Cry Freetown

Channel 4

Presenter - Sorious Samura

Directors - Sorious Samura and Ron McCullagh

2000

BAFTA

BAFTA for Best Current Affairs Film

2000

EMMY

Emmy Award for Best Investigative Programme

2000

Peabody

Peabody Award for Best Documentary

In 1999, Sorious Samura was trapped in his home city of Freetown, Sierra Leone, when it was overrun by RUF rebels backed by the Liberian dictator Charles Taylor.

Equipped only with his camera and at extreme personal risk, Sorious documented the brutality of the civil war.

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