In this 2003 movie, Angelina Jolie acted as a a socialite, named Sarah Jordan Beauford who leaves her comfort life in England to join relief efforts of a doctor in Ethiopia.
Veteran aid worker Steve Hansch, who was hired as an advisor during the film's early stages, says the completed movie could put real-life workers at risk if local insurgents suspect they are linked to US espionage.
He wrote in the LA Times, "Hundreds of my friends and colleagues may well be put at risk now, because Beyond Borders gives credence to the notion that NGOs [non-governmental organisations] act secretly and repeatedly under contract to the CIA".
"By popularising an image of aid agencies working under instructions from the CIA, Beyond Borders may torpedo their real work in the field."
In reference to a scene in which the aid workers fight with soldiers in Cambodia, Mr Hansch continues: "Real aid workers do not kill local soldiers with their bare hands."
One of Hansch's friend who was an aid worker, was killed in Chechnya after being wrongly suspected of working for the CIA.
A UN spokesman said otherwise, "It's fiction; it isn't a documentary."
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