'' Sergio '' is a 2009 documentary film based on Pulitzer Prize-winner Samantha Power 's biography , '' Sergio : One Man 's Fight to Save the World . '' The film revolves around the story of United Nations diplomat , Sergio Vieira de Mello , who worked for the UN for more than 34 years and was ultimately killed in the Canal Hotel bombing in Iraq on August 19 , 2003 . The work includes extensive interviews with William von Zehle , a U.S. Army First Sergeant in 2003 , who spent hours trying to rescue de Mello from under a 9m stack of concrete and other debris of the collapsed building
Canal Hotel bombing
Canal Hotel bombing
Sergio (film)