Winter on Fire 2015 Watch Free in HD

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.

Genre:

Documentary

Actors:

Bishop Agapit, Catherine Ashton, Serhii Averchenko, Kristina Berdinskikh, Pavlo Dobryanskyy, Valery Dovgiy, Bogdan Dubas, Kurganskyi Eduard, Mykhailo Havryliuk, Natan Hazin, His Holiness The Patriarch of Kyiv and Ukraine Filaret, ...»

Director:

Evgeny Afineevsky

Country:

United States, United Kingdom

Release:

2015

IMDb:

8.3

Quality:

Duration:

102 min

RogerEbert.com

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.

October 09, 2015

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Laramie Movie Scope

The toughness and determination of these Ukrainian people is very inspiring. However, at the end of the film, it is noted that many times more people have died since the revolution in the following Russian-Ukrainian conflicts.

January 11, 2016

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The Nation

Winter on Fire omits key facts, which results in an audience whose understanding of Ukraine's history, politics, regions, sociological makeup, and languages is extremely limited (or nonexistent) receiving a one-sided view of developments in Ukraine.

October 24, 2016

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TheWrap

Being able to bear witness firsthand to this three-month struggle is an incredible privilege, albeit a heartbreaking one.

October 14, 2015

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Excelsior

This is a heavy documentary where the director and his team became actual war correspondants... you can't miss it. [Full review in Spanish]

January 21, 2016

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Village Voice

Winter on Fire's thrilling rebellion is neither the beginning nor the end, but it is at least a truly heartening middle.

October 06, 2015

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Flick Filosopher

This is what a revolution in the 21st century looks like. Spoiler: The power of ridicule when Facebook journalists are watching is vast.

February 17, 2016

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Los Angeles Times

"Winter on Fire" never takes its eye off the story's underlying and very dramatic theme, and that would be nothing less than revolution.

October 08, 2015

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New York Times

Modern technology may not yet be able to capture the smell of gunpowder and tear gas, but Mr. Afineevsky takes the viewer closer to the action than might have seemed possible.

October 08, 2015

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Antagony & Ecstasy

The act of gathering these narratives into one place is of obviously clear value. But that's the starting point of journalism, not the end.

July 10, 2016

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Washington Post

Plays out like a harrowingly bloody, real-life "Les Miserables."

February 11, 2016

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