When Under Fire: Shoot Back!

November. 15,2014

Rating：

7.7

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Biography Politics Period Drama

Trailer Synopsis Cast

The Bang Bang Club were four fearless young photographers who set out to expose the reality of Apartheid in South Africa - a battle that changed a nation but wound up almost destroying them.

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Reviews

Ensofter

2014/11/15

Overrated and overhyped

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Actuakers

2014/11/16

One of my all time favorites.

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Chirphymium

2014/11/17

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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Nayan Gough

2014/11/18

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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lesley-161-555625

2014/11/19

This is the finest documentary I have ever seen. It is accurate and poignant. If you want an insight into the real South Africa of the nineties, watch this. This is the story of four men (actually really only three in any detail) who face terrible danger to photograph the death and mayhem of South Africa's birth as a democracy. The utter disregard for life is documented by these newspaper photographers but the toll is terrible. This is the story of their lives and the context in which they lived. I'm not sure if I could watch it again but I am very glad to have seen it. It described the hidden side of the black-on-black violence and the cost. The stress of living this kind of life and the graphic photographs will be hard to view in places but it is worth it.

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