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 | Fireflies at El Mozote | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.5/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2011 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Crime, Documentary, Drama, War | Action, Drama, History, War |
| Country | France | United States of America |
| Director | Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi | Ernesto Melara |
| Main cast | Emad Burnat, Soraya Burnat, Gibreel Burnat, Mohammed Burnat, Yasin Burnat | Jeff 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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