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  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 32 m

Summary Since late 2010, more than a dozen nations have experienced popular uprisings that have collectively been called the Arab Spring. Protests, buoyed by predominantly young participants and social-media organizing, have exposed repression and led to regime changes. What does it mean to take part in a collective action that has the potential...

Directed By: Greg Barker

  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 32 m

We Are the Giant

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Summary Since late 2010, more than a dozen nations have experienced popular uprisings that have collectively been called the Arab Spring. Protests, buoyed by predominantly young participants and social-media organizing, have exposed repression and led to regime changes. What does it mean to take part in a collective action that has the potential...

Directed By: Greg Barker

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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46% Positive
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23% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
52
46% Positive
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31% Mixed
4 Reviews
23% Negative
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100
Nov 12, 2014
It turns material that could have resulted in a sporadic narrative into a profound statement that the Arab Spring is a continuation of humanity's constant efforts to make a better, more just world.
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80
Dec 8, 2014
Although lacking specific context and fussily presented, this is a harrowing account of the Arab Spring as witnessed by seven reluctant and committed activists in Libya, Syria and Bahrain. The footage of the violence inflicted upon civilians is truly terrifying.
By David Parkinson FULL REVIEW
75
Dec 12, 2014
The film commendably gives us vivid and memorable people whose personal stories strikingly illuminate their peoples’ struggles.
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60
Dec 8, 2014
Greg Barker’s documentary is a heartfelt, if historically disjointed, tribute to individuals who took part in the Arab Spring.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
50
Dec 11, 2014
We Are the Giant builds up quite a rhetorical head of steam, but it doesn’t try to analyze the conflicts it observes or to fill in the history, except in the broadest sense of placing these uprisings on a list of rebellions that stretch back through millenniums.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
30
Dec 11, 2014
Barker just hammers home the human-interest angle with a stirring score that serves to instruct the appropriate emotional response to each scene. The tacked-on uplift in the end is beyond comprehension, given that some of its subjects remain in peril.
By Martin Tsai FULL REVIEW
25
Dec 7, 2014
It ironically reveals its intent to suture shut any remote ambivalence regarding its own gung-ho ethos, in effect engaging the same sort of oppressively dogmatic tactics it so outwardly denigrates.
By Clayton Dillard FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Motto Pictures, Passion Pictures, Prettybird
Release Date Dec 12, 2014
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Hawaii International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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