Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (2015)

Very well executed

Excellent, a Must See

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

You mean alike the fire through which on May 2, 2014 31 pro-Russia protesters who were cornered in the lobby of some trade union building in Odessa and who were locked inside by the "freedom fighters" and then set on fire and burned alive? You mean like THIS fire? Or it is some other type of fire that you have in mind? Like, for example, the heavy mortars' and howitzer weapons' fire that leveled the village of Adreyevka in Donetsk region in late May 2014? The same indiscriminate heavy artillery fire via which the Ukrainians annihilated many other small towns and villages throughout Lugansk and Donetsk since 2014?Yeah, that must be the one... Right? RIGHT??

"Ukraine on Fire": Oliver Stone's Documentary. U.S. Sponsored "Coup". Neo-Nazis are being used by the Ukrainian Government. "That Whole Process was Headquartered in the US Embassy" (former Ukraine president Yanukovitch). Nobody should feel safe today… At the time, when the western governments and media have been lying to the world about what's really been happening in Ukraine, this is a must-see documentary to learn the truth. Can this happen in the US? Yes, it can. The same people, who had organized and funded the Ukrainian armed coup, followed by an ongoing civil war, are currently organizing and funding the same thing in our country as well. History does not forgive ignorance: if we don't know the history, we deem to repeat it. Please watch this film and share it with as many people as you can.

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.

First of all I'm not from that area and English isn't my native language. I watched it yesterday and I thought it was really very one-sided, yes off course we saw 20.000 people protest, but what about the millions of people that were in favor of the president and don't want to be a part of the EU ??? What the documentary actually shows is how a coup was planned and executed, and yes they show mostly police-violence on protesters but all the policemen that were injured and or killed just doing there duty of protecting a DEMOCRATICLY chosen government ??Very one sided and incomplete, it would be perfect if only they showed more of the other side...Funny fact is most people in the EU are shouting they want to get out of that terrible oppressing tyrant of a Union and those people are dying to get in....