5 Broken Cameras vs Fireflies at El Mozote

Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.5/10 for 5 Broken Cameras). 5 Broken Cameras is the older of the two (2011 against 2025). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

5 Broken Cameras poster5 Broken Cameras2011 VS Fireflies at El Mozote posterFireflies at El Mozote2025
5 Broken CamerasFireflies at El Mozote
Audience score★ 7.5/10★ 10.0/10
Year20112025
Length1h 30m1h 30m
GenresCrime, Documentary, Drama, WarAction, Drama, History, War
CountryFranceUnited States of America
DirectorEmad Burnat, Guy DavidiErnesto Melara
Main castEmad Burnat, Soraya Burnat, Gibreel Burnat, Mohammed Burnat, Yasin BurnatJeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk

Synopsis

5 Broken Cameras

Five broken cameras – and each one has a powerful tale to tell. Embedded in the bullet-ridden remains of digital technology is the story of Emad Burnat, a farmer from the Palestinian village of Bil’in, which famously chose nonviolent resistance when the Israeli army encroached upon its land to make room for Jewish colonists. Emad buys his first camera in 2005 to document the birth of his fourth son, Gibreel. Over the course of the film, he…

Fireflies at El Mozote

During the 1980s civil war in El Salvador, a rebel group of leftist guerrillas fight to expose its government's death squads via an underground radio network and hope to end their government's reign of terror with the help of an American journalist.

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