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Indiana Jones meets Mother Teresa adventure, three middle-aged
men, former soldiers and modern-day knights, travel the world
delivering life saving humanitarian aid directly into the
hands of civilians and doctors in some of the most dangerous
yet beautiful places on Earth, the front lines of war.
Ed Artis, Jim Laws and Walt Ratterman are self-styled Knights
of Malta, and in 1995, they formed Knightsbridge International,
a unique humanitarian aid organization, whose motto is "High
Adventure and Service to Humanity." Artis explains: "We're
not there to change anybody's politics, we're not in the God
business, and we pay our own way." Their specialty is
going where death from landmines, bullets, or bombs is as
frequent as death from hunger, disease, or the elements. As
Laws tells it simply, “We do what we can, when we can,
because we can.”
Their personal convictions and courage drive them to places
such as Afghanistan, Albania, Chechnya, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand,
Rwanda and the southern Philippines, often when few if any
other humanitarian aid organizations are around. The camera
follows Artis, Laws and Ratterman as they take us on a journey
into the heart of humanity and the soul of courage.
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