runamokprods Filled with amazing and powerful images of resistance on both a personal and mass scale, this film is what can result when you have a revolution in the age of ubiquitous cell phones and personal drones. And it leads to a kind of combination of visceral immediacy and near epic scope in the telling of the Ukraine's 3 month long citizens' revolt against a corrupt, unresponsive and lying government that would have been near impossible a handful of years earlier. This is experiencing a revolt from the inside; scary, intense, exciting – a powerful emotional roller coaster. What it isn't, is an intellectually rigorous overview of the issues and conditions that led to the revolt, or what changes did and didn't result in the long term. Those are touched on, of course, but it's a fair criticism that's been leveled against the film, that the uninformed viewer (like me) comes away with only a schematic and simplistic view of the uprising. But, for me, that was enough. The power of this film is the reminder that it is still possible for people to come together from very different places, Muslims and Catholics, left-wing students and aging military men, the poor and the middle-class – and to band together to overthrow a tyrant with a remarkable limiting of blood-shed. It's a film that will make you shed a tear for the potential for good and for change in the world, and that outweighs whatever shortcomings the film may have.

perdidoenkabul After seeing for the first time i wonder a few questions.You can see a lot of peolpes opinions in Euromaidan. But all of them belongs, or pretends to, the bourguoise. You will not see not a single working class person.The thing is that Doc. shows only one part of the whole thing, and thats turns it in merely propaganda. By the way, the violins and the melodrama music all through is pretty pathetic. Don't need violins to teel how to think.Unfortunately, for the people of Ukraine they are between 2 forces and that part of the region is crusial for both of them. The best for you people.

Digvijay Parmar Winter on Fire is about Ukrainians and their idealism and bravery. it puts you there on ground with activist for one and half hour. the Director and his team makes you feel like they are actual war correspondents. and the in between conversation with the people who witness this event in actual in truly inspirational.The brutality of Berkut(Ukrainian force) is totally intolerable in the documentary. but the Courage of Ukrainians will always motivate you that the Power in United with People and No buddy Not any Government can defeat it by use of any Force or by Violation.The Documentary is punctiliously researched, and deeply jolting account of the Ukrainian people's uprising. Must Watch.

thependragonscribe The Maidan unrest in Ukraine is one of the most impactful civilian unrests in contemporary times. The scope and the sequence of Ukraine's revolution is the subject of this harrowing documentary. Using interview accounts from known and unknown figures of the protests, "Winter on Fire" wistfully tackles the growth of the revolution, from humble beginnings of persuading the government to integrate with the European Union to powerful struggles to overthrow President Viktor Yanukovych. The raw video footage of the peaceful protests-turned-civilian riots will surely unnerve the senses of how much tormenting the revolution was. Though it centers more on the protesters and their experiences, the documentary also holds no bar of portraying the state as an antagonistic figure but a difficult challenge to overcome.I watched this without subtitles. And thankfully I did because it truly connects the country's weary conditions to every viewer, with the wise use of raw footage, powerful montages and emotional interviews that deliver a gut-wrenching picture of the fight for freedom.