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- 2015
- Not Rated
- Netflix
- 1 h 42 m
- 2015
- Not Rated
- Netflix
- 1 h 42 m
Summary A documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F. Yanukovich.
Directed By: Evgeny Afineevsky
Written By: Den Tolmor
- 2015
- Not Rated
- Netflix
- 1 h 42 m
- 2015
- Not Rated
- Netflix
- 1 h 42 m
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
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6.4
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Summary A documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F. Yanukovich.
Directed By: Evgeny Afineevsky
Written By: Den Tolmor
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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92% Positive
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8% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
79
92% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
8% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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This is a documentary that reminds you of the resiliency of the human spirit. The resourcefulness that can take place when you have nowhere else to run.
The documentary is a testament to the human spirit, to unity in times of depravation, to the ability of common individuals to effect change at the highest level.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 66 User Ratings
6.4
67% Positive
44 Ratings
44 Ratings
6% Mixed
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4 Ratings
27% Negative
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 66 User Ratings
6.4
67% Positive
44 Ratings
44 Ratings
6% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
27% Negative
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
Despite the movie skipped many details. But it manages to preserve the whole idea of the protest. Don't late corruption and lie take your freedome away.
This is a great documentary.
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Winter on Fire's thrilling rebellion is neither the beginning nor the end, but it is at least a truly heartening middle.
Winter on Fire has all the immediacy and power of drama. If it lacks the dispassionate context of more balanced journalism, it makes up for it with a complex, contradictory emotional impact that is simultaneously demoralizing and hopeful.
Though the film is limited by a point of view that’s too polemically reductive, the idealistic, difficult, sometimes lethal struggles it covers are undeniably revelatory and moving.
More like the testimony of an enthusiastic, fully committed supporter watching, in close-up, a populatoon reclaiming its rights, Afineevsky’s film accepts as a basic premise that Yanukevych is the villain. Anyone who differs should look elsewhere.
Getting swept up in the immediate excitement is entirely understandable, but ignoring the less savory elements, such as ultra-nationalist rhetoric, is problematic at best.
I had already watched a fair amount of maidan footage on youtube, so I was not expecting this to be anything new to me, and the first 30 minutes was some of what I had already seen, but it does get better as it goes along, and by the end it was extremely powerful, with stuff I had never seen before.
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This is not a historical documentary, this is propaganda. The film is trying hard to white-wash a **** revolution as a fight for freedom.
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Biased propaganda. Biased propaganda. Biased propaganda. Biased propaganda. Biased propaganda. Biased propaganda. Biased propaganda. Biased propaganda. Biased propaganda.
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*Firstly, I'll just mention that I primarily registered an account on here just to write this review!*
The amount of propaganda & misinformation present in this movie is astounding. It's hard to argue with a piece like this, from the imagery to the opening trailer - it all screams of bias. It truly makes me sad that this is what the majority will watch and base their opinions on. Even from a film makers point of view, this documentary is shot in a hugely biased manner (look at the cover screen little girl vs scary riot police). I guess with enough money one could literally direct a propaganda movie about anything.
0/10 for the bias, this is not a historical documentary, this is some hollywood level hippies vs evil government drama bs.
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THIS GETTING SO MANY GREEN REVIEWS IS REAL PROOF OF THE END OF HUMANITY!
Lies: Euromaidan is for democracy of Ukraine.
Truth: It is a collapse program presented by our lovely powers within who want war and collapse. Same thing as in the French and Russian revolutions of age old.
Lies: The protesters are freedom fighting students fighting for their freedom.
Truth: They are paid thugs who came here to destroy and oust a legit government. And notice the word "Freedom Fighters" is double speak and is a variant of Dragon Fighter but instead fights Freedom, not Fight for Freedom. Of course, i cannot exclude the sheer amount of clueless people who don't have an idea what they are coming into. These people should be ashamed for helping the powers within destroy their own country.
Also, just another note; This "Revolution" will be near your doorstep in America in 2020!
Do not be fooled; This is the same thing they did in Bourbon France, Czarist Russia, Nationalist China, Weimar Germany, Yugoslavia, Libya and Syria and very soon Hong Kong. You need to be very foolish to be fooled by this scheme which is practiced since 12000 years before.
Collapse a corrupt but legit government, replace it with an even more corrupt and illegitimate one. Divide the country, start a revolution, cause chaos, cause collapse, cause civil war, cause purges, then total dictatorship.
"All people makes mistakes; But only a fool repeats one."
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Production Company
Netflix,
Afineevsky - Tolmor Production,
UKR.STREAM,
SPN Production,
Passion Pictures,
Campbell Grobman Films,
Rock Paper Scissors Entertainment,
Makemake,
Pray for Ukraine Production
Release Date Oct 9, 2015
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline The next generation of revolution
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Toronto International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
The Television Academy Honors
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
