Critics Of "Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS"
Variety
April 30, 2017
"Hell on Earth" portrays the Syrian citizens, who live in a morass of civil war, with an emotional directness we can't turn away from, to the point that it's no longer possible to think of those citizens as "them." They are us, or could be.
By far the best documentary on Syria to date. It deserves the widest audience given the urgent need for solidarity with a people who have been killed or displaced for demanding freedom.
Hell On Earth does more than enough to break it down for western audiences, employing a variety of video sources to reveal what it's like on the front line, unearthing footage from the everyday people forced to suffer a torrent of atrocities.
The 100-minute film does a phenomenal job detangling the numerous scenarios that led to Syria's civil war and current bloodbath, dispelling the notion that this conflict is too complicated for those not versed on the Middle East to understand.
