3 Films & TV Shows Set In Sierra Leone 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
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  Lord of War

  New York 🇩🇪 Germany 🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇱🇧 Lebanon 🇱🇷 Liberia 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone 🇧🇴 Bolivia 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇸🇴 Somalia The 1980s The 1990s The 2000s

  Where there's a will, there's a weapon — Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.

  Released in 2005 • 122 minutes
• Cry Freetown

  🇸🇱 Sierra Leone The 1990s

  An account of the victims of the Sierra Leone Civil War and depicts the most brutal period with the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels capturing the capital city on January 1999.

  Released in 2000 •