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The mythical photojournalist Robert Capa took the photograph 'The Falling Soldier' at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). The picture became one of the icons of 20th century, a symbol of the tragedy of war. According to the official version, this photograph caught, for the first time in History, the actual moment of a death in the full battle.
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In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and upheaval leading up to the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president. Their work is risky and dangerous, potentially fatally so, as they thrust themselves into the middle of chaotic clashes between forces backed by the government (including Inkatha Zulu warriors) and those in support of Mandela's African National Congress.

In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children.