, a resistant, while the war for independence is raging. She finds him at last and saves his life. When peace finally arrives, they have to learn how to be together again and start living in a destroyed land.

  Released in 1988 • 92 minutes