Release calendarTop 250 moviesMost popular moviesBrowse movies by genreTop box officeShowtimes & ticketsMovie newsIndia movie spotlight
    What's on TV & streamingTop 250 TV showsMost popular TV showsBrowse TV shows by genreTV news
    What to watchLatest trailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb SpotlightFamily entertainment guideIMDb Podcasts
    EmmysSuperheroes GuideSan Diego Comic-ConSummer Watch GuideBest Of 2025 So FarDisability Pride MonthSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll events
    Born todayMost popular celebsCelebrity news
    Help centerContributor zonePolls
For industry professionals
  • Language
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Watchlist
Sign in
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Use app
  • Cast & crew
  • User reviews
IMDbPro

Ukraine: The People's Fight

  • 2023
  • 53m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
204
YOUR RATING
Ukraine: The People's Fight (2023)
Military DocumentaryDocumentaryWar

Filmmaker Olly Lambert spends two months on Ukraine's southern frontline with volunteer special forces as they begin the push to capture Kherson. How are they winning the fight?Filmmaker Olly Lambert spends two months on Ukraine's southern frontline with volunteer special forces as they begin the push to capture Kherson. How are they winning the fight?Filmmaker Olly Lambert spends two months on Ukraine's southern frontline with volunteer special forces as they begin the push to capture Kherson. How are they winning the fight?

  • Director
    • Olly Lambert
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.1/10
    204
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Olly Lambert
    • 5User reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • Photos

    User reviews5

    6.1204
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8
    9
    10

    Featured reviews

    10univiniti

    Everything I hoped to see in a modern warfare documentary

    Raw footage. Real danger. Factual information.

    This documentary helped me to realize the power of drive and morale.

    Although war is not something we should glorify and normalize, it is still fascinating to see every-day intelligent people with the most benign lives imaginable weaponizing their capabilities out of self-defense.

    This doc shows the logistics of Russia's invasion, clearly conveys critical territory, and reveals in-depth offensive and counter-offensive tactics.

    Just when I thought this documentary couldn't get any more badass it somehow manages to. Godspeed to all the nations supporting Ukraine.
    1pbubalo

    Lies, propaganda and BS

    Does this trash, pro war hysteria never end?

    Here, again we see the simple minded narrative of the angelic, ordinary, humble and heroic people who are fearlessly rising up to fight the evil goliath!

    If you're going to promote propaganda, at least try to be a bit more imaginative and subtle about it.

    This film is an utter insult to anyone with half a brain cell, no doubt the pro ukrainian bootlckers here will be fawning all over this piece of trash and and hailing it as a cinematic masterpiece!

    And i'm sure this garbage will also win a plethora of awards, as is the norm nowadays that anything with a Ukraine flag on it instantly wins whatever competition it enters.
    10belvie_gt

    intimate and revealing

    I just watched this documentary on the Belgian / Flemish public broadcaster VRT. Quite amazing how ordinary people find each other and clit together in their aim keeping Ukraine independent and free.

    Russia (read : aging Putin blinded by successes from the past making him suffer from megalomaniac behavior) made such crazy move by attacking Ukraine while having all the natural resources and space across 11 timezones themselves. Why start this war? Mr Putin enjoyed respect from the Western and Oriental societies but then -unfortunately- made such dramatic decision attacking a sister culture and country. For sure he must regret that decision by now.

    It's sad (but understandable of course) watching well educated people making hateful statements about their opposing peers that are hiding in their own trench a few kms further. They don't realize that war is in the first place big business where only a few owners of the industrial military complex manage to play games with those in political power and this at the expense of the common (wo)man.
    1roxlerookie

    Anecdotal and without perspective

    I guess it's hard to make a good documentary, and geopolitics are complicated.

    The footage is from Jun22, which is early on in the war.

    It was interesting to see the prevalence of drone usage in combat, but there was zero perspective. I'm not even sure we can call this propaganda, in the sense that the same documentary could have been made following russians.

    The one interesting passage for me was a female ex school teacher now working in intelligence who subsequently joined the military outright: "I didn't think that I could be so cruel, that i'd be glad about someone's death, but for us they're not human. And when we hear that 20 have been killed, we say "damn, not enough"".

    I'm not going to blame her, i'm safe in another country. But in a way this glorifies war, and war without perspective but with drones and 20min of mortar footage looks a lot like a video game.

    This documentary brings nothing valuable to make sense of this war.
    10rensdebruijn-10628

    Ukraine must win.

    Great insight of the full on war that Russia launched on Ukraine, trying to etnically cleanse Ukraine from their native lands. This was has been going on from 2014 and even before and all of the negative reviews have been made by Russian propagandists. Any negative review is complaining about that the Ruzzians could make one themselves, but this tv-show shows a great insight in how and why Ukrainians are winning this war.

    It gives an insight on who the soldiers are and why they are fighting off the Ruzzians to libirate their country from the evil that is occupiing their lands and are torturing and killing their sevillians.

    More like this

    Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods
    7.9
    Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods
    Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke
    7.3
    Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke

    Storyline

    Edit

    Top picks

    Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations
    Sign in

    Details

    Edit
    • Release date
      • January 4, 2023 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
      • programme page
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Ukraina sõdurite võitlus
    • Production company
      • BBC TV
    • See more company credits at IMDbPro

    Box office

    Edit
    • Budget
      • £300,000 (estimated)
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Tech specs

    Edit
    • Runtime
      53 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

    Contribute to this page

    Suggest an edit or add missing content
    Ukraine: The People's Fight (2023)
    Top Gap
    By what name was Ukraine: The People's Fight (2023) officially released in Canada in English?
    Answer
    • See more gaps
    • Learn more about contributing
    Edit page

    More to explore

    Recently viewed

    Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
    Get the IMDb App
    Sign in for more accessSign in for more access
    Follow IMDb on social
    Get the IMDb App
    For Android and iOS
    Get the IMDb App
    • Help
    • Site Index
    • IMDbPro
    • Box Office Mojo
    • License IMDb Data
    • Press Room
    • Advertising
    • Jobs
    • Conditions of Use
    • Privacy Policy
    • Your Ads Privacy Choices
    IMDb, an Amazon company

    © 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.