Best movie ever!

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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!

This film will fire you up! It is unbelievable that this happened and we were so blind to it! Incredible footage makes this story really impressive.Caution though, people die in this film on camera. You will believe in people again and question your own integrity. The revolution itself produced such incredible imagery of fireworks lighting up smoke from tire fire smoke.I won't say much because you simply have to watch it! My only critique, and it is because of how disillusioned I became after watching Bowling for Columbine, only documentaries that feature both sides of a story get my 10 rating. After watching it, I really wanted to hear from the Berkut.

The first thing that I have to say, maybe 103 minutes are not enough to tell everything about this event, but documentary's director have made an amazing job with this film, I have watched perfect images from a dangerous environment. Now, the documentary shows us two faces of the people. I haven't seen an army as coldness as this one presented in the film. They have faced people that fight for their rights, the citizens have explode, they are tired of those people that cheat them. The other face has come from citizens, the have been united to claim for a free nation, they have shown the love for a real nation. I feel proud of this kind of people. Passion can make us to do the things better or worst, that's what I liked from Ucranian citizens. "Feel free to experiment a lot of emotions in this film, feel free, because freedom is the last thing to lose".

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.