This video should be required viewing in every Liberian class room.

It's funny how this video looks futuristic.....when infact this is our past. It is important that this short film be shown to the people of Liberia daily so that the spirit of growth and national development is once again re-awakened.

President Tolbert will always be remembered for the great things he did for his (our) country; he was one of the few Liberians that had the country at heart; I spent many hours sitting and chatting with him about the country he loved so dearly and his dream of seeing this country taking it's rightful place in Africa's Sun. It is so sad to see that because of greed we did not allow him to see his dreams become reality. RIP in peace, my mentor and one of the few individuals that made me who I am today. May God bless your soul and those faithful members of your family that are trying to live with the pain of not having you by their side.

I truly believe this video can be used to inspire the next generations to rebuild in a modern way while also not repeating the mistakes of the past. Good job Pepper Bird Studios.

President Tolbert was a very good man and president for our country, God bless his soul in peace. Good Liberian will always love you and for the good you did for the country.

I'm learning so much about my country. Thank you for this documentary. I am a 1990s born, so I grew up hearing about 'normal days' Liberia. My childhood memories are filled with war.

Looking at this video makes me sad, Jesus that Civil War was devastating...

I cried watching this video. I feel really sad knowing how Liberia left from grace to grass! 😭😭😭😢 it breaks my heart 💔💔

Liberians have to all work together to rebuild not what we lost but for the future now. We have to dream into the 22nd Century. Great Health system, Edu-Technology, agriculture, etc. WE CAN DO IT!

This is the Liberia that our parents only talked about, but we didn't experience it.

This is a historical treasure! Great work!

God bless mama Liberia. I know there is hope for Liberia.

All these were lost or went bankrupt for poor management, corruption or other untold reasons from April 12 1980. By 1985 every was down to zero. The soldiers and so called country people thought they were revenging against the Congo people not realizing they were harming themselves.

Hmmmmmm....oh wow!! My hair is standing on my head.....I can't just believe how we destroyed this nation in such manner and fashion all because of greed & power!! Only God can help us and restore our land for the future generations...........

Thank you for the video...Liberia was a great nation...I am lost for words...how could we destroy so much. Re-Inspired!!!

After watching this video about Liberia I cry remembering the beautiful country we once had before the war i remember as a kid how happy we us to be God pls bless Liberia

great film...hope many Liberians can see this film as a motivator to move forward and do great things once again.....

Sorry my Lib. people. I get crazy angry sometimes and talk about things that should be forgotten. The war did not start in 1990, it started in 1980, being further fermented by Mrs. Gbowee( noble prize) preaching her "americo-liberian enslaved our native people" politics instead of preaching reconcileation and peace. My decendents from both my mother and father migrated to Liberia from the USA in 1871 and 1882. Througt intermarriages, I have Kpelle, Bassa, Gio-Mano, Kru, Gola, Barbados ,Sarpo and "Congo" blood running through my civalize veins. So What?

I was a baby when Talber was killed, my dad told me a lot about those days that he referred to as "normal time", today .MAMA Liberia is a mess after the stupid civil war, very sad.

Let's advocate for this video to reach Liberian media networks . Let the reconstruction spirit be sown in the new generation of Liberians under the auspices of its Young President, H.E George Weah. Let Love Lead . From your brother in Southern Cameroon. PEACEEEE !!

Liberia didn’t declare her independence in 1927,Liberia declared independence on July 26th 1847!

It is a shame tat we came from this to where we are today. This is so depressing.

Brother Yor-El Francis we had our disagreements over the years but I cannot help think I owe you my deepest thanks for this film.I am in tears right now,I love Liberia so much and what happened broke my heart.I will do all I can to help

After all of what this nation went through;still, some of you didn't learn anything from it. The issue of indegenious and americo Liberians refusing to accept each other as one was the cause for all of this. Now it has come and go and Liberia remain. At this critical part in this nation, liberia needs the collective efforts of every Liberian whether you're congau or native, living in the diaspora or in Liberia, liberia needs every Liberian to return liberia to that place she once was and beyond. This happened before and it still can. Unity, commitment, hard work and patriotism are those elements that are needed right now to put liberia back to where she once was. God bless mama Liberia

Liberia was heading down such a good path, and if greed didn't get involved it could have been a superpower in Africa and maybe even the world. The wise President Tolbert had vast plans for not only economic growth, but for helping the people as well. He was allowing natives to join the government and was giving them more representation in Liberia in general by the day, and just before his death he was in the works of providing a low housing project backed by Libya. If we were patient, Liberia would have been a free and wealthy land for all, but change takes time, and greedy people didn't want to respect order and instead take over the country to fatten their own pockets. Such a shame.

One could only dream..with all the development then. I can only imagine without the greed and 14 plus years of genocide what my beautiful country would’ve been. Truly remarkable. Thank you for sharing part of our history.

It inspired me as a son of the soil. Mama Liberia I love you.

Wow oh wowwwww this was how my country once was

Wow our parents grew up in a nice country.

This brings tears to my eyes. Oooooooh how I wish we could come back to this time. Lord please forgive us and bring our country to halfway development like this.

Just seeing that place there makes me to be crying so sadly about that place over there so beautiful and lovely people who were living in there at that time there.

Enjoyed this video. Enjoyed 6 months in Liberia in 2011 and hope to visit soon and see all the improvements. I feel Liberia can be a fantastic tourist destination. I know this video is from the past but it could equally apply today.

A great film for Liberia. Inspiring!

WHAT AN OUTSTANDING DOC. PRESIDENT WILLIAM R. TOLBERT JR. MAY YOUR SOUL AND ALL THE SOULS OF THE TRUTH AND LOVING LEADERS OF OUR DEAR COUNTRY, WHO HAD TRUTH VISION OF OUR LAND AND ITS PEOPLE REST IN PERFECT PEACE. YOU ALL FOUGHT A BIG FIGHT BUT THERE HAD ALWAYS BEEN A BIGGER FORCE. A FORCE THAT CONTINOUSLY STAIR CONFUSSION AND DIVISION AMONGT US. A FORCE THAT WE LIBERIANS (THE PEOPLE YOU WERE FIGHTING FOR) HAVE YET TO SEE AND UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH DETRIMENTLE IT IS AND HAS BEEN TO US. PLEASE REST IN PEACE AND BE REASSURED THAT YOUR FIGHT WAS NEVER AND WILL NEVER BE IN VAIN. SOME LOVING AND PATRIOTIC LIBERIAN WILL FOR SURE MAKE THIS UP TO YOU ALL. THANKS EVERY SO MUCH FOR YOUR SACRIFICED

may GOD ALMIGHTY SHOW US MERCY TO COME INTO THE REALITY OF A HOME OF GLORIOUS LIBERTY BY GOD'S COMMAND

We have missed the opportunity to address our past mistakes, to educate our citizens about what went wrong. And if we don't recognize that Liberia is our #OneNation #Indivisible, we will continue to make the same mistakes again And again. God bless motherland

I watched this video 3 years ago and am back in 2020😭 God please help Liberia to stand on it's 🐾 again 🙏❣️🇱🇷💯

This is where we were as a nation, and we want to surpass this video move forward in the next decade(10yrs) after Ellen. It is "Nation Time"...And Yes! We can...some of Liberia's children have "BIG DREAMS" for Liberia & Liberian...It is a must.

thank you for the film. History!!!

Liberia shall rise again.We need to learn from the mistakes of the past.Amazing video!!!

I really missed my Contry Liberia 🇱🇷 is a very beautiful lovely place where anybody could stay in there too

Very interesting. I can believe that my country was once like this. Liberia, Africa will rise in Jesus Mighty name, amen. Thanks God.

Wow Liberia our beautiful country that was destroyed by some stupid power greedy people that wanted to be leader of our beautiful Liberia.

Oh Africa we are the richest countries on this earth

Good Job on restoring this Video.....Thanks!

God bless Liberia and we will stand again AMEN! AND AMEN!

i recommend this video be show on tv at least once in a month to remind the youngest generation about how liberia was and how we can still make its this dreams of Tolbert's a reality thnaks

Africa is the WORLD!

God bless you for the upload. Without Greed and War, it no argument we would have flourished . Was the Greatest Nation on the continent of Africa. 🇱🇷 🇱🇷 We Fed and Educated Africa 🌍.

Tolbert was Liberia's most progressive leader and sadly that's what lead to his demise. "Uncle sam" couldn't stand Tolbert embracing nation like Russia, Romania, and Cuba and calling on Israel to grant Palestine statehood.

It was so rich and cultural,and will be once more. First we need to awake and regain our spirituality and realize now, the most important resources are the people our labour are our testimony we have our resources all we need are the tools.and to not be frightened of having to work for our own richness. We must be not again be tempted by richness, grandeur, and false promises from the enemy, we have all that within.

Would love to connect with you all to use this footage in a documentary. How can our team get in touch?

Make Liberia Great Again

The golden age of Liberia.... will we ever surpass this time in history?

everytimes i watch this video i share tears

That is Larry from Threes Company in the video

What? Liberia was a beautiful country and How in the world did Liberia turn into a hell hole Lord please help us 😣😣😣😣

200 years into the future, when Liberia become what America is today, people in the United States would be driving flying cars and probably living outta space. It's heartbreaking to see what war can do.

Interesting!

See this brings so much sorry😢😢😢

looking at this video i am crying,God why that coup was successful lord, why ,why.may peace be unto president Tolbert ashes.you was killed for nothing look at liberia today poverty diseases,ignorance and ebola today

We have a lot’s of industry places to make fames in there to sell them food like rice 🍚 farm chicken 🍗 and other things were selling in there those days there.

Head working people over there those who were living in there.

What happened to our Beautiful land......

The nation's wealth was unevenly distributed. Trust me.I am a civilized native. We know of all the that. We had our national cultural troop.I am from Sinoe where we have timber, oak, and mahogany. The sapo national forest. Our bronze, iron ore , rubber, fishing from cape Mt to Harper. Not much was done to develops Liberia with all its wealth. Because only 1- 2% held over 80%.. Economic inequality???? Sure.

What is happening there now?

Its easy to destroy but always difficult to rebuild. Liberia needs to restore its dignity. A drive about Monrovia shows the level of disorder and chaos that is so pervasive in the Liberia of today. However, this video shows that whereas every thing appears promising, only 10% of the population were participants in the development of the country or controlled its wealth at the time. Monrovia was built to accommodate 300,000 people but today, hosts 1 million people. Therefore, housing development, roads, and job creation is essential. The country's education system is a mess. Schools lack trained teachers and resources to educate the youth. We will need four subsequent free and fair elections of development-minded presidents along with political stability before perhaps in the next 15 years, Liberia will be fully redeveloped. But I would say looking back that Willie Tolbert saw the vision but was not given the chance to really develop the country. So in a sense, we really didn't give ourselves chance to develop. Hopefully, we have learned a long and hard lesson going forward.

That’s my family

back in the days

Why did they do such a thing like that over there today.

We can do better even now

Where are all those cultures value now ?

And I have Sarpo and "Congo" blood througt my civalize veins. So what. To all Liberians whose families and children were raped and killed in 1980, 1985, 1990-2002, (including mine) we all pray for our Lords blessings and mercy. Taylor was revenging for Americo-liberians. Gio/Manos were revenging for the genocide being committed on them by Doe. Krahn/Sarpos were revenging because Americo-liberian/Gio-Mano wanted to overthrow them from power and kill them. What were the mandangoes fighting for? Very confusing.

When the wealth of a nation is unequally distributed, so much of it going only to 2% of its elite, that's Economic, social and politic injustice. It was all good but only for the few. Do not forget that. They only used the natives to entertain them. Most were still unemployed and uneducated until / 1979 since 1847..We had everything without anything to show for it. The elite travel to the US/ Europe for everything and were extremely wealthy interested in the profits only. No infrastures or human development was spread to the rest of the country. The best news was the rice production again which came to late. The fact that Liberian natives were no longer making a living off our very on crash crop, ie the country rice production with no assistance to local farmers after it was announced that a reduction in foreign imports of rice , raising its price without educating its citizen about the benefit of local cash crop staples, like yam, cassava, eddoes etc etc. Which natives were used to doing anyway, until it was taken from them and heavy importation of food eventually made it expensive to eat. We should have followed Ghana's footsteps. One cannot wein out a production after a very long of eradicating its use and abruptly reintroduced it. We should have encouraged farming from the get go; before the settlers came, only local food was being grown. But the settlers wanted Kwee and manufactured products imported and only they could. afford these commodities.

Good god this is depressing

Great propaganda video.

Unfortunate the Americo liberian ruine it...with one party rule and no rights for the natives