2010
Unrated
Bev Pictures
1 h 33 m

2010
Unrated
Bev Pictures
1 h 33 m

Summary Two volunteers are new recruits: a 26 year-old Australian doctor stranded in a remote bush clinic and an American surgeon struggling to cope under the load of emergency cases in a shattered capital city. Two others are experienced field hands: a dynamic Head of Mission, valiantly trying to keep morale high and tensions under control, and...

Documentary

Directed By: Mark N. Hopkins

2010
Unrated
Bev Pictures
1 h 33 m

2010
Unrated
Bev Pictures
1 h 33 m

Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders

Name: Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2010-06-04
Duration: 1 min 33 s
Rating: 76
Cast: Davinder Gill, Chiara Lepora, Chris Brasher, Tom Krueger

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews

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Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews

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Boston Globe

A remarkable look at the people behind an organization that understands its limitations.

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Chicago Reader

Free of grandstanding and sentimentality, this powerful 2008 documentary follows missions to Liberia and the Congo undertaken by volunteers for Medecins Sans Frontieres.

By Andrea Gronvall FULL REVIEW

Wall Street Journal

Living in Emergency is anything but bleeding-heart propaganda.

By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW

Variety

With rare candor and a refreshing lack of piety, first-timers and combat-weary veterans exhibit their camaraderie, euphoria and burnout as the camera documents their struggles with logistics, horror, death and self-doubt.

By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW

Philadelphia Inquirer

Gripping, sobering, inspiring stuff.

By Steven Rea FULL REVIEW

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The film confirms it's hard to do brain surgery on a battlefield. But it doesn't take a brain surgeon to think it could go deeper.

By Joe Williams FULL REVIEW

Time Out

Documentarian Mark N. Hopkins gives us a mature look at the bracing yet very human personalities attracted to crisis.

By Nicolas Rapold FULL REVIEW

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