Let me get my standing and intrests clear here.

I was a mechanical engineer in syria before the "Arabic spring" came to our doorsteps. I had a decent job at a loader firm before the civil conflict.

Most peoples ran away when the fighting came to their surrounding. I stayed stubbornly and refused to give my soil to any would be warlords. ISIS came to our vicinity and as one expects it was brutal.. as the other groups began to focus on isis instead on eachother we were relieved when isis retreated.. but that was the begining of an another evil. Those YPG/YPJ bastards came in an it was an another hell hole all over again. Racial segregation, sexual assoults to our children an wifes, brutal policing, etc. It was terrible. Those who were resisting were beaten to pulp and thrown to the street to be collected by close ones if they are even alive at that point... it was one evil traded for an another. Soon most people left the area... When i finaly got the chance i got what i could pack and fled the country too leaving the home turf to them... when i see some ignorant book worm or elite "actor"/director, political analyst talk nonchalantly about the situation there like they are omnipresent i get furios of their bs. I LIVED it, dont you dare paint X group as a hero or Y people as saints they are all the sam pile of manure of a human. And people going there for adventures like this makes it even worse... i feel like im in a zoo and the folks throw bisquits at me...

YPG is not a freedom fighting group and they have nothing to do with freedom or anything good, if you research Turkey's history you will see they they hav e organized many terror acts and reponsible for thousands of dead soldiers in Turkey they even killed babies in the name of the so called "freedom" this is just an uninformed uninspired cash grab full of wrong information.

This is one of the best documentaries I've seen in years. I have followed the Rojava Revolution and the Syrian part of the war against ISIS for some time and I somehow missed so much of this story. The film was absolutely gripping and I didn't want it to end.

I would've liked a bit more of an explanation of the ideology (Democratic Confederalism) of the YPG/YPJ. The many 1 star ratings without reviews are almost invariably from Turkish nationalists who reflexively call any political will of Kurdish people "terrorism". Props to the filmmakers for not mentioning the bogus accusations of "terrorism" that regional state powers levy against the Kurdish, Assyrian, and Arabic people struggling for grassroots democracy, women's freedom, pluralism, and ecology until the very end. Most articles and films lead with this and have a bias towards states, no matter how authoritarian, over autonomous administrations, no matter how genuinely democratic.

This film doesn't get too political and people from all sides of the political compass in the US will get something out of it. Same for people who don't like politics or war movies...the story is just compelling, period.