FIRESTONE AND THE WARLORD
November 18, 2014
WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY
Marcela Gaviria
EDITED BY
Maeve O’Boyle
CO-PRODUCED BY
Will Cohen
Maeve O’Boyle
REPORTED BY
Jonathan Jones
T. Christian Miller
ADDITIONAL REPORTING
Will Cohen
DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Timothy Grucza
Ben McCoy
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Nesa Azimi
ORIGINAL MUSIC
John E. Low
EDITOR
Charles Farrell
FIELD PRODUCER
Abel Welwean
NARRATOR
Will Lyman
RECREATIONS
Ben McCoy
Carl Franson
Nesa Azimi
Jan McCoy
CAMERA
Rachel Beth Anderson
Mark Rublee
SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHY BY
Ryo Murakami
SOUND
Jason Pawlak
Carl Franson
Drew Levinson
RESEARCH
Daisy Squires
Leah Bartos
PRODUCTION ACCOUNTANT
James Cassidy
FIXER
Clair MacDougall
ONLINE EDITOR/COLORIST
Jim Ferguson
SOUND MIX
John Jenkins
ADDITIONAL VIDEO PRODUCTION
Ashley Gilbertson
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Colin Beattie
ADDITIONAL CAMERA
Eric P. Gulliver
GRAPHICS
Evan Wexler
INTERN
Christopher Fitzsimmons
Additional reporting supported by
the Investigative Reporting Program
at U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
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ABCNEWS VideoSource
Akron Beacon Journal
The American Geographical Society Library,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Archive Films
Agence France-Presse
AP Video Archive
Chris Steele-Perkins/Magnum Photos
CNN ImageSource
Corbis Images
Ed Robbins
Framepool
Fritha Dinwiddie
Getty Images
Historic Films Archive
Indiana University
Institut national de l’audiovisuel
ITN Source
James Kokulo Fasuekoi
Jonathan Jones
Journeyman Pictures
Kelly Jurkowski
Larry Price
Reuters
Salvador Gomes
Scott Stearns
The Special Court for Sierra Leone
Steven LaBadessa/Providence Journal
WPA Film Library
Plantation footage licensed from ‘Notes from Liberia”
produced by Judd Ehrlich & Flatbush Pictures
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