Amir Amirani’s documentary, We Are Many, unravels the truth about the illegitimate armed attacks of the US and UK, led by George W Bush and Tony Blair respectively, on Iraq in 2003 – an issue which has otherwise been muted or, as Ken Loach puts in the film, ‘whitewashed’. While this well-researched and well-executed documentary should be praised for its factual accuracy, it also unveils a greater message of the power of people and their voice in shaping democracy. This is a movie about the ‘Stop the War’ movement and its legacy. Its message is encapsulated in its title, taken from Percy Shelly’s poem Masque Of Anarchy:
Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquished number
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many – they are few
Admittedly, I had anticipated my reaction to the film would be uniquely influenced by my personal links to the events.
Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquished number
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many – they are few
Admittedly, I had anticipated my reaction to the film would be uniquely influenced by my personal links to the events.
- 9/26/2020
- by Maryam Ghorbankarimi
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
We Are Many, directed by Amir Amirani, explores the legacy of the global anti-war demonstrations of 15 February 2003, an event that saw an estimated million people march against the Iraq war in London alone. Filmed over nine years, the film talks to key campaigners, including Damon Albarn, Ken Loach and the late Tony Benn, as well as those who made the decision to go to war. A special satellite screening of the film with a Q+A with Jon Snow takes place in London on 21 May, transmitted to select cinemas across the country, while the film is released on 22 May.
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- 4/24/2015
- by Guardian Staff
- The Guardian - Film News
Perhaps fittingly, Amir Amirani’s new documentary We Are Many characterises not only the notion of mass public protest, but the rise of the political documentary itself. In it, we travel back to 9/11, what many commentators have since referred to as The End of History regarding national security and privacy, which gave birth to a protest movement that has manifested itself in countless ways over the last thirteen years. Equally so it has given thousands of hours’ worth of material for filmmakers and activists to reach a bulk audience with.
The attacks on the Twin Towers were a prelude to the Iraq War, the main focus of Amirani’s film, and he invites academics (including perpetual talking head Noam Chomsky), as well as politicians from Clare Short to David Blunkett, to speak about the social, political and moral implications of the 2003 global protest against the decision to invade. It’s...
The attacks on the Twin Towers were a prelude to the Iraq War, the main focus of Amirani’s film, and he invites academics (including perpetual talking head Noam Chomsky), as well as politicians from Clare Short to David Blunkett, to speak about the social, political and moral implications of the 2003 global protest against the decision to invade. It’s...
- 6/6/2014
- by Andrew Latimer
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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