Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Memorergi good film but with many flaws

Loui Blair It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

arize 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??

Timberlandet There comes a time where you have to ask yourself, what does "one sided" in a conflict where unarmed people are getting mauled, shot and kidnapped by the police means? If you want to act like a detached "expert", yes this film had a one sided narrative, but even in conflicts there are truth. There are the will of the people, the right of the people, and the necessity for everyone to be heard. If we lose that, we have lost to tyranny, to corruption, to brutalization.Let's ask all the people here giving this documentary one or two stars what they would like to hear from the other side? How the crackdown of peaceful protests were justified. Bullshit. Violence is never justified.Watch this documentary. Just do it. You won't regret it.Freedom for the people. By the people. For Ukranie!

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.

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.