It appears to be a take-off on the South African 'Cry Freedom', directed by the award-winning Richard Attenborough, which also told Donald Wood's equally ignominious story about the demise of Steve Biko at the hands of South Africa's apartheid regime.
The first captures the cruel images of war that made fighting men out of boys and turned women into victims of rape and displacement on account of the appetite of the miners of the precious stone that has only brought misery to the peoples of the West African nation.
Public relations, politics and logistics may be responsible for focusing on the plight of the people of Freetown initially, but the theme of the film and the documentaries is destined to resound as far south as Angola, South Africa and Botswana.
In the first round, southern Africa has managed to evade a frontal investigation of the role of diamonds extending the life of the civil war particularly in Angola, exposing the most vulnerable groups to the violence and exploitation so graphically depicted in 'Cry Freetown'.
