Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS
A look at the current state of Syria amidst war and chaos in 2017, featuring stories of survival and observations by political experts from around the world.
9 July 1955, Central, South Carolina, USA
28 April 1937, al-Awja, Iraq
30 September 1941, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
29 August 1936, Canal Zone, Panama
9 October 1966, Marylebone, London, England, UK
12 December 1962, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
6 July 1946, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
8 March 1959, Marin County, California, USA
4 August 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
7 October 1952, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
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.
June 14, 2017
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.
May 18, 2017
A mostly impressive array of experts ... adds to the merciless clarity of this tragic picture.
June 14, 2017
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.
May 18, 2017
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.

