20 Days in Mariupol

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20 Days in Mariupol

2023

1h 34m

Documentary

War

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As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.

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20 Days in Mariupol offers a grueling but vital look at the devastating impact of war.

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Camilla Long

The Times (UK)

03/18/2024

This film is horrible, searing, a pristine example of objectivity; it is shockingly graphic. It should be taught in every journalism school, watched in every living room.

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Linda Holmes

NPR

02/29/2024

The act of editing all this footage down to about an hour and a half has to have been hugely challenging, but the result is outstanding.

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Linda Marric

HeyUGuys

01/25/2024

5/5

The film is a cinematic tour de force that transcends the boundaries of traditional documentary-making, delivering a visceral and unforgettable account of war. 20 Days in Mariupol stands as one of the most impactful documentaries of our time.

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John Stark

Mac the Movie Guy

Mar 20

98/100

Harrowing footage capturing real chaos, real death, and the ever present sense of an uncertain tomorrow. No one set out to make this, but by keeping the cameras there they captured the devastation, and also the resilience in the face of fear.

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Leonardo Garcia Tsao

La Jornada

02/11/2025

20 Days in Mariupol is the most heartbreaking and urgent thing you can see now...[Full review in Spanish]

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Amber Wilkinson

Eye for Film

04/16/2024

4.5/5

An intense film with little respite even when no bullets are being fired.

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Kyle M

@RT77296778 Mar 5

Hearing about the invasion doesn’t compare to being positioned in the middle with a shocking perspective that you’ll be unprepared for, distraughtly absorbing the impacts of war that gravely affect civilians. What’s so powerful about this documentary is being so devastatingly thrilling to the point of emotional drainage when sympathizing with all that traumatic dread that was astonishingly captured firsthand per the urgent mission of exposure, especially the apocalyptic tactics militarily executed that sadly lessens hope. This photographed the danger and foreboding rawness in getting the weighing message out there, depend on how much of a reception will rescue in thwarting the nonsensical invader’s delusional lust for power, irrefutably from an innocent country. (A-)

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Anderson B.

@RT73365855 Jan 19

I cried. I wept over it.

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Mickey B.

@Mickerdoo Jan 6

A difficult, yet necessary watch. We see it time and time again. Should be swifter and weightier repercussions.

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Edward E

@RT32044182 Sep 29

Stunning, harrowing, gruelling documentary which will leave you in no doubt what the Ukraine war is like on the ground and what atrocities were, and undoubtedly continue to be, committed, by the Russian Federation against Ukrainian citizens.

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Jordan B.

@JordanJay Sep 12

Heartbreaking. Shocking. Human. Important. Slava Ukraini! Glory to Ukraine! Heroiam Slava! Glory to the heroes!!

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Gabriel E. B

@elkpllan_ 03/14/2025

Devastador. Una huella más de toda guerra.

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Synopsis

As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.

Director: Mstyslav Chernov
Producer: Raney Aronson, Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, Derl McCrudden
Screenwriter: Mstyslav Chernov
Distributor: PBS Distribution
Genre: Documentary, War
Original Language: Ukrainian
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 14, 2023, Limited
Runtime: 1h 34m

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