Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
Release date: 2015-09-03
Votes: 309
Genres: Documentary
Over 93 days in Ukraine, what started as peaceful student demonstrations became a violent revolution and full-fledged civil rights movement.
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