Last Men in Aleppo (2017)

As a Syrian with much family in Syria I can say this is Propaganda and it hurts more than anything to see how much the MSM & the American Government and films like this take advantage of the suffering of the Syrian people. The White Helmets are nothing but fake people. They support the terrorists who have been destroying Syria and trying to kill every Syrian. Thank God for all the young Syrian Men and Women in the Syrian Army who Gave their lives to defend all Syrians of all religions. I am so hurt how these people can mislead the public like this but i hope no one listens to me or anyone else. Research everything you can and please look for facts and you will find the truth. You will find that our people support the President we elected and he is nothing like they try to say he is. Like, every government and leader he is not perfect but he sure is not killing his own people. Don't take my words just research if you want to find the truth. This film does well at what it wants to do but I hope people realize it is just a piece of great propaganda.

"Last Men in Aleppo", is a shattering Danish/Syrian documentary about the Syrian Civil War that should leave you in anger and tears after viewing it. Beginning as a film editor, Syrian writer/director Firas Fayvad previously had made documentaries for television, his most famous being "On the Other Side", the making of which resulted in Fayyad's arrest and torture for nine months between 2011 and 2012. But even that has not achieved the level of international fame "Last Men in Aleppo" has brought him, for it documents the efforts of the White Helmets, an organization consisting of ordinary citizens whose purpose is to save civilians (especially children) who are buried under the rubble from continuous bombings by the Soviet Union unabashedly targeting apartment buildings, hospitals and non-military establishments. What is so shocking about this film is the way it plants the viewer in the middle of the violence as it is happening, and from the point of view of the heroic rescuers. There are deliberate lulls in the film in which we live in the houses with the families of the White Helmets, but that just makes the inhuman tragedy even more shocking when the violence comes. This is a film impossible to forget once seen.

Tough movie to watch. Tougher to read the reviews of dumb conspiracy theorists who think George Soros can cause solar eclipses and the such. It's actually a remarkably unpolitical film, but follows the day by day lives of firemen in Aleppo. It's pretty tragic, but the humanity of the people in Syria shine through.

I felt really bad after watching this documentary... but I suppose that's the whole point of it - to try and awake our sense of humanity and react politically against these atrocities committed against innocent civilians. I hope our politicians in the West are watching this, but I fear they will not do anything to protect these victims of genocide. The documentary shows the brutal reality of what happened and is still happening in Syria.