Through insider accounts, diplomatic cables, and court documents, a revealing investigation exposes Firestone’s business practices during Liberia’s brutal civil war that began in 1989. The 90-minute documentary offers remarkable access to key participants and shows how Liberia’s largest private employer, Firestone, and American-educated warlord Charles Taylor’s stories intersected in fateful ways. ProPublica’s T. Christian Miller and Jonathan Jones, together with FRONTLINE producer Marcela Gaviria, collaborated to uncover how Firestone made a deal with Taylor to operate and served as “our most significant principal source of foreign exchange,” according to Taylor. The investigation also revealed how Taylor used the Firestone plantation as a rebel base to wage war, resulting in atrocities. A former Deputy Chief of Mission in Liberia, Gerald S. Rose, believed Firestone facilitated a warlord and shares his thoughts in the 2014 documentary. Firestone countered that it was powerless to prevent Taylor from occupying the plantation and had no collaborative relationship with him. Nonetheless, Firestone’s decision to remain in Liberia was very costly, but it was able to preserve an important economic asset for Liberia, according to Firestone and its parent company, Bridgestone, as stated in the documentary.