Btexxamar I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

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??

nicholasmuradov The documentary follows the uprising in Ukraine and the everyday people involved in the event. The viewer is presented with a time line of the main clashes between the government forces and the protesters. The idea and the inspiration of the people is a main theme of the documentary, but also a black and white narrative. The good side is the revolutionists and the bad side are the ones trying to stop them. Of course there are aggressions by the government forces and misbehavior from both sides, which is clearly presented in the film. Nevertheless what is not presented is that this revolution is a political event which has two sides that have opinions that cannot be regarded as right or wrong.The viewer doesn't get ANY viewpoint of the oppositional mindset and everyone standing with the government are presented as thugs or paid aggressors. This unfair presentation made me loose interest in the film, because getting both sides of the story is a vital part of documenting history. I was actually standing more on the protesters side when hearing about the revolution in 2014, but also acknowledging that there were people with more conservative views and that only a fraction of all Ukrainians were in Maidan square, protesting. How the filmmaker regards the revolution as "the will of the people" in this regard is unclear. Because of this I consider the "documentary" more of a emotional stigmatization, e. a. political propaganda, of a political viewpoint, with its heart touching music in just the right moments rather than a correct account of the uprising in Ukraine in 2014.

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.

mar-hee A very interesting documentary, great footage with inspiring people fighting for a cause they believe in. The viewer is presented to an idealistic, but informative account of the uprising in Kiev, Ukraine. We follow the events through Euromaidan, following demonstrators in their revolt against Yanukovych. We also get a glimpse of the different types of protesters, their Ukrainian nationalism and pro-European sentiment. This, along with the documentary's footage, is what makes "Winter on Fire" great.Even though I would recommend this documentary, it's important to note that the documentary is very biased. We hear almost nothing about what's going on in the Ukrainian Parliament, it leaves out facts and generally paints a very one-sided picture. Either way, watch it.