Cry Freetown is a2000documentary film directed bySorious Samura. It is an account of the victims of theSierra Leone Civil War and depicts the most brutal period with theRevolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels capturing the capital city (January 1999). The film also documents the Nigerian army summarily executing suspects. It was broadcast onCNN International on February 3, 2000. The film was produced with the assistance of CNN Productions, the Dutch news program 2Vandaag and Insight News Television. Awards for the film include theEmmy Award,BAFTA Award,Peabody Award and the 2001 silver award at theAlfred I. duPont–Columbia University Awards.^[1]

• Some of the persons interviewed by Sorious Samura in Cry Freetown (i.e.Father Giuseppe Berton and somebaby soldiers) are the same interviewed, in 2012, ten years later, in the DocumentaryLife does not lose its value (Original title, Italian language,La vita non perde valore), by Wilma Massucco (ITA/ENG - 53' - Bluindaco Productions © 2012). Main focus of the Documentary: reintegration, led by Father Giuseppe Berton, of former child soldiers, ten years after the Sierra Leone Civil War that occurred between 1991 and 2002.
• Cry Freetown atIMDb
• Cry Freetown at Insight TWI (formerly Insight News TV)

• 2000 films
• Films set in Sierra Leone
• Documentary films about war
• Sierra Leone Civil War
• 2000 documentary films
• Peabody Award–winning broadcasts
• Sierra Leonean documentary films
• Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award winners

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