Should you watch City of Ghosts?
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City of Ghosts
Documentary · 2017
With unprecedented access, this documentary follows the extraordinary journey of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently”—a group of anonymous citizen journalists who banded together after their homeland was overtaken by ISIS—as they risk their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.
The sides of City of Ghosts
- Citizen journalists from Raqqa
- Reporting on ISIS from exile
- Activists living under threat in Turkey and Germany
City of Ghosts is good for you if…
- you want to meet the people behind Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently.
- you like real suspense, with activists checking over their shoulders even in Germany.
- you want to see the Syrian war through the eyes of its citizens.
City of Ghosts is bad for you if…
- you can't watch real execution and propaganda footage.
- you can't face the grief of families who lost people to ISIS.
About: courage · exile · the truth
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