Living in Emergency (2008) on Netflix
NR20081h 33mDocumentary
Four Doctors Without Borders volunteers serve in Congo's continuing conflict and in postwar Liberia, providing emergency care in extreme conditions. Two are new to the field, two are veterans.
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Plot summary
Conflict persists in the Democratic Republic of Congo after the Second Congo War, and Liberia is recovering from its Second Civil War. Into these settings come four volunteers for Doctors Without Borders, staffing emergency hospitals with limited supplies. Two are new to the work. A twenty-six-year-old Australian doctor finds himself in a remote bush clinic; an American surgeon handles a stream of emergency cases in a shattered capital. The other two know the territory. One is Head of Mission, holding morale steady and keeping tensions from rising. The last is a veteran who has seen too much and wants out. Each volunteer must work out how to face the choices the job demands and where the limits of their idealism lie.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Living in Emergency (2008)
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- It took six months for the filmmakers to persuade MSF to grant them unrestricted access to film the field operations, and more than 25 production companies had tried before them and been rejected.
- Director Mark N. Hopkins and his team produced a 15-minute pilot about MSF's emergency response to the 2005-06 Niger food crisis, and were consequently given permission.
- It is the first uncensored film about Medecins Sans Frontieres.
